First timer. Entry personnel was friendly and in charge of the little convenience store with bait, snacks, and tackle. Huge lake. Plenty of covered tables for reservation and uncovered for non reservation. Bring some chairs to set up along the bank, bug repellent spray for the buggers, and other outdoor necessities. Coolers welcome. There are 2 launch ramps with plenty of parking to boot! read more

It wasn't a good experience due to the manager driving around harassing all with camp fires on their paid sites. The other staff also drives around asking if site is paid the following morning, when they can just verify up front instead of bothering customers. Staff just doesn't seem very welcoming and friendly at all! read more

The camp grounds at this lake are full of trash .... I can only blame inconsiderate people of course & the grounds keepers .... They only pick up the trash bags that are in blue bins .... But dont bother to look 5-10 ft away from them and Clean up the area . I hate that we have to pay $$ to enter the park , Just to sit and fish where we have to smell Rotting food & Fish all over the grounds next to us . It smells so bad . Next time I visit i will be bringing extra trash bags just to pick up everyone elses crap up . Also You people who come here and visit should be f**king FINED for leaving yalls waste around . DO BETTER GUYS ! There are trails of garbage , just everywhere. How do you people really not give af ? read more

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Not really a review of the park because we only drove in and out, but don't come here if you plan to paddle board. No paddle boarding or swimming allowed because there are alligators here, which is not mentioned anywhere on the website. read more

Me and family went to check this place out for fishing, at first looked good and promising BUT to our surprise no fish at all!!!!! Not a single bite of fish in the area. We tried for over 2 hrs and nothing. I paid $33 for 3 adults and 1 kid (7yearold) if you just want to relax and enjoy a lake view this is a place for you but if you go expecting to catch lots of fish lol hmmmm... definitely this is not the place for you. Expect to see water snakes read more

Calaveras Lake Park - No fish snakes yes! - Lakes Near Me - San Antonio, Texas

Went out there today to check it out was my first time drove over an hour and half with my kayak to see if I could launch it in lake if not maybe some bank fishing just to get told I wasn't even allowed in park because I had the kayak in my truck and I was like can I at least bank fish the older man said nope. Screw this place!!! No consideration at all!!!!!!! read more

Ridiculous entry fee.no way am I paying that everytime I want to go. Just nuts. My tax dollars at work?

My family and I went here about a week ago to check this lake out. It was ok. No big wow factor. There was tons of trash floating a long the edge of the water. No restrooms to be found and if there was a restroom well you probably need a biohazard suit. You do have to pay to come into this park which is owned by the power plant. I wish the money went towards the facilities. I think it's just going towards someone's pocket. There is no swimming in this lake. I know 2 reasons why. 1 this body of water is apart of a power plant. 2 there is alligators. Not a great place to take the family because kids need restrooms. You will have to drive to go to the nearest restroom. My recommendation. If you and your buddies want to go fishing and hang out and not worry about small bladders this is a place to go. I wouldn't recommend this place for camping unless you bring your own bucket to use the bathroom. read more

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Visiting from Alaska. Not being familiar with the area we went to this park to see if the boat launch could accommodate our boat. At the gate we asked for 10 minutes to check out the boat launch. A very sour faced woman said no it costs $9 each to enter the park, no exceptions. Not even to just see the boat launch? We asked. Additional sour look and a resounding "no." Not a very friendly park. read more

Pretty decent. It had been a while since I've been here. It was much cheaper. Not much has changed that seem to merit the price. But fishing makes you forget all of that. read more

DON'T CAMP HERE!!! If we could give this zero stars we would. When we called to make reservations we were not told there would be daily entrance fees as well as our camping fee. Then when we got here we were charged an additional $56 on top of the $104 we had paid when we reserved the place. Then , because our friends had their kayaks on the back of their rv they were going to charge them another $7 per kayak per day!! We aren't fond of rv parks but an rv park would be 100% better than this place. With all that we pay you would think they would hire some one to pick up the litter or clean the restrooms. There are dead pelicans laying around and dead fish against the shore. Didgusting!! read more

