RV Adventure: Camping in Tyler State Park, Texas
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Explore beautiful Tyler State Park in Tyler TX!
For years folks have been telling us that Tyler State Park up in Northeast Texas (just outside of the City of Tyler, TX) is an absolute must visit Texas State Park. After our first visit here, we absolutely agree! Tyler State Park has a little bit of something for everyone: hiking, mountain biking, swimming, paddling, fishing, geocaching, dutch oven cooking, bird and wildlife watching or just plain relaxing... you can do it all at Tyler State Park. And bonus: this beautifully forested park with its own spring-fed lake is located just off of Interstate 20 halfway between Dallas, Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana. It's a great place to spend a week, a weekend or even one night as you're passing through on a roadtrip.
In this video, we share our first visit to Tyler State Park and take you on a tour of the campgrounds, CCC buildings, trails, lake and park store. We will definitely be back! For our full write-up and park profile with details and pictures, visit rvtexasyall.com/region-texas-....
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We (Tom & Stacie) are Native Texans who are all about exploring the Lone Star State in our weekend home on wheels. We're always looking for fun and interesting places to visit. We'd love to hear your suggestions on fun and interesting places to visit. Please leave a comment below!
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Thanks so much for watching! To read more about our visit to Tyler State Park including pictures and our complete park profile, please visit rvtexasyall.com/region-texas-pineywoods/campgrounds/tyler-state-park.
Beautiful video. This makes us want to take a trip there from Houston. Also.THANK YOU so much for that PSA. I cannot stand people littering!
Your welcome, we can’t either!
Thank you for this park review! Excellent! I can’t wait to get out there! 💚
Thanks so much Dee! It's a great park.
Very interesting info about the park structures architecture! I worked for the YCC, a couple of summers in the mid 70's around San Angelo, projects like Twin Buttes Reservoir - Thanks for the great video, I loved going to the lake there as a kid w/ our family when uncle & aunt lived in Tyler.
Thanks for sharing your story Eliot!
PTL Thanks 🙏🏼 Nice Tyler😊
Thanks
you guys do such a great job.
Thanks ☺️
Great video ,we were there about 3 weeks ago ,one of our favorite new parks to go to now
Thanks Randy! We agree... Tyler definitely lived up to the expectations we had in our heads! We look forward to spending more time there.
Thank you, Its been a very long time for me to be in Gods country. I grew up on weekends at the park and im 55 now.
Glad you enjoyed it Dave! I guess Tom’s in good company... he just turned 55. 😁. Thanks for watching! Happy we could bring back some good memories for you.
Yes it did.
Another fantastic video. You keep giving us places to go and ideas on what to do.
Thank you Les! Glad you enjoyed it. We’ll do our best to keep living up to it. :)
Thank you for the great tour and video. What a beautiful Park!
Thanks Rod! Glad you enjoyed it. It really is beautiful.
Thanks heading to Texas in a few months added this special place
Awesome James! You won’t be disappointed. Safe travels!
Great job! I really enjoyed the tour of Tyler State Park. Your vlog gives us a Texans inside look at the state.
Thanks Alan! We appreciate it. Put Tyler State Park on your list of places to visit when you’re in the area.
Thanks for sharing !! I lived not far from there as a kid and visit that way often but never took the time to stop
Thanks for watching David! We hope you’ll stop in next time you’re in the area.
Can't wait to try this park with the grandkids. Thanks for the fantastic advice and your of the park.
Y’all will love it! There is so much to do at Tyler SP! Thanks for watching.
I know y'all probably won't see this, but I moved my baby girl to Tyler earlier this year, and being the campers we are, I thoroughly enjoyed this park tour! How great to be doing what you're doing together, and I look forward to bringing my yak this fall, maybe even a tent for the Dogwood Ridge site you showed. Y'all keep livin the dream.
Hey! Thanks so much! Tyler is a beautiful park. We look forward to kayaking there too.
Love this park my favorite , going twice this year!!!!!
Have fun!
