I figured I'd give us a new post for this place. We love it there. Still no hookups unless you rent the house. There were 2 pens at each site we stayed at. No drinking water and no real toilets. We have LQ so we didn't care. We just filled up a 55 gal plastic drum when we needed water. They have it at the Ranger Camp.

They must have changed it since I was there last.  I don't remember any other campsites with corrals.   Just the one with the big barn.  Unless we are thinking of the same one.  The one uphill from the Rangers house in front of the registeration building?  There was a water trough and a faucet and I "think" some porta-pottys.

I just re-red your post and I think it is the same spot.

The trails at Bandera are beautiful, but rocky. There is an annual endurance ride each Thanksgiving weekend-the Lone Star Endurance I & II-a 25 and a 50 miler on each day. We have been the last 4 or 5 years in a row and enjoy the trails, rocks, rocks, & rocks.The parking is good if it hasn't rained where they have us park. If wet, you have to be towed out. No hookups. No comparison to what we've been to in Oklahoma at the endurance rides. But it is a great managed ride that we look forward to every year. We also discovered - pads with shoes if you're going to complete within the 12 hour limit and not have lameness! Those of you in the mountains are now laughing, but our sandy-clay soil accustomed horses aren't. LOL

Longrider - I was reading your post and thinking have they really ridden in OK. We think some of those eastern OK trails are way rockier than Bandera. Different kinds of rocks and we certainly aren't endurance riders. We do ride all day but not hard like you do. We keep shoes on our guys so we really don't ever consider how rocky a place is unless it is REALLY bad. There was a place in MO that had big round rocks (softball to soccerball size) all over the place. Very hard on the horses and there was just no way around them. Didn't like that at all.

I really enjoy getting out of the trees and seeing some land. I think that's why I like riding down there so much.

We went to Caprock last year for a weekend. They had a spigot to fill the horse trough but was only one. They looked like they might have water going to all sites real soon. No electric. I sure wish they would give the horse people the other camp and put in corrals up there.

I hate hearing a lot of generators running at night. At least ours is pretty quiet.

Thanks, Rbart-that answers my questions about Caprock. I'm like you, I wish that the RV campground would become the equestrian campground. I too, don't enjoy the noise of generators at night though ours is quiet also. Just would still rather have electricity available. The security at the campground, however, was the best I can remember anywhere. I woke up everytime they came by to check on us (we were the only occupants that weekend) and it would always be real close to one hour intervals.   And Terri, the generator was probably one of the new Honda EU units. Our endurance club bought one to power the laptops we use for keeping records and figuring points for best conditioned award. We sat right beside the generator, even using the top of it for a table and you could talk in a normal voice and hear each other with absolutely no problems. They're great!