Buckhorn Lake Resort — Hotel in Kerrville

We stayed here for a few days during a break from our journey between southern Arizone and coastal Texas. The campground is located in a small valley between hills, and is bisected by a large creek. The full-time residents occupy the motorhome-only section of the park on the west side of the creek. Our campsite (6131) was in a special section on the east side that was adults-only (no one under 16 years old was allowed in that section). All the sites in our section had concrete pads that gave way to grass on the door side and gravel on the side with the power pedestal. The site in the middle of the loop (like ours) were pull-through, while the ones on the outside of the loop were pull-in sites rather than back-in sites (most of those were occupied by Class As). Our site was mostly level (our loop had a slight incline). A cable TV hookup was available, but we didn’t use it.

This campground definitely earns the “resort” label. It has two swimming pools, a store in the office, an outdoor kitchen area with a smoker where they serve dinner to residents, an indoor activity room, a movie theatre area (we didn’t get to see it), and an adult fitness center with a small yoga area snd exercise equipment. Trash is picked up from your site at 10am each day (don’t miss that pickup window; we didn’t see any dumpsters for manually disposing of our trash), and you can sign up for propane delivery which occurs on Friday morning. They also have a small island in the middle of an artificial pond with a large gazebo and seating area (probably a wedding venue). It’s just a nice looking park overall.

Some RV resorts are so tight that there’s little grass for dogs to walk on. Not so here: there was plenty of open grassy area to walk our dogs along both sides of the creek, and there is a huge fenced-in dog park on the west side of the creek. There are also plenty of dog “stations” around the park that provide dog waste bags and dog waste cans.

In terms of cell service, the best speeds I got on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna during our stay was around 15Mbps down and 7Mbps up, but there were times, especially during the evening, where the connection was slow and congested. I used the campground WiFi one evening to upload another campground review. Didn’t do a speedtest, but it wasn’t much faster than the sluggish Verizon connection. The one speed test I performed on my AT&T phone showed 45Mbps down and 25Mbps up (I was getting close to my data cap for tethering for the month so I tried not to use it...

We’ve stayed at this park several times and the last time, was the last time! There was a terrifying incident that happened in front of us. An elderly woman was walking her small dog and a large dog (Pitt mix, tied outside the rig) on the site next to her, broke through the leash and knocked the woman over and attacked her dog. The owner of the large dog jumped on his dog and he and several others tried for at least 5 minutes but what seemed like hours, to pull the dog off. The owner of the large dog was bitten and a camp host was bitten and scratched. The large dog finally let go and the small dog laid lifeless and was rushed to the vet. Animal control was called and the dog was quarantined to his rv. We all know that dogs go outside to use the restroom so he would definitely be outside of his rv at some point in his 3 days remaining at the resort. I had a serious issue with this because I walk the park with my pups and I felt scared. This dog already broke one leash and proved he was vicious! I called and spoke with the manager Jennifer and voiced my concern. She said that the dog was not a danger to anyone and they were fine with allowing the owners and the dog to stay. I asked her that even after the dog had proven what he was capable of, considering he is a pitt mix, did she feel confident that he was not a danger? She stated the dog was a boxer and she was allowing the dog to stay because they’ve had more vicious attacks with small dogs than large dogs!!!! The dog was Pitt mix, not a boxer. ||I can’t believe that she would allow a vicious dog to stay in the resort and put other RVers in danger. ||Obviously her customers and their safety are not important to her! We will spend our money where we are appreciated and not...

Camped in a fifth wheel Rv, November 2020.

We were assigned site 6080. The site was fairly level, front to back and side to side. The sites were spaced kinda close together, as to be expected in most private RV resorts.

We have camped at Buckhorn many times over the years, participating in several owner group rallies as well as using the resort as a stopover on long trips.

Navigating through the resort loops with our 13’ tall fifth wheel wasn’t too bad, though we had to weave and dodge tree limbs getting into and out of our pull through site.

It is unfortunate that we pay hard earned dollars for daily camping fees, and yet the staff seems intent on not following through with basic maintenance, to be specific, trimming trees. Folks like myself, spend a lot of money on nice rigs. We take pride in our units, angered by low hanging lumber, scraping and gouging our units.

We camp most often at state parks, expecting there to be occasional issues due to low staffing and funding, but Buckhorn is a private resort, charging higher camping fees. At a resort such as this, one would expect impeccable landscaping and manicured trees.

Our camping neighbors were very friendly, some weekend locals and others from further away.

The registration staff was very friendly, and registration was very professional and efficient.

There were not lots of bugs at night. No mosquitoes that we noticed.

Overall, our camping experience was good. The only negative, as I mentioned, were the low hanging branches getting into the site. Anyone with a fifth wheel or class A motor home needs to beware. Preselection of sites is not allowed; you get what...