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Many parks, the state is huge! Fort Davis National State Park is beauitful and has trails...watch out for the javelina and skunks in the evening in the tent campgrounds. There is an observatory up in the Davis mountains as well.
South Llano River State Park , Junction Texas, to the west of San Antonio. Great place for the kids, small mountain to climb, little clear river nice stop-off in the middle of Texas or on the way to Big Bend.
Lake Amistad near Del Rio, a good place to stop off to make camp for a day, not many spots at all.
Stephan F. Austin, just east of houston, has great big fireflies!!! Nice place to stop and camp, clean showers.
Hueco tanks- you must go through a small informative instructional video before visiting or camping. Peaceful, hiking, owls in the evening.
We didn't like Balmorhea State Park.
Haven't seen the Marfa Lights, yet.
Caverns of Sonora was a nice place for a small tour of caverns, we haven't made it to Carlsbad Caverns in NewMexico, yet. |
| emerald-looking mountains |
|  | Big Bend Big Bend National Park offers back country camping-including desert-in-the-middle-of-nowhere spots.
Make sure to stop at a store for groceries in Alpine, Marathon or Fort Stockton, the prices in the park store are big.
Big Bend encompasses 801,000 acres of desert, river canyons, and the entire chisos mountains range. Native americans say that when the great spirit was done making the earth, he dumped all the leftover rocks on the big bend (so-called because the rio grande takes a big u-turn in southwest texas). Boy are they not kidding about that!
Exerpted from road journal:
Got into Big Bend national park late and went to the pay sites in the Chisos Mountain basin.
The mountains were like big emeralds, drop-dead gorgeous, and once the moon came up, the mountains were so lit up they looked white! |
| a road to a back country camp site |
| | Camp sites and back country area of Big Bend Had to put all our food in the bear cupboard.
Offroading in the desert and sleeping there, on third day:
Left our camp stuff to dry while we went back down to Panther Junction to check in and get our backcountry permit and maps.
Drove to our campsite (Glenn Spring) on the off-road road, set up camp and explored that area for the day and played harmonica. That evening, had to keep the millipedes away from the tent. Sunset was great, Moonrise was awesome, and the sunrise was peachy. Dead quiet all night...no coyotes, or anything! I never appreciated water as much as i did this day. |
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