Last week I went to Henry Horton State Park. I’ve really been meaning to go to this state park for a while now, seeing as it’s only 40 minutes from my house and almost nobody else i’ve talked to has been there. Booked a camp site and headed there without knowing anything about it. It was really easy to get there and easy to find out camp site. We went on a Monday so there was only 1 other tent camper there. There were quite a few RV’s there in a separate part of the campground and it looked to me like there were a lot of long term campers. Anyway we grabbed a map and just decided to start hiking the outside loop of all the trails. It’s quite an interesting hike. I think we hiked 6 miles total before we hurried back because of rain and the dark. But first you start off in a dense forrest, then it opens up into what looks like a huge field, but is actually a wetland. Most of my pictures here are from the wetland. In the first picture i’m calf deep in the water, 100 yard out from the trail trying to take pictures of flowers. There were a ton of small wetland birds and dragonflies. It was a really cool area. As we hiked on we went up a hill into a rocky, dry, flat area. There were smaller evergreen trees and cacti and blackberry bushes. then back to forrest, then to caves and deep cracks in the ground. all the rocks were covered in moss and weirdly shaped trees stretched every which way and looked like something from Lord Of The Rings. You get to see a lot in 6 miles. We got back to camp, made some burgers and sat around a fire deep into the night, then listened to rain hit our tent all night. It was very peaceful. The camp grounds were pretty clean and well kept, along with the bathrooms and showers. That hot shower was the best. The campground even has free wifi if you need it. I have great cell service, but my friend Kayla didn’t have any.
All in all it’s a pretty cool little state park. I’ll definitely be back when i need a close place to go camping.
