RATING: ♦♦♦♦+
- Length of stay: 21 days
- Cost of per night: $3/night for 50 amp
- Discount: Thousand Trails
- Hook ups: 50 amp electric, water, and sewer.
- Site number/quality: #F154. Gravel pad, asphalt picnic area. Shade trees on three sides. Good amount of room between sites. Nice level site with a great view of the lake out the front window.
- Park Quality: This is a very quiet campground about 40 miles west of San Antonio. It sits on a large piece of property directly on the shores of Medina Lake. The park is home to a large herd of very tame deer. Corn is sold at the ranger station and campers are encouraged to feed them. Besides the tame deer, we saw many wild turkeys and jack rabbits. It’s a happy place.
- Access: The campground is 30 miles southwest of I-10. It’s not hard to get to, just not very convenient. There’s a small grocery store about 3 miles outside of the campground, and a Walmart and HEB in Boerne, a 35 minute drive away. The town of Helotes is a 45 minute drive toward San Antonio. You can find anything you need there.
- Connectivity: Verizon OK, AT&T OK, and T-Mobile OK.
- Return yes/no?: Perhaps.
- Deer and Bennetts: It was a treat for us to meet and spend some time with Marc and Julie Bennett of RVLove, who were also staying at Medina Lake. We started following their website and YouTube channel before we went fulltime in our motorhome. Julie’s post on the Thousand Trails camping membership was instrumental in our decision to join. It was fun to see them in the park and share happy houring, pie eating, and deer feeding. We got to see the beautiful upgrades they’ve made to their recently purchased 1999 Country Coach Intrigue 40′ motorhome. They will soon be sharing videos on what they did. We can’t wait to see how similar upgrades can be made to our own travel home. (Oh boy, look out budget!) Here is a link to an earlier review of theirs of Medina Lake Thousand Trails park.
- Notes: The lake was very low when we arrived, and kind of ugly with a lot of exposed shoreline. But within a few hours of setting up, it began to rain. It continued raining for seven days. The final day was the worst. Much of south and central Texas suffered serious flooding. A campground a few miles north of us was flooded so badly that two RVs were washed away. This was happening at the same time Hurricane Florence was hitting the Carolinas, so the floods in Texas didn’t get much press. Fortunately the worst thing that happened to us was that Becky had left her sandals outside before the worst part of the storm, and they washed away. We eventually found them out in the road. The good news is that the lake level returned to normal.
- Website: Thousand Trails Medina Lake