I hope you are aware that Texas State Parks charge a daily per person admission fee, in addition to the camping fee. At Inks Lake that is $6 per person age 13 and up. Garner is $7. If you are going to spend enough days in Texas State Parks, a $70 one year Park Pass is worth the costs and gives you one day camping at half price for up to four different visits during that year.
jamway wrote:
Unless things have changed at TX. S. P's. you can't reserve a specific site.
Most of the time they will let you look at the open sites and pick the one you like the best.
In Jan 2014, Texas State Parks started to allow site specific reservations for some of the premium FHU sites at Lake Livingston State Park. The program was supposed to expand as the state staff and park personnel developed familiarity with the process.
Texas SP Reservations system is run by Active Network, LLC - the company which acquired Reserve America in 2009.
While volunteering as a park host at a TX state park in 2014, I was told that at one time Texas used RA, but made the change to Active Network's Infospherix product - in part due to a lower bid, but also because the parks wanted to do away with site specific reservations.
Ohio and Pennsylvania were the only other states which used Active Network for reservations two years ago, but both have moved to Reserve America's portal.
