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    Leander/NW Austin KOA

    3.2 (38 reviews)
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    Closed 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

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    Merry is a liar and wants to steal from you. Other reviews also mention how rude and unprofessional she is.
    Erick H.

    DO NOT COME HERE! THIS PLACE IS A SCAM! I'm really kicking myself for not looking at the reviews before coming here. I picked this location because it was the most convenient as it was the closest to my house, even though they charge $25 which is $10-20 more than most other sites. I found this information on a website that had all waste dump prices for my surrounding area. I pulled up and walked into the office and right from the start the person behind the desk, Merry, was acting weird and looking at me funny which continued the entire time. I had my $25 in hand and I know she could see it, but when she finally got the computer ready to charge me she said "that'll be $50, do you want to pay with card". WHAT? $50 TO DUMP? I asked if it was $25 and Merry said no, they changed it a while back allegedly. YET, when I received my receipt it shows that she charged me for two individual dumps. She gave me some BS reason as to why it shows to charges, but at this point I was already furious and didn't want to say anything I would regret, so I just left the office and dumped. Other reviews also talk about their horrible experience with Merry. I hope this review helps at least one person from wasting their money here.

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    Loved camping here, but I am very sad that the water level has been too low for years to cliff…read morejump. I remember when Pace Bend used to be THE cliff jumping spot. I couldn't even get a campsite reservation because it was so popular a few years ago. It is truly past its prime now, and not just with the lack of cliff jumping. The campsites seem to be at about 50% capacity. We drove past so many camping areas that were closed. They're not using their usual online reservation system, and instead you have to reserve by emailing them and requesting specific sites. This is very inefficient as I saw quite a few vacant sites in person that were supposedly taken according to the website. We stayed at Kate's and Johnson campground, which is a primitive car camping site with pit toilets. There were no sinks, but there was hand sanitizer, and the bathrooms were quite clean for pit toilets. The campsites each had a grill and fire pit, but there was a burn ban so we couldn't have a ground fire. There was also a picnic table at each site. They limit each site to two cars, and they told me I couldn't park elsewhere in the park or pay for just the parking for an additional car. I would have had to pay for another site just to add one car. There's a lot of land in this park and not a lot of people with plenty of empty campsites even on a weekend, so I thought this was a little unreasonable. We went hiking on the blue trail per the recommendation of the lady at the lady who checked us in at the entrance. She told us it has the best views of the park. We certainly reached the highest point of the park, but there were no views. It was all rocks and trees. The trails are all pretty short. We went up the blue trail and down the yellow from the southeast trailhead, and it was a total of 3.6 miles. I liked the hike for a bit of exercise, but there wasn't really anything to see, so we felt deceived. My friend went swimming in the lake, and he seemed to enjoy it except for the sharp rocks at the bottom. I didn't go swimming, but I'm sure it would be enjoyable on a hot day.

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