A trail option without moving the camper or committing to a long drive.
Chapter 06 · Trips with Cozy
The build only matters when it goes somewhere.
Every upgrade has a destination: a pine forest, a mountain campsite, a dark sky or a week of state-park hopping with the boys. These featured stories are part of a much larger—and still growing—family travel log.
The rolling family basecamp
Built at home. Proven on the road.
Cozy carries more than equipment. She carries bedtime routines, rainy-day movies, fishing gear, campfire dinners and the confidence to stay farther from a power pedestal. Each trip also teaches the next lesson about comfort, energy and what the family actually uses.
15
trips on the family record
13
parks & forests visited
≈7,300mi
documented towing estimate
A map that travels inside Cozy
Every new park earns a pin.
The Texas canvas map is more than decoration. It is a growing family record: state parks, national parks and forests marked one destination at a time. The pins turn the interior itself into a reminder of where Cozy has already been—and an invitation to choose the next blank space.
July 12–19, 2026
Carson National Forest · near Red River
New Mexico: a high-country home base.
Columbine Campground became the center of a seven-day family adventure in Carson National Forest. Instead of moving every day, Cozy served as a stable base near Red River for fishing, trails, mountain weather and flexible day trips.
The weather wrote part of the story. Monsoon rain changed the pace, while clearer windows made room for fishing. One especially good memory ended with freshly caught rainbow trout cooked back at camp—the kind of simple campsite meal that becomes a permanent part of a family trip.
Basecamp Columbine CampgroundLandscape Carson National ForestWeather Summer monsoon rainCamp meal Fresh rainbow trout
Inside the family adventure book
One basecamp, many possible days.
The trip guide was designed to stay flexible around weather, energy and everyone’s mood. These were the nearby options assembled for the week—not a claim that every trail or stop was completed.
January 1–6, 2026
Big Bend National Park
A backcountry start to the new year.
Cozy spent five nights at one of Big Bend’s backcountry roadside sites, trading campground rows for open desert, mountain silhouettes and an enormous night sky.
Getting there became part of the story. The final approach followed a mile and a half of rocky gravel road, rough enough that the Explorer repeatedly bottomed out along the way. Cozy made it to a campsite that felt genuinely remote—and the difficult approach became one more measure of how far the family’s little fiberglass basecamp could go.
Once settled, the days opened into family hikes and desert overlooks. At night, the telescope came out under the moon and stars before everyone returned to the dinette for a familiar meal inside Cozy.
Stay 5 nights inside the national parkCamp Backcountry roadside siteApproach 1½-mile rocky gravel roadMemory A remote New Year under dark skies
Summer 2025
Rocky Mountain National Park
Three campgrounds across one national park.
The Rocky Mountain journey placed Cozy in the landscape that inspired so much of her interior: tall evergreens, alpine roads, cool evenings and dramatic light. Rather than staying in one location, the trip crossed the park and made three distinct campgrounds part of the story.
The route began at Glacier Basin Campground, crossed Trail Ridge Road to Timber Creek Campground on the west side, and finished back on the east side at Moraine Park Campground. Those two campsite moves added roughly 80 miles of towing inside the park itself.
Between the moves were family hikes, mountain overlooks, campfires beside Cozy and close views of the park’s wildlife. The camper supplied the familiar home base; the trail changed every day.
StartGlacier Basin≈44 miAcross the parkTimber Creek≈36 miFinishMoraine Park
Park Rocky Mountain National ParkRoute East side → west side → east sideTowing About 80 miles between campgrounds
March 7–13, 2025
Spring break road trip
East Texas: three parks, six nights.
Rather than one long stay, this trip used Cozy as a moving family basecamp through the Pineywoods. Two nights at each state park created enough time to explore while keeping the route itself part of the adventure.
San AntonioStart · March 7→Lake Livingston2 nights→Martin Dies Jr.2 nights→Huntsville2 nights→HomeMarch 13
March 7–9 · Livingston, Texas
Lake Livingston State Park
The first two-night basecamp opened with setup, shoreline exploring, hiking, wildlife watching and time to settle into the slower rhythm of the Pineywoods.
