Planned Activities

Aviator RV Park

Aviator RV Park in Abilene, Texas, takes its identity from the air — specifically from Dyess Air Force Base, 3.5 miles away and home to the B-1 Lancer supersonic strategic bomber, the C-130 Hercules tactical airlift fleet, and the incoming B-21 Raider next-generation stealth bomber that will continue Dyess's role as one of the Air Force's most operationally significant installations. The campground's proximity to base makes it the natural choice for military personnel and their families during PCS moves, temporary duty assignments, and base visits, while the aviation theme and Dyess's public events calendar give the broader traveling community reasons to choose Aviator over the area's more neutrally branded alternatives. Full-hookup RV sites with the practical infrastructure for comfortable extended stays serve both the military community's longer-term needs and the through-traveler's overnight requirements along the I-20 West Texas corridor. The campground's clean facilities, reliable hookups, and straightforward operational quality make it a consistent choice for guests who value competent management over resort-style amenity depth. The surrounding Abilene landscape delivers the wide, sky-dominated West Texas atmosphere that consistently impresses guests arriving from more densely developed parts of the state. Pets are welcome. Frontier Texas in central Abilene presents the story of the Texas frontier era from the 1780s through the 1880s through holographic spirit guides and immersive environmental exhibits that bring the period's violent confrontations between Comanche raiders, buffalo hunters, and Anglo settlers to life in a format more emotionally immediate than conventional museum presentation allows. The museum's coverage of the Comanche nation's dominance of the Llano Estacado and the Buffalo Soldiers' role in the Indian Wars reflects a genuine historical complexity that the exhibit design handles more evenhandedly than many frontier museums manage. The Dyess Linear Air Park — a free outdoor museum on Dyess AFB's perimeter road displaying historic aircraft from the B-17 Flying Fortress through modern jets — is accessible to the public and provides one of the most comprehensive aircraft park experiences available in West Texas, with the B-1 Lancer flyovers from active Dyess operations occasionally providing live overhead drama that no static display can replicate. The West Texas Fair and Rodeo in September is one of the region's largest agricultural and rodeo events, drawing participants and spectators from across the Taylor County area for a week of competition that reflects the cattle and ranch culture that still defines much of the Abilene economy. Aviator RV Park operates year-round in Abilene's dry, high-plains climate where mild winters and consistent sunshine make it a viable destination in every month. The West Texas Fair in September creates the area's highest annual demand spike for campground sites. Military move season in June and July drives significant Dyess-related demand for the campground's extended-stay capacity. Reserve ahead for fair and rodeo season and for any period when Dyess operational events drive temporary population increases in the base community.

