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Originally Posted by usafabronco
Thank you for those who have posted good camping areas!
We found another nice one - Clear Springs Recreation Area in the Homochitto National Forest in Mississippi.
The good: The area has a nice lake and several great hiking trails, ranging from about a mile up to 10 miles. The camping spots were mostly level, if somewhat uneven. They had large flat areas for tents and nice fire rings. It was very quiet and dark - great star viewing between the tall pine trees. Should be nice and shady during the summer. Very clean campground, and the host was superbly friendly and helpful.
Not so good: Some sites were somewhat short, even for a TM 3023. We stayed in #3, and I had to park across the drive after unhitching to stay out of the road. This campground does not take reservations. We arrived at about 5:30 PM on Friday before MLK weekend and took one of the last two spots. The last spot was filled within 20 minutes of our arrival. Due to tree removal, one of the two campground loops was closed, so they were down to 11 of their normal 22 sites. The showers in the lower loop bathrooms got no warmer than tepid... The swimming area showers were much better. The facilities coud have used a little more maintenance - broken faucet in the bathroom, broken board on the playground, aforementioned lack of hot water.
Google Maps and our GPS directed us down Wagon Wheel Road to get to the campground. This road was a rough gravel road and NOT the right way. Stay on the paved road... the campground is straight ahead in a short distance. Also, this campground is not near anything. Bring what you need with you. Natchez, MS was about 25 minutes west of Clear Springs. It was a neat place to explore.
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This is a favorite of ours, first time there we stayed in 3. Not the best one to get into. Of late we have been camping in the upper loop.
You might also like Choctaw Lk, site 5 or Davis Lk both on the Tom Bigbee NF. They take reservations.
For dry camping we like Gum Springs near Winnfield, La or with hook ups Kincaid. Both on the Kistichi NF.
What you ran into with google and the gps is why I always do my routing in Garmin Mapsource. Then view the route in Google Earth. If your GPS is a Garmiin 2XXX or above; you will have to import the route into Garmin's Base Camp to send it to the GPS. If you use a TomTom then I think RouteBuddy is the mapping software of choice. Which ever way you go look at the route in Google Earth, when you zoom in it's easy to tell if the road is paved or dirt. We've been on Wagon Wheel and it's a go around the barn to get there.
There are several nice TX SP's in the hill country.