San Angelo State Park Campground in San Angelo, Texas

Trent is your driver for this post.

We stayed at the San Angelo State Park campground (south shore) for two weeks in early Aug, 2016.  Our original plan was to stay for a week but after a few days of loving our spot - we changed it to two weeks.

The gate agent was very friendly and pointed out we had made a reservation at the North shore campground but would probably rather stay at the south shore. She was right and so she switched our spot to a good one (#17) by the lake.  The state park has electric and water hookups but not sewer. We did end up having to dump about twice a week but that turn out to be easier than expected (but still not "fun").



The Verizon coverage was great without an antenna or booster. I was pulling down anywhere from the high teens to low twenty's Mbps.  You can see the cell tower is just on the other side of the park and up near the local dam.



Each spot comes with a nice concrete and shaded(!) table. We made good use of it to escape the August sun. The pictures below were not our spot - just typical spots in the park.


The view from our spot was great as were the sunsets. The first week we mostly had our corner of the park to ourselves and when more campers did come in the second week it still wasn't crowed.  There are research herds of Bison and Texas Longhorns in the park. We went and watched them a few times.  There were also plenty of birds and ground squirrels to watch.  One word of caution- there are fire ants colonies in the park. Check to make sure you are not setting up your RV in the path of ant colony. They will try to eat you for dinner or let you know that spot is taken. We got lucky and had no problems.

The park is just on the edge of town. A huge grocery store is just 2 miles down the road and there are plenty of things to do in town. The local pool ($5 per person) is great for kids! Sam had a blast. The rangers said you can swim in the lake but I didn't see anyone doing that and couldn't suggest it.

The bath houses were maybe slightly below average in terms of cleanliness for a state park but still ok and fine to use. I regularly took showers there to keep our gray tank from filling up too fast.

Can you spot the Road Runner?

Bathhouse

We would definitely stay here again! I hope next time the temperature is not hovering around 100 like it was during this visit.