Just back from another fantastic trip to Foxfire Cabins on the Sabinal River! We have been going there since 2000, and it is still the best.
We appreciate the well kept cabins stocked with clean linens and a full kitchen, with an outdoor cooker and firepit for every cabin. The cabins are very well maintained, and have new roofs this year. They are metal, and I bet it sounds sweet when it rains. The cabins are not fancy, which makes it old fashioned, so I can imagine being a settler in 1850 and watching for Comanches! Foxfire is next to the sweetest swim spot on the Sabinal, and only 1 mile from Lost Maples State Park.
Since the distances are vast, the county is dry, and the restaurants are marginal, it has been our family tradition to bring food and beer to Foxfire so we spend our time in water and in nature rather than searching for an open restaurant while hungry and tired. The cabins are spare and basic, clean and cool. We cook and eat outside under the spreading oaks, while the kids run by the river and we all watch birds.
This week I saw Painted Buntings, Golden Cheeked and Tennessee Warblers, Tufted Titmice, Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers, Bewick's and Canyon Wrens, and Black Capped Chickadees all in view of our cabin. Oh, and 100s of hummers of many species! Bird nerds like us are very happy here.
The park is 2 minutes up the road, and has hiking along the beautiful Sabinal and the surrounding canyons. Because the cabins are so close, we often do 2 visits a day to the park.
Or take a drive West on 337 ( most scenic drive of the area) to Leakey and drive down the Frio to Garner State Park for a longer day trip with tubing and deeper water another day.
The people at Foxfire are so nice- Burt, Callie and Caitlin- and have always been helpful. You can even do a load of wet river laundry in the laundry room if you need to!
We usually go with a large family group, but this time it was just us 2- a couple of bird nerd geology types- and it was just as fun in a different way.
We know we'll be back again, next month or next year! It is a Texas jewel. read more