Abilene State Park — Attraction in Abilene

We booked this campsite after carefully looking at the dimentions of the site on the booking website. We have a 23 foot travel trailer, and the website said the maximum vehicle length was 25 feet for the site in Pecan Grove loop. When we arrived, we saw that there was a platform up a small ramp for the trailer. It didn't look like our trailer would fit, but there was a prominent sign at the back of it stating "25 feet." I got out and measured the platform and found that the length of the site was 18 feet, and the width was 25 feet. When you are backing a travel trailer up the ramp and onto the platform, it's impossible to turn 90 degrees after going up the ramp, to fit the travel trailer onto the site. The only way to use the platform is to put the trailer's tires at the back edge of the platform and have the tongue on the ramp with many blocks of wood to have the trailer level. Since our door is at the back of our trailer, the stairs would also need blocks since the stairs would not reach far enough to the ground because they wouldn't be on the platform, and since it had been raining, they would be in the mud. We called the ranger at the desk and asked for another site because we couldn't fit in the one we had. She was lovely and apologized and gave us one that can't be reserved. We wouldn't have been able to fit otherwise.

We drove around the Pecan Grove loop and noticed that there are many platforms that have these big signs saying "25 feet." They were all 25 feet wide, and 18 feet long as you are backing in and going up the ramp. Nobody would be able to comfortably fit a trailer larger than 18 feet. Obviously, the people who put in these platforms didn't know or understand that trailers backing up need to have the length of 25 feet, not the width. On the booking site, it doesn't indicate the width of the site. My advice is to not book a site that says it has the maximum vehicle length of 25 feet. It's really 18 feet and if your trailer is more than 18 feet, it won't fit on the platform and there is no room elsewhere on the site. They must know about this problem and decided to put up those signs saying, "25 feet" because of complaints. Try to get a site in Oak Grove if you have a travel trailer between 18 and 25 feet. It's much nicer and your...

Nice park, nice sites, though little to close for our liking but not terrible. Park staff was very helpful, when ask where to fish, very willing to extend some pics of his friends fish caught just a week prior to our trip and fishing tips, like where to fish and what to use. But same as our fishing trip at Fort Richardson, we couldn’t even give the bait away, could be us, just wrong time of year or the fact that the lake is very low. As for the little lake close to camp sites, over grown in cat tails and in very much a need of some help. But as for the trails go they where nice, plenty of game trails off the main trails to keep us entertained and even allowed us to get fairly close to some deer. Bathrooms where clean but like the lake in need of some help in the form of updating and repairs. Overall we like this park and will be back, we think and this is only our opinion. Our parks need some help, financial help, they need more money to make repairs and updating. I’m not sure how to get that to them, maybe from our state or maybe up the cost a little. Less than 10 bucks per day per person is fairly cheap, considering all there is to do in our state parks. Some families will spend 100s of dollars a day for theme parks and not think twice about it, but we can’t spend 10-15 dollars per person for a fun, historic, wildlife filled experience with our families in a state park. They even offer a park pass for $70 a year (details on app). Just our thoughts, thank you...

We visited this park Nov 3rd-5th, a Friday afternoon check-in for a Sunday mid-day check-out. When we arrived with our Rv, we sat at the window to confirm our reservation for 15 minutes. When someone finally came to the window to great us, we were told to just hold on it would be wait. There were several other vehicles piling in behind us, and what seemed like another 15-20 minutes later, we were checked in. The office didn't sell ice but had an ice machine. We drove to our site and set up and realized we needed ice, so 1 from our group drove to the office where an ice machine had been spotted to only after sitting in the long line of cars "again" finds out the office did not sell ice. The person from our group had to drive into the nearest town. Our daughter works for a state park and the customer service at that park is top notch, but Abilene State Park needs to work on staff and putting in a side drive for when re-entering the park, you are not required to sit in a "long" line of cars trying to get checked in. The Abilene State Park itself is absolutely 💯 beautiful! We took hikes and took some great picks. The park was quiet at night...