Big Creek Resort, Marina & Campground, Lake Somerville
North Shore, Park Road 4
979-596-1616
April 1-4, 2021 - 3 Nights
Type of Park: Private-owned
Check In: 4p Check Out: 3p
April 1-4, 2021 - 3 Nights
Type of Park: Private-owned
Check In: 4p Check Out: 3p
Site #79 - Back-In
$35 per night ($105 total)- Water
- 20/30/50 amp
- Picnic Table with concrete pad
- Grass site. No rock or concrete base
👍🏻 Pros:
- No trees to avoid
- On the end of the line so no one is on the "front" side of the camper
- Good area for camping in groups
- Close to good swimming areas and store
- Close to boat ramp
- Split-level site - table is down a slight hill from parking area.
- No shade
- Across from the cabins on stilts, lake view is a little blocked
- Cabins are being refurbished and the equipment and materials are stacked near the site (and some construction noise)
- No grill or fire ring at this site
📝 Park Notes:
- Gates closed and locked from midnight to 6 am on weekends. Closed at 10 pm on week days.
- Can bring golf carts, ATV's (machines with steering wheels, not handle bars)
- Dump Station - a little hard to get to for big rigs. Also hard to leave the park from there. You may have to go back into the park to turn around.
- Park Store - has fishing bait and supplies, too
- Cabins are under re-construction
- There is a Places Munzee here
- Birds: Cormorants (Water Turkeys), barn swallows, scissor-tail
Thursday
Matilda Mae and I got to the site around 6:30 pm. Site is hard to figure out because the table is down a little hill from the pad and power pedestal. Site has all 3 power sources - 20/30/50 amp. It had cobwebs and such and looks like it hadn't been used in a while. There's supposed to be a little loop here, but you can't see it anymore so it seems there LOTS of space between the site and the main road. 
Other highlights:
- Fixed up some Easter Eggs for my camping buddies - with things like zip ties, AA batteries, tiny super glue, hose washers, fuses, mini alcohol bottles...
- Nice sunset and the wind had died down quite a bit, but still a little cool
- 🔥 Sat by the Solo stove for a little while
- The camper walls are thin so I can hear everything the neighbors say (a little muffled). They were still going pretty strong past 11 pm.
- Low 40's overnight
Friday
- ☕ Got up and made my coffee (in the camper because it was way too windy to do it outside). Making a small amount in my percolator pot doesn't work. Ended up using the drip coffee maker.
- 🌯 I had listed a Get Together on RVillage, but I was way late in posting it and it and the weather was pitiful, so no one else came. I made breakfast tacos and coffee for a couple of my friends. The wind came up again and we ended up having to take everything inside.
- Except for the wind, it's a beautiful sunny day.
- 🌮 Made tacos for lunch
- 🐟 We had a fish fry for supper and it was SO good!
- My bestie gave me a Brumate "koozie". The rainbow titanium one I have been wanting! It definitely worked well all weekend.
- 🔥 It was cold and windy and we sat around the solo stove again.
Saturday
- Saturday was overcast and windy again.
- JJ&D did breakfast and they made biscuits and sausage gravy. 😋
- Family came out
- 🍔 Hamburgers for lunch. I brought over my canopy and we anchored it down. It definitely helped keep the rain off. It's a good thing JJ brought his Weber grill!
- ☀ After we ate, the rain stopped and the sun came out for a while.
- The guys sat around telling stories (and the tales keep getting taller) and everyone seemed to be really enjoying themselves.
- 🔥 We huddled around the Solo stove most of the time and there was crazy teenagers in nothing but swim trunks out in the water swimming and riding around on jet skis!
- 🥩 I love BYOSteak night!
- 🎈 Friend's surprise 50th birthday party at Bottlenecks. We left my truck inside the gate so I could activate the Exit gate on our return so my friends could come through.
Sunday
- The wind had laid down finally and it was just a little overcast. I actually got to put the awning out.
- 🐰 I took the Easter Eggs to my friends' sites.
- 🌯 I made breakfast tacos
- ⛪ Went to Easter service
- After service, I came back to the park to have leftover steak and rice for lunch
- 🧳 Packed up Matilda Mae and headed for the dump station. A man from Bryan let my go ahead of him because he said he was going to be a while.
- Got home and unloaded a few things. Then we sat around playing cornhole and my brother brought out his drone. My son came out a little later and we all celebrated his birthday. 🥳
Despite the wind and rain, it was a nice weekend.
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