Granger Lake is a lake near Taylor TX about an hour NE of Austin. Unlike Lake Travis it seems to maintain an almost constant level of 540 if I remember correctly and has 2 developed swim beaches and campgrounds that cost 4.00. That is all I know about the actual lake. This review is for the trails and bridges that I was there to photo. Comanche Bluff Trail is a hike and bike trail with 2 trailheads. The East trailhead is located in Taylor Park and costs 4.00 to access. Here you will find a well maintained trail and the Hoxie and Friendship Bridges and another wood bridge. The West trailhead is located off Country Rd 496 and has no fee and limited parking. This part of the trail is not well defined and we got lost and never found the primitive camping area. At this point it was starting to get hot and I was running out of water and would have been panicking if I had not had my faithful Canine with me. I gave her the "Lets Go Home" command and she found the trail back to our car Thank God! There is also horseback trail Willis Creek Park Equestrian Trail 4.00 to access and you provide proof of Coggins to gate attendant also 4.00 fee to access. And onto the main reason we were here - Bridges. I have a weird obsession with old bridges and Friendship Bridge did not let me down! FB was originally built at the turn of the century over Willis Creek. It was destroyed in a 1921 flood and reconstructed. In 1982 it was dismantled and moved to its current location in Taylor Park. FB is a Pratt Through-Truss Bridge a type of bridge patented in 1844 by father and son Caleb and Thomas Pratt. FB is one of only a few of these historic registered bridges and worth the trip. read more

See all

Came out here to camp at Willis Creek Park. Lake was nice to look at. Campground was clean and nice. Was a good drive to get out here to enjoy nature. read more

Granger Lake - Lakes Near Me - Granger, Texas

Got a little bored at home, and decided to take a drive & get some sunset pics. Granger Lake is about a 45 min drive from my home in Georgetown. This was my first time here, so I wasn't sure where to go. The road that goes around & over the dam is closed until Aug 2024, so I just took the only other option. I ended up at the boat launch, and it's a great place for pics! Plenty of ducks & pretty scenery! Not too many people on the lake or in the campground, but it definitely looks like a nice place to spend a relaxing weekend & drop a line in the water! read more

See all

Bathrooms are as bad as they come. No lights, Water on the floor, plumbing doesn't work well, unbearable stench, hand dryer doesn't work, no towels, and this is the men's side. The women's side was closed for maintenance. This place doesn't seem to be patrolled by anyone, people just do what they want, including ground fires during burn ban, Loud Mexican music for hours at night, alcoholic drinking out in the open. Not all bad, though. Camp spaces are not close together, and most are pretty level. 50 amp service. Will accommodate the biggest RV rigs. read more

It is a very relaxing environment. They have recently planted saplings to help with the shading. All picnic tables are covered. Park is well maintained by Volunteers. Gorgeous sunsets on the lake! read more

See all

I went for a hike today with some friends at Granger Lake on Comanche Bluff Trail. You can start from Taylor Park on the lake and hike the eastern part of the trail, or you can start from the west trail head off of County Road 496 and hike the western part of the trail. The eastern part of the trail is relatively simple and has a few old bridges (Hoxie Bridge and Friendship Bridge) to discover. The western part of the trail is covered with brush and fallen trees and is a very difficult hike. The trail gets lost along the way, and it is near impossible to find the primitive campground at the end. I recommend only taking the western trail if you are feeling brave or just have a need to explore the woods. read more

See all

Nice clean spaces. Lots of room between camp sites. Electric and water all worked great. Good prices we paid $22 for electric and water site. Will hopefully return in future. read more

You can't tell much about the grass from this picture. This picture was close to the space we were in. Looked like they had cut the grass in the area because we had it reserved for a few days. Anything outside of this area grass was a lot taller. read more

I came here on a great family vacation hospital phone it was help very kindly by the groundskeepers to drive over by there in a out back to Savon my phone awesome place great time! read more

This place is amazing and for 5$ a car Your family can have an amazing day! The William fix park not only has free life jackets for you to borrow but the lake is beautiful and kids can play in the water on a clean beach area read more

