RV travel guide
Presidio County
County seat Marfa, 3,856 sq mi across Texas. Everything an RV traveler should read before rolling in — where you can boondock, the roads worth the detour, and the local rule that actually matters.
The county in brief
A traveler's read on Presidio County
FM-170 River Road from Lajitas to Presidio is consistently ranked the most scenic state-route drive in Texas by both TxDOT and the AAA Texas tourism index — a 50-mile descent along the Rio Grande where the road touches the river surface on six unimproved crossings (only one is paved). Presidio County wraps Big Bend Ranch State Park (Texas's largest at 311,000 acres), the Marfa-Alpine-Fort Davis high-desert plateau, and the Chinati Mountains.
Marfa (population 1,628) at 4,685 ft holds the Donald Judd minimalist-art Chinati Foundation installation across 340 acres, the largest single-artist permanent installation in the US. Big Bend Ranch SP's primitive RV sites accept self-sufficient rigs to 30 ft with no hookups or water at most sites; Sauceda is the only developed staging area with bunkhouse rentals and minimal vehicle camping.
RV travel intelligence
Read the land before you roll in
The three things that shape an RV trip here — where you can boondock, the roads worth the detour, and the local rule that trips travelers up.
Dispersed camping
high
High — most public land permits dispersed
Nearby National Park Service units
Big Bend (western approach)
Scenic drives & state byways
River Road FM-170 (one of TX's most scenic) · Pinto Canyon Road
Ordinance note for RV travelers
Big Bend Ranch SP permits 14-day at primitive sites; Marfa city prohibits overnight RV parking on US-90 + US-67 arterials.
Sourced & cited
Every fact traces to an official source
Population and land area from the US Census; ordinances and park adjacency from county.gov, the National Park Service, and the US Forest Service.
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Texas rules · last verified 2026-05-10
- Rental tax
- 10.00%
- Min driver age
- 18+ std · 21+ Class A
- Gravel roads
- Allowed — disclosure required
- Generator quiet
- 22:00-08:00
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