Texas
Alpine
RV Parks:
Lost
Alaskan RV Park
2401 N Hwy 118
Alpine, TX 79830
GPS: Latitude: 30°22.701'/Longitude: W103°40.329'
Altitude: 4477
This park is nothing fancy, but we like it here very much. Lost Alaskan is
the best choice of the several parks in town. Owners are very friendly and
helpful with advising excursions, restaurants, etc. Full hook-up gravel
sites with picnic tables. All sites are pull-through. 30 & 50 amp, water
pressure isn't very good (50psi). Many nice, large shade trees, but we had
no trouble finding our satellites. Cell service. Aluminum can recycling.
Good cable television, laundry, bathhouse, club house, horse shoes, play
ground, swimming pool in season. Just over a mile to town.
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In the area: We saw all of these sites (below) in one day |
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McDonald Observatory
Davis Mountains State Park
Fort Davis National Historic
Site
Marfa Lights
Restaurants:
Holland Hotel's
Edelweiss Restaurant - Brews their own beer and serve buffalo burgers.
Downtown, you can't miss this place.
Brownsville
In the area:
Palo Alto Battlefield
National Historical Site - The battle (8 May 1846) was the first of the
Mexican-American war.
Corpus Christi
In the area:
USS Lexington.
The air craft carrier was in service from 1943-1991. Carrying 1,550 crew
members, she has served more years than any other US carrier. The flight
deck is nearly 1000 feet long and the USS Lexington can carry 1.5
million gallons of fuel! The Lexington was the first US vessel to
sail into Tokyo harbor at the end of World War II.
Restaurants:
Landry's
- a regional chain. Dark wood, white table cloths - very inviting and
classy.
Langtry/Comstock
RV Park:
Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site
PO Box 90
West Comstock, Texas 78837
432-292-4464
GPS: Latitude: N29°41.771'/Longitude: W101°19.380'
Altitude: 1400 feet
Nice State Park campground at Seminole Canyon. Daily ranger-led hike into canyon
to view pictographs. 30 amp electric and water, no sewer. Dump station. Some
pull-throughs. Tent sites too. Some cell service, TV antenna picks up a few
Mexican television stations. Read
our postcard.
In the area:
Just West of the Pecos (river) -
Langtry the home of Judge Roy Bean.
Read our 2002 postcard
|
Read our 2009 postcard
Marathon
A great little town with a restored historic hotel, a funky
grocer and a few good restaurants.
Read our postcard
Matagorda
In the area:
Matagorda Bay Nature Park - Part of the Lower Colorado River Authority
system (LCRA -
they control the water, electricity and sewer for the river basin), the
Nature Park serves as an education center - with displays on animal and
ocean life. There is also a nice RV park at the park.
Read our postcard.
Palacios
Serendipity Bay RV Resort
1001 Main Street
Palacios, Texas 77465
361-972-5454/800-556-0534
GPS: N28°41.992'/W096°13.351'
Altitude: 15 feet
This campground is at a marina on Matagordo Bay. Not
too much in the town and the RV park isn't much, but
we enjoyed our stay. Many long-time live-ins. Full
hook-up paved sites with picnic table and a little
lawn, free wifi, fee for cable. They have campsites
of every configuration - from grassy sites to gravel
sites to paved pull-throughs. At marina. Swimming
pool, club house, bath house and laundry.
Port Aransas
RV Parks:
Gulf
Waters Beach Front RV Community
5601 State Hwy 361
Port Aransas, Texas 78373
361-749-8888
GPS: N27°45.628'/W097°06.944'
Altitude: sea level-ish
Sites are owned, but may be rented if owners are
away. Five miles to town. Free ferry to Aransas
Pass. Very nice resort with full service sites,
patio, picnic table, wifi (fee), pool, bathhouse and
laundry. Most sites have cable television. Park is
on the shore with about a one-block walk to the
beach.
Restaurants:
Fins Grill
and Ice House - very casual fish restaurant on the docks in Port
Aransas. They offer lots of grilled fish options - a
nice change from usual batter-fried fish.
Moby Dick's - Not recommended.
Presidio
Restaurants:
El Patio -
teeny town at the end of the road, Presidio has a very famous Mexican
restaurant... at the bus depot. The restaurant has a Don Quixote theme.
Delicious. They sell their salsa "to go" and I suggest you take a quart
or so - it is possibly the best salsa I have ever tasted.
In the area:
Fort Leaton State Historical Site - The Spanish arrived in this area
around 1540. Fort Leaton was built later - first used as a trading post,
it later protected passengers on the El Paso to San Antonio road.
The surrounding area was also the site of a three week battle in 1913 -
Pancho
Villa v The Mexican Government in the Battle of Ojinaga.
Read our postcard from
Fort Leaton.
San Antonio
RV Parks:
Holiday Trav-L-Park
About 3 miles south of town on a main street, this park will serve you well for
a stay in San Antonio. It is next to a big city park, on the San Antonio River,
with a nice bike path. Full hook-ups on gravel, trees, pool, hot tub, quiet.
In the area:
El Mercado | Read our
postcard
The Alamo
|
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Buckhorn Saloon |
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River Walk |
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South Padre Island
RV Parks:
South Padre KOA
1 Padre Blvd
South Padre Island, TX 78597
Information: 956-761-5665, Reservations: 800-562-9724
GPS: N26°04.742'/W097°10.091'
Altitude: 20 feet
Very convenient location, walk to on-site restaurant/bar. Fishing dock,
boat dock. Full service, 30/50 amp sites, cable, free wifi, good cell
service, swimming pool, hot tub, bathhouse, laundry, store, play ground,
picnic tables, pet friendly. A bit of a tight squeeze for a big rig, but
the campground was filled with many.
Isla
Blanca County Park
Isla Blanca is so popular they have an over-flow area where you are
required to dry-camp until a spot comes open. Isla Blanca and the KOA
are within walking distance of the beach and restaurants. You decide.
In the area:
Sea Turtle, Inc.
- rehabilitates injured or sick sea turtles found on local beaches -
with the hope of returning them to the ocean. Small donation suggested.
Restaurants:
Pier
19 - At the KOA, we just loved this casual beach shack. Decent food,
good prices and a happy hour that seems to run from dawn to dark. Packed
with happy RVers, they have an over-the-water outside deck. Waiters are
friendly and fun.
Dirty Al's - several people referred to Dirty Al's as a "dive with
great fish & chips". So true.
Mamacita's. The food was great, but the service was spotty. Mamacita's is owned by the same
people who operate Dirty Al's.
Terlingua (Big Bend National Park)
RV Parks:
Big Bend Motor Inn & Oasis Campground
(now called Big Bend Resort & Adventures and operated by Forever Resorts)
Route 118 at 170
Terlingua, Texas 79852
432-371-2218
GPS: Latitude: N29°19.747'/Longitude: W103°32.012'
Altitude: 2600 feet
This RV park/motel/convenience store/cafe/gas station is the place in Terlingua,
and your best option for a good base camp for exploring
Big Bend National Park - especially if you have a Big Rig. A big gravel
parking lot and, yes, it gets dusty. Pull-through and back-in sites, some 50 amp
service available. Cable, poor water pressure and limited cell coverage. No
pool, no hot tub. Bathhouse and laundry. NOTE: there are a few restaurants in
town, but no real grocer - bring your own food.
In the area:
Big Bend National Park |
See more photos Day 1 |
Day 2
Take a drive to Presidio | Read
our postcard