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Cabins, rig hookups, camping spots, and horse pens!

No horses? You can book our cabins on Air BnB.
Tent camping and RV spots can be booked on Hipcamp.
 

 
 

Horse Lover's Getaway

Get away to someplace quiet and spend quality time with your horse and friends, on the trails and after riding! Happy Horse Hotel is only a 2 mile haul (we ferry you up and back so you don't have to unhook your rig) to the horse entrance at the Jewel of Texas Trail Riding, McKinney Roughs. Use the Happy Horse Hotel as base camp, ride the 13 miles of river and highland trails all day, and instead of leaving, relax in style and comfort at the fabulous Happy Horse Hotel bungalow or bunkhouse. Spend a quiet night in the country listening to the coyotes howl, tending your horses, and ride the Roughs again the next day.

6 rig spaces with water and 30 amp hook ups, 20 pens, 2 covered stalls, and tent camping sites.

Two non-smoking, no pet cabins with heat, a/c, and kitchen facilities. The Bungalow sleeps 4, the Bunkhouse sleeps 3. Great beds with linens and dishes provided. Fire pits, unique privy and showers, BBQ grills, picnic tables, and plenty of time with your horse.

 

The Happy Horse Band's latest CD!

Click here to get your copy!
 

We made the front page of the Austin newspaper!
Click on Hollis' picture to read the whole feature article!
 

Short notice is fine with us.
Give us a call and book your spot!


Last minute calls always welcome.

(512) 303-0589


McKinney Roughs park status hotline

(800) 776-5272 ext. 7427#


 

Your Hosts - Hollis & Beaux


Happy Horse Campfire Concerts

If you're intersted in having the Happy Horse Camp Band play music at your campfire on Saturday night (weather permitting), drop Hollis a note. Usually it's just Hollis and Beaux but occasionally we have guest musicians sit in with us.

If you play an instrument, bring it! If you sing, join us!


A Bed & Bales Experience

This photo of Hollis & KC at the McKinney Roughs quarry pond was printed as a full page in the Sept 2007 issue of Texas Highways Magazine.

Photo by Kevin Stillman, for Texas Highways Magazine


     

 

Two 12 x 12 covered stalls and 14 individual pens, 6 rig sites with electric and water hook ups. Exercise trails on site. Hot water shower, unique privy, and darling bungalow with A/C and heat.

 

 

Goliath, World's Tallest Horse at 19.1 hands, overnights at HHH. story

Scenic Overlook high above the Colorado River, off Bluestem Trail in McKinney Roughs Park.

Big cottonwood next to the river on Deep Sandy Trail.


Country Camping with your horse

2 miles from LCRA's McKinney Roughs,

An 1100 acre park with 15 miles of trails!

Located 18 miles east of Austin off of Hwy 71.

Happy Horse Hotel and on-site trails.

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Dining Deck and the Giddy-up Gift Shop
   


Happy Horse Hotel

(512) 303-0589

860 Pope Bend North

Cedar Creek, TX 78612

happy.horse@att.net
 
   

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NOTICE:

UNDER TEXAS LAW (CHAPTER 87, CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE), AN EQUINE PROFESSIONAL IS NOT LIABLE FOR AN INJURY TO OR THE DEATH OF A PARTICIPANT IN EQUINE ACTIVITIES RESULTING FROM THE INHERENT RISKS OF EQUINE ACTIVITIES.

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Updated 1 January 2020