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swduns · 03-21-2023, 06:22 PM

2008 Tiffin Phaeton 40' Motorhome DP pulling Equinox
I'll be traveling from Pharr TX to Thousand Trails Medina Lake RV park NW of San Antonio in a week.
I talked to the park and they said take 211 from 90 however trip wizard wont let me take 211 even if I turn off RV routing, trip wizard wants me to take 471 instead. Trip wizard doesn't show any hazards on 211.
I tried planned routing on the Garmin 890 and it wouldn't let me take 471 or 211.
I looked at 211 on google earth pedestrian view and there are beaucoup semis using 211 heavily. It looks better than 471.
what I understood from the park was from San Antonio take 90 => 211 => 1283 => p37 => 8th street => Florida Ave => Spettle Rd (I always triple check what people tell me)
Does anyone know the best route for a big rig to Medina Lk Rv Park from San Antonio TX?

Rob_M · 03-21-2023, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by swduns

2008 Tiffin Phaeton 40' Motorhome DP pulling Equinox

I'll be traveling from Pharr TX to Thousand Trails Medina Lake RV park NW of San Antonio in a week.

I talked to the park and they said take 211 from 90 however trip wizard wont let me take 211 even if I turn off RV routing, trip wizard wants me to take 471 instead. Trip wizard doesn't show any hazards on 211.

I tried planned routing on the Garmin 890 and it wouldn't let me take 471 or 211.

I looked at 211 on google earth pedestrian view and there are beaucoup semis using 211 heavily. It looks better than 471.

what I understood from the park was from San Antonio take 90 => 211 => 1283 => p37 => 8th street => Florida Ave => Spettle Rd (I always triple check what people tell me)

Does anyone know the best route for a big rig to Medina Lk Rv Park from San Antonio TX?

I can’t think of any roads over in that area that aren’t big rig friendly, except when you get close to the lake, at that point follow the directions they gave you.

**hamm2018** · 03-22-2023, 06:55 AM

In San Antonio, 471 is Culebra Road. At the intersection of The 1604 and Culebra (471) is a HEB grocery. Get off there and make a left on Culebra. Sometimes the traffic in that area can be high.
Follow 471 out to the split, stay right it is now 1283. It is a little hilly in thru there, but people still drive 70mph+. Take your time.

Take 1283 to a "Y", you will see an old restaurant on the corner, I think the name was "Dancing Bear".

Go right and take that to the stop sign of 1283 Park Rd 37. Tight left turn, especially with somebody pulling up to the stop sign on PR 37.
Hang a left, then follow the PR 37. Now, following PR 37 you will come to a curve, and sometimes at that point some GPS says go straight, don't do it. That is the back way to the park.

Go around the curve and go to about 3/4 to 1 mile past that and hang a right.
It is the road to the landfill. Go down the road 1 mile, hand right at stop sign. Go up about 1/2-mile hang left, that is Spettle Road.

Pull in to the large parking lot on the left at the office.

A couple of things:
If you need fuel get it on the way up. If not coming up 1283 there is a station on the way.
The HEB I mentioned is where you will go to get groceries, closest place, about 40 miles from the campground.

When you check in and set-up, come and find us. We are going to Medina Lakes today from Columbus, the Colorado River Thousand Trails Park, off of I-10. Plus we are going to that HEB tomorrow for re-stock run.

swduns · 03-22-2023, 12:02 PM

I found that 211 was being built as Texas Research park drive
211 was being built in phases and a middle phase was stalled for many years
The Texas Research park failed which minimized incentive to finish the road
San Antonio has a beltway 410, then an outer beltway of 1604
211 apparently began developing into an additional western beltway which later drove the incentive to finish it
According to the web site the remaining portion opened in NOV 2022 ... so late last year.
While google maps now shows it complete, that explains why Trip Wizard or Garmin wouldn't let me take that route ... even in a car.

https://www.texashighwayman.com/sh211.shtml

**hamm2018** · 03-23-2023, 03:54 PM

We went to the HEB today. On 471 for about 1/2 mile was some construction to the intersection of 211 & 471. The intersection of 211 & 471 is the gas station & truck stop, today price was $3.34/gal. If you need fuel, get it there, no place around us out here.
Culebra was just as busy as what we remembered from last year.