Big Bend- place to stay

Wherever you stay, give yourself time to see as much as you can. There is no way you can soak up BBNP on one trip, especially if you hike. The place is vast and being in the park or anywhere near it gives me a feeling I have never gotten anywhere else. Hope your trip is excellent!

The obvious choice is Terlingua Texas on the western edge, The best park has a RV park, lodge, restaurant and filling station. Alpine is 85 miles north of the park and even more miles from the best sights. Rio Grand Village would be a terrific place to stay if you make reservations for a full hook up site, Take your passports so you can visit Mexico while in the Park. Next week we are heading for Davis Mountain State park but will not take the 100 mile plus trip to Big Bend

One other caution on McDonald Observatory. First time we went it was late January. We rolled up in shorts and t-shirts only to find 6" of snow on the ground. It can be cold and windy on top of that mountain so be prepared.

x2 on www.lajitasgolfresort.com It is about a 30 min drive to the park entrance.

As mentioned, we highly recommend split the trip between BB and Fort Davis.

Both parks are very nice for different reasons. The https://mcdonaldobservatory.org near Fort Davis is a must see and worth the wait up until after dark.

Google maps sat view is your friend.

RV Hiker is correct. There is a full hook option in Rio Grande Village. It is a paved parking lot with back in sites. Very close quarters but it beats having to drive 100 miles to get somewhere. We always use the no hookup section of Rio Grande Village since they are more spread out. If you take a generator, be sure to be in the generator section. We were just there at the end of January. The full hook up sites were full, maybe 40% in the non hookup side. We used the Big Bend Motor Inn and Campground the first time we went to the park. It was ok, just a lot of driving to see what we wanted to see. The trip to look at the stars at McDonald Observatory is a nice stop. We used Ft Davis State Park for the observatory as well as tour the Ft Davis site. If you plan to cross the border while in Big Bend, be sure to take your passport.

Pop-Pop C wrote:
Lahitas is a rvpark and golf club. Has a restaurant in the club across the road from the park. Full hookups and 50amp.

looked at some Utube videos of Lahitas and the mayor, clay henry. lots has changed since I visited the town.
bumpy

tralertrash wrote:
Thanks for the input. On recreation.gov, Rio Grande has no electric, but called and indications are that, all sites have FHU, so we'll stay a couple outside of the park and a few in RGC.

There are two RV campgrounds in the Rio Grande Village area. One is a campground run by the National Park. The sites have no hookups. Some sites are large enough for a trailer or RV. Water is available at spigots (that you can't hook up to). There is a dump, which also has a fresh water fill up. The other RV campground is run by a concessionaire, which is located in a large parking lot adjacent to the Rio Grande Village store. It has full hookups. Although located in a parking lot, the campground is not quite as bad as that makes it sound.

Be aware the entire Big Bend National Park is suffering from an extreme water shortage, you are asked to fill up trailer tanks before entering the park, and are limited to 5 gallons per day per person.

Lahitas is a rvpark and golf club. Has a restaurant in the club across the road from the park. Full hookups and 50amp.

Thanks for the input. On recreation.gov, Rio Grande has no electric, but called and indications are that, all sites have FHU, so we'll stay a couple outside of the park and a few in RGC.