90. Fort Boggy SP, 4/24 - 4/25/26

This park is one of our last due to the constraints - no dogs are allowed in the cabins, and the only non-cabin sites are walk-in primitive sites - our dogs wouldn't have appreciated that much. 

We booked site #8, which is the furthest primitive site down the trail.  We specifically wanted to "dry-run" bikepacking to see if we could do it on our folding bikes. 

Site 8 is wide-open and large.  We successfully hauled all of our gear, food, and food prep stuff to the site on our bikes (!) and really enjoyed our first night there.  The stars were beautiful, the moon was bright, but eventually clouds moved in and darkened everything.  The park is situated between highway 45 - loud, even at night - and a smaller county road - ear plugs might have been a good idea, but the noise didn't interfere with our sleep. 

Saturday we walked the Campbell Trail from our site to the Leon Prairie Trail (the pipeline); we saw a Copperhead snake on the trail which eventually moved off into the leaves and disappeared.  

After breakfast we biked the Campbell Trail to the Tunnel Trail - tunnel because of the trees arching over the trail - really lovely but boggy in parts so I chose to walk my bike.  We also rode back to our site via the lake and day use facilities.  We could not bike or walk the Lake Trail because it is closed due to some kind of danger.  

Saturday afternoon we happened to check the weather forecast and there was a huge thunderstorm barreling down on the area, due to hit around 7 pm, so we decided that we'd properly done the park and that camping in the rain and packing out in mud didn't sound appealing, so we checked out a day early and went home. 

It is a lovely park, small, with about 3 miles worth of trails. The pond seemed good for fishing, but we didn't see anybody catch anything.  There are kayak rentals and fishing equipment to be borrowed as well. 

Our loaded bikes, at the site. 

Aaron, site #8.

Site 8 at dusk.

Night sky. 

Pipeline trail - Leon Prairie Trail.

The surrounding area is lacking in activities: breweries, antiquing, etc. If the weather wasn't forecasted to turn ugly, we might have gone to Madisonville to explore, but it wasn't to be. 

All in all, we would happily go back for a very relaxing weekend. 

89. Dinosaur Valley State Park, 3/19/26

 We visited Dinosaur Valley SP as a day trip because it's so difficult to get a campsite there.  It's a very popular park; the dinosaur models that greeted us a as we drove in were impressive and the tracks themselves - visible even with water in the river - were extremely cool.  There were tons of families and kids having a blast with all the dinosaur stuff.  There are 50 car campsites and numerous backcountry hiking / backpacking trails and 6 backcountry campsites on the other side of the river.  

The dinosaur models at the park store.

They came from the 1964 World's Fair!

Paluxy River, no tracks here. 

Here are some of the tracks! 

88. Lake Whitney SP, 3/16 - 18/26

 Campsite #129 was lovely!  We were at the end of the road (literally) and had a view of the lake from our doorway.  We walked the whole park - both trails, and all the roads from our campsite to the trails.  Lake Whitney is an Army Corp of Engineers lake and the park used to be part of the military complex - in the middle of the park are 2 runways from when it may have been a glider training facility!  Currently, the signs say to contact the park about using the runway but there is a model aircraft group that uses it as well.  So far, this is the only airstrip and model aircraft "base" we've seen in a park!  The trails are lovely, easy, as described.  We birded the park too and saw some unusual birds, probably migrating.  

Campsite 129.

View from our tent. 

Two Bridges Trail. 

Airstrip F50, Register at office.

Whitney Area Miniature Aircraft Club.

One of the runways. 

Nearby: We didn't venture out of the park, but there are a few restaurants and bait shops in Whitney and Laguna Park.