Fort Boggy State Park Cabins

Cabin 1

Cabin 5

Cabin 4

Cabin 3

Cabin 2

Had the chance to introduce my brother and sister - in - law to the joys of staying at Texas State Parks. As they are not big outdoors people the cabins at Fort Boggy State Park were the perfect location.

The park has recently redone the cabins and the information that I could find online was limited. But after an awesome weekend of fishing, campfires and board games on the screened-in porches I would say that the best to least best for the cabins are 4, 3, 5, 1, 2.

The park itself is fairly limited, not many hiking trails, the lake is small and the bathroom options are clean but limited.

The cabins are incredible with AC, fridge, beds, screened and unscreened porches with ceiling fans and each has a picnic table and fire pit. Really ideal if you want to relax and enjoy slowing down & being in the forest.

Atlanta Tx state park

I journey to Atlanta State Park in Atlanta TX. I had been warned that it was not worth my time, but I could not keep away.

The Pros:

• Lots of trails, you will not hike every trail in one day
• Great staff
• lovely forest
• has lake access

The Cons:

• Poorly marked trails, I went miles out of my way on the nature trail?!?!?!
• The lakefront is not very well maintained.
• Most of the trails are in the woods and lack wow factors.
• The rustic restrooms that I encountered were overrun by wasps.

Overall opinion, if your in the area and want to get away for a while its a lovely place to do that, however it is not worth a trip out to visit.

Daingerfield State Park

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/daingerfield

We bought ourselves a Texas State Park Pass one of our first weekends here and have been making a point to visit as many parks as we can.

Daingerfield has a fantastic path around that lake, with picturesque bridges and lovely lake views.

Day Hike, Daingerfield State Park

Lake at Daingerfield State Park

Wildlife at Daingerfield State Park

Tyler State Park

Continuing to cross train while I await the motivation to fix the brakes on the bike I headed to Tyler state park. Its a smallish state park with a nice selection of trails. I did the loop around the lake, about 3 miles and attempted to find loop C but ended up doing part of loop B. The A,B,C,D trails could use some better markings, however the park is small and you find yourself by the road frequently so no real worries of getting wicked lost. It was a fantastic Texas winter day, lows in the 40's and Highs in the mid 60's

Several of the trails are bike friendly, mountain bikes are a must on the trails. I have also seen many people riding road bike on the driving loop in the park. We are without a bike holder on our car, so I have not had the opportunity to take it out in the park yet.

 The park has an abundance of well maintained campground and cabins for rent. Next time we have friends come down for the weekend I think I will be suggesting that we stay in the cabins and spend the weekend, hiking, fishing, paddle boating and biking.

** on a side note getting photos off of my work blackberry and onto blogger was a huge pain. Blogger is too large of a forum for Blackberry browser to support so I had to load the photos to Facebook, download them on my laptop and than post them on this entry... uggg, I hate technology that can not cross communicate