Best Tent Camping near Edna, TX

A mix of folks RV, car, tent camping! Some folks are definitely here for a long time.

Pros

• you can drive right on the beach and park feet from the water
• plenty of space on the beach
• pier at the end of the beach if you want to fish!
• little pavilions with tables underneath
• FREE!!

Cons

• one night we had BIG mosquitoes, there is some swampy standing water nearby
• bathrooms are older. There was toilet paper but no soap or paper towels.
• cold showers are at the back of the bathroom building, individual rooms. One shower room smelled like pee, another like smoke :/ but what can you expect for free?!

Lots of good taco options in the town over! We enjoyed Mr. Tacos barbacoa and al pastor tacos.

Close to the Texas coast line, closest town is Edna. Be stocked up with all the goodies you enjoy. Closet Walmart is about 20 miles away. It was warm and sunny when we visited Oct 1, 2021. Lots of wild live to keep your interests, including alligators. Texana has a limited number of full service slots, so book in advance.

This is a great campground with lots to do. It is awesome like geometry dash lite. We camped: the camp pitch was fairly level with electric hookup, water supply close to the tent and a fire pit for each pitch. There are also RV hookups as well. My kids totally enjoyed the laser tag, there is also a boating pond, fishing and live music on a Saturday night. The toilet block was the cleanest I have ever seen on a campsite- it was as clean as many hotels I have stayed in. One good advice for anyone staying in a campsite in Texas: compared to campsites in more temperate climes, Texas campsites are dusty and have as much dirt as grass on the pitches(and this site is no exception). Bring a tarp to put under your tent- it will be a lot easier to clean than the bottom of a sewn-in groundsheet when you get home.

Birds, open and clean air, nice trails to explore. The RV section seemed cramped but the tent section seemed spacious.

Mainly RV Camping but a few tent campers. Clean showers. Pizza restaurant, hot tub, firewood. Classic family friendly glamping.

This park is located inside the Matagorda Nature Preserve and located directly on the ICW with a beautiful view from pretty much every camp site. The sites have electric and water hookups and their is a restroom located directly in the middle of the ground. Their is a self-service ice machine right across the street and that a plus because their is virtually nowhere to buy ice on the island and the closest convenient store is about 15 minutes away. It’s 27$ a night to camp and they allow tents and RVs which is pretty cool. I set my tent up in the grass and enjoyed a beautiful sunset over the water. The public beach access is about 5 miles away and it’s a pretty nice beach but you need 4 wheel drive to access. Showers are a little outdated and their is absolutely no shade at all but other than that it’s a beautiful little spot.

This is a pretty Texas-y park with a church and event center on site. Nice wetlands, fishing, forests, lake, all very pretty but there are bugs and gators (and deer). Lots of camp site choices and many are on the water, a little shade, nice trees. Some people go out on the water for fishing pretty early so we didn’t get to sleep in but it was still really nice.

Reserved 89 days prior to arriving. 

PRO 

Extremely nice park registration staff.

Registration info was available outside of gatehouse upon arrival.

Security gate that closes during overnight hours.

Quiet except for Hwy 111 traffic noise.

Campsites along lake with wide open view of lake. VERY NICE.

Nice space between campsites with brush between some sites for privacy

Clean and well stocked toilet/shower facility.

Dark sky friendly.

Brand new Nature Center!

Campsite with picnic table, lantern pole and fire ring.

Campsite 125 partially shade

$35/night camping fee

CON

$3.50 transaction fee Former Texas State Park so most campsites are short in length.

We saw numerous 25ft and bigger rigs struggling to back into sites and then the front of their rig was right on roadway.

Campsite 125 uneven side-to-side.

Alligators in lake!

2 bars AT&T.

No Park WiFi.

This is an awesome beach to visit becoming more popular over the years but still great. Miles and miles of beaches to drive on and enjoy, plus tons of small ponds on the other side of the dunes. The small ponds contain numerous small fish and hermit crabs. But if the surf is what you want this beach is one of the best surfing beaches in Texas and also has great surf fishing or just fish the mouth of the Colorado river. This beach is one of the best.

Some places are just best discovered than read about, and Magnolia Beach is one such place. We came for a night, and stayed for a week. This place just might win the award for the most chilled-out camping area on the continent– but it would have to muster enough enthusiasm to enter the contest. Rather, all enthusiasm here is geared toward fishin’ and sittin’. 

Drive through the small village into an unassuming beachside residential neighborhood and out onto the beach itself, where there is room to park nearly 100 RV’s. Most tent campers set up at one of the picnic pavilions where there is a bit more beach grass. The bathroom building has flush toilets, warm-ish showers (individual stalls), and external beachside rinse off showers. 

Since the area does not charge a dime for your stay of up to 14 days, it is super important to take care of the place, i.e. don’t ruin it for everyone. So, bring plenty of drinking water, and carry away all your rubbish. The area does have trashcans, but not a large collection dumpster. 

There is one convenience store/ take away restaurant with the usual suspects of chips, and beer–you can get a pizza to take back with you to the beach. The closest town with grocery stores, and other services is Port Lavaca, about 12 miles away. There is another similar camping area just down the road toward Indianola which has a similar set up if you find Magnolia Beach too noisy or crowded.

They have deer and bathrooms and showers parks for the kids fishing you can bring a small pool for the little ones an beautiful

Sites are very spacious, each has its own picnic table on a concrete pad. Lots of privacy, most sites are separated by 15' widths of trees and shrubs which act as a privacy wall. There is a little climbing playground for little ones. Fishing piers and a nature center currently being built and it is going to be huge! We've been here three days and have seen 4 armadillos, 5 squirrels, 7 deer and 1 raccoon. The neighbor said she has camped here 6 times and only seen 1 teeny tiny gator. Only thing missing for my likes is a swimming pool. You can't get into this water, pretty murky and lily pads

Very nice park it is run by the Lavaca Navidad River Authority. They are building a brand new nature center. The trails are well maintained, clean restrooms grounds are kept up. Large campground on Lake Texana with swimming and fishing.

site: good space. shaded. mostly private. amenities: busy. clean. modern. attractions: hiking. biking. fishing. I would go camping here again.

We stayed here through January & February of 2022. Its a large park with tons of trails and the amenities from Breckenridge across the street are included (I played a lot of Disc Golf). We highly recommend this campground. Site 98 is the best in the entire park in my opinion.