Big Bend SR 385 vs SR 118
We are planning at trip to Big Bend for September after the Hummingbird Festival in Rockport. Will probably base at Terlingua and be traveling in a 31' 2012 Freelander towing a '90 Wrangler. For a...
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Spent three months campground hosting at Big Bend last summer and two months at Davis Mountain SP last fall.
The only part of TX-118 which isn't favorable for RVs is the section above Davis Mountains SP toward McDonald Observatory and on to the I-10 junction at Kent.
Even that is okay if you take it slow. TX-118 from Alpine to Study Butte - smooth, WIDEEEEE, easy route. A few hills.
Don't know where SR-365 is.
US-385 from Fort Stockton to BBNP is also a very wide, easy route. Great shape for highway. If I was going from Fort Stockton to Alpine - I'd take US-67 rather than US-385 to Marathon and US-90 to Alpine. (But we use US-90 from Del Rio to Alpine vice I-10 - much better drive.)
TX-17 from Balmorhea to Fort Davis is a good road, a little twisty through the pass, but nothing difficult.
The biggest 'issue' about taking US-385 into Big Bend NP's north entrance is the 45 mph speed limit in the park. It's about an hour and a half from the north entrance to the west entrance.
The only part of TX-118 which isn't favorable for RVs is the section above Davis Mountains SP toward McDonald Observatory and on to the I-10 junction at Kent.
Even that is okay if you take it slow. TX-118 from Alpine to Study Butte - smooth, WIDEEEEE, easy route. A few hills.
Don't know where SR-365 is.
US-385 from Fort Stockton to BBNP is also a very wide, easy route. Great shape for highway. If I was going from Fort Stockton to Alpine - I'd take US-67 rather than US-385 to Marathon and US-90 to Alpine. (But we use US-90 from Del Rio to Alpine vice I-10 - much better drive.)
TX-17 from Balmorhea to Fort Davis is a good road, a little twisty through the pass, but nothing difficult.
The biggest 'issue' about taking US-385 into Big Bend NP's north entrance is the 45 mph speed limit in the park. It's about an hour and a half from the north entrance to the west entrance.
