Frio Country Resort Golf Stay & Play

Golf at Frio Country Resort

We had heard a number of good things about the Frio Country's golf course and we were pleasantly surprised when we played it. What a fun, challenging, scenic, and memorable 18 holes of golf. The Club at ConCan will throw a little bit of everything at you - dog legs, elevated tee boxes and greens, forced carries, strategically placed bunkers, tight approaches, and more. This is a shot makers course but with 5 sets of tees boxes, you can find one that will suite your game and allow you to bite off as much as you can chew. Read our review of The Club at ConCan to learn more about this fantastic course. You'll want to play this course at least twice, so budget your time and money accordingly. The Club at ConCan clubhouse is also home to a full service spa as well as a fantastic patio and grill serving some good food. We found it hard to leave the patio after a good lunch and a few cold beers.

Stay & Play Lodging At Frio Country Resort

We wanted to be close to the Frio River when we stayed at Frio River Resort, so our group of 8 plus two grand kids stayed in the Frio Country Cabins and Campground section which has 26 rustic cabins ranging from a one bedroom one bath to a four bedroom four bath cabin that sleeps up to 18. All of the cabins were just a short walk to the Frio River and less than a quarter mile from the Frio River Country Store.

We had Cabin 6 - a two bedroom cabin that was about 200 yards to the Frio River. Our cabin was perfect:

• two bedrooms with two double beds plus a loft with two double beds
• two full bathrooms, one of which was in the master bed room
• a fully equipped kitchen with everything you need to cook some good meals plus a full sized refrigerator, coffee maker, toaster, blender, and microwave
• a rustic wood dinning table that would seat 12 - perfect for dining as well as some rousing games late into the evening
• a cozy living area with a fireplace, flat screen TV, a couple couches, and a chair
• a porch with a picnic table and two chairs facing the river - great for games, coffee in the morning, or a cold drink winding down the day

In the same section that we were in is another good choice called the Beach Club which has 10 cabins built around a small pool. And four of the 2 bedroom 2 bath cabins have a back porch that overlook the Frio River and an outstanding swimming hole within a stones throw from the back porch. The Frio Country Beach Club and the Cabins are all close to and have very easy access to the Frio River. From the Beach Club and the Frio River, north on River Road will take you to several other lodging choices with Frio Country Resort:

• Canyon Oaks has several two, three, and four bedroom cabins and houses
• Cypress Bend is close to River Road and has a variety of options from cabins to a nice home with a volleyball net, campfire pit, and barbecue pit
• Comanche Crossing has rustic cottages/cabins plus a very nice 5 bedroom 5 bath house with a pool table
• Mountain Valley Subdivision is a great subdivision of homes that are within walking distance to the golf course and House Pasture restaurant and music venue

The Frio Country Resort website does a very good job of describing each of the lodging options. If you want to camp, in back of the cabins is a small campground with some RV and tent sites under the trees. Each site has full hook ups plus a picnic table. Big rigs might find it a little challenging to squeeze into some of the sites and get under and around the trees.

Good Food & Country Music

All of the accommodations have kitchens and utensils and everything you need to cook your dinner, but if you don't feel like cooking, then head to Frio Country Resort's House Pasture Cattle Company, which is fantastic. From our cabin along the bank of the river, it took us less than 3 minutes to drive to the House Pasture. The House Pasture has inside seating as well as an outside open air pavilion and picnic tables just outside the pavilion. The meals we enjoyed were very good and reasonably priced - the burger was excellent, the chicken fried chicken was juicy and smothered with good gravy, and the ribeye was cooked to perfection and very tasty. They serve lunch and dinner and there is a wide selection of entrees ranging from salads to steaks, ribs, seafood, chicken, and more. After dinner, we had a competitive game of washers then moved to horseshoes and finally to the outside bar to collect our winnings. The grandkids really enjoyed sand box and playground.

House Pasture is alive with some outstanding music on most weekends during the summer. For example, during the summer of 2010 Gary P. Nunn, Stoney Larue, Bleu Edmondson, Kevin Fowler, Eleven Hundred Springs, Max Stalling, Owen Temple, and several other excellent Texas singer song writers played on either a Friday or Saturday night. The pavilion is perfect for a evening of music - a raised stage with a big dance floor, picnic tables under the pavilion as well as just outside the pavilion, a couple different bar stations, and a good sound system. And the crowd is a mix of locals, Gardner State Park campers, and Frio Country visitors - a lively and friendly mix that helps make the evening very fun. When you're thinking of visiting Frio Country, you may want to plan the trip around one of the music events - check out their events calendar.

One of our excuses for staying at Frio Country Resort is because they were home to the Frio River Song Festival - two nights of music organized and run by Owen Temple and Adam Carrol. The first night of music was in the back yard of one of the rental cabins and was a very enjoyable evening under the trees and a sky full of stars listening to 8 Texas singer songwriters - we hated it when the music ended! The next evening the music moved to the House Pasture's outdoor pavilion where the same musicians played a set backed up by a band of fellow musicians. We enjoyed a good meal, plenty of cold beer, and 3 hours of music and dancing. Click on the link to read our review of the Frio River Festival - add this music festival to your August 2011 calendar.

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