Texana State Park

Texana State Park
Edna, Texas
March 19 - 20, 2010

We spent a couple of days at this nice State Park on our 2010

Spring Break trip. The park is a decent size with over 130 camping sites that sits right on the shores of Lake Texana. Lake Texana is a good size lake with over 9K acres. The park is split up into three sections/loops. The first section is day use and has a visitor's center. The second partis for non-electircal camp sites and the last

section has over 75 electrical & water sites. We found it odd that each section/loop wasn't named like the other state park do.

My daughters enjoyed the gift shop that sold ice cream. My son
enjoyed the two lighted fishing piers. We all enjoyed the 3 mile
bike trail that went around part of the park called Texana Trail. It was a nice trail that could of used some more markings.

There is also a canoe and kayak rental station that opens to a

nice size beautiful cove. .....ideal for canoeing.

The park also had a boat ramp and there were several fishing
boats enjoying the lake.

One thing we did notice was the lack of a swimming area and ski

boats. They are not too popular on this lake due to the fact the lake has alligators.

The nature center had literature on all the local wildlife and tanks

of turtles and baby alligators. We all enjoyed the nature center.

The park was at full capacity while we were there. While we were

a little dissappointed with the lake, the park was thumbs up.

Pros

- gift shop

- nature center
- fishing piers

- good size sites with flat paved pads

- most (if not all) sites had really good shade

- lots of water front sites

- good bike trail

- canoe rentals

Cons

- not close to any store / town

- lake with alligators*

* I admit we are spoiled when it comes to rating lakes. We thought it would be very difficult to camp here in the summer and not want to go swimming. However, with gators in the lake,

we wouldn't get wet. So with that in mind, we rated this park a little lower.

A good spring winter and fall park. But it would be torture in the

summer.

RATING - 7 out of 10