campermom

You might try picnicing at the park located at Canyon Lake Dam. I can't recall if there are picnic tables but there is a restroom. You can stroll across the top of the dam, view the spillway which was decimated during the floods a few years ago, and drive downstream to see just how severe flood damage was to the area below the spillway. Just below the dam is the "Tailrace", the start of the Guadalupe river. If you like rainbow trout, they stock it there in the winter. Most likely there are no trout in that spot now, they move down stream near "Whitewater Sports". You might wade in the river there, the water is very cold ( from the depths of the lake) and it's usually swift there. Try renting tubes further downstream at "Whitewater".