Lake Whitney State Park Campground

This is a place for unwinding, relaxing, watching the deer and turkey, hiking, and explorjng. We didn't want to leave. After having been 3 months in Houston this place was surprisingly quiet - wonderfully quiet. We could hear the birds, hear the wind rustling through the brush and trees, and hear each other as we talked about how quiet it was. Truly! We will be back.

Lake Whitney State Park is always fun. I have been camping here since I was a small child and have many fond memories of this park. The campsites are a bit dated but all are very functional. The fishing is most always great here!
The day use area has an excellent beach for swimming. We always see see lots of deer and other wildlife while visiting.
Supplies are only about 5 miles away if you forget something!

I stayed here 2 nights at the beginning of November. The cost was $20 plus a $4 per day vehicle fee. It was a nice park, but the campground left much to be desired. There was a metal structure over the picnic table that stuck out over the parking pad, and that together with a short pad at 90 degrees to the narrow road made it very difficult to back in. People walked back and forth across my site to get to the creek. Some of my neighbors had strings of bright colored lights that they left on all night, illuminating my bedroom. I would not stay here again.

We made reservations for 2 nights on site 93 and wanted to stay another night, but our site was already reserved for the 3rd night. So we moved to site 109. We loved site 93 even though it has a slope to it. It has a great view of the lake from anywhere on the site. Nice fishing area close by also where we caught a few largemouth bass. Site 109 is level but smaller and not as good lake access. We were there from Sunday through Tuesday and it was nice and quiet. If we’re ever down this way again we’ll stay again.

Clean park
They’d done some controlled burning so it didn’t look great but it will by spring because of it. My site was not near the lake but was a level blacktop pull thru with concrete picnic table, shade trees & a good fire ring with grill. The only wildlife I saw was a large herd for deer (20-30) & birds. Did not check out the bathrooms. Next time I’ll choose a different site because the neighbors are too close.
Very quiet no traffic noise.

We stayed here one night on our way to Blanco State Park. The pull throughs on our side of the loop (spaces 1-51) have nothing between our site and the lake but trees. We stayed in #30, full hookups. The space is somewhat unlevel, but it was easy to level ourselves. Long enough to stay hooked up for the night, but we opted to unhook and be level. It's a short walk through the trees to the lake, or pick up the trail close by near #31. There were not many people there, and it was very quiet and peaceful. No road noise at all. It's easy access from I-35, about 2.5 miles out of the town of Whitney. No problem getting here with a 29' fifth wheel. My phone says I have 1-2 bars/AT & T LTE. With my UnlimitedToGo NetGear Blackhawk hotspot, it shows the same. However, it is strong enough to use our Amazon Stick/wifi with our TV and no problems using the internet. The app I use to test my signal for teaching on-line shows my connection is somewhat inconsistent, but seems strong enough most of the time - although I did not attempt to teach while here. Ookla shows a ping of 145mb, download 1.13 Mbps, upload 2.68 Mbps. We would definitely stay here in this loop again. We enjoyed the open space behind the trailer and being close enough to walk down to the water. We did not check out the bathroom facilities.

We made reservations 92 days prior to arriving Thursday of the Columbus Day weekend for Horseshoe Loop full-hook-up site, which is a nice elm tree grove. With the Texas State Park Pass, we paid $21/nightly. Our spacious pull-thru site was partially shaded, but there is no vegetation between sites in this loop, so not one site had any privacy from another. Site surface was mostly gravel from deteriorating asphalt. Our site had a deteriorating concrete picnic table on a concrete slab and a fire pit with a grilling grate. There is a possibility that trees make could make site access difficult to deploy slide outs. We witness larger rigs getting creative with pulling into their site because of close trees. Quiet campground with no highway noise. There is no gate closure overnight. This is an excellent dark sky campground, but unfortunately during our stay surrounding campers had excessive outdoor lighting illuminated throughout their site most of the night, which inhibited good star glazing and Draconid meteor shower viewing. Shower/toilet facilities for this loop were clean, but heavily worn and not ADA compliant. Besides a small step into the structure, the women’s had 3 equally sized toilet stalls and 2 equally sized shower stalls neither with any safety grab bars. There are no sites in this loop that are lakefront. A few sites can just see the lake from a distance. Trash dumpsters are placed on roadway edge making safe rig egress tricky. AT&T 1 bar coverage in this campground loop. No wildlife sightings during our 4-night stay. Campfire wood available for sale from “lockers” at the Park Headquarters building. Closest restaurants, fuel stations and grocery stores in Whitney and Hillsboro. Waco is 40 miles southeast.

Nice quiet park. Friendly staff. Stayed during the week. Site was full hookup back in. Nice wide cement pad, Slight slop from front to back. No problem leveling. Medal picnic table. My be a problem for larger trailers due to the covered picnic table being at the end of the site. Looks like some unlucky camper hit the corner. Fishing was good. Only wild life we viewed were birds and squirrels.

The only bathroom to a 50 site loop was closed! Awful mosquitos. 5 minutes drive to restroom/showers and one stall closed there as well. For tent camping bathrooms are a necessity! Thankful we only needed to stay one night.

Stayed in Horseshoe loop (FHU) Sat-Fri, nightly rate lower during the week hence our $22/avg WITH TX state park pass as they charge a $5 per person entrance fee in addition to site fee.

Our site 30 was a challenge for our 34’ 5th wheel due to its narrowness but lots of other large pull-thrus available. Birds singing, nice walking paths, only used restroom/showers once and the shower was dirty and not very private (2 stalls back to back). Local town of Whitney has shopping and a few restaurants. Peaceful place to enjoy a visit with friends.