NEW UPDATE! The EARLY BIRD period is finished, and the reservation desk is open again.
As of (1/22/2025).

We are now finished with the "early bird" registration period. You can now book any month of 2025 by following the "Schedule" button down below. In case you might have been confused, here's the way it works:

What we call the "Early Bird" period is that week or so in mid-January when we extend an opportunity for our friends and long-standing and most loyal guests to beat the crowd and schedule their vacations with us for the upcoming summer season. We finished a bit ahead of schedule, so things have already returned to the regular system. Thanks to everyone for being on top of things and helping us move the process along smoothly with no glitches.

We handled that process in same way we have for the last few years. Most of you are familiar with that.

The first ones (Tier 1) are those of you who have been coming year after year, for many years, and routinely book large blocs -- 4 or more consecutive nights in two or three cabins. We let those go first, not only as a courtesy to reward them for their loyalty, but also because fitting large blocs onto the calendar is much easier to do early on, before those calendars fill up with weekenders.

We sent email notifications to those Tier 1 members in the order of (1) their activity with us and (2) how soon they got with us after the first of the year to renew their membership and get on the list. First come, first served. And they have all responded by now.

The Tier 1 registrations are now finished and we are about to wrap up Tier 2, which consists of those of you who have stayed with us within the past couple of years, typically for periods of two or three nights at a time, and who have renewed your memberships for 2025. Once the early bird period is done, we will open it up to everyone else. Again, that should be within a couple of days.

We generally try to notify you early birds by email when it's your time, so please check your inbox frequently for notices. Since we cannot guarantee you will see that email, however, it is important that you keep an eye right here on this webpage for regular updates over the next two or three weeks. If we emailed you but haven't heard back, you may see your "Code" listed in the box above, the last three characters of your email name followed by your initials.

NOTE: We do set aside a few slots for our own private family events. So, if you notice some dates blocked out on day one, that's why.

So, if you are contemplating staying with us again this year, please email us or use the Contact Us form to update your membership. That way we have your most up-to-date information on file. Those who stay in contact with us by email have a better chance of being near the front of the line, as we do take your degree of interest into consideration.

If you are ready to schedule your reservation now, simply click on the button below and follow the instructions.

Hope we see you soon!

Our Challenges

A big thank you to everyone for helping us fulfill our mission to partner with the wildlife and keep things peaceful and quiet down here on the ranch. Thanks to all of you, 2024 was another banner year for us. No doubt, the great (hot and dry!) summertime weather was helpful as well. And things went well with very few hitches. Now it's time to blast into 2025!

We especially want to express our gratitute to those of you whose families have been coming here for decades, in some cases, generations! We hope we can keep it up for a long time to come. It is, however, becoming a growing challenge. As you know, Point Creek Haven is a family affair which has been run by one successive generation after another since the 1980's. We have reached a point, however, where it is becoming increasingly difficult for the older Walkers to take care of the cottage rental operation. Not surprisingly, there are more and more of those inevitable age-related health issues that keep cropping up. And, unfortunately, we do not yet have a crop of younger generation Walkers who are in position to take things over. That puts us in an obvious quandry.

The off-season is not a big problem as the reservations are relatively few and there is little competition for available dates. The summer is a different matter, however. Sandwiching dozens of long-time regular guests onto a crowded summer calendar so that everyone gets something they like is not an easy task. And then, of course, there are the rising costs and the day-to-day maintenance. It is becoming a challenge too monumental for the older Walkers to handle.

So, once again, as we did last summer, we hope to keep things trimmed back to a less hectic and more manageable schedule for the upcoming summer. That entails encouraging longer stays and putting less emphasis on weekend rentals. That is why we have geared our rates and reservation schedule accordingly, to give special consideration to those long-time friends and repeat vacationers who book multiple cottages for four or more consecutive nights, and continue to do so year after year.

So, again, a big Texas thanks to all of you for sticking with us all these years and being great guests and wonderful friends. We can't wait to see you again this year.

THE WALKERS

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