Kickapoo Cavern State Park, 12/23/16 - 12/15/16

45. We are the ONLY campers in the whole park (other than the Camp Host, Don) - highly unusual apparently.  (I'm still not sure if it's unusual that we were there or that we were the only ones.)
Scampsite #7; despite the misty, chilly drizzle, we hiked the Long Way Home Trail, about 7 miles.  It was mostly flat and beautiful.  This park used to be a working sheep and goat ranch, so the Ranger's house is the old ranch house, which we passed on our hike.  And we think we saw a coyote running outside the old ranch house.  We also hiked the Seargeant Memorial Trail to the top of the hill.  The Cavern tour was not available, seeing as how we were the only folks there, so we are saving the rest of the hikes for when we go back to see the caves for which the park was named.   This is a lovely park, with just a handful of campsites.  It's pretty remote and neither of us had any cell service (AT&T and Verizon).

Scampsite 7.

Long Way Home trail - notice the water tank on the right.

Kickapoo history.

Water tanks, windmill.

View from the top of the hill, Seargeant Memorial trail.

Merry Christmas! 

Sunset from the Scamp.

Nearby Kickapoo Caverns: Brackettville is the closest county seat, Rocksprings is just a little further. Both towns have gas, groceries, and cute courthouses.  Rocksprings has the Historic Rocksprings Hotel, if your campsite gets rained out!  Devils Sinkhole SNA is nearby as well; it would be relatively easy to add that to this trip, if you were there when the bats are visiting.