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NPS · Big Bend National Park

Big Bend Backcountry Camping

Big Bend Backcountry Camping
public domainNPS via Recreation.gov

Nothing here fits 38 ft of 49 sites

Longest for your rig
30 ft
Booking
Reservable
Hookups
none
Entry
Back-in only
ADA sites
—
Elevation
3,738 ft
Vehicles
up to 4

Book on Recreation.gov →the official reservation system; we take no cut

Getting there

What the agency says about the road in. For a long rig this is often the binding constraint — a site that fits is no use behind four miles of shelf road — and none of it appears in the campsite data.

Every bookable site

No site here takes a 38 ft rig. The layout, for what it is worth.

Too short for 38 ft — 18 sites
Croton Spri30 ft limit · gravel · 3 vehiclesK-Bar 230 ft limit · gravel · 2 vehiclesNine Point 30 ft limit · gravel · 2 vehiclesNugent Moun30 ft limit · gravel · 3 vehiclesGrapevine H25 ft limit · gravel · 4 vehiclesGrapevine H25 ft vehicle · gravel · 2 vehiclesGrapevine H25 ft vehicle · gravel · 2 vehiclesPaint Gap 125 ft vehicle · gravel · 1 vehiclePaint Gap 225 ft vehicle · gravel · 2 vehiclesPaint Gap 325 ft vehicle · back · gravel · 2 vehiclesPine Canyon25 ft vehicle · gravel · 1 vehiclePine Canyon25 ft vehicle · gravel · 2 vehiclesPine Canyon25 ft vehicle · gravel · 2 vehiclesRobbers Roo25 ft vehicle · gravel · 2 vehiclesTwisted Sho25 ft vehicle · gravel · 1 vehicleK-Bar 120 ft limit · gravel · 2 vehiclesPine Canyon20 ft limit · gravel · 2 vehiclesPine Canyon20 ft limit · gravel · 2 vehicles
Tents only — no rig permitted here — 29 sites
Length never published — 2 sites
Blue Creek 1Blue Creek 2Boot Canyon 1Boot Canyon 2Boot Canyon 3Boot Canyon 4Colima 1Colima 2East Rim 1East Rim 2East Rim 3East Rim 4East Rim 5East Rim 6East Rim 7East Rim 8East Rim 9Laguna Mdw 1Laguna Mdw 2Laguna Mdw 4Laguna West 2Laguna West 3Pinnacles 1Pinnacles 2Pinnacles 3South Rim 2South Rim 3South Rim 4Toll Mountain1 mi
fits 38 ft (0) too short (29) not published (0)Click a site for what it publishes and a way to book it. Positions are the agency’s; roads, water and terrain are not shown, so this says where the sites are and not how you drive between them. 20 sites are not shown: their published coordinates fall miles outside the campground, so they are in the lists but not on the map.

Within 60 miles

Map marker#CampgroundDistanceSitesLongest for your rigHookups
1Chisos Basin Campground (Big Bend, TX)
TX
7 mi SW5624 ftnone · pull-through
2Chisos Basin Group Campground (Big Bend, TX)
TX · tent-only
7 mi SW7—none · pull-through
3Rio Grande Village (Big Bend, TX)
TX
18 mi SE9365 ftnone · pull-through
4Rio Grande Village Group Campground (Big Bend, TX)
TX · tent-only
18 mi SE4—none
5Cottonwood (Big Bend, TX)
TX
23 mi SW2940 ftnone
12345Big Bend Backcountry Camping5 mi
this campground numbered to match the tableClick a marker for what it is and how far. Straight-line distances, not driving distances; the inset shows where this sits in the state. For directions, open this location in OpenStreetMap.

Everything else on record

Bookable sites
49
Non-site records excluded
63
Max occupancy per site
20
Reservable sites
49
Coordinates
29.3278, -103.2060
Nearest place
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK
Phone
432-477-1158
Elevation
3,738 ft

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