Lodging
Not ready to rough it? State parks, state natural areas and state historic sites offer a wide variety of overnight lodging besides camping. Click on the links below to find out more about a specific park's facilities.
You can reserve all facilities online, except for group facilities. Call (512) 389-8920 to reserve a group facility.
Cabins & Group Lodges
These facilities have bathrooms. Pets are not allowed in or around the cabin areas. The only exceptions are service animals aiding physically challenged persons. State and/or local hotel/motel tax is added to cabin rates.
- Lodge at Hill Country State Natural Area
- Bastrop (cabins)
- Big Bend Ranch (Sauceda Ranch House - closed for repairs)
- Caddo Lake (cabins)
- Cooper Lake (cabins)
- Daingerfield (cabins and group lodge for up to 15)
- Estero Llano Grande (group lodges)
- Galveston Island (lodges)
- Garner (cabins)
- Hill Country (lodge)
- Lake Brownwood (cabins and group lodges)
- Martin Creek Lake (cabins)
- Mother Neff (cabin with campsite)
- Palo Duro Canyon (cabins)
- Possum Kingdom (cabins)
- Sea Rim (cabin)
- Village Creek (cabin)
Cabins (Without Bathrooms)
These facilities do not have bathrooms. Restrooms are usually in the area.
- Limited Use Cabin at Stephen F. Austin
- Abilene (yurt)
- Brazos Bend
- Buescher
- Choke Canyon - Calliham Unit
- Cleburne
- Cooper Lake
- Eisenhower
- Falcon
- Fort Boggy
- Fort Richardson
- Huntsville
- Inks Lake
- Lake Bob Sandlin
- Lake Colorado City
- Lake Corpus Christi
- Martin Creek Lake
- Martin Dies, Jr.
- McKinney Falls
- Meridian State Park
- Palmetto
- Palo Duro Canyon
- San Angelo
- Stephen F. Austin
- Tyler
Lodges & Motels
- Balmorhea - San Solomon Springs Court (closed for renovations)
- Big Bend Ranch - Sauceda Bunkhouse
- Indian Lodge
- Ray Roberts Lake - Lone Star Lodge
Screened Shelters
Each shelter has a picnic table, electricity, outside grill or fire ring, water (no indoor plumbing), and paved or gravel parking for two vehicles. A maximum of eight persons is allowed per shelter.
- Screened shelter at Cooper Lake State Park
- Abilene
- Blanco
- Brazos Bend
- Buescher
- Caddo Lake
- Cleburne
- Cooper Lake
- Eisenhower
- Falcon
- Fort Parker (winterized with wooden panels from November through March)
- Garner
- Goliad
- Huntsville
- Lake Bob Sandlin
- Lake Brownwood
- Lake Corpus Christi
- Lake Livingston
- Lake Mineral Wells
- Lake Whitney
- Martin Creek Lake
- Martin Dies, Jr.
- Meridian
- Stephen F. Austin
- Tyler