Lake Livingston State Park

Lake Livingston State Park

Livingston, TX
January 2010

We took a day trip to this park from Huntsville State Park. It

was about an hour drive away. I was really looking forward to

checking out Lake Livingston. I had heard that it was pretty big.
Boy were they right! The lake is huge. It's about five times the
size of Lake Travis at 93K acres. It is 39 miles long and at it's
widest almost 7 miles wide. I don't think it's too deep, but it sure

is big. It might be too big for my little runabout. It wasn't very

windy, but the lake was pretty choppy. This lake does have
alligators, so there goes swimming and skiing. My kids wouldn't

dare touch the water with that information.

The park was pretty nice with lots to do. There was a horse stable with horseback riding rentals. There was a marina that had a store with paddle boat, bicycle cart and canoe and boat slip rentals. The park also had a good size swimming pool.

The cabins were really neat. They were one and a half story
with the sleeping area on the top level. My kids would love

to stay in one of these.

The park had four camping loops. Stay way from the Pin Oak

Loop if at all possible. We found the pads to be very small and

the campsites were right on top of each other. Almost hard

to figure which table goes to which site.

The other loops looked OK. However, one thing we did not like

is that all of the park roads and pads have drainage ditches on

the sides. I would hate to drop a wheel off of one of those

trying to back in your rig.

None of the sites were on the water, but there were several

that had water views.