M Bar H Lodge and RV Park

26 RV Sites

M Bar H Lodge and RV Park in Santa Anna, Texas, offers a genuinely warm and personal Texas hospitality experience in Coleman County — a rural central Texas community midway between Abilene to the north and Brady to the south, where the rolling post-oak and mesquite savanna landscape of the central Texas prairies provides the backdrop for an accommodation that combines rustic lodge character with the practical infrastructure of a full-service RV park. The property's commitment to the kind of Southern hospitality where guests feel like family rather than paying customers gives it a character difficult to replicate in larger, more anonymously operated campgrounds. The main lodge with its welcoming common spaces, a bunk house for group accommodations, and three individual mini-suites give guests a range of solid-wall lodging options anchored by home-cooked meals that the property's regular guests consistently identify as among the most genuinely satisfying camping-adjacent food experiences in central Texas. Twenty-three fully equipped RV sites with both back-in and pull-through configurations, complete utility hookups, community restrooms, showers, laundry facilities, and Wi-Fi serve the motorhome and trailer traveler with the practical completeness that an extended-stay facility requires. The property is fully pet-friendly, making it a consistent choice for traveling families with dogs. The brief walk to Santa Anna's historic town square puts the community's small-town Texas character within immediate pedestrian reach. Santa Anna's historic downtown around the courthouse square reflects the architectural legacy of a Coleman County community that developed through the cattle drives, railroad era, and early 20th-century oil and agricultural economy — the square's buildings and the pace of community life in a rural Texas county seat provide an authentic encounter with a Texas that the state's major metros have largely absorbed into their own expansion. The surrounding landscape of rolling savanna, stock ponds, and the working ranch country that defines Coleman County gives the property's grounds and immediate surroundings a spaciousness and natural quiet that the campground leverages effectively. Lake Coleman and Lake O.H. Ivie are the nearest significant water recreation destinations within the Coleman County region — Lake Coleman provides local fishing and boating access, while O.H. Ivie, one of Texas's most productive and least-known bass fishing reservoirs, sits in Concho County southeast of Coleman and draws serious bass anglers from across central Texas who value the lake's consistent trophy largemouth production and relatively light fishing pressure compared to the more heavily marketed Central Texas lake destinations. The Abilene cultural and entertainment corridor — Frontier Texas, the Abilene Zoo, and the West Texas Fair — is a manageable day-trip drive north. M Bar H Lodge and RV Park serves guests year-round in Coleman County's mild central Texas climate, where the four-season outdoor calendar provides workable visiting conditions in every month. Spring and fall deliver the most comfortable temperatures for the outdoor recreation and landscape appreciation that the property's rural setting makes available. Reserve lodge rooms and mini-suites ahead for the hunting season windows in fall and winter, when Coleman County's deer and turkey hunting draws sports hunters from across the state to the post-oak savanna country that surrounds Santa Anna.

American Campground RV and Mobile Home Park

2 RV Sites, 7 Cabins

Situated in Val Verde County near the southern tip of Texas, American Campground RV and Mobile Home Park sits within close reach of Lake Amistad—a massive reservoir straddling the U.S.-Mexico border on the Rio Grande that ranks among the premier fishing and water recreation destinations in the Lone Star State. The campground's combination of tent sites, cabins, and RV pads alongside its flexible rate structure makes it one of the more versatile accommodation options in the Del Rio area for guests staying anywhere from a single night to an extended month-long visit. The property includes nine cabins and 88 RV pads—some with covered shade structures—accommodating guests across a wide range of site preferences. A swimming pool, full kitchen facilities, coin laundry, large restrooms with showers, cable television, and Wi-Fi in communal areas address the everyday comfort needs of guests on longer stays, and the pet-friendly policy makes the campground accessible to travelers with animals. Daily, weekly, and monthly rates allow visitors to match their lodging cost to the duration of their intended stay without penalty. Lake Amistad is the defining natural feature of the Del Rio area, covering more than 65,000 acres of surface water across the Texas-Coahuila border and supporting world-class bass, striped bass, catfish, and crappie fishing that draws anglers from across the country. The lake's clear water and dramatic canyon topography—carved by the confluence of the Rio Grande, Devils River, and Pecos River—provide a striking visual backdrop for boating and fishing excursions, and swimming beaches along the U.S. shoreline make it suitable for family outings beyond dedicated fishing days. Amistad National Recreation Area, administered by the National Park Service, manages the lake's recreational infrastructure and provides boat ramps, picnic areas, and access to significant Native American rock art sites preserved in the canyon walls along the lake's remote arms. The Val Verde Winery in downtown Del Rio—one of the oldest continuously operating wineries in Texas, established in 1883—provides an evening excursion option with tasting room access and a history rooted in the region's Spanish and Italian immigrant heritage. American Campground is open year-round, with spring and fall representing the most pleasant seasons for outdoor recreation on Lake Amistad. Summer brings intense south Texas heat that makes early morning fishing and water recreation preferable to midday outdoor activity, while mild winters make the campground a viable destination for guests escaping colder northern climates. Reservations are advisable for spring and holiday weekends when fishing tournament traffic and regional visitors compete for available sites near the lake. Val Verde County occupies a transition zone between the Chihuahuan Desert to the west and the Edwards Plateau to the east, giving the Del Rio area a landscape of scrub cedar, prickly pear, and dramatic limestone canyon terrain that extends from the Rio Grande northward into the Texas Hill Country. The border character of Del Rio—connected to Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila by the international bridge—gives the area a bicultural identity that adds cultural texture to visits focused primarily on Lake Amistad's outdoor recreation.

