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Christmas camping in Texas comes with lights, Santa Yogi Bear™, frosting-covered cookies, and campsites decked out like a holiday movie set. Jellystone Park™ Austin North in Georgetown turns December weekends into the Texas Hill Country getaway everyone deserves, the Elf on the Shelf included.

The headliner just ended and the hotel is 45 minutes away? Hard pass. Camping near Two Step Inn keeps the crew about 20 minutes from the gates in Georgetown.

Long term residents at Jellystone Park™ Austin North in Georgetown, Texas include Winter Texan snowbirds, travel nurses on contract at Ascension Seton Williamson and St. David's hospitals, and workers tied to the Samsung semiconductor plant in Taylor. Monthly extended stay rates start at $650 for a back-in standard site and include full hookups, Wi-Fi, a concrete pad, a fire pit and picnic table. The park is at 25101 Ronald Reagan Blvd, about 37 miles north of downtown Austin.

Thanksgiving camping in Texas at Jellystone Park™ Austin North means a cabin or RV site in Georgetown, a Friendsgiving potluck at the picnic table, a turkey trot on the trails, and a lazy river still open in November. Book Thanksgiving weekend, November 26–29, before cabins sell out.

Texas fall camping comes with cooler days, crisp campfire nights, and fewer 90-degree afternoons. See why the data points to October and November as the best time to camp in Texas.

A staffer's guide to Halloween camping in Texas, from the site decorating contest to park-wide trick-or-treating, costume contests, and the haunted trail.