On March 7th, we had our first warm and free day of the year and jumped on a day trip to Lake Corpus Christi State Park. We had been saving this park for exactly this occasion and loaded the car up with our fresh water fishing gear ready to see a new park finally. After just a little over an hour drive, we arrived just in time for our picnic lunch.

We found a nice shady area with picnic tables on the bank of the lake near the boat ramp and day use area. After we ate, the onslaught of casting and reeling and changing lures every 5 seconds began, haha. But I can’t give them too much grief, my bobber and bait sat untouched the whole time as well. It didn’t look like the folks on the pier were having much luck either, so we chalked it up to a day for just fishing and not catching.

We loaded back up in the car and set off to explore the other features of the park. There are 2 simple trails in the entire park, but quite a few camping loops and around 20 nice look cabins. Some of the water front campsites looked lovely and were large enough for campers, but only provided water hook ups.

After our tour of campsites, we drove up a bluff to check out the CCC built pavilion. The structure is stunning! We’ve seen a number of these buildings by now, but each one has its own character that makes us respect the thought that went into each design. This one closely reminded us of the pavilion at Lake Brownwood State Park with its upstairs lookout and promenade leading to the lake.

Our final stop was a cute natural designed playground and to my surprise, the kids enjoyed some pretend play for quite while.

We enjoyed out daytrip to this park. I’m glad its easy to get to on a whim. A simple weekend camping trip would be fun too. The water isn’t our kind of “swim-able” but I would like to try fishing some more.

-Lindsay