TX State Parks Official Guide

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

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About this app

Find your perfect Texas state park getaway with this Official Guide created by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). Locate Texas campgrounds, cabins, trails and places to enjoy outdoor activities like hiking, biking, swimming, fishing and kayaking. You’ll discover all the information you need on more than 90 Texas State Parks around the state including Garner, Enchanted Rock, Palo Duro, and Colorado Bend.

Search for your perfect park. Filter by:

− Outdoor activities such as swimming, fishing, or canoe/kayak rentals
− Overnight accommodations like cabins, lodges, group facilities, screened shelters, RV hookups, primitive/backpacking sites, or tent camping sites
− Amenities including boat ramps, playgrounds, trailer/RV dump stations , equestrian facilities or showers
− Trail types – hiking, biking, equestrian or nature/interpretive trails
− Or, use the in-app map to locate parks near you*

Discover more about the parks that interest you:

− Create a list of your favorite parks
− Find in-depth information on each park, including: things to do, contact information, fees, operating hours, available overnight facilities (i.e. campgrounds, cabins, screened shelters, RV sites), etc.
− Look at photos and videos.

Then, make your getaway to a Texas State Park! It’s easy with:

− In-app dialing to the state park reservation call center for camping and cabin reservations and to each individual park
− Driving directions from your current location using your device’s default map*
− A facility map for each park that show you the location of camping loops, cabins, and trails
− Detailed maps showing hiking and biking trails and the wildlife that can be seen on the trails. You can download the map and save it to use later!*
− Information on park programs and events happening during your visit
− Up-to-date alerts such as burn bans and other park advisories*

Whether you want to spend a few days in a cabin, RV or camping in a tent or just want to get outdoors for the day to hike, bike, swim, fish or see native wildlife, the TX State Parks Official Guide from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will help you get there.

*These features require Internet connection

Ratings and reviews

Navigation is complicated at best, and impossible if you're trying to make a reservation. if you're lucky you can get something in the shopping cart, but there's no way to get to the checkout. of you leave the mobile app and go to the website to complete it shows the site in your shopping cart as "reserved" and you can't complete your purchase. save a headache and just call them.

App on android is only useful for basic info. For more detail or to make reservations, I have to use website. Trail maps will not download and noticed tonight that my husband was looking at a park map on iPhone and it had a 2/22 date. Mine on Android had 2/19 date. There was a difference in campsite info from one map to the other. My app was updated, but still showing an old date. I tried the Email Us function under App Support, but guess what, it didn't work either. 🙄

The app needs to work like the park guide book. We vacation by region, not alphabetically. It should be categorized this way. On the interactive map, all I get are the pins...no roads, no regions, just have to guess! This app is barely OK. An alphabetical list of parks is about as useful as a vacation guide to Europe that lists all the cities alphabetically, not within their country. There are 7 regions in the State Park guidebook for a reason. Categorize the app the same way, please!!!!!