The park has apparently paid attention to criticisms about the difficulty of finding the primitive campground, as it is now very clearly marked with a large, orange stake every tenth mile to the campground. This extends the day hike from the advertised 7.5 miles out to about 8. We took a detour around a high water crossing which extended ours to 8.2. You could probably get 8.5 out of it if you felt adventurous. We've day hiked this trail several times now, completing the full 4 miles into the primitive hiking and out a few times. The trail conditions are, in general, very good. Vegetation is for the most part kept back and the trail is clear the entire way. For parts of the trail, you will hike directly along the banks of the water. This is pretty but also frustrating in parts, as trash -- bottles, glass, bags, old food, etc. -- has piled up along the edges. The lake definitely has seen the effects of irresponsible boating. Over the several times we've visited Granger Lake this month, we've encountered none in which the gate was actually being manned by an attendant. Whoever is supposed to work the gate is either off-duty a lot or ignoring their duties. Hiking the park is free, but camping is not, and I suspect that there are people getting away with some things with the lack of attendance at the gate. We've noticed on man occasions cars flying through to the campground area. A set of spike strips are laid at the exit and one of the right gates has been left open permanently, at least in the several times we've been in the past few months. Many of the things at the park which I would assume are supposed to be monitored by an attendant are in disrepair. There are no trail maps at any of the designated map locations at the trailheads, and it looks like it's been this way for a while as dust and cobwebs have consumed the insides of each case. The campground washrooms are somewhat functional but very dirty, with grime, feces, urine, dirty toilet paper and so on covering a lot of the area. It's probably not sanitary to "sit down". Worse yet, the primitive camping area looks neglected and likely abused by teenagers or something. Many of the fire rings have been destroyed. There is an "outhouse" at the primitive camping area, and we've visited several times where the feces, urine and trash are overflowing the toilet seat by 4-6 inches. Feces is splattered on the walls and seat. You can imagine the smell. People leave their trash and "disposable" foam coolers by the side of the outhouse so they don't have to carry them out. Beer cans litter the everywhere in the area. It looks like it hasn't been attended to in weeks, if not months. Unfortunately the park is too small to "go find some better place". We're talking about a 4 mile trail with a secondary parking lot at 1.5 miles, and fishing all along the border. I wouldn't recommend camping here, but for a day hike it is pleasant because it is both pretty and far enough out from Austin to prevent too many people from traveling to it even on weekends. We have had several day hikes to Granger Lake in which we haven't encountered anyone. On a busy Saturday, you're likely to pass 1 or 2 other hiking groups and maybe a few groups of kids fishing. It is a nice reprieve from other area hikes where you cannot go more than 20 feet without running into someone. read more

This review is for Willis Creek Campground on Granger Lake. Each campsite has a nice pavilion over the picnic table. That's about the only nice thing I can say. Oh, the park hosts were nice. Our particular site (#15) had several piles of dog feces that I had to clean up. There were also cigarette butts all over and a pile of dead fish (small bait type fish) poured out near the water spigot--25 or more small, smelly, rotting fish. Gross. Our campfire ring was full of ashes that I had to scoop out. Our grill was full of ashes and debris and the lid was non-functioning. Did I mention the pavilion over our table was nice? It's a small park with virtually no trees and no privacy from neighboring campers. Each space is very narrow and you are literally right next door to your neighbors. You can hear, see and smell everything they are doing. EVERYTHING. On Sunday of Spring Break, the camp ground was full and noisy. Many, many, many ill mannered children were running amok. There is only one bathroom. We were there during Spring Break 2015 and the one bathroom has two toilet stalls and one shower (maybe two, I didn't look). The bathroom only had one functioning toilet (women's side). The other side was clogged. There was toilet paper and human feces and blood ALL OVER THE ENTIRE RESTROOM!! Not just on the floors. It was the grossest thing I have ever seen. Apparently the park hosts don't clean the bathrooms. A scheduled service comes in and does that. Hopefully this is everyday, or close to it. I reserved 4 days at this park and I have to go home everyday to shower (70 mile round trip) as I'm a tent camper. I also had to drive about 5 miles to the nearest convenience store to use their toilets. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that there were several barefooted children playing in the bathroom! Their mother was outside the bathroom sitting on a retaining wall playing her iPod very loudly and yelling at the children to hurry up. Disgusting place with disgusting campers. read more

I am rating Wilson Fox Park. This is close to home and I've camped here more than I can remember. Park is always well maintained with restrooms and showers kept clean and in close proximity to sites. One of the only drawbacks is that the swim beach is located about a 1/2 mile from the campsites but all in all this is a great place to get away from the city. Also, this park always catches a nice breeze. These sites are hard to get but I believe they are 23,24,25 and like 26; these sites offer great overlook views of the lake. There is a nice playground and plenty of room for throwing frisbee or football. last but not least, each site has a large shelter over the picnic tables; very nice place to kill the day even during the hottest summer days. read more

gonna' be 72 in 2 months. hunted both lower and upper michigan. drank the cold waters from lake superior with a tin cup in 1955. hunted the eastern and western slopes of colorado. elk and deer , no tags needed then. (lived growing up on a 1000 acre dry grass ranch) with a live 5 acre pond near brighton for many years. pheasants walking around like they owned our dirt road. hunted all over the sportsman's paradise aka louisiana...yes, mosquitoes and cottonmouths almost year round in the atchafalia basin. 130 miles offshore fishing from my wife's great uncle's 45' boat out of grand isle louisiana. round trip to the drilling rig...all day. then, east texas... alabama creek wildlife management area in the davy crockett. but, the best story is the one i live every time i go to granger lake. it's what i have left that's near, to remind me of the solitude of the big woods. there are 3 really huge majestic trees along the faintly worn path along the north shore west of the small boat launch on the north shore of the san gabriel. i've gotten many squirrels between those trees and the fence line to north. it's a place to find yourself or remember yourself again. it's what you make of it. no caps needed. roger read more