roverchris

Anyone have any opinions on this park? We like to take the 18 month old swimming and thought this might be a nice place away from the crowds. Is it worth a day trip from Austin or perhaps an overnight?

srds

Just got back from there,what a great park. The park was pretty full but we still had room to have fun,the water level was good.In our group we had two small ones 16 month and a 21 month boys and they did just fine.The campsites are on the smaller side but nice.we got lucky the sites on one side were taken but no one stayed in them ,just for their cars.Just be sure to keep the little one cool and have a good time.I wish we only were a hour away, but we are more like 7 hours,and it is worth it.
srds
Have Fun

P.S. the ac boot work perfect.

Turn Key

Welcome aboard and I hope we can help. South Llano is a great park and well worth a day trip. We've been there twice for 8-days at a clip and I loved both trips. Want to go back really bad. Park tends to draw an older crowd in the camping area during the mid-spring time. Stays quiet and peaceful. Things get a bit noisier with the kiddos down by the river, particularly on the weekends. Great place to go swimming and wading.

Park draws a good many "birders" and there were 2 outstanding blinds the last time I was there with plans for a third. Turkey come into the camping area in the mornings and evenings to feed along with deer on the perimeter. Also, the park hosts always have a couple of humming bird feeders up. Hummers are so prolific and near-tame, you can walk right up to the feeders if you do it slowly. And when I say hummers, I mean hummers! Have been there in the evening when there were more then 100 hummers flitting around the feeders. Don't know if he/she is still hanging around but watch for the big white rabbit that roamed the park at one time (no, I'm not in Wonderland).

Again, welcome aboard and I hope you have a great trip.

Happy Camping!

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srds

To roverchris,
South Llano has a lot of shallow,slow running areas so you we fill safe while swimming with small ones.Have A Blast
srds
Good Camping

roverchris

Thanks everyone. We'll try to make it out there by mid-late July.

campermom

We'll be there 13, 18, 19 & 20.

campermom

We used South Llano as a stop over for the longer trip west. We stayed one night on the way out, swimming all day. Upon returning, the plan was to be 2 nights. We would drive over to Rock Springs for the bat tour. Since we already saw bats at Carlsbad, we dropped that stop. Since we wanted to add Big Bend to the trip, we extended Balmorhea another night, and dropped a night at SLRSP. We arrived after hours so I needed to check in. I originally made plans to go on to McKinney Falls in Austin. There was a mis up with the reservations and now they had no room for Fri and Sat nights. SLRSP was fully booked. At that point I thought I'd be heading home also. Bummer. As I walked out of the office, the other customer, a lady I chatted with while brushing teeth that morning, came out to say she had just dropped her night and asked if I wanted it. Oh yea!
The family we were traveling with decided it was time to return to civilization and X-BOX. We stayed at the site helping them pack up their pop-up. Once they finished, our tent and canopy were up, we went to the river for the rest of the day.
The weather was changing quickly. A ranger drove by and I asked about the forecast. He showed me the doppler in his truck and it wasn't looking to good. I made the call to break camp and return home. We broke more than just our camp. The canopy suffer wind damage during our stay in Balmorhea and was now damaging the truck, which was parked close enough to keep dry from tent to truck. I slammed the back door down to drive it forward to keep it from getting scratched. Something went crunch and bounced off the pavement. Oh, my cell phone, great, the screen is shattered, and has an LCD rainbow covering half of the screen. I was going to call home to warn them we were coming home. Oh well. At least I can go get a phone that can take pictures now. See, it's not a bad thing.

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