Soggy Vineyards Campground

 

 

If you have followed our posts over the years you know that one of our favorite winter sites is the Vineyards Campground in Grapevine, Texas. This was a prime campground and we have used it as an example of what an RV park should be ... until the weather intervenes.

Above is what is left of the gate house and we have some great pics of it from times past without the water. Lake Grapevine is a Corps of Engineers lake and if it does its job it keeps massive floodwaters from devastating the land downstream ... the result is that at full pool the park has vanished. We were up there last week and the water was about five feet higher, right up onto the rock V of the gate house approach in the distance.

And below are all the cabins where friends and relatives have stayed (Rich and Kerry) on several occasions; fortunately on wheels and now stored at the baseball complex on higher ground next to the lake.

You used to walk to the marina bar/restaurant across a ten foot bridge ... now several hundred feet of Styrofoam supported planks due to the lake height.

This is the closest we could get to the park on the other side and if you really enlarge it you can see the place those cabins used to be parked across the now full lake.

To relieve the tension of the day seeing our favorite park submerged we hit our favorite wine and food joint on the main drag of Grapevine itself.

Farina's is always a quiet comfortable place with many neat food items and great wine selections. Here's a couple of Radio Boca Temperanillos that washed down a great pasta bake for Jo and a wonderful Greek salad for me.

Maybe the park will be dried out for next year ... we'll keep hoping for the best!