Park Review- Lake Tawakoni RV Campground (Point, TX)

Thousand Trails
​Address:  1246 Rains County Road 1470, Point, TX 75472
Phone:   (903) 598-2260​
Website:  rvonthego.com/texas/lake-tawakoni-rv-campground
# of sites:  293
​Full hookup price:  From $59/day
Open:  Year-round
Rating:  4 out of 5 stars
​Warnings:  Gnats!

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Around an hour's drive east of Dallas, Lake Tawakoni RV Campground gives a rural lake camping experience to a good-sized metropolitan area.  The lake is substantial, having 36,700 acres of surface area and approximately 200 miles of shore line.  It has become a popular lake for swimming, boating, water skiing, jet skiing, fishing, picnicking, duck hunting, and more.

Pros:
Unlike a few of the Thousand Trails resorts we've been to recently, there are plenty of full hookup sites in this park, and several 50 amp sites for Thousand Trails members.  We were able to grab a site on the lake shore, which, again, is unusual for membership resorts.  The sites are spacious, with many green spaces scattered between sites around the campground.  Our site even had a large rock-paved patio with a sturdy picnic table about 12 feet from our front door. 

There is also a great deal of shade throughout this park and, along with all the usual amenities, there is even a driving range for golfers.  The shade offers some respite from the heat of the summer and gives campers a forest experience.

Lake Tawakoni itself is a draw for fishing and water sports and several visitors had bass and sporting boats with them, either on their nearby lake shore or in the site to take to the boat ramp.  There are watercraft rentals and guided trips available in several of the small towns around the lake.  Lake Tawakoni is known as the "Catfish Capital of Texas", but offers good to great fishing for several species of bass and crappie.  The average hybrid bass on the lake weighs about 7 to 8 pounds. 

Cons:
As roomy as the sites are, they are also pretty muddy during and after rainstorms.  The annual rainfall here is almost 40 inches, so chances are you get some precipitation, especially in the summer months.  This section of Texas is a bit south of the primary path of severe storms, but not south enough to avoid them completely.  There have been 142 tornadoes reported in and around Point, TX, since 1950 and they average two per year.

The roads through the park are also old and rough, with no smooth driving anywhere in the resort.  I don't know if this is the case during winter months, but in August it was very hot and we were inundated with millions of gnats, especially drawn to any lights at night.  Just taking the dogs for a walk in the evening allowed hundreds of gnats into the house.  We never did figure out a good way to avoid it, however, the good news is that they didn't seem to be biting us.

There is no off-leash dog park here, though they have an huge amount of open space in which to assemble one.  I would hope that one is in future plans.

Cell coverage is spotty in this region for all three of our providers -- Verizon, AT&T and Sprint.  We have been able to get by for Internet with our booster, but making and getting calls has been sporadic.

A satellite dish will be useless in about 90% of the park.  The thick forest canopy exists throughout the park and only the fortunate few who have sites on the north side of the open fields or with an open window above them can get their dish receiving satellite signals.  I had one of those windows just south of my site and, after a couple of hours of moving the dish around, I was finally able to get my dish to see two out of its normal three satellites, though one was flaky and neither worked with any rain falling at all.

All-in-all, Lake Tawakoni RV Campground deserves a good rating, and I think of it as one of the better resorts we have stayed in.  We plan on returning in the winter months when it's not so hot.  The lack of an off-leash park and the condition of the roads and sites are the only things keeping this from being one of my 5-star resorts.

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