Our next stop is an Army Corp of Engineer Campground - South Holiday Park on Benbrook Lake outside Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
It is a long drive so we overnight half way at a County Park at Lake Sweetwater, TX. Nothing fancy but only $15 a night with hook ups.
We have been following some major storms, looks like one passing through here
We make it to the COE the next day
Right on the water
 |
Nice large sites
Just 2 sites in this section
Other than the main camping area, the rest is a long stretch of about 2 miles.
There are fishermen out each morning
Tucson gets to swim
and go for some longer walks
We are about 1/2 hour from the Stockades in Forth Worth so we do a jaunt up there to check it out.
Between 1866 and 1890, drovers trailed more than four million head of cattle through Fort Worth. When the railroad arrived in 1876, Fort Worth became a major shipping point for livestock, so the city built the Union Stockyards. During World War II, the Fort Worth Stockyards processed 5,277,496 head of livestock, making 1944 the peak year.
The Stockyard boomed when the railroad came
The Stockyard Exchange was known as the Wall Street of the Southwest
While waiting for the Longhorn Cattle drive we check out the Museum
The light bulb on the left has been burning for 113 years.
A stop in a hotel to use the facilities and I peek into the Bar
Before the Drive there is a long horn you can sit on and get photos
A Longhorns Horns can reach up to 120" tip to tip
The End
Afterwards we head to the famous Cattlemen's for lunch
When at the Stockyards you have to try the steak
After lunch we do a walk about
A beautiful sculpture of a family of Paint horses
The historic Drover Hotel
A sculpture of drover at work
An enjoyable stay - next stop an Army Corp of Engineers campground in Louisiana
No comments:
Post a Comment
Talk to us! Let us know what you think!