Big Bend Area RV Park Recommendations

Driving distances are quite long in that region. What are you wanting to see? Do you have to have hookups? How long is your rig?
In the park - hookups at Rio Grande Village.
West of the park - hookups at Study Butte.
In the park - Rio Grande campground, no hookups.
In the park - Chisos Basin Campgound, limited length, cooler at altitude, restaurant.
If you just want to cruise around the park and check out the overlooks, plan on 3 days and 4 nights.

we stayed at a park on the West side, probably study butte, at the corner where you go to terlingua the beer drinking goat. took the toad into thru the park. that park had two water system faucets, one potable and one not.
bumpy

We stayed at the Stillwell Ranch just outside the NE entrance. It has full hookups and very good wifi. It is about a 25 min drive to the visitors center.

You shouldn't take anything over about 21' into the Basin and even if you did it's almost impossible to find a level spot. Plus there are no hookups and they've reduced the number of spots where you can use your genny. The Village has a lot of spots without hookups and a small commercial area by the store (the parking lot) with full hookups. Cottonwoods at the West end of the NP is nice but a no genny zone.

Outside the park the closest place for RVs is Study Butte. There are a number of commercial campgrounds there with full hookups. Big Bend Ranch State Park runs along the river from La Jahitas to Presideo along 170. Beautiful drive and there are commercial campgrounds in Presideo. There are State Park HQs at both ends. The HQ in La Jahitas has a very small campground in the back for about 6 or 8 campers that are reserved for the volunteers, but in the past if they had open spots they'd let you park there for $18/nite and that was with full hookups on paved pads.

bob_nestor wrote:
You shouldn't take anything over about 21' into the Basin and even if you did it's almost impossible to find a level spot.

We stayed at Rio Grande Village No problems with a 32 foot TT. Over all length 65 feet. As with all NP watch your speed. With all the open spaces it is easy to get a speeding ticket. Don't ask me how I know. . . . :M

Another recommendation for Rio Grand village with full hook ups. Park is just that a parking lot BUT.. First visit we stayed outside park and we wanted to go back and stay in the park. Travel time and distance to many attractions we wanted to see took far less time was a lot less travel and easier when staying in the park. We spent a week and enjoyed every minute. Highly recommend staying in the park

TenOC wrote:

bob_nestor wrote:
You shouldn't take anything over about 21' into the Basin and even if you did it's almost impossible to find a level spot.

We stayed at Rio Grande Village No problems with a 32 foot TT. Over all length 65 feet. As with all NP watch your speed. With all the open spaces it is easy to get a speeding ticket. Don't ask me how I know. . . . :M

You may have misunderstood my statement and that's my fault. When I wrote "Basin" I meant the "Chisos Basin". It's the NP campground in the middle of the park with the lodge and restaurant. The road in has sharp curves and some pretty extreme elevation changes.

Your comment about watching your speed it right on target. Many of the curves on the roads in the Park have decreasing radius curves so if you approach them to fast you quickly discover you're in trouble and in the ditch. That's why they're pretty strict about the speed limits.

Also Maverick Ranch in Lajitas which has full hook ups and so so WiFi. It is outside of B Bend National Park by 10 miles or so, but it is adjacent to Big Bend Ranch State Park. The state park is as beautiful as the national park, and more rugged.

I would highly recommend staying at Rio Grande Village in the park itself. You have a choice of full hookups or dry camping. We always did dry camping with our 40' motorhome because the sites are more pleasant and bigger.

The campground and RV park are right by each other. It's an absolutely gorgeous spot with trees and water. One of our times there was in November and the cottonwoods were turning their beautiful yellow fall color...against the bright blue sky it was breathtaking!