Overnight in Haskell City Park

As we were planning our route, we had decided to take advantage of staying in a Thousand Trails campground near Bridgeport, TX before our rally in Durant that starts on April 8. It would be about a 6.5-7 hour drive from Roswell to Bridgeport (longer than we prefer to do in a day) so we wanted to find a place for the night. A little over halfway from Roswell to Bridgeport we found that the City of Haskell has an RV park. The writeups about it indicated that it was free the first night, and that it was right in an area of walking trails and where the local kids baseball teams practiced, so we decided to give it a try. What a nice place!!!

Haskell RV Park - 1 Free Overnight Parking, stay longer $16 per night. Come by City Hall or use Lock Box. Have a nice day!

Miss Doozie and a couple of other rigs staying at City of Haskell RV Park

We were able to leave the Jeep hooked up (just like at WalMart but with free hookups!)

It looked like a high school baseball team might be practicing in the field right behind us.

The restrooms had cute painting - boys room...

... girl's room ...

This looked to be an old house with windmill and farm equipment shed that was at the end of the RV park.

Nice walking path by the "creek"

walking path by the creek

We walked up in to "town"

Saw City Hall and the town square

Big tractor and some sort of discing implement on the main street in town

Haskell city water tower

 We found the Dairy Queen in town and got dinner. As we were walking back to the RV park, we noticed a couple of horses beyond where little kids were practicing baseball. We walked over there and found a rodeo arena.

They will have "Wild Horse Prairie Days Ranch Rodeo" the first weekend in June.

Joe was doing reining training.

There was a specific pattern that they were practicing, showing control of the horse over the calf.

Bill (on the brown horse to the left "Jo-Jo") came over and talked with us for a while. We really enjoyed getting to meet him. His wife, Tina, was also doing reining practice (in the green shirt on the left).

 We highly recommend City of Haskell RV Park. Bill said that he has an RV park south of town - I think it is Davis RV Park (if he happens to read this blog entry, please correct me if I'm wrong). If you'd want to stay in the area for more than one night, and particularly if you want more facilities (the city RV park is just gravel and no additional facilities) - you should check out Bill's RV park south of town on route 277.