Just got back from Palo Duro Canyon State Park. Your video on Palo Duro was very helpful. Looks lie Tyler State Park may be our next outing. It looks great. Thank you for the informative video!
Glad y’all had fun at Palo Duro Canyon, Rick! Definitely put Tyler on your list to visit. We really enjoy them both.
Great tour. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it, Jean! It really is a great park.
Re the rubber base at the playground and "feels safe" ... As someone who use to ride in the back of an open truck, rode motorcycles and had a BB-gun I had to chuckle when you said that. I don't know how some of us survived before the government started "protectin' us" from ourselves. Truth be told, if I got out more and did more of those things today I'd be less heavy and more healthy. Love y'all's channel. Didn't see Grammy Kay in this one but I've got the computer on autoplay and this looks like an older vid. Safe travels, y'all!
Edited to add: I see you got yourselves a couple of the Dutch oven stands (there on the picnic table at the end). I use those for setting my lids on when I'm checking on the food and as well for setting the oven on, on the table for self-serve. Love cooking in cast iron and (like many) I'm protective of my iron. LOL. (Humor: "Get that Dawn dish soap AWAY from my iron! Be gone! Be gona ya' till you can unner'stand that soap has but a VERY TEENY TINY role in the lives of cast iron cooking." ROFL!) It's kind of funny but over the years the only folk I've met who are uncomfortable with cast iron cooking were the germophobes. I've never gotten sick from food prepared on/in my iron - but I have gotten sick eating at a fast food restaurant before. LOL. 😂 Grammy Kay is old school... She most likely understands where I'm coming from. Again, safe travels. Love you two's channel.
LOL Michael... ain't that the truth! :) . It seems incredible that any of us survived. LOL This is one of our older vids, but we really enjoyed our visit to Tyler State Park. It's a beautiful park.
I grew up near this park and had a season pass every year. It truly is a magical place. There used to be a fun rope swing directly across the lake from the main swimming area. I remember me and my buddies bought a huge float in the shape of a giant hand and we would often swim all over this lake. We had some fun times there in the mid 1990's. We need to get back there and go camping! Thank you for the video it brought back great memories!
Thanks for sharing your fun memories with us. Hope you can get back over to the park soon. It's a great place.
Toured the park in early Aug. Was looking for a select spot to truck tent camp with a sunrise or sun view. Unfortunately, all spots I wanted were taken. Did tour thru park, hiked small sections. Was disappointed in the. OVERLOOK , like you said, trees probably weren't as heavy.
Liked shelters except for no dawn/ dusk view. All in all though, liked Park & it will stay in interested file.
Thanks for the video.
Think you just left Nebraska area, looking forward to new blogs. Drive safe.
Thanks Gary!
Very nice park. Thank you.
Thank you Vernon. So happy you enjoyed it!
I have been to Tyler State Park and I agree ,it's gorgeous !
We loved seeing the changing leaves!
TFS! The store is great fully stocked! Nice park.
We really enjoyed it!
Also one of my favorite of the state parks . And their shelters are the best. My hometown is 70 miles from the park so go very often. I lived in Tyler for 2 years while having chemo there at TMF Hospital. While not able to be around people so much, I used to attend church services there at the park on Sunday mornings and never had to leave my car! Another of my faves is Ft. Parker State Park. We have so many wonderful state parks here in Texas. Thank you so much for your videos.
What a great way to be able to attend church while you were having chemo. We really like Fort Parker State Park also. We'll have a video on it coming up in the future.
Wonderful video and thank you for taking the time to do this! We will be RV camping there next week in the middle of December and super excited after seeing this excellent and detailed video. 👍
Thanks so much Arun! Hope y'all enjoyed your visit to Tyler State Park. We had a great time there during our December visit.
@@rvamericayall We absolutely did - thanks to your awesome video! The park is gorgeous with several RV sites overlooking the lake. There are plenty of tent campsite and a good number of them have a lakeview. We also enjoyed the hiking and biking trails around the park. I was able to recognize all the interesting tidbits you shared during the video and that definitely added to experiencing the history of the park in person. Tyler state park is a hidden gem and just 2 hours from Dallas. Can't wait to get back there again!
