Rayford Crossing RV Resort

The Woodlands has stacks of stuff to keep you busy (and fed and watered) nearby: there are around 150 restaurants, a waterway with dancing waterfalls and music, two cinemas, and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion for gigs. Shoppers can spend their dollars at Market Street and at the adjacent Woodlands Mall; if you're here with kids, cart them along to the Woodlands Children's Museum for events, exhibits and play. Kids – and their keepers – can also have a splashingly good time among the rides, rapids, a lazy river, crocodile isle, Treehouse Island and loads more of the Wet'n'Wild SplashTown waterpark 10 minutes' drive away. Or head along to Old Town Spring, also 10 minutes away, for a look at old-style Texas among over 150 shops, restaurants and galleries. Just over half an hour's drive south will take you to Houston, home to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Museum of Fine Arts and – another one for the kids – NASA's Johnson Space Center. Baseball buffs have Minute Maid Park in Houston's Downtown, while football and soccer fans can make for NRG Stadium, venue of the 2017 Super Bowl.