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bucky
Explorer II
May 04, 2018

Palo Duro Canyon State Park TX

This is a stunningly beautiful TX state park containing the second biggest canyon in the US. It also contains some campgrounds.
I would suggest that huge Class A and large towable owners unhook toads and trucks and scout the access road before venturing down the 10% grade. There are very tight curves and some very steep inclines.
It is more suited to smaller Cs and light TTs. There are some sites with water and electric and big bunches of sites with nothing.
There are trails everywhere for hiking, a trading post with a decent camp store and very good food choices in the burger sandwich chicken category.
It is worth visiting but the RV is best left at one of the many other RV Parks in the Amarillo area. The park is accessed from exit 64 on I40. Head south and it is about 25 minutes from there.

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  • We arrived at the canyon campground around midnight (it's pitch dark at night)and when we awoke the next morning, we were blown away at the views from the bottom of the canyon. We have a 38' FW and didn't have problems getting in the campground. It's tight and steep but doable. Very nice park-wil be going back.
  • We got our 34 ft FW down with no trouble. I fondly recall the first time we went there our number one son was maybe 4 or 5 and he was not enamored of the road down, he provided a steady stream of comments like
    "it's to high"
    "We are going to fall off"
    and so on.
  • Bob806's avatar
    Bob806
    Explorer III
    I loved that place when we visited a couple years ago. Some of the best star gazing anywhere.

    We had a 26' trailer and weren't impacted by the tight turn at the bottom. I did see some big rigs, so it's doable.