CONCAN, TX.  We drove to Garner State Park, where we were greeted with a small building, with its outer room full of people waiting to be admitted to another room where park employees worked at four counters to register park guests, whether day visitors or over-night campers.  We had made reservations weeks in advance online, but here they required wrist bands to weed out illegal entrants who sneak into the park without paying.  Thus, though every other state park honors reservations made on their online web sites, this park does not.  We actually saw trucks parked along the road outside the park, with people illegally sneaking through the brush along the river to sneak into the park without paying.  Made us wonder if these were illegal immigrants who did not want to be discovered.  They clearly all were Hispanic.

Waiting Area to Be Processed for a Wrist Band

Frio River with Large Pretty Cypress Trees

Activity Center & Store Built by the CCC During the Depression

Wild Flowers Surround Our Camp Site

Inside the park, we found narrow roads with confusing signs leading under low-hanging tree limbs that motorhomes must avoid.  This made for a very trying stay at this otherwise pretty park with beautiful trees, energetic song birds, and a nice river, the Frio River.

Our stay was further complicated by the absence of any cell phone, web, or GPS satellite service.  Hence, I am entering this several days late.