Smitty

The campsites have fire rings and grills. The park does get windy at times. They have some really beautifull sunsets at the water campsites. Near one of the bathrooms is a place with lots of bird feeders for the birds. If your tenting you will want to secure your food! You will notice at te office t shirts for sell that show racoon exploits. At the boat launch you will see a bunch of pelicans waiting for scraps. Lots of wildlife to enjoy. Also you might want to take a day trip to the Aransas National wildlife refuge. The info below is from there web site.

Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
The bugle of an endangered whooping crane echoes across the far reaches of the marsh. Only at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge do North America's tallest birds find an enduring winter stronghold. Here, too, pelicans, herons, egrets, roseate spoonbills, ducks, and geese dine in brackish waters and salt marshes teeming with fishes, blue crabs, and clams. On shore, javelinas, bobcats and deer wander oak woodlands. Alligators peer from still waters of ponds and sloughs. Ringed by tidal marshes and broken by long, narrow sloughs, this 59,000-acres refuge sprawls mostly across the Blackjack penisula, where grasslands, live oaks, and redbay thickets cover deep sandy soils. Storms and waters of the Gulf of Mexico constantly reshape this vital refuge, home to over 390 different bird species.



Getting There . . .
From Rockport, TX, take Highway 35 north approximately 20 miles. Turn right on FM 774, go approximately 9 miles to FM 2040. Turn right and follow FM 2040 for about 7 miles to refuge entrance.