Monahans Sandhills State Park Campground

Electric and water hookups. Our spot was very unlevel. Didn't like how you had to park.....not enough pavement on the camping side of the hookups pole. No wifi and bad cell signal. Showers and bathroom ok. It's more of a family spot where you can let the kids loose on the sand dunes. It was a neat place to visit once, for us seniors, but we'll seek better comfort elsewhere next time.

This is our third stay at Monahans, it is located right off I-20. Site 19 was very level. We had a quiet night and enjoyed the stay. The showers are good with a lot of hot water. Our price reflects a State Parks pass discount. The visitor center is good (who knew the largest forest in America is in this desert?). On our previous stay we rented discs and slid down the dunes- lots of fun!

Site price is with a TX State Park pass ($70). We had site 7. It was not totally level and we had to use blocks. The picnic table was out in the sand with no cover. NOTE: every other site has a covered picnic table on a cement floor. The wasn't much room to park our truck. We had satellite with Dish but only 1 bar with Verizon but did a little better with our WeBoost. I didn't find the staff in the visitor center to be terribly friendly. Pro: you can walk anywhere you want around the dunes which was great. I wouldn't return to this area. There is absolutely nothing in the town of Monahans.

We stayed for a few nights and enjoyed ourselves. Plan for everything to be covered in sand by the time you leave including you and the outside of your entire camper. We got caught in a sand storm one night and it truly got sand everywhere. Definitely recommend an air compressor to blow off your slides. Great showers to clean off with though with plenty of hot water and great water pressure. They were relatively clean as well.

The Junior ranger program was a bit lacking. They said they might get their own books in the future but that for the time being, they have the same books as other Texas State Parks without a book of their own.

We had a great time hiking the sand dunes with our golden retriever. Just stay out of the vegetation on the dunes and you should be able to avoid most of the little stickers that get stuck in their paws.

Overall, great stay and would recommend!

Monahans Sandhills is a beautiful state park right off the highway. We had a reservation for 2 nights but arrived early and stayed in the Primitive Overflow picnic area. The site required you to be self contained. The spot was beautiful and private. Unfortunately a few minutes into setting up our dog had collected several goat heads (not the correct name, but similar annoyance). We removed them and put on her booties for a walk. This definitely was not a solution - see picture. Ultimately, we canceled the next two days and hit the road. The park is beautiful but not for dogs.

Sites are close together, but you can't beat the scenery after driving through nothing-ness Western Texas 😬. HOWEVER, there is some kind of annoying fly/gnat thing that honestly made it pretty difficult to enjoy sitting outside at my campsite. They don't bite, but they're everywhere and bug spray didn't seem to deter them.

However, $15 for electric and water, plus beautiful sand dunes...I'll take it.

We stayed here during the ice/snow storm and had to add an extra night because the roads were too icy to drive on. Did that stop us from having fun in the sand? No way. It was freezing but the Sandhills were fun. We had our own sleds and tore it up.
Site 1 was conveniently located near bathrooms, pretty level, everything was good.
Our Verizon hot spot with the booster barely got any signal, I think it was 15 mbps down at night and crawled during the day. Enough to stream at night and work during the day but only if the booster was pointed in a certain direction and not touched.
T-mobile had one bar, couldn’t FaceTime, could make a call, could not watch videos, barely able to get on social media or pull up a website.
I noticed the following about the other sites (the pull throughs only): sites 2-4 are not very level. Sites 8-9 are very level and right next to the Sandhills.
We are a 32’ class C pulling a 20’ flatbed with our car on it, so 52’ total and had no problems fitting in site 1.