David and Cheryl Chambers bought their property along the Guadalupe River in 2008, the day the for-sale sign went up. They kept it wild and green, a private retreat in the Texas Hill Country where they could lounge in the bed of a pickup and watch the birds and the deer, until just a few years ago, when they decided to convert it into an RV park. There were small resorts and inns all along the Guadalupe, and plenty of places to park, or rent, an RV, including in their tiny town of Center Point. But there may have been no prettier bend on the river, with its glassy surface and its bank shaded by bald-cypress trees older than the state of Texas itself. David and a friend laid power cables, installed water hookups, and carved short, looping roads from Highway 27 to the water's edge. The camp, which they called Guadalupe Keys Resort, opened in the spring of 2023. There were five high-end campers parked beneath the cypress and pecan trees, and pads for four more. The river was shallow in...
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