Fort Richardson State Park & Historic Site - Jacksboro (TX)

4 /5 Francisco Leung: We camped here for 2 nights during Spring Break. Its not a huge state park, but the campsites are nice. They have water, electricity, picnic tables, and fire pit/grill. The restrooms have nice showers. You can book cabins which include bunk beds and AC/Heat. The view of the stars at night are really clear. Although, it was very cold and windy our first night. You have to buy their firewood. Theres only a small pond as you drive past the main entrance/check-in. The historic site is great when you first walk in. The park rangers at the check-in building and the historic site museum are very friendly. At the museum, you can read about the history and dress up in period outfits for photos and pose with the old (prop) weapons. The historic site is a huge field with several buildings to tour. Theres a nice playground and large picnic table pavilion.

5 /5 zhanna kozar: Excellent park! Best showers we had ever seen at a state park! Just wish the bathrooms had more illumination. We only did one short trail and it was great as some parts of it were in the shade. Excellent exhibit, so thankful for such great historical place is being so well taken care of, great job, yall!!!!

4 /5 Mahailey Oliver: This unit of the state park is small, but we enjoyed walking the historic fort grounds, which took about an hour and a half. The park rangers were friendly. Their office has $1 used books for sale. Our only complaints are that the wood is rotted under our cabin door frame, so when the thunderstorms and tornado warnings were happening, rainwater seeped right into the cabin. We threw our towels down to sop up most of the puddle. Additionally, our section of the campgrounds has an easily floodable spot at the exit point, so we almost weren’t able to leave this morning during the flash flood warning. The cabin has a great AC (though we lost power around 11pm and it was still out when we checked out 12 hours later, but the night was cool enough and we managed without AC for the night.) We also wished there was a pole with a hook like you’d see at other state park campsites. Bathrooms were really clean! Didn’t get a chance to test out the shower since the power was out and it was dark, but we liked that each shower stall had its own light.

5 /5 rayna: We loved it! Spent four days in an RV and had a ranger-led tour of the fort. The ranger was great—really knowledgeable —and even let us do the insides of all the buildings! It was awesome at the interpretation center where I leafed through the Book of Death, which was nice because it told us how people at the old fort passed away. They also had a soldiers diary, and it was funny to see what they were up to on our birthdays in the 1800s (it was raining on mine, lol). We hiked on most of the trails, and they were all well-kept and clean. And, fishing at the quarry was great fun!