Night Sky Friendly
Reserved 183 days prior to arrival.
PROS
Quiet even on Halloween weekend except for road noise from FM1375
Night sky friendly. NO STREET LIGHTS in Campground!
Two FHU Campgrounds. Sweet Gum with 19 sites and Sycamore with 28 sites.
Metal picnic table
Cooking grill on metal fire ring
Site level and asphault parking pad in good condition
Friendly camp host who came directly to site on our second day for our check-in
Not charged a fee to make my own on-line reservation
Campsite discount with America the Beautiful Pass
CONS
Campsite water hook-up sprayed water everywhere. Even tried using plumber Teflon tape that didn’t even reduce the large spray. Talked to camp host about it and he just laughed and agreed it was needing some repairs, but no one ever came by and it sprayed like that for 4 nights! We had quite a large puddle.
Security gates are NOT closed overnight
Extra high sided campfire ring
No privacy from any other campsites
Toilet/shower facility without temperature control
4 Camp Hosts for 47 campsites. Sweet Gum Loop #11 Camp Host site packed to the max with all kinds of stuff that isn’t seen at other Camp Host sites. Definitely hording homesteaders.
Only park amenity is boat ramp for Lake Conroe.
No swimming is permitted.
Never saw any park rangers or park security driving through campground Wildlife sightings of grey squirrels
Zero to 1 bar AT&T
No park Wifi