Potters Creek Park Campground

We rated Potters Creek in December, 2020. At that time the person at the front gate, and later the COE manager for local parks, enforced rules that don't exist. The gate host was condescending and intransigent.
On our recent return (we hate to leave bad reviews) it was to check up on the management of Potters Creek.
We are very happy to report that our return trip was the absolute opposite.
The gentleman at the gate was professional, pleasant, welcoming and accomodating.
It's nice to know that the regional COE management saw a need to address their customer service issue.
Kudos to the new management.

We are staying the week of Thanksgiving with family here. The staff is nice, the showers are HOT, lots of pressure, clean, and spacious. Water pressure at hookups is great. The electric is both 30 and 50 amp w/ 20 amp. Live oaks are beautiful. There are lots of deer, gray foxes, and other wildlife roaming the site. A very nice USACE park overall. The only minus- when they say check in at 3:00pm, they mean it! Also, you can leave at anytime, but you can’t reenter between 9pm and 9am, so plan your outings accordingly. The sites are very spacious overall.
My Wingard 360° antenna scanned 42 digital channels!

Camp ground is maintained fairly good. Could use some improvements. Maybe about 75 ft. between sites.
If you arrive before 3pm, you will be told to turn around and park alongside the road outside the park.
Gate attendants are very inattentive (in my opinion). They see you pulling up to the gate but make you wait until they are ready to talk to you and open the gate. Both in and out.
I wasn't offered a sit map or camping regulations. Maybe about 20 of us in the park.

Nice Hill Country CoE Park... we were there in early February and sites were plentiful. I imagine it is at capacity spring through fall. In warmer months I would try for one of the sites with tree coverage. Our site, 49. was in the lower loop on the peninsula without trees which was great for StarLink. Easy commute to Grueme and New Braunfels.

We stayed here for several nights while making our way across Texas. We timed our arrival so we got there only 10 minutes prior to the reportedly strict 3pm check-in time, and lined up behind two other RVs. But the gate staff did start letting us in just a few minutes after we arrived.

Just past the entrance gate, you either turn right to get to the western set of loops (loops 3 through 6) or left to get to the two eastern loops (loops 1 and 2 ). We stayed in site 39 in loop 2, an end site on the inner side of that loop. All of the sites in loop 2 are driver-side back-in sites, with asphalt pads, charcoal-ready BBQ grills, fire pits, and covered picnic tables. Our site was level and more than long enough for both our 21-foot truck and 37-foot fifth wheel, but each site pad is wider at the front to allow vehicle parking next to the pad. If you need more parking than that, there’s a small parking lot on the west end of the loop. The water and electric hookups are near the back of the site. The sites on our side of the loop were spaced out a bit more than those on the lake side of the loop, but all of them are still what I would consider spacious. The outer edge of the loop road is lined with wooden pylons, so if you don’t want to deal with those while backing in, pick a site on the inner loop. Most of the sites on this loop are unshaded: loop 1 has more trees.

The campground is very quiet (no road noise) and is quite dark at night, with the only lighting provided by the nearby boat dock and the bathhouse. The bathhouse is clean and stylish, with the shower and bathroom stalls walled with thick stained barn wood, but the interior lighting is a bit dim: your eyes might need a moment to adjust if you’re coming in from a bright sunny day. There were three dumpsters on one corner of the loop. Loops 1 and 2 share a dump station located near the entrance to loop 1. I occasionally spotted deer during the overnight and pre-dawn hours, but they stayed away during the day. While there is no enclosed dog park, there was plenty of places to walk our dog.

In terms of cell service, the best speed I got on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna was 6 Mbps down and 11 up, so I was able to work remotely and we were able to stream video with occasional buffering. The one speed test I ran on my 5G AT&T smartphone showed 31Mbps down and 3 up. As you might expect, there is no campground WiFi.

We enjoyed our stay, and would definitely stay here again if we were in the area.

Good access to park from Hwy 306, about 4 miles from highway. All facilities and utilities were in good order. Bathrooms were the best we have seen in almost 2 years of full-timing. Lots of deer in the park, so be careful if you are entering in the evening. They are strict with the 3PM check-in time. Our site was very level and other sites looked to be the same.

Sites are well spaced and the park was quiet. Only heard coyotes at night. Park is half empty during the week in December and January. Excellent AT&T cell coverage, all the bars of 5G. Streamed without a booster. About 50 HDTV channels came in.

We arrived during a Texas heatwave (temps in mid to high 90’s) in April 2022. We were in site 52, Big spacious site with water views. We drove over to another loop where they had access to swim in the clean cool lake which was very refreshing. The bathhouse was modern, clean and convenient to our site.
A word of caution: they lock the gate at 9pm nightly. We had plans to meet up with some family in Austin, so left our Class C in the park and took our car. When we arrived back to the campground, we parked outside the gate and walked back to our site. It was no problem at all, in fact it was a beautiful moon-lit night, and we had let the staff know in advance. Just be sure to ahead if you leave the campground.

1) bathrooms are not swept or cleaned. they often don't even have toilet paper. the only handicapped stall in area 1 shoots water up like a fountain. it continues to be used so you can imagine what's all over toilet and floor.
2) the exit gate is closed all day. you must speak to a gate attendant for them to open it. sometimes they leave and put up a sign that they'll be back and you just sit at the gate waiting to get out! i can understand coming in, but going out?
3) park ranger i encountered 3 times is surly and disrespectful.
4) camp hosts resent being approached for help.
5) sites are nice but not worth it when there are so many wonderful and welcoming ACE campgrounds

We were lucky enough to stay here during the heat wave (high 70’s) of Christmas 2021. The lake was calm and the sunsets amazing. 1/2 the campground is open sun, half shade. Use Google earth to pick your site. I’m sure the park is crazy busy during peak season, but during our stay in late December it was 1/2 empty and quiet. Town very close to get all your needs. Big rig very friendly.