Palo Duro Canyon State Park Campground

The campground was OK. The amount of flies was enough to make the camping experience terrible. I paid for Electricity but had none! My neighbors did not have water but of course paid for it!
Its a pretty setting but so many flies you can not enjoy the area. There are a lot of hiking trails for those that enjoy hiking. I read about the fly problem before I went but had no idea that they would be so bad. Warning they are bad very very bad! Lots and lots of Ants also. Pretty location but would not return.

So not sure if this is normal but while we were there the flies were insane. No possible way to sit outside. The park is pretty and very nicely maintained but we couldn’t enjoy our stay. Some campgrounds in other states have fly traps hanging from their table shelters. I think TX should consider this for Palo Duro. Otherwise it is a nice state park.

We stayed here for one night on our way home from Colorado. Will definitely go back when it's cooler. The park is gorgeous, and it looks like there are a lot of great trails for hiking.

Be prepared for a long and windy road down into the canyon to get to the campsites. Low gear is your friend. No cell service once you get down in the canyon, but our Starlink worked well.

We only wish that the staff had given us a heads-up when we checked in and told them we had never been there before. We were staying in the Sagebrush campground, which is closest to the amphitheater where the Texas musical is held. We about jumped out of our skin when we heard what sounded like an explosion, which we finally realized must have come from the show. Would have been nice to know about that beforehand, just so my husband wouldn't have felt he needed to run outside and check things out, lol.

Our site was lovely, but the picnic table was situated quite a ways behind the parking pad, which wasn't very convenient. We also barely fit into the site with our 30 ft trailer and truck. Will look for a longer site next time.

First view of Palo Duro was amazing. We had no idea what a stunning area this is. The State Park is nicely laid out with visitors center and a trading post ( excellent cheeseburgers) plus numerous campgrounds. We stayed in Hackberry, site 23, water and elec and was a near perfect site- perfectly level w wonderful views of the canyon wall. Bathhouse was spotless, nice showers, good water pressure. Hubs got 24 hr bug so no hikes but still had wonderful time for 3 nights. Highly recommend.

We came to Palo Duro for the kids spring break. We couldn't reserve this site for all 6 days, we had to move around from camp ground to camp ground but we had 3 days at Juniper camp ground! It is an excellent camp ground and the staff were just simply excellent. The facilities were very clean and mostly new. This certainly will be a camp ground to come back to. Love it!

As most reviewers have stated a truly beautiful place. I was camped in Hackberry, where a couple of sites are very unlevel. I would avoid site 32 at all costs. Site 29 was fine and I had a turkey visit early in the evening.
The thing to do here is hike. I took an early morning hike and opted for the GSL trail which begins just across the road from Hackberry and basically was the only person on it. What a great trail right through the Canyon. It runs for 3.1 miles and then intersects the ever-popular Lighthouse Trail. I opted not to go to the Lighthouse but took the trail back and joined up to the Paseo Del Rio Trail which took me back to the GSL trailhead at Hackberry. About 6.5 miles all told and a great hike.
Would have been great to spend more time here and take more hikes, but one night was all I could get.

What a gorgeous place with amazing scenery. There are multiple campgrounds within the park, we stayed in Juniper. They all have both pull-through and back-in, big enough for a family with a triple axle 5th wheel and their extended cab pickup. Electric and water at each site along with a covered picnic area. 35 miles of trails, bird/wildlife viewing blind at the Trading Post. All of the campgrounds are towards the end of the 8 mile-long road that winds down into the canyon. Nearest gas is off the highway, 10 miles from the park. Price for a site is $25 a night with an $8 per person (13 yrs and up). Not sure if the per person charge is per day as we only stayed one night.

I travelled here with a 35’ 5th wheel, long bed pickup and parked in the Juniper loop, site #109, an E/W PT site for $28/night with my Texas State Park pass. Lots of people comment about the road down into the canyon being scary. While it is steep, if you just go slow and gear down, it’s not that bad. There is a bit of a drop off on some of the inside turns so watch your trailer wheels carefully. Roads and the sites were asphalt. This site was a crescent shaped pull-through. Sometimes those can be difficult if the arc is really curved, but I had no issues getting into this one. I still had to be careful due to the large rocks along the sides and would have hit them with my slides if I wasn’t positioned properly. The bathhouse looked pretty new and was very clean and bright. Nice showers. Most sites were totally open. The sites on the outside of the loop seemed to have a little more space around them. I could not see another trailer from my “front yard.” Be prepared for the wind. I could rarely open my awnings due to it. Maybe it is just a spring phenomenon. The picnic table is covered and I had a male turkey strutting his stuff for three hens there one morning. No cell or wifi connection. Did get 3-4 OTA channels which was surprising. I was hoping to check the weather that way. The Mesquite Loop is in a prettier setting, but you have to drive all the way to the end of the park to get there so it’s a tradeoff. Hackberry had a couple of sites that actually got shade (1 & 4.) Great hiking trails throughout the park. I would definitely stay here again.