Saturday, December 29, 2018

POTTER'S CREEK COE, Cayon Lake, TX

Potter's Creek COE, 
Canyon Lake, TX
RUN BY:   Corp of Engineers
LOCATION:  29.906358   -98.261230
Last Visited:  12/3/2018

UTILITIES:  Electric and Water
COST:  $21
DISCOUNTS:  50% with Senior card

OUR RATING (1-5):  Category I.  Score 4

NOTES:   We arrived to spend a couple days with friends two days before they closed the campground for hunting season.  Lots of deer roaming through the campground.  It is in a lovely grove of Live Oak surrounded by the scrubby landscape of the Texas hill country with lots of Juniper.

Environment:   Live Oak grove in the Texas hill country
Amenities:  None
Dump:  Yes
Public Water:  Yes
Toilets: Yes
Showers:  No
Laundry:  No
Phone Service: adequate Verizon 
Nearest Propane:
Location: 
Proximity to shopping:
Camping Population:  varied. 
Sites:  Nice. Roomy.


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RATING KEY:    category - score 

Categories:  I - established campgrounds where one might spend a vacation or several days
                    II -  boondocking, dry camping where there are no designated sites and no amenities but
                               one might choose to stay for more than a night.
                    III - over-night areas 

You must remember that we are scoring 1 thru 5 according to things which are important to us: the environment, cost, amenities, location, safety, camping population, site, phone service 

* There are people who are not full-timers and van-dwellers by choice. We try hard not to be demeaning or assume that they are bad people but sadly, as you find in the poorer parts of a city, there seems to be more crime. Many call these people van-dwellers. That isn’t really accurate even though they do often live in vans. We know quite a few van-dwellers who have good incomes, are full-timers by choice and prefer a van to other types of vehicles. To try to show some respect for people who have a difficult lot in life, I’m calling them ‘residential campers’.  It is only when you get a high proportion of residential campers in an area that you find an increase in petty theft, etc.  

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