Hardy Lake — Attraction in Austin

This place really seems wonderful. But unfortunately, the incident that occurred yesterday left me only leaving 3 stars. My husband and I took our 2 year old granddaughter fishing here. As we were loading up the car to leave my husband noticed DNR staring and watching us. We were confused as we were doing nothing wrong. Immediately after pulling out of the parking spot she exited her vehicle approaching us “I know you’re not about to drive off with an opened can of Michelob beer with a toddler in the car.” I was so confused. I picked up the can of WILD CHERRY PEPSI that was in the console of my car. Which at that point the DNR officer looked relived and possibly embarrassed for making such an accusation. I still am so confused on how she even seen it in my car? I truly felt a sort of harassment. There were so many families at the beach, kids swimming in underwear, whiskey bottles on hoods of vehicles (beach doesn’t even open until...

I cannot praise the Campground & staff/ DNR enough for my amazing stay for the Eclipse! Immaculately kept campgrounds. We stayed in site 55 . Running water bathrooms along with shower stalls. The battery died on my van & I went to the helpful campground host. Before I got back to my site ( about one minute later 😂) Two young adult DNR employees were there with a hand held battery/ car charger. They jumped my van under five minutes with zero money owed along with the most professional young men. We also visited the live raptor exhibit. So well kept along with the rest of the park. I’m horrible at names! The sweetest lady in the office helped us get awesome information on the raptors & the entire park along with any & all awesome eclipse information! We watched the Eclipse at Hardy Lake. Just WOW! Thank you Hardy Lake for such an amazing experience! Christine (Boo) Wisniewski & son Dieter...

We visited the last weekend of April and were very impressed with the staff and facilities. We stayed in primitive and it's quite hilly. We requested a different site since our chosen site didn't have a flat spot except for the parking space for our boat and truck. They kindly suggested an open site that was less sloped. I'm glad it wasn't sold out. Then, we had some problems with our boat and Niles kindly stepped up to help us. How kind! You'd think we have never camped with our need to have staff help us after 35 years of camping and not ever needing assistance--we again needed help the next morning as our truck wouldn't start. So, glad the staff warmly assisted us by jumping our truck! WE WILL return as we appreciated the great staff, the clean facilities and beautiful lake. The only thing that would be a topper would have been to catch more than one fish for...