Not much different than Braunig lake as it is just as appealing. Trash everywhere and not many seem to respect the two pole limit. Staff does not seem to monitor and the only trash that is picked up is in the container. Beyond that, there's garbage everywhere. Very sad that such a nice piece of land is treated this way. I fished there several times and would not recommend taking your family here. I wouldn't take mine, that is for sure. read more

Today was a disappointment because although there enough fishing spots to fish but the people:other patrons are not considerate and take up spots/slots outside of their chosen spot. Sharing is caring or so I thought.......Also, there was a lot of trash in the water at our sight. So we decided to leave and find another sight and that when we realized that people jade taken up their sight and the sight next to their sport as we. Good luck and happy fishing. read more

Dead fish floating everywhere...........smelled gross. The crappie wall was packed with Charter fishing boats....really? Charge people $300-500 to stand on a wall??? But my kids wanted to drive the boat.....we had a great spin on the lake ...explored the coves...got stuck a few times...take a push pole if you venture into the shallows...Thousand Trails has taken over the park...and it shows.....set the alarm on your tow vehicle....low-life hang out near the parking lot, wait until your on the water in your boat and try to steal anything unsecured.....found coat hanger scratches on the drivers door on two different occasions....they need security really bad!!! Sorry if this scares you away...but facts are facts and people need to know!!! read more

Calaveras Lake Park - Young adult training - Lakes Near Me - San Antonio, Texas

What an amazing lake to go fishing. As long as u know where the fish are You'll get bites like crazy!

I haven't gone many times but I love to fish and my fish app shows lots of catch there so I just gotta get out there more

I'd heard such great things about fishing at this lake I decided to camp there as well. Well, all parks are not created equal. The fishing was good. You can just stand on the dam and catch fish. It's super awesome. But the park itself isn't that great. It's not very well kept up. You wouldn't think there'd be a whole heck-of-a-lot to do to keep up the great outdoors but they don't even do that. I wouldn't recommend any type of camping here. Venture out a little farther away from San Antonio and have a real camping trip - this place isnt it. Go fishing if you must but anything more than that would be silly... read more

The lake is a nice fishing lake. The park sucks. It's overpriced and the staff is never happy. It's also dirty and they don't enforce the 2 rods per bank fisherman rule. Sometimes someone will have 9-10 rods strung out. They also make you ppl to stay past 8 PM but you already paid 30 dollars to launch a boat with two people. read more

I have to give them zero stars because their service was amazingly terrible! Our vehicle broke down late at night and we had to walk out of the park at midnight to be picked up by a relative. The next day we go back to try to retrieve our car and they made us pay an entry fee again just to pick our car up. When I called to speak with the manager Glenda to ask her why we would have to pay the entry fee just to pick up our broken vehicle, she replied that's just policy and hung up on me! Such terrible customer service! We had season passes for last year and we're going to get one for this year also... But we will definitely be looking for somewhere else to go fishing or camping this year! read more

This place has seriously gone down hill! If you are wanting to do anything other then fishing, avoid this place!! The staff is rude as hell and unwilling to answer anything. They up their prices for less quality. We came out as a family and this has to be the most disappointing trip. read more

no lights on the boat dock parking lot no lights to clean your fish area very dangerous not having no lights on

Absolutely horrible place. Disgusting picnic areas. Polluted water. Fishing is terrible off the banks unless you fish all day and night. But even if you catch a fish why would you ever eat a fish from that contaminated toilet of a lake unless you have a death wish. Boat fishing is crowded at the popular spots. Redfish is the only draw to the lake but because of the Internet the redfish are practically fished out. If you like snakes this is the lake for you because besides trash, snakes are the one thing that is in high abundance. Snakes of all sizes! To sum it up, this lake is a trash dump with polluted water. Don't bother going. Ever! read more