Stubblefield Lake Recreation Area

Stubblefield Lake Recreation Area, Latitude: 30.5597 Longitude: –95.6377, is a tent camping campground along Stubblefield Lake and along the forest. The 98.5 mile, Lone Star Hiking Trail enters Stubblefield Lake at a trailhead just before the second bathouse and travels to the front of the recreation area to FSR 215, heads North over the West Fork of the San Jacinto River, then turns back into the forest. Water faucets are spaced about every 3 – 4 campsites and there is no electricity at the sites. It’s a small campground suitable for tents and very small campers. Bath houses have hot showers. A quiet campground where you can camp beside the lake or nestled in the forest. Many people fish at the San Jacinto river bridge.
Directions:
FM 1375 west from New Waverly for 9 miles; turn right (NW) on FSR 215 for 3 miles.

Big woody area with tents everywhere, public restrooms
Big long dumpster, it has a very disgusting odor to it. My opinion is they shouldn’t park the dumpster near where visitors have to park their cars. That was a big turn off.

Stubblefield Lake Recreation Area was built in 1937 by the Civilian Conservation Corps as part of one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. Just an hour north of Houston (and 35 minutes East of College Station), in the Sam Houston National Forest, Stubblefield offers great outdoor experiences, including camping, canoeing, fishing, hiking and picnicking.
Aside from entering the main entrance, there are also areas you can enter free during the day and just have a picnic with friends, as is what we did. It’s very quiet, relaxing and will get you back to nature. See the tons of photos we just uploaded. We attended a BBQ here with people from 7 other countries whom had just come to the US recently to start attending a local college. This was a great place to show them a part of East Texas and the nice thing is that it’s so, so quiet and not over-​run with tourists. You can find your own bank out on the lake and just sit there for hours (or a whole day if you wish) without hearing another person or a car, or anything. It’s East Texan nature well protected and secluded from the cities that lurk so closely.