Finding Our Way
We headed east from Benson through Arizona and all the way through New Mexico and finally entered Texas! We arrived at the entrance to the state park at 3:59 pm and the Visitor Center closes at 4pm and the front gate locks at 5pm! The ranger at the front gate
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Welcome to Palo Duro, the land of canyons, cattle, cardinals, turkeys, and roadrunners. Oh yes, and some coyotes. Palo Duro is located south of Amarillo near Canyon. An interesting side trip in the area is Cadillac Ranch just to the west of Amarillo. This is an art sculpture of 10
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Campground: Davis Mountains State Park Location: Fort Davis, Texas Site: 5 Cost: $14 Services: FHU Comments: Another one of our favorite places. Love the park and love the town. Lots of hiking and areas of historic interest. And, of course, the fantastic observatory and its shows/telescopes. Link to Map in
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RV Park: Broke Mill RV Park Location: Del Rio, Texas Site: 20 Cost: $30.60 Services: FHU Comments: Nice RV park with big sites and good Wi-Fi. Perfect for an overnighter. Easy to get to and easy to get in and out of. Link to Map in “Where We’ve Been”
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RV Park: Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort Location: Mission, Texas Site: 308 Cost: $45 Services: FHU Comments: A lovely RV resort full of snowbirds right next to the Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park and the Mexico border. Fantastic birding at the state park and it is just a short hundred meters
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We didn’t know anything about this park and had not planned to visit here but a park ranger at Goliad State Park told us all about this place. So, off we went! We loved it! Campground: Choke Canyon State Park Location: Three Rivers, Texas Site: 116 Cost: $20 Services: W/E
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Campground: Goliad State Park Location: Goliad, Texas Site: 5 Cost: $20 Services: FHU Comments: What a great park and a great town. Lots of things to see and do. Great bike riding on a boardwalk which zigzags, that was fun! Visit the Presidio and the Fannin Battleground amongst other things.
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Another great national park with lots of hiking opportunities and endless scenery. One of the hiking trails started out as an interpretive trail, large, wide, paved, signs and quickly turned into an uphill overgrown thicket of brush. My husband, luckily, just missed stepping on a Black-tailed Rattlesnake eating a rodent
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We love Fort Davis, Texas. One of our favorite destinations if you like nature, hiking, solitude, and small towns. The town has a few shops worth perusing such as the hat shop, the broom shop where they practice the art of old fashioned broom making, an ice cream store in
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We love Big Bend National Park. Lots of hiking opportunities and lots of nature, wildlife, and great scenery. The park is full of roadrunners and coyotes. All that’s missing is an anvil (he, he…a little Roadrunner humor). If you are heading west out of the National park then be sure
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