I grew up in East Texas and we always went to Tyler State Park for the day or to camp. Smaller park but one of my favorites. I enjoy taking my family here now.
We really enjoyed our visit there Matthew. Thanks for watching.
Since I am new to the channel, I’ve been checking out some of your older videos. We lived very near Tyler SP before moving to Lufkin. One of my faves and did a lot of mountain biking there over the years. Imagine my surprise seeing two of my good friends in your video of the Dutch oven cookout. The two guys with long gray beards.......Charlie and Marvin. Glad y’all enjoyed it. I love Tyler SP and the cookout was always awesome. Happy camping.
It’s a small world, Walter! Welcome to our channel and thank you for watching some of our older videos. We loved our visit to Tyler SP and the dutch oven cookout. Those guys do a great job!
thanks guys
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Were there in October and stayed in Lakeview camping loop. Really enjoyed this park...it’s very pretty and definitely worth a return visit. On return trip we stopped at Daingerfield State Park which is also very pretty. Got the last lakeside spot there so we could enjoy another great waterfront spot. Enjoy your videos.
Thanks Gail! We look forward to visiting Tyler State Park again. We haven’t been to Daingerfield yet, but we’ve heard it’s nice.
Tom & Stacie, great job!
Thanks Marc!
We love this park one of our vaporizes we visited it in Nov of 2017 for Thanksgiving holiday, it was very nice we wish we had brought our kayaks with us as we figured t would have been too cold. We have hiked all the trails there, and I have biked one of the trails. The raccoons are busy and not afraid of people in the look you stayed at.
We are definitely taking our kayaks next time!
Tyler Stat Park was a gem 35 years ago now it is a parking lot!
Love y'alls VIDEOS. GEO tracker is awesome.
Thanks Laury!
My son is a college baseball player playing in Tyler this weekend. I pulled this video up to plan the weekend and I find it is by parents of a kid who played baseball with my son since he was 5. Great video! Definitely have to hit this park this weekend after watching this. New subscriber!
Holy cow Chris! Small world!! We are so sorry it took us so long to respond. Your comment somehow got lost. Hope things are great with y'all. So awesome that Matthew is still playing ball. Hope we can catch up with y'all in person one of these days. Thanks for subscribing!
Great park!
Yes it is! We really enjoyed it!
Thanks for your videos; they are good for my heart. :) ( I think Tanya said it best with her song; ...when I die...)
Love that song, John! 😁 We're so happy that you enjoy our videos. Thank you for watching.
What a wonderful service you two provide. The state bureau of tourism should hire you.
Thank you! We’re so glad you are enjoying our videos.
Ha....your in my town and I used to camp there as a child...can't wait to watch...just starting the video.
Thank you for the wonderful recommendation of our beautiful park...I will have to go and explore as a adult. Now I would be able to appreciate it's true beauty. Check out Lake Tyler (boondocking spot by the water intake)....absolutely beautiful as well. It is right outside of Whitehouse, Tx but owned by City of Tyler.
Thanks again and y'all come back now...ya hear? 🤣
Thanks for watching Michelle! Glad you enjoyed the video. We look forward to visiting again and exploring more of the surrounding area. Thanks for the tip on Lake Tyler. We’ll look into it. 😁
Thank you so much!!🌷🚍
You’re welcome! Thank you for watching!
We love the Texas state parks! And this is one of our favorites! But it’s becoming everybody’s favorites and now on the weekends you can only book if you book Friday and Saturday. We recently tried to get in there for a Thursday and Friday and were told we had to book Thursday Friday and Saturday if we wanted to be there Thursday and Friday. Due to how busy this places they’ve changed their policy to that. It is not a 2 day reservation but a fri. And Saturday. We still love this Park!
Thanks for the update Marie! Good to know. It’s a beautiful park.
