Riverside Park — Attraction in Texas

I have camped here for years at least once or twice a year. We have loved the park winter an summer. But it has been a steady decline. The bathrooms are no longer maintained, always dirty. The wilderness camping area is always my favorite to camp at but we always have electrical issues everytime we camp up there. Quite a few of the sites do not have a working electrical box, but they don't tell you that. Instead you will get to your site an there is no power. Hopefully you find out you have no power BEFORE you set up camp. I counted at least four sites with broken picnic tables. Again, no notice, if you book it, you'll be stuck with it until you can find someone to change your spots in the office. Normally they are not there. My most recent trip was only for 2 nights. When we got there, first thing we do is check the electric, we had to move our site once. when everything checked out, We set up camp. We had an ac an fan. Fan for day time, ac for at night. So not running both at once. fan was working fine, then all of the sudden burned up. Ok, it's an old fan, no problem. Later on, we hook ac up in tent in evening, about 30 minutes after of running it starts getting some kind of surge where the ac would run normally an die down very low. We end up un hooking to be safe, an running to buy another fan, opting to not run the ac. Long story short, in one night we burned up a fan, a portable ac and an electric skillet off the power. Completely ruined. Most expensive one night camping trip of my life. Very disappointing as I love this park an am local. I think the wilderness loop should be primitive only. The power shouldn't be an option if it can't be maintained, an obviously it is not maintained. At least then the sites would be cheaper an you wouldn't burn up all of your electrical stuff. 30 bucks is pretty steep for a camp site not near restrooms with no reliable power. My advise is bring shower shoes for the nasty restrooms an always use a surge protector, or in my opinion, don't use the...

Family and I have been coming here for years now. We've always done tent camping with the boys but we brought our camper this time as we are older. This is a great place to visit. Located right on the Colorado River and easy access to it. Has a good wide boat ramp and there is swimming here as well. However, do that at your own risk. Lots of shaded camping areas for both tent and RV. Do watch out for the low hanging branches as I fell victim to one the first time I brought my RV here. Park ranger is always buzzing around the camp on his four-wheeler and is friendly and courteous and very helpful. I also need to mention the fact that there are restroom and shower facilities available here. Folks be warned however as this is a very popular place. Wife and I had scheduled a camping trip here recently and a barbecue cook-off was happening. We won't make that mistake again. So, if you're going to schedule a camping trip, make sure there's no activities like that going on. But then again that's pretty much any place you go camping. Planning on coming back here as work permits....................update ... finally, after a year or more, we got to come back for a visit. The city has done a lot of work on the facilities out here. New electric plugs, water connections updated pads....the works. We were impressed. It's a lot nicer here than it was before. Even new boat launch...

The deer are protesting that the wild turkeys were released and back on the property. The raccoons well behaved and patient. The alligators and vultures are ever so watchful. The fish dancing all over in the dark just tempting us to catch them. I went to the shower at the end of the night and the deer accompanied me on my walk all the way there. I was surprised they were awake, or were they deer. If you approach the office the wild turkeys come innocently thinking you're going to feed them. Once theym talk you can tell their age. The Rangers are wonderfully helpful and checked on us in case we needed anything. The only time I felt stress was at dusk when the one alligator turned into 3 alligators watching us. But Mike was there with utmost respect and his two sons listened and followed his instructions and well behaved quietly left the edge of the water to pack up to get back to camp. This Park is clean well kept, we were never bothered by anyone. Our time was our own. Beautiful amiable property, people and well behaved animals made this camping trip...