12. Texas' FIRST state park!! We camped (sans Scamp) at site #7 with our friends Jen and Jeremy. There are lots of CCC buildings, including a stone water tower. We hiked the trails and saw lots of birds, armadillo, fox, skunk (far away fortunately), 2 rabbits, and heard coyotes and Barred Owls "caterwauling" in the night (spooky)! We brought our screen shelter (it was hot) and cots to sleep on and during the second night the weather completely changed: a thunderstorm rolled in, so the 4 of us huddled in their tent and played 5 Card Draw, hoping it would stop soon. We had seen the storm coming, so had put a lot of our stuff and the dogs in the car already, but after it let up, we realized that our cots and shelter were soaked, so Aaron and I packed those up and came home a day early. Jen and Jeremy stayed since their tent was pretty dry still. One recommendation: camp as far away from Park Road 14 as possible - it's an arterial cutoff road with a lot of traffic.
*Mother Neff has had a lot of work done on it since our visit - camping away from Park Road 14 may not be an issue anymore and part of the work was supposed to fix the flood-prone campground. We definitely need to go back!
Mother Neff is close to Belton, which is a lovely little town. Belton is a county seat with a beautiful courthouse, restaurants, shops and Salado Creek flows through the center of town.
Site 7.
Hiking trail through a meadow.
CCC-built rock water tower.
Entrance to the park.
Called the Rock Tabernacle now, it was built as a Club House by the CCC.
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