rio grande village

Big Bend National Park is the most beautiful place we have been. Had no ideal what to expect arriving in the campground at 3AM. No electric on most the spaces. Have community water available. No showers in the campground but do have toilets. Showers are available at the store just outside the campground $1.50 for 5 minutes. $3 bucks will get you a great hot shower. No phone service on cell phones but WIFI is free at the store. Gas is available there and at Panther Junction. I would camp here again. Most the camp spots are first come first serve although there are a few reservable. No generators and so be prepared.

Very clean area and well maintained. Has gas and some small item you may need at the store. Some great walking areas for kids and adults.

This place is very basic and it serves the basic needs of travellers from grocery items, to laundry, etc. The clerk was a hoot.

We decided to stay in the RV park with hookups instead of the camping ground because the weather was forecast to be cold and wet. The RV park is just a paved parking lot where you back into a space. The campground with no hookups is more spacious and in a rustic setting. The landscape within Big Bend Park is varied with both flat desert and mountains. Beautiful scenery all around and a lot of great hiking opportunities. The bathhouse is located next to the general store where you check in and is very clean. Pay showers are available for $1.50 / 5. minutes. Nice laundry facilities and wifi is available but you need to sit in the laundry room or on the picnic table close to the store building to pick up a signal..

We liked the location but not the noise of the generators (8am to 8pm) which you can hear even in the no generator area. The night sky is stunning and you are close to some nice hiking and walking. We rode bikes to some places as the roads are quiet. Spots are pretty level. Birds were great and javelinas wandered thru our site one night. Helpful hosts.

this is a large camping area for rvs and tenters plus a well stocked store, laundry, gas, propane & diesel along with a full hook up campground. great place to see wildlife, spectacular sunrise and sunsets from the bluffs trail and a place to go into mexico across the river at boquillias if you have your passport. many dirt roads and trails start near here plus the hot spings.

Great for camping with a nice store nearby. You will feel like you are in Mexico and isolated. You are very close to Mexico and the Rio Grande River.

The nicest place to stay in big bend-period in an RV. Super friendly and helpful service at the general store. The rv area is a parking lot with picnic tables but great hookups-electric and water/sewer

Stop at the Rio Grande hot springs trailhead and hike a path along a rocky cliff, looking down on the Rio Grande, with Mexico on the opposite bank. It's an easy hike, and a good photo op if you're into scenery, looking down on the river.

There are three camp grounds for tent camping in the park--here, Chisos Mountains and Cottonwood. Although there are a few nice sites at Chisos, you have to be very lucky to find them open, and the remainder lack privacy, are rocky, and exposed if its windy (as it often is). Rio Grande village has a series of private, protected (from wind) sites tucked among bushes, plus more open, grassy sites shaded by cottonwood trees (no hook-ups--water only). (Note, they flood the grass for irrigation every so often so be sure to check with the camp host to see if this is planned!) There is a no generator zone, and these are not allowed from 8:00 pm to 8:00am elsewhere, so its fine for tents. (And most big RVs go to a totally separate area for the full hook-ups.) There are showers, laundry, gas, Internet and a small grocery store (including beer and wine) nearby. Spring and Fall are best--and no sane person goes in the summer!

It's a no service camping ground in the park. The general store is well into the price range of any other store in the middle of nowhere's. the internet connection at the store is good.We were there three days before we had time to do the trail. Don't miss it. We realised that we were camped fA five minute walk from the Rio Grande River once we took the walk. And it's a very different scenery back there.There is a parking lot style Rv park for those who can't survive without electricity.I strongly recommend internet reservations if you want a good spot in the park section. The best sites are on the internet!

Privately managed store and RV park at the end of the road. Food is a bit pricey, but I'm sure delivery costs are high. They do offer gasoline, but again at a premium.

Warning this place May Be Hazardous to your Health: Too Hot. Not a good spot to visit in late Spring or Summer. Definitely no camping in the Summer. Average daytime temp about 105F. Daytime feels like an open flamed BBQ pit. Nice place to visit in the Winter & Fall "Only."

The drive down to Rio Grande Village is straight forward, but not very scenic. The village area is pleasant, but hot. But sure to drive over to see the entrance to the downstream canyon.

I have been to most of the National Parks and camped in all of them. I love this park and all of them actually. But plan to stay at Rio Brande Village knowing you are in a facility run by a third party concessionaire. Unfortunately the budgets were cut for National Parks starting back in the 80s when certain Conservative politicians pushed to make parks pay for themselves. They then forced the free market system and Capitalism into our parks, which may have sounded like a good idea, except for one thing: we the citizens of the United States own these parks and our tax dollars created them and kept them safe. Now, they are "for profit" and we are paying more of our money to the private corporation who won the bid to manage the concessions within the park. Control should be back ion the hands of the National Park personnel and they should run the park as a nonprofit. As for Rio Grande Village, it is not bad. I have enjoyed my stays there. I love this park and even if camping at the village is overpriced, and the facilities are not being improved as they should by a for profit company making money on its "investment" this is still a good place to rest your head at the end of a day of sightseeing. Look into the other options within the park such as the lodges but be careful of booking through a website called nationalparkreservations dot com, as they are not affiliated with the park and overcharge for rooms and add on fees. Call the park and its lodges directly.