San Saba, Texas

San Saba County Courthouse


We stopped in this sleepy little town for a couple nights on our way east. San Saba declares itself to be the "Pecan Capitol of the World", and after driving through the countryside, I cannot argue that there are a lot of pecan trees here. The city (population about 5000) is the county seat of San Saba County, and the San Saba river traverses through. On the east side of town there's a golf course and a new RV park.


The water wheel in the park

We stayed in the older Mill Pond park near the center of town. Nice setting with a waterfall, water wheel, and a spring fed lake. The camping was cheap, $15 with full hookups including 50 amp electric.

Thumper had great fun chasing the ducks away from our motorhome, and got to rinse some of the west Texas dust out of her fur by swimming in the lake. We took showers to achieve the same result.

Sunset in San Saba

The weather was warm, and in our bug we toured some of the dirt farm roads north of town, through a little village called Pecan Grove. When we got back to town, we stopped and had praline pecans with a caramel pecan frappe at the Alamo Pecan store. We walked around town and through some of the mildly decaying neighborhoods near downtown, and we noticed that the luxury homes are outside of town.