Private parks near Pedernales?

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Some friends of mine and I do an annual camping trip, just the boys... 3 years ago we went to K&L Ranch Camp on the Guadulupe, 2 years ago we went to Colorado Bend State Park and last year we went to Garner State Park.

Well last year we had a terrible experience at Garner. We are looking to stay at a private park near or on the water. Anything like that near Pedernales or on say Inks Lake, LBJ or Travis?

To the Garner story.... The park rangers were serious ********. We were not loud but drinking beer. It is against state laws now to drink beer in the state parks which is amazing to me. So we decided to switch to koozies such that you cannot tell if it is beer unless you are 5 feet away (it could be diet coke). The 1st day they warned us. That night we did the switch. The 2nd night they approached us as we were sitting around the lantern (like 9pm and quiet) and warned us again. How could they tell? We then switched to pouring the beer cans into red plastic cups. Our last night they came up again and warned us and said "you are lucky we haven't given you a ticket". ??? How could they tell we had beer in our cups? We would open the cooler and open the beer with our arm in the cooler and pour the beer into the cup in the cooler the entire time and then leave the empty in the cooler. No empties anywhere. And we weren't loud. It was ******** and I am going to for a while boycott state parks. We did tube the Frio and that was a blast since it is low so often we were pumped to float it.

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Or if anyone has been to Pedernales State Park, were the park rangers ******** about beer even if you were discrete?
 
Sounds like one of your neighbors probably complained...were there families with small children next to you? That's definitely not typical, I've been to Garner many times and never had a problem having a few beers...I've had Rangers drive by and wave as I'm cracking one open. Pedernales should be fine...most of the campsites there offer more privacy than the sites at Garner. Drive around and take a look at the available sites and get one that's secluded. The Rangers are usually very friendly and just happy that people are there enjoying the park.
 
In that case, I can offer no explanation. There's always those in positions of power that take their jobs a little too seriously. Just bad luck I guess. There are too many great parks in our state to adopt an all out boycott. I'd give it another chance...
 
I think we are going to give it another try and try either Inks Lake or Pedernales Falls State Park.

What we might do this time is from the beginning go into the beer can to red cup routine to ensure that they don't catch on. I think that since they caught us with the cans they kept picking on us since they knew that we had at point done it.
 
We ended up booking 3 nights at Inks Lake. We'll be discrete with our beer consumption this time (we had no idea last time until we were caught).
 
We were at Inks Lake last week for part of spring break, and they have can recycling areas near the dumpsters. Most of the can recycling areas were 1/2 beer cans and 1/2 other.

But I've been to Pedernales and not had anyone harass me either.
 
All state parks prohibit public consumption of alcohol.
It's why we go to the back country.
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So I am going with a group of friends to Inks Lake State Park in early May.... another group of friends (different groups) also wants to go camping. We were thinking Blanco State Park, Pedernales Falls State Park or Guadulupe River State Park. I have been to all but not since I was a kid. Any recommendations?
 
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