Possum Kingdom SP

I remember the days back when I was a teenager when our family would travel to Possum Kingdom Lake to have a nice get-together with the grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. That was the first place I ever water-skied and the first time I ever rode an inner tube being pulled by a boat! So, I always wanted to take My Sweetie there for a couple of nights of camping.

Finally, we got the chance to take Rocky and drive to the Possum Kingdom SP which is located at the southern end of the lake. We pulled up on a Friday afternoon and spent a few minutes setting up Rocky before we decided to try our hands at fishing! Pretty rocky area, actually.

The fishing reports said that stripers were good on live bait as were catfish. The sunfish were hitting anything in the water so I thought we'd do OK. We stopped in the local store and bought some shrimp. However, we came up empty :(

We decided to take a trip around the area and wound up in Jacksboro, TX, where we bought some take out BBQ. Since we were there, we went into Fort Richardson SP to enjoy our lunch in the trees.

After lunch, we toured Fort Richardson again before we headed back south towards Caddo. On the way, we noticed we were traveling along the Texas Forts Trail and remembered we saw a sign for Fort Griffin. Off we went to visit yet another of the many historic forts in the state of Texas!

When we arrived, it was a bright, sunny, hot day and I wasn't looking forward to walking the fort in the sun. Fortunately, we didn't have to do that! There were a couple of electric golf carts that we took advantage of and rode around the fort!

Two points of interest here: first, the enlisted barracks were Small(!) and, second, the fort was in such poor condition, even the Army I.G. said it wasn't fit for human habitation!

For four soldiers!

After our tour of the fort's ruins, we decided to explore the rest of this State Historic Site. I found out that this site also has camping sites, both primitive and with electric/water hookups. We drove over to check out the area to see if we might want to camp here sometime and ran across part of the official Texas State Longhorn Herd!

This guy was all by himself, fenced off from the cows. He was very proud of himself, too!

Overall, I enjoyed myself on this trip as it was the first one with our new King Ranch 4x4 Off-road F150. Towing was a pleasure with this one as we barely noticed Rocky was behind us.

I will give this park a full three campers. It was clean, quiet, close to the water, and gave us a very relaxing weekend.