After leaving my parents on January 20th, we loved our drive through East Texas. Small towns, big fields, and changing landscape. We chose to only drive 3 hours then spend the night at a state park near the Texas/Louisiana border. With our Texas State Park Pass, we only paid $13 a night.
Check-in was a breeze - the lady even knew our name and site as soon as we told her our last name. This is an older campground so the sites are not made for big rigs. Our 40 foot 5th wheel didn't have a problem but we could barely park our truck in our site too. We'd do it again in a heartbeat though so it obviously wasn't to bad.
Once we had some hot food in our bellies (thanks to my mom for sending Sunday's leftover casserole with us!) we headed out to do some hiking. This park has a small island so our first hike was around the perimeter of it.
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| That blue sky! |
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| 60*'s is such good hiking weather! |
Our next hike was the Harmony Hill Loop. Part of the trail was the old road that went through Harmony Hill, a small town that died after the railroad bypassed it in the 1880's. We didn't see much wildlife besides squirrels but it was fantastic to be hiking in tall trees again.
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| Someone had a Pine Tree Farm many years ago. |
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| Emily is pretending to be lost in the "Hundred Acre Woods". |
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| It was only a small forest but so dark in the middle of it! |
This was a perfect park to overnight at, especially if you have a few hours to spend exploring. Even though our children were sooooo tired they could barely walk, once we got back to the camper they had a blast rollerblading and scootering on the hilly road.
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