March 9–11 · Jasper, Texas
Martin Dies Jr. State Park
The second stop shifted the trip toward the Big Thicket landscape—water, sloughs, forest trails, canoeing options, a campfire and a night of stargazing.
March 11–13 · Huntsville, Texas
Huntsville State Park
The final two nights centered on Lake Raven, pine-and-hardwood forest, swimming and trails before the drive home to San Antonio.
What six nights make room for
Water, cypress forest and one more mile marker.
The trip moved between boardwalks, lakeside camps, unusual wetland landscapes and the Chinquapin Trail. Because Cozy carried the same familiar beds and routines from park to park, every new site still felt like home.
Earlier chapters · 2022
Two early chapters inside one growing family story.
Brazos Bend and Lost Maples preserve an earlier season of traveling with very young boys: campground walks, creekside discoveries, quiet time inside Cozy and the first years of learning how this little trailer fit the family.
2022
Brazos Bend State Park
Wetlands, woods and little-kid camping days.
The Brazos Bend trip added a very different Texas landscape to Cozy’s map. Family walks wound through the park’s woods and wildlife-rich wetland setting, while the campground itself made room for the slower parts of traveling with little ones.
These photographs hold the scale of that season especially well: carried children, pajamas outdoors, firewood near camp and three boys riding together down the campground road.
Landscape Woods and wetlandsDistance basis ≈430-mile round trip
2022
Lost Maples State Natural Area
A creek, a canyon and Cozy waiting below.
At Lost Maples, the family moved between clear water, steep Hill Country views and a campsite where Cozy could be seen waiting behind the fire ring. The landscape supplied the adventure; the camper supplied the familiar place to warm up and settle down.
Lantern light, a favorite book and blue mountain bedding made the interior moments as much a part of the trip as the overlook outside.
Landscape Sabinal River canyon countryDistance basis ≈175-mile round trip
More parks, more pins
The featured journeys are not the whole story.
These Texas trips belong in Cozy’s evolving travel record too. Dates, photographs and campsite details can be added as the family archive grows.
Garner State Park
A returning family favorite on the Frio River—and proof that the travel log is much larger than the stories above. The 2021 visit mixed clear river water and enormous cypress trees with a movie night inside Cozy and a glowing campsite after dark.
Guadalupe River State Park
A close-to-home Hill Country river escape.
South Llano River State Park
River country and dark skies near Junction.
Pedernales Falls State Park
Layered limestone and another pin on the map.
McKinney Falls State Park
An Austin-area campground beside the limestone ledges of Onion Creek.
A first mileage ledger
About 7,300 documented towing miles—and counting.
This conservative route estimate includes four round trips to Garner State Park, a separate Hipcamp stay near Llano, two campground-to-campground moves across Rocky Mountain National Park, the Big Bend backcountry access road, and reconstructed mileage for Brazos Bend, McKinney Falls and Lost Maples.
≈7,300known towing miles from San Antonio
TripEstimate basisMiles
Carson National Forest / Red RiverSan Antonio round trip≈1,500
Rocky Mountain National ParkRound trip + 3-campground route≈2,090
Big Bend National ParkRound trip + backcountry access≈860
East Texas park loop3 parks, returning to San Antonio≈630
Garner State Park ×44 San Antonio round trips≈720
Guadalupe River State Park1 San Antonio round trip≈80
South Llano River State Park1 San Antonio round trip≈240
Pedernales Falls State Park1 San Antonio round trip≈150
Brazos Bend State Park1 San Antonio round trip≈430
McKinney Falls State Park1 San Antonio round trip≈170
Lost Maples State Natural Area1 San Antonio round trip≈175
Llano HipcampSan Antonio round trip≈220
Planning estimate only. It excludes local sightseeing without the trailer, unremembered trips, detours and exact home-to-route variations. The total will grow as additional journeys are reconstructed.
Scenes from the road
The view changes. Home stays familiar.
Blue hour, a sky full of stars and a warm light in Cozy’s window are recurring parts of the story—wherever the next campsite happens to be.
