el paso

I'm originally from Las Cruces, NM, (45 miles north of El Paso). We stayed six weeks in the area over the holidays this past winter. It got down into the teens several times and we had snow the day after Christmas. The difference between the El Paso area and the lower Rio Grande Valley is about 3,500 feet in elevation and several degrees of latitude. El Paso also has a crime problem being on the border with Juarez, as well. It's not a place I would choose to winter if I didn't have family in the area.

Rob

I would go for Yuma, AZ before El Paso, TX.

2chiefsRus wrote:
I would go for Yuma, AZ before El Paso, TX.

I agree 100 percent. Yuma has the warmest and sunniest annual climate in the continental USA. Warm winters and NO bugs.

You may want to consider Zapada at Falcon Lake.

Try doing a Google search for `El Paso tourism' and read what the experts suggest for their area.
We must be staying in the wrong areas in Florida because I can't remember the last time I saw a bug while there.

You stayed in the wrong area of the RGV. My first year there I was in Brownsville and my wife did not like the RV park at all. We moved up river to a mid valley location and found the experience totally different.

Last winter in Donna, TX there was almost no rain and there were no bugs in our RV park. The closer to the coast you are the greater the wind is. Move inland.

I know one thing, watching the Sun Bowl on TV during the college bowl season, there is no way I'd want to be in El Paso for the winter. Those fans sitting in the stands are COLD! Keep on going into southern Arizona.

El Paso is not what I would call a good wintering place. Wind, dust, cold, crime.
Look north to Las Cruces and a bit west to Deming, NM. But they can get cold spells and wind, too.

It's a border town. That is all one needs to know!!!

Moisheh

Although El Paso is not a wintering location (cold), it is not the highest city for crime. In fact, crime has decreased.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/23/border-communities-have-lower-crime-rates/

To the OP, you need to come over to southern Arizona for the winter. Nice weather and no bugs and no snakes (in winter). :)

Zero in on the greater Tucson, Benson, Phoenix, Apache Junction and Yuma areas...lots of RV parks, boondocking, county and state parks.