Along the way on our first visit to Lubbock this year, we decided to throw another state park in. Lake Colorado City was an easy choice being located off of I-20 west of Abilene. I booked one of their lakeside cabins looking forward to an easy over night stay and built in AC haha. We arrived right before the 3:00 check in time and were happy to see we were driving though a deserted park! The cabin area was nice and clean, but I was surprised to see 12 units clustered around 1 bath house. I think that would’ve been rough if many cabins were booked. From the outside our cabin was neat with it’s stone exterior, large parking area and picnic table on a covered patio. The kids were excited about the bunk beds on the interior, but I was ultimately disappointed by a lack of what I felt would’ve been “getting our money’s worth.”

Once we got the cabin settled the best we could, we walked down a short path to the edge of the lake to see what swimming there would be like. While the area didn’t look ideal for swimming, fishing might have been pretty good!

We wanted to get some swimming in before dinner, so we drove to the beach swim area and were happy to find it empty except for another couple. I quickly passed on getting beyond ankle deep in the muddy water, but the kids were happy to swim out and throw mud globs at one another.

After showers and dinner, we were done with heat but wanted to stay up in an attempt to catch some stars. We played Uno for a while, and then drove around as the sun set checking out amenities.

As luck would have it, the skies clouded up and a full moon prevented our star show, but we did see a cool lightening show in the distance at a 10 pm bathroom run. Sleep that night was rough on the provided vinyl mattresses in a cabin that didn’t really cool off till 2 am.

The next morning, we marveled at the still full moon setting and started packing up. The park only has one 1 mile trail that tours the edge of the lake and we didn’t feel a need to hike it haha.

It’s no coincidence this post is short and not full of photos. This park was a disappointment for us. Maybe the fishing is great? We saw 2 people fishing. The nearby town of Colorado City was 75% closed down and vacant and probably saw it’s hay day when I-20 didn’t by pass it. Maybe the park went down with the city. But we were on our way to play with cousins and are grateful for the streak of amazing parks we’ve seen before this one.

-Lindsay