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
Glamping (Luxury Camping)
- A glamping (luxury camping) site at Palo Duro Canyon State Park
Fully furnished with air conditioning, luxury rustic furnishings, refrigerators, microwaves, coffee makers, games, bicycles, gas grills and gas fire pits, covered porches with rockers, porch swings, and much more.
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