Road Runner Travelers RV Park

The Park is just outside of Big Bend National Park in a remote area of TX. Very few services nearby. Be prepared to pay a much higher price for fuel & limited groceries. The park is still being developed & the owners are some of the nicest people you will meet!! A local group of musicians performed one evening.

At this time the only amenities are a dog park & dump station. Roads & sites are rocked & will improve as the ground settles. We had booked a dry camp site but were upgraded to an electric site with no additional charges. The site is prepped for water & sewer but not hooked up as of yet.

The park is in the open with great views of the night skies. It also allows for some dusty conditions which is very common for this part of the state. Noise levels were not an issue during our stay.

Be aware of the cancellation policy. They use a 3rd part provider for reservations which require payment in full at time of booking. There are NO refunds if cancellation is within 30 days. Not a problem for a single night stay but a much bigger issue if you booked multiple nights.

This RV park is growing and you can see constant growth each day. Mind you, you are in the middle of a hot, dusty barren desert but when you come back from exploring the National or State Park all day, you are welcomed to a nice piece of "home". The park is well looked after, with great desert landscaping at each site, awesome fire pits, and sturdy metal picnic tables. We stayed in 2 different sites and both were easy to get to level.

The staff and owners are very friendly and it's obvious they are doing everything they can to make your trip a memorable stay. It's as if they want you to feel how they would want to feel if they were on vacation.

There are two community areas with games like Corn Hole, Horseshoes, Jenga, Tetherbole, BBQs, multiple fire pits, and benches. Next to the main community area is a nice fenced dog park for the dogs to get exercise and stretch their legs after being locked up all day in the RV while we were out exploring.

The park is on 40 acres so there's plenty of space to walk the dogs if they are not into playing with others in a park. We have one that loves parks and one that hates them so it was nice to be able to cater to both.

The only downside we found (but this goes for every park in Terlingua) is there is no shade. You can't escape the heat here, it's all around you, no way around it so prepare for that.

Cell service is really bad all around this area so don't rely on your Pet Monitors to notify you while you are away if you have them. We were concerned about the inside temps of the RV so we stopped by the NP Visitor Center occasionally to connect to their guest wifi to check our inside temps from our phones while exploring the park.

I heard Starlink worked great out here but I can tell you, there was no way I could work from either of my cell services AT&T was barely getting 1 Mbps download and Verizon barely showed a connection of 0.1 Mbps download.

PRO TIP: Gas is A LOT cheaper inside the National Park. The attendant told me since it is a NP, they are not allowed to mark up their prices and the one in Terlingua can mark up as much as they want. It was $1.23 cheaper inside the park for reference.

Stayed here beginning of March 2024.
Pull-through FHU 30/50 amp. Concrete pad. Site #39

General: Take this park into a different location and it would be average at best. Close to Big Bend NP and SP. Not much for a camping environment, even with such beautiful Dark Skies declaration, but they try by offering a games area which is nice. There are nicer parks nearby with better camping ambiance but this one is really good simply for location only.

Staff: Did not personally encounter staff. Check-in is at entrance using a whiteboard.
Sites: Bare bones gravel pads with a fire ring. Hard to give this too high of praise when the sites are basic necessities.
Campground Road: Dirt and gravel road. Easy entrance from main road.
Campground WiFi: Could not always connect to campground WiFi but it would occasionally work. Most campgrounds have been upgrading wifi of late, and I think this campground has yet to improve.
Grounds: New sites under construction so tractors working most days. Clean and maintained well.
Bathrooms/Showers: Did not use.
Laundry: Did not use.
Location: Gas, groceries, and local restaurants all within 5 min.
Near highway: No.
Near train: No.
Cell using booster: AT&T (2-3 of 4 bars - 4G) and Verizon (1-2 of 4 bars - 4G).
AT&T was primary option for work on a vpn, slightly delayed Zoom video meetings, and streaming struggled.
Verizon struggled and was not useful for work on vpn, could not have Zoom meetings, and could not stream.

We just spent 14 nights here and absolutely loved it. The sites were easy access for our 43' Class A motorhome and there was plenty of room between sites. Everything was clean and very nice. This isn't an RV resort, there is no pool or Pickleball courts or activity center. If you want that kind of park, you probably don't want to go to Terlingua in the first place! It is ideally located close to the National Park entrance and Terlingua ghost town. There are a lot of RV parks in the area but this one looked the best by far. We would highly recommend.

One of our favorite things about this park is that they occassionally provide live music by the campfire at night. We were there two weeks and twice they had live local musicians play for free (we did tip them of course). Both of those nights were special hearing live music out in the desert.

Great park with large sites! Very clean and organized! Nice Dog park. Awesome location…just a few minutes to Big Bend NP entrance and about 30 min to Big Bend Ranch SP. Will definitely stay again if we are in the area! To make it even better there was sweetest dog ever from the restaurant next door. His name is Wilson and he made our trip!

We stayed here only one night. The hosts Justin and Allison were terrific, I can't say enough about the hospitality they afforded. They are building this campground from scratch and it is a wonderful work in progress. We saw a beautiful double rainbow that night.This was a jumping off spot for us to camp at before going to Big Bend for two weeks. This is the best campground in the area if you plan on going to the park but not staying in it. We camped at RoadRunner Travelers RV Park in a Fifth Wheel.

Tip for Other Campers: Need an Amazon package, send it to Whites Hardware up the road. Need groceries go to Cottonwood general store. Want to eat or have a cocktail in a really cool restaurant (doesn't look like much from the outside) go to La Kiva in Terlingua. Further down the road is the Ghost town and past that is the Big Bend Ranch State Park, well worth a visit or just a drive along the Ron Grande. Don't forget to ask them for a marker to use to sign your name on their water tanks.