So far, you guys have not been to a park that I dont want to follow you to. Some folks I watch go to some Real cramped rv parks.. look more like RV parking lots. This is a special place. OOOooo cooking demonstration? yes please! Is it legal to skip to the end of the table and just go straight to desert? Goodness, look at that hill... were you sore? This park is beautiful in the fall. What a Wonder walk along the water!
Hey Darisan! So many folks had recommended Tyler State Park to us, and yes it is awesome!
Great video
Thanks Chris! 😀
We had a problem with racoons coming into our site. We Did not feed them. The park is beautiful. We swam, too. Thanks for this video. Lubbock Tx fan.
The raccoons seemed to like the campsite next to us when we were there. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you for watching. 😁
Love your videos showing the individual sites... How long is your unit with and without vehicle hooked up??? Ours is 44 ft without a 10 ft back deck.. Not easy for state parks.. Just have driven thru this park in the past but since then upsized. lol Its a beauty of a park as I remember...
Thanks Melody! Our motorhome is 35’. With the Jeep attached, we’re about 50’ long. You’re right, the longer you are, the tougher it is to get in and around in some of the parks. According to the Tyler State Park website, they can accomodate RVs up to 50 feet in the Big Pine Camping Loop (where we were).
I grew up in that area and that pier was concrete back then and held air bubbles under it we would swim there often, you should ride up to kilgore and eat at the Country Tavern BBQ it was good back then and have been written up in Nat Geographics long ago
Thanks for the suggestion! We've added Country Tavern to our list of places to visit.
I finally made it to Tyler SP! It’s beautiful! Do y’all use a geocache app? If so, which one? There are several. Thanks, Jennifer
Awesome Jennifer!! We have the Geocaching App.
Thanks yall.
Thanks for watching, Gary!
Love this video. I did not realize you can fish with out a fishing license in all state parks. Thanks or the info. That is a pretty park.
Thanks Tammy! It is a beautiful park!
Your welcome. Yes it is. Where are y'll headed next?
Back to Caprock Canyons State Park for BisonFest!
Ohh sounds fun! Hope y'all have a blast! can't wait to the video o that.
Love the review!! Stop over going home from the a LolaPalooza with full hook ups! Very nice park Thanks! Peachy B 👍👍❤️❤️🍑🍑.
Glad you enjoyed it Peachy B! We enjoyed our stay at Tyler SP and will definitely go back. Safe travels!
We camped there when our children were under 12. Now they are over 30. We boiled eggs by coating then in mud. We enjoyed the lake in our Wildflower. We also went back this spring and it was wall to wall RV's. Not nearly as much fun.
Boiled eggs in mud. Interesting, we haven’t heard of that. Sorry to hear it was so crowded during your last visit. It has become a very popular park!
It used to be great. I see folks coming out all the time turned down, new rules , online registration, i personally take care of ranch on property line, they dont take care of anything out there, trespassing is now the new normal.good luck if you come,btw folks at state park store are good people.
Sorry to hear that William
Great PSA. We are encountering more places covered in trash, especially on BLM land. I had campsites where we filled a contractors bag full of trash. I grew up being taught to leave a place cleaner than you found it, but just how much time do I want to commit to cleaning up after pigs.
Thanks Roy! We are always so disappointed to find trash in the parks.
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It’s a great park
This area is a hot spot for Bigfoot.
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One of our favorite parks. Tough to get a reservation but we love it there. I just made one last week for October lol! Great video guys! Always love your videos!!
Hi David! Thanks so much! We can definitely understand why so many folks love this park. October will be a great time to go. How was Purtis Creek?
RV Texas Y'all hi guys! Purtis Great was really nice. Much flatter than Tyler for hiking but much smaller, only 59 sites. We hiked the short trail and had to carry our chihuahua Gracie the last bit lol. My son caught his first fish, a 3lbs bass. We’re so blessed in Texas to have so many great parks! Hey, we are curious where you guys got those water bottle carriers? Really cool!
Glad y’all had fun and congrats to your son on his 1st fish! We found those water bottle holders at Bass Pro. They are great!