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Campground Review of Buckhorn Creek on Lake O The Pines in East Texas
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May 22, 2024
This video is a review of the Buckhorn Creek Park campground on Lake O' The Pines in East Texas. It's a beautiful lake, and a fantastic campground with plenty of amenities. Start your adventure: https://www.lakeothepines.net/camping-rv-parks In this video: 0:00 - About Lake O The Pines 0:39 - Camp Sites at Lake O The Pines 1:23 - Restrooms 1:50 - How Many Sites and Amenities 2:42 - How the Sites are Named 3:10 - Camping and Fishing 3:58 - Section 1 vs Section 2 5:10 - Opinion Brought to you by LakeHub. We are sharing the joy of lake life! Learn more at https://LakeHub.com
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What's up everybody it's Simon from Lake Hub. Today we're doing a campground review
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of Buckhorn Creek Park out on beautiful Lake of the Pines in deep East Texas. Lake
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of the Pines is a really really pretty lake. There's not a lot of tourism. It's a
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really local lake but it is just beautiful. It's great for boating, it's
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great for fishing, it's great for hunting. It's not so much a ski lake, party lake
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A lot of families, really great family atmosphere especially here in the
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campground. So Buckhorn Creek is part of a family of campgrounds around here on
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the southern end of the lake and it's run by the US Army Corps of Engineers
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who built the lake. This park has everything that you'd expect from an
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Army Corps campground. It has sites with hookups, full RV pull through, back in
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every size of camper that you can dream up. It has plenty of tent sites and
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I'm not just talking about like a stake in the ground with a number. I'm talking
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about improved pads that are level, square, with base material, not mud
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You know, really improved, really great camping facilities here. The restrooms, you don't expect anything fancy from a campground but these are on the
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higher end of better condition of pretty much any place I've ever camped
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They're as good as you can dream up for a campground. Hot water, everything works
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Restrooms are clean, they're heated. So this time of year when it's cold in the
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morning, cold at night, perfect. Now there are 38 tent sites across two sections and
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there are 57 sites with hookups, partial hookups, across two sections. And by
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partial hookups I mean electric and water. Now the way that they're numbered
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so every site is numbered with a letter and then three numbers. So there's two
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sections. If you go, when you're pulling in, you go straight, you go out to the
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point, that's where the boat ramps are, that's where the bank goes straight into
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the water, it's kind of a rocky point, that's section one. If when you pull in
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you turn right, you go around the cove and another point, those are sandy beaches
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no more ramps, that's section two. So each site starts with a letter, it's either T
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or E. T for tent, E for electric. Electric also has water. Tent, there's water every
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so often. So maybe five or six or eight sites are going to share one water
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source. So you're going out, getting your water, bringing it back to your
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campsite. The E sites have water at your campsite that you can hook up to. It has
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everything but sewer. There's a dump station on the way out. This is camping
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and bass fishing heaven out here. There are so many bass boats. It's unbelievable
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You can see right behind me, there's this whole cove right here that's
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surrounded by sandy beach that is just perfect for pulling up, parking, walking
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back to your campsite. So section two is a great place to do that, to be able to
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beach your boat, go back to camp, head back out, drop somebody off, pick
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them up, all that kind of stuff. This cove, like the back arms, the back
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arms without a big heavy-duty feeder creek or river generally aren't going to
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be the best places to fish. But they are a great place to station your boat if
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that's the kind of trip that you're in for. Now section one has a
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rocky point and it's steeper. Much better fishing structure, a lot more kind
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of scenic terrain. You're out on the main part of the lake rather than a back arm
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But one, you get a little more weather on that side. So section two is going to be
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sheltered by the wind. Section one, you're going to be a little bit more open to the
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wind. But you have two boat ramps right there at your at your access. Each kind
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of main area has its own bathhouse. The way that they're styled is they're
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individual. So the one closest to us, for example, has four restroom slash shower
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spots. So you know, there can be a little bit of a traffic jam end of the day
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when everybody's showering up, going back to camp, light their campfire and so on
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Be wary of that. But otherwise, I really like that layout because it's not like a
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common shower area, common restroom area. They're kind of ported, you know. So
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there's smaller bathhouse, bathroom situations around camp. As far as camping on the lake, I like this campground more than some of the other ones that I've
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seen on Lake of the Pines. That's not to say that they're they're not great as
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well. I mean, they're about, they're run by the same outfit, Army Corps. If you
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stay at an Army Corps campsite, they do a great job. This site is really up to par
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as far as camping on Lake of the Pines. So far from what I've seen, this is one
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of the better campsites with just the lay of the land, the options, the
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different types of sites that you have, the kind of tone and culture which is
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perfect for families. That's our style. There's no partying. There's no loud
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music. Everything is just quiet, chill. You can hear the, you can hear the birds
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chirping and, you know, the wind through the pines and it is just fantastic. If
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you want to get out and have a really just beautiful, awesome, serene camping
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experience in East Texas, some beautiful scenery, lots of islands, lots of like
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coves and just places to see on the lake, especially if you're a boater, this is a
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great campground to visit. If you're in it for the party scene, well this lake
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isn't even the lake for you in the first place. And this is definitely is not the
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campground for you. If you like it low-key, if you've got younger kids, even
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teenagers, then this is a great place to visit. That is my official review of
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Buckhorn Creek on Lake of the Pines in Deep East Texas. I'm Simon from LakeUP
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Get out there and have some fun, y'all
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