from $60/night

Camp Rio

31 RV Sites, 3 Cabins, 12 Tent Sites, 2 Onsite RV/Trailers, 1 Vintage RV Rental

In the Sacramento Mountains of southern New Mexico at 6,700 feet—in Otero County where the Lincoln National Forest's ponderosa pine and Apache plume canyon landscape creates the wildlife corridors, racing streams, and cool mountain-air environment that makes the Sacramento high country one of New Mexico's most rewarding and least discovered outdoor destinations—Camp Rio at 2180 Rio Penasco Road in Mayhill offers full hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, tent camping, vintage-vehicle glamping (a Shasta trailer, school buses, a Chris Craft boat, a gypsy wagon), three cabins, laundry, baths, showers, WiFi, and a rentable pavilion on a clean family property surrounded by thousands of acres of national forest where the small valleys, mountain glens, birds, and wildlife of the Rio Peñasco watershed create the setting that the day trips to Ruidoso, White Sands, and Billy the Kid country reward from a genuinely remarkable mountain base camp. The elevation delivers cool nights. The forest delivers everything else. Full hookup sites with 30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer serve the RV guest, while the tent sites, the three named cabins, and the one-of-a-kind vintage glamping fleet—the Shasta trailer, the converted school buses, the Chris Craft boat on land, the gypsy wagon—provide the range of alternative accommodations that a creative campground in the middle of Lincoln National Forest's canyon country assembles over years of inventive development. Clean baths and showers, laundry, upgraded free WiFi, and the rentable pavilion for group gatherings complete the practical infrastructure. The property's position surrounded by the national forest means the wildlife viewing, the bird watching in the mountain glens, and the sound of the Rio Peñasco in the canyon bottom are immediate rather than a short drive away. Mayhill sits in the Sacramento Mountains on NM-82 between Artesia and Cloudcroft, in the forested highlands where the Mescalero Apache's traditional mountain territory and the Lincoln National Forest's 1.1 million acres create the protected landscape that preserves the elk, black bear, mule deer, and the raptor diversity that the Sacramento high country sustains. The National Solar Observatory at Sunspot, 20 miles south on the Sacramento Peak, provides the one-of-a-kind tour of the sun-watching facility whose 60-foot vacuum tower telescope has observed solar activity since 1952 in the clear-sky position the Sacramento Mountains provide. Ruidoso, 25 miles east via US-70, anchors the regional tourism infrastructure with Ruidoso Downs Racing's quarter horse meets, the Ski Apache resort on Sierra Blanca Peak (elevation 11,500 feet), the Hubbard Museum of the American West, and the Lincoln Historic District 40 miles east on US-380—the restored adobe structures of the town where the Lincoln County War and Billy the Kid's escape from the courthouse in 1881 created the most documented episode of frontier New Mexico history. White Sands National Park, 90 miles south, protects the world's largest gypsum dune field in the Tularosa Basin's extraordinary white landscape. Camp Rio operates year-round in the Sacramento Mountains' high-elevation climate, where the summer temperatures averaging 20 degrees cooler than the lowland Chihuahuan Desert below create the relief that makes the 6,700-foot Mayhill position genuinely comfortable from June through September when the lowland campgrounds of southern New Mexico are enduring their most intense heat. The fall elk rut in September and October, the winter snow that occasionally closes NM-82, and the spring wildflower bloom in the mountain meadows define the seasonal rhythms that the campground's surrounding national forest delivers in rotation. Reserve your site, cabin, or vintage glamping unit at Camp Rio and let the Sacramento Mountains' forest, wildlife, and canyon streams prove that the high road to Ruidoso is worth every mile.

from $44/night