Lake Livingston State Park — Attraction in Livingston

The screened shelters need to be swept out more for the spiders and cobwebs so customers are not at risk for getting bitten by poisonous bugs or spiders. #10 has a door that barely hangs on and very unlevel as are all the screened shelters. Beware if you stay overnight in one because of these issues. Enjoyed fishing while renting a screened shelter for 3 days however I am curious how many people like myself have other random visitors of the park walk onto their rented camp site or screened shelter area without even asking. Of ALL the areas people have to walk, they choose to walk down and through your campsite area where you're clearly staying without regards of your privacy. I came to get away from people and enjoy my time to not be bothered. Had a lady clueless as can be using her paddle board where I have 5 fishing rods CLEARLY out and of all places she wants to paddle right over my lines. Some people have no common courtesy or respect for other's when camping simply because it's a public place. I however don't appreciate the lack of respect to have had a whole group of people walk onto my campsite down to the water.. You can walk ANYWHERE else to see the same lake. For example, some parks will post signs clearly stating "Private Pier for shelter xyz etc etc." And I believe the TPWD should do the same for the screened shelter area that only reserved visitors are allowed to enter the walkways. This is no different than me walking through someone's tent site just to see the water and being at their site. Please look into this TPWD. Proper signage for screened shelter access. Additionally, the showers had no hot water. I asked the park store lady about it & she only had a couple suggestions of why it may not have been hot but even then, there wasn't that many people there as she confirmed unless someone took a long hot shower or an immature nuisance left it running on purpose. I was told they have this happen often. Funny how the people with dogs on a leash will never come on your camp site for the obvious reason. Now if only all visitors would use that same level of respect. It's up to the park to place proper signage if...

This park is excellent for family fun. For day use/swim area fun: I would bring a float option! There is a few small areas that you can wade into from the bank, but they get crowded quickly and have large fallen trees etc. The best swimming areas are in deeper water (7-12 feet) and there are ladders (3 or more) that come off of the sides of the cement barricade (in pictures) around the lake. There are several picnic tables throughout the swimming areas and plenty of grass room to lay out a blanket/picnic area. For camping: we stayed at an electric site in Hercules loop, but there are several options for camping including water only, electric, and electric + sewage. There are several screened shelters available for reservation that are all ADA access me. There is a pavilion for group events you can rent out as well as some really great amenities.

We travel full time, so our family frequents state parks. I have yet to see a park with so many wonderful and unique amenities as Lake Livingston! There is an excellent park store with an AMAZING NATURE CENTER. We homeschool, so, of course, it was great for the kids. But it is also so informative for any age! There is a live bee exhibit that wasn’t available when we went, but I would definitely go back to see that when it returns!! There is a great fish cleaning station, a boat dock/kayak dock etc, a large wooden tower to overlook the park/pier/swimming area etc. For anyone visiting the park, the trees provide ample shade to hide from the heat, as well as several ways to enjoy the water. The trails looked really well taken care of, although we didn’t get a chance to check those out. There are kayaks available for reservation, as well as an archery range! All around a very nice park. You can tell that the rangers and hosts are more strict on the rules which enables all guests to enjoy the park the way it is intended. We are really looking forward to returning...

$30 for 2 people to sleep in a tent for 1 night? And be chased around by hundreds of mosquitos??! The swamp trails were nothing different from what you could find literally anywhere in Houston. The lake is filthy, Idk why it says you can swim here online - there were a ton of no swimming signs. We must have missed the 10x10 ft of designated swimming area. That was the whole reason I wanted to come an hour out. This place seems more fit for rich retirees that live in RVs.

Oh and listening to people work construction on houses literally 100 ft from the campsite at 8 am-pm does not make it feel like you're "away from it all".

Rangers checking on our site every hour...

Lastly, check out is at 12 p.m. There were two people with weed-wackers and leaf blowers working from 9-10 a.m around our tent. We just packed up and left asap.

Worst camping experience of our lives.

Update: (3 days later) A lady at the front desk calls and asks us about the trash that was in the firepit, not even the firepit on our site, but the one next to us, that we didn't even use. There was plenty of trash at the site when we got there that I picked up because I didn't want us getting in trouble for that very thing. She then threatens us that they could have us flagged and banned from every state park in the country.

Idk if these two ladies hated us for looking a certain way or what. The one who checked us in seemed surprised we were camping at all. Extremely...