Best RV Parks & Resorts near Fort Stockton, TX

When traveling through this area you will drive for miles and miles of desolation. Fort Stockton is one of the largest towns you will reach on this section of road until you get to El Paso. You would think that there would be some options for accommodation for those to rest their weary heads when traveling. Are there a few hotels here. Yes. But what about those pulling an RV or wanting to tent camp?

I checked out this site in hopes of finding a tent camping site. What I found was a location. which could accommodate RV travelers, but is often used by long term stay traffic from companies in the area. A. lot of oil field traffic here, reserving sites for weeks on end.

Despite the long term nature of many of the visitors it didn't appear to be the typical scene you find with lots of underpinning. It was however a dusty park because of the lack vegetation in the area. With high winds it can be a bit dusty at the park.

Typical amenities are offered for short or long term stay. The park is located very central to local businesses including laundry, restaurants and grocery stores. But perhaps the things I would recommend if making your way through this park for a night or even a longer span is checking out the historic Fort Stockton and the most infamous giant RoadRunner of Fort Stockton.

These places of local tourism are only a short 3-5 minute drive from the park and while the RoadRunner is free to see the Fort is $5.

Tips:

• Use this stop as a refuel station if heading West the prices were reasonable and provided the last real stop for tourists.

• Stop along the way at the Texas Safety Stop not to far from Fort Stockton for an additional little bit of West Texas History and a place to stretch your legs.

We pulled off I-10 to stay for the night on a cross-country trip. This park is just off the exit and you drive through the gas station entrance to get here, but the park is remarkably quiet and scenic for being in the middle of the desert and right next to the highway. We arrived around 4:30 pm on a Friday and the office wasn't open. They have a dropbox that tells you to find a spot and pay the nightly rate in the dropbox. The restaurant is closed, but if you need anything at the gas station, it is very close. For $20, we have water, sewer, and electricity.  The T-Mobile cell service is amazing, but there aren't over-the-air TV channels. The sites are a little close together, but the first half have pretty desert plants between each site. There are clearly some long-term residents, but we felt safe and welcome and would definitely come back as a stopover.

There was no problem finding this campground(CG) as it is right off I-10 adjacent to a Valero gas station. We had paid online, and per the emailed instructions, we went and chose an empty site. After driving through and looking at sites that didn’t have trees that would interfere with our slide-outs, we went into pull-through site 29 with FHUs. As we were only staying overnight, we did not use water and sewer. The CG’s sites are all pull-throughs with FHUs. About 1/4 of the sites are transient workers or full-timers. When we were here towards the end of January, there were plenty of sites to choose from. Our site was plenty long enough for our 40’ 5th wheel and F450. This is a basic CG with no internet, but they have a laundry room on the back of the Saddleback Steakhouse and Bar that has seen better days. There’s also an unmanned office with instructions and a drop box for campers without a reservation. There were plenty of sites that have clear shots to the sky for satellite. We got 3 bars on Verizon. We should have used our sound machine as there’s a lot of road noise from I-10. There’s no formal dog park, but there is plenty of room to walk your dog. Other than the price, one of the reasons we stayed here was the raving reviews by other campers on the Saddleback Steakhouse and Saloon, especially their ribeyes. Boy, were we disappointed. We were expecting a big Texas-style steak. The steak was maybe 1/4 inch thick, and the hand-cut fries were greasy. This may be the only place in the US that still allows smoking inside. They live by their own rules here. On the bright side, this dive-type bar was interesting and somewhat entertaining depending on your views as this establishment is clearly pro-Trump and anti-Biden.