After being shut down for nearly a year for renovations, Daingerfield State Park in Daingerfield, Texas, is scheduled to re-open July 1, 2011, according to park superintendent, John Thomas.

Renovations have included work on the lodge, concession building, bath house and boathouse/interpretative center with additions of three new restrooms and 30 new campsites. All new campsites will include water, electricity and sewer.

In the 1930's Daingerfield State Park served as a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) building project, for unemployed, unmarried men between the ages of 18-25 as a public work relief program. The program provided labor jobs that were related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands that were owned by the government.


"The neat thing about the renovations of the project is that this is an opportunity for us to take the CCC structures, renovate them and have an improved facility. This is putting them back into the original condition it was built for and designed back in the 1930s. The roofs on the buildings are made from wooden cedar shake, like the ones in 1938." Thomas said.


Reservations are being accepted for arrival on July 1 or later. For reservations, feel free to call (512) 389-8900 or visit the website for a link to state park reservations.