Palo Duro Canyon State Park TX

[bucky]

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.

Clicky

[mockturtle]

Many years ago we took our 36' DP with toad attached into the park. I did write in my log book that the road in was very steep but there was apparently no problem in negotiating it. Here is the excerpt from my log:

Tuesday 10/15/96
Left McLean, TX, at 8:45, west on I-5-->Canyon, TX. At Groom, TX, a large white cross
sits in a field, visible for miles.
59277 Arrived Palo Duro Canyon SP at 11:45. $15/day, w/e, got three days, as that’s all they would give us at a time. (stayed 5 days). Access road is very steep and winding. Big canyon, looks like the Grand Canyon, but less grand. Over the next few days we took a couple of hikes. Trails not well marked but were pretty good. Great hiking weather, breezy, warm & dry. Two weak TV channels, no cellular.
Town of Canyon pretty large, about 12-14 thousand, home to Texas A&M West. WalMart & large supermarket, turn R. on 87th N. off 127 from the park. A mile or so up the street. Supermarket right across the street from WalMart.

[Lynnmor]

MWJones wrote:
Bucky,
You are way out of your place to discourage some people (large RV owners) to not use the park's campgrounds. Over the years there has been thousands upon tens of thousands of RVs & buses of all sizes from pop ups to huge RVs go down into the park and of course back out WITHOUT any problem!!!!

Shhhh! Quiet! It's hard enough to get a good spot. Keep in mind that must be the rattlesnake and flash flood capital of the nation, but I hope to return some day. 😄

[fitznj]

We wee there in Feb - only passing through for 1 day but what a sensational place.
I was blown away by its beauty. Wish I had my mountain bike to explore the trails. On my list of places to stay when we do our cross country trip.

[MWJones]

Bucky,
You are way out of your place to discourage some people (large RV owners) to not use the park's campgrounds. Over the years there has been thousands upon tens of thousands of RVs & buses of all sizes from pop ups to huge RVs go down into the park and of course back out WITHOUT any problem!!!!
If you chose not to, fine.
Have you ever heard of anyone having a problem??

[ppine]

One of the best spots in Texas. I like the mountains over on the west end of the State and Big Bend. You can have the rest of it.

[Captain_Happy]

The last time I was there was probably in the mid 1990's. And at that time in the summer they had a stage show called "TEXAS", don't know if Texas Tec pulls it on every summer.

[Mbiviano]

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.

[agesilaus]

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]

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.