{"id":7091,"date":"2018-01-23T08:03:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2017-12-25T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T21:04:39","slug":"caddo-national-grassland-a-well-kept-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/caddo-national-grassland-a-well-kept-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Caddo National Grassland &#8211; a well-kept secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/gallery\/cad1.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our rig<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Several years ago Fred and I made a wonderful discovery &#8211; West Crockett Lake campground in the Caddo (pronounced Cad-OH) National Grassland (NG). Located in north Texas, above Dallas and on the south side of Red River seems to be pretty much undiscovered.\u00a0 Developed in the 1930s, Lake Crockett was built to provide the area&#8217;s population with recreational opportunities such as boating and fishing.\u00a0 It still meets these needs.<\/p>\n<p>Caddo NG is more heavily wooded than other grasslands we have visited. Towering Post oak, Southern oak and other oaks species blend with hickory and hand-planted pines giving shelter to all sorts of critters. Everytime we have been there, the oak trees hadn\u2019t started to put on their Fall colors but they were dropping their nuts like crazy.\u00a0 The resident critters, chiefly noisy squirrels, were busy collecting the bounty and getting ready for winter.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/gallery\/cad2.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Crockett<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cedars are a big problem in the Caddo, choking out large areas of grass, but the forest service is trying fight back. Once again it\u2019s a matter of money.\u00a0 West Crockett Lake CG has no problem with cedars.<\/p>\n<p>While West Crockett Lake campground is nice (sites right on the lake\u2019s edge), and is my preference, the horse camp near Coffee Mill Lake is outstanding. Long, level campsites with big trees (mostly oak and hickory) provide ample shade. There is a trailhead for the 25-plus mile network of trails that meanders throughout the grassland is right there. There is only one vault but lots of water spigots scattered throughout and a horse shower near the vault.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s face it, the Caddo NG knows how to treat equestrian campers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/caddo-national-grassland-a-well-kept-secret\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 237346;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts with Thumbnails\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago Fred and I made a wonderful discovery &#8211; West Crockett Lake campground in the Caddo (pronounced Cad-OH) National Grassland (NG). Located in north Texas, above Dallas and on the south side of Red River seems to be pretty much undiscovered.\u00a0 Developed in the 1930s, Lake Crockett was built to provide the area&#8217;s  &nbsp;&nbsp;<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/caddo-national-grassland-a-well-kept-secret\/\">Read More >><\/a><\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 237346;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts with Thumbnails\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,9],"tags":[88,89,64],"class_list":["post-7091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-notable-campground","category-suzis-blog","tag-httpforestcamping-comcampgrounds","tag-httpforestcamping-comcampgrounds-i-like","tag-notable-campground"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Caddo National Grassland - a well-kept secret - Camping With Suzi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"North of Dallas, TX and south of Red River is a sweet, relatively undiscover little campground called West Crockett Lake.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/caddo-national-grassland-a-well-kept-secret\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caddo National Grassland - a well-kept secret - Camping With Suzi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"North of Dallas, TX and south of Red River is a sweet, relatively undiscover little campground called West Crockett Lake.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/caddo-national-grassland-a-well-kept-secret\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Camping With Suzi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-01-23T15:03:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/gallery\/cad1.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Suzi Dow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Suzi Dow\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/caddo-national-grassland-a-well-kept-secret\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/caddo-national-grassland-a-well-kept-secret\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Suzi Dow\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/#\/schema\/person\/e41d1e174e281411de8b189550859268\"},\"headline\":\"Caddo National Grassland &#8211; 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