Colorado River · Bend, Texas
Quiet nights off a farm road: reserving a Colorado River cabin near Bend
from$200for two sharing, 2 nights, $100 per person
This stay puts two people in a Colorado River cabin near Bend for two nights, at a small resort of just four cabins near the river. Bend sits well up the Colorado, upstream of the lakes most Austin weekends aim for, and the last miles run out along a farm road where traffic thins to almost nothing.
Our office plans it with you, checks the nights with the resort, sends one written quote, and asks the resort to hold the cabin in your name once you agree. You check in at the resort's own desk and pay it directly.
- River
- Colorado River
- Town
- Bend, Texas
- Where you sleep
- Cabin at a four-cabin resort near the river
- Nights
- 2
- Drive from the office
- 89 mi, 1 hr 44 min
- Season
- March to May, October and November
- From, for two
- $200
One cabin of four units, near the Colorado
You sleep in a cabin that two people share, at a resort small enough that four units make up the whole place. With so few guests, a weekend here tends to stay quiet, and the evenings belong to the river.
The resort makes no charge mandatory beyond the nightly rate. If a dog comes along, it adds a pet fee of $20 by choice, and we note it in the quote. Meals and groceries are yours to bring, so plan a stop in a larger town on the way.
Bend cabin charges and what stays with you
Covered for the cabin
- 2 nights for two sharing: cabin at a four-cabin resort near the river
- Every charge the lodge makes mandatory; it lists none beyond the nightly rate
Paid separately or arranged by you
- Texas hotel tax and any local hotel tax, added by the lodge at checkout
- Driving there and back in your own car
- Meals, groceries and anything bought on the river
- Tubes, boats and park entry from local outfitters or parks
from$200for two sharing, 2 nights, $100 per person
The resort publishes $99 a night for a cabin two can share, and this stay is two nights with no mandatory resort fees, so the from figure comes to $200 for two, or from $100 per person when two share. Texas hotel tax of 6% and any local hotel tax sit outside that figure; the resort adds them at checkout and the quote shows them separately. The figure is confirmed only in writing for your real dates. Planning the trip and writing the quote cost you nothing, because the resort pays our office a commission once your stay is over.
A rain-fed reach of the Colorado at Bend
The nearest USGS gauge, number 08147000, gives a median May flow of 321.8 cubic feet per second (cfs), the usual measure of river flow, and a median August flow of 51.1 cfs, from monthly means for 1996 to 2025. August keeps only 16% of May's water, which places Bend in the rain-fed group of our catalog.
So the river here depends on rain upstream. A wet spring can send a broad, moving river past the cabin; a hot, dry summer can leave it slow and shallow between gravel bars. The quote tells you which one you are likely to find.
Cool months on this reach of the Colorado
We plan this cabin for March, April and May, and again for October and November, the months when rain is most likely to have reached the river and the Hill Country is cool enough for long afternoons outside.
This autumn the Hill Country has had little rain, and several rivers sit well below their usual October flow. Nobody can promise what the Colorado will do on a given weekend, so the written quote reports the river as it stands that week, and you decide with that in hand.
Resort confirmation in your name, after your reply
Your written answer lists the resort, the cabin, the exact nights and the price for those dates, with Texas hotel tax and any local hotel tax on a separate line, along with the rules the resort applies if you cancel. Nothing is held until you reply in writing and the resort confirms the reservation in your name.
The figure can move because resorts set different rates for different dates, holidays and lengths of stay. We read the resort's published rate for this page on 30 October 2026, and the quote settles the real number for your dates. You can read how every from figure on the site is put together.
89 miles, with supplies bought before the last towns
From our office on Exposition Boulevard the trip is about 89 miles and takes about 1 hour 44 minutes in your own car by the usual route without traffic. You leave the city through the western hills and finish on quiet county roads, so pick up supplies before the last towns.
Bend weekends: when to ask
Tell us which month you have in mind, how many nights, and whether you want the river for swimming, paddling or just a quiet bank. The request form takes your note at any hour, a request is free and leaves no nights on hold, and our written answer comes back on the schedule printed below.
A request that arrives after 1 p.m., or on a Sunday or Monday, gets its written answer by 4 p.m. on the next phone day.
Phone Tuesday to Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Central. (512) 478-2163
Also worth a look from here: Pedernales River cabin in Johnson City