Rio Grande Village Group Campground (big Bend, Tx)

Always a great site. We plan according for the wind, and animals, and have a good time. Plenty of room for tents, and shelters. Rangers are very accommodating.

We reserved Group Site D at Rio Grande Village.
The site is quite far from the parking area, and there is a small water canal between the parking and the campsite, which makes it difficult to carry gear back and forth.

Additionally, it appears that horses are kept on this site when it’s not booked. When we arrived, the entire area was full of manure. At the very least, the site should be properly cleaned before guests arrive if it’s being used on non-booking days.

it was a great place for my 11 grandsons to run around and play.

Close to Boquillas canyon trail, Boquillas crossing into MX(need passport to cross), and hot springs trail.

1 hr 20 mins drive to Santa Elena canyon. Sounds long but you enjoy the scenery of the drive.

Does not have as much traffic as Chisos area but nice to have quiet area.

Convince store and gas station pretty much in the same area so it’s very convenient.

Camp site’s back yard is the Rio Grand river which is pretty cool.

Wild life seen was coyotes and roadrunners. Heard havalinas but didn’t see them. Animals stayed away from people and tents as long as food was kept in bear boxes. Would definitely stay here again.

The camp managers were amazing and met all of our expectations. There was an issue with our reservation and they helped us figure it out. I wish we could have said good bye and thank you in person. They also let the camp ground spotless.

Big Bend never disappoints me we’ve been visiting the park for years.

This campsite was awesome. The bathrooms were very clean, the water was accessible and tasty. The campground was well spaced and quiet. The view of the sunset was beautiful. We saw many birds and the close access to the nature trail was convenient.

The national park itself is very nice. We found that the unimproved roads were very hard on our vehicles. It’s amazing that a park like this has that many unimproved roads. Additionally, the park is very large and drive times to get to main attractions require lots of extra planning. Cell signal is marginal. The group D campsite has a ridiculously long hike from the parking spaces to the campsite. Especially if you have lots of camping gear and equipment that you typically use at a primitive campsite, the wildlife that we encountered at our campsite include roadrunners, javelina’s, wild steer and coyotes. You absolutely cannot leave food out, and the park does not allow anything to hang from trees. This includes hammocks, solar, powered lights, and a hang line for drying clothes. this specific site would be good for a group of backpackers, it is not very conducive for families camping with young children. In preparation for the camping trip we checked Weather on multiple sources before we left. Unfortunately a storm with 30 mile an hour winds and 50 mile an hour gust came through and pretty much demolished our campsite. The temperature dropped every night 40°.
Don’t forget that if you would like to shower on your trip, each shower cost two dollars in quarters for five minutes and we found that if you didn’t have cash to swap in for quarters you are out of luck. This is ridiculous, given that most state parks have free showers, and other accommodations.
All of this to be said, we very much enjoyed our hike to balancing rock plan to put on sunscreen as there is no shade, and it’s a little bit longer than you initially anticipate walking in the desert. The springs are definitely worth a trip, potentially more than once, we enjoyed going around 715 at night and enjoy the sunset. Keep in mind you may want to leave before the sun completely sets as the road is a little narrow. Lastly, the lost mine trail is well worth the 6am wake up call. Sunrise was great!

Great site! Large and convenient to bathrooms and camp store. Has been our go-to site for several years.

Awesome National Park.