natureboyhays

In reference to Lake Mineral Wells SP, yes, I was talking about the trails within the park itself. If you look at the park map, you will see a kind of multi-loop system, with some trails or roads across that can be shortcuts, but if you stick to the outermost route at each junction, I believe it is about 8.5 miles. Mostly wide gravel service road type trails (even a couple of partially paved roads cut across as I remember--I believe this parcel of land used to be a military reservation), and mostly just prairie land (mesquite, elms, cottonwoods, etc), but on the farthest loop it goes up and back down a pretty good sized hill.

The trail I remember at Fairfield was one that runs about 2.5 miles to a primitive camping area (that may be the multi-trail area you noted?) and yes that one dead-ends at that camping area, just have to backtrack out.

I believe the Cleburne trail around the east side of the lake goes around to the dam, then if you cross the dam, you would have to make the rest of the way back on the park road, thru day-use areas. The loop that way I think would be shorter than 5 miles, but if you just went around & across the dam, then backtracked the whole thing, that might be 5 miles or more. It was a decent trail with some ups & downs & some overlooks of the lake.