Beach camping in Texas

Kerrville Folk Festival 2027. The Kerrville Folk Festival is the longest continuously running music festival in the United States: eighteen days and nights of more than a hundred performing songwriters on Quiet Valley Ranch outside Kerrville, where the real magic is the after-hours campfire song circles that run till dawn (the 2026 edition was the 54th annual, May 21-June 7). 2027 is not yet officially dated — plan the 18-day run beginning the Thursday before Memorial Day, roughly May 27-June 13, 2027. Camping on the ranch is the tradition, but Kerrville-Schreiner Park, the city's own RV campground on the Guadalupe, is minutes away when you want hookups and a shower with walls.

Terlingua International Chili Championship 2026. Every first week of November, the ghost-town country between Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande fills with rigs for the Terlingua International Chili Championship — the 59th edition runs November 3-7, 2026 at Rancho CASI de los Chisos, the Chili Appreciation Society International's own ranch off FM 170. This is the rare festival where the RV is not logistics but the point: the ranch is a primitive desert campout — no hookups, no water, no shade beyond what you bring — and thousands of cooks and campers build a temporary town of rigs, flags and cook stoves under some of the darkest night skies in Texas. Tuesday through Friday layer in bean, salsa and wings contests plus live music before Saturday's championship judging. Come fully provisioned: Study Butte has limited fuel and groceries, and the nearest real resupply is Alpine, 80 miles north. Terlingua's famous quirk — two rival chili cookoffs run the same week on opposite sides of town, a schism dating to the original 1967 shootout — is half the fun of asking locals for directions. Tack on Big Bend: Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive is 40 minutes from your campsite.

Wurstfest 2026. Wurstfest is New Braunfels' ten-day salute to the German heritage of the Texas Hill Country — sausage, biergartens, polka bands and lederhosen along the Comal River, November 6-15, 2026. Founded in 1961, it's one of the Southwest's great heritage festivals and lands in the mild first-half-of-November window that makes Hill Country RV travel ideal. Guadalupe River State Park is about 30 minutes northwest for a river-canyon campground, and the New Braunfels area itself is thick with riverside RV parks built for the summer tubing crowd — plenty of hookup capacity once the season cools.

SXSW Austin 2027. South by Southwest Conference + Festivals takes over downtown Austin annually. McKinney Falls State Park (Texas Parks & Wildlife) + Pecan Grove RV Park are the closest RV options.

Texas Bluebonnet Season 2027. From roughly late March through April, bluebonnets carpet the Texas Hill Country — the state's defining spring spectacle, strongest in the triangle around Burnet (the officially designated Bluebonnet Capital of Texas), Llano, and Fredericksburg. Intensity varies with fall and winter rains, so treat any single year's density honestly: good rain years produce highway shoulders that look painted; dry years still bloom, just thinner. The classic drives are the Willow City Loop north of Fredericksburg — a narrow ranch road that becomes one of the state's most photographed routes in bloom — and the roads ringing Lake Buchanan. Muleshoe Bend Recreation Area on the Colorado River is famous for solid fields of blue in strong years and takes reservations for its primitive campsites; Inks Lake State Park near Burnet is the established full-facility RV base in the heart of the zone. Spring is peak Texas camping and state parks book on 30-day-plus horizons — reserve pads early, rigs 8 weeks out. Burnet's Bluebonnet Festival runs annually in April.

Poteet Strawberry Festival 2027. Poteet, the self-declared Strawberry Capital of Texas, throws one of the state's biggest agricultural festivals just south of San Antonio: PRCA rodeo, national country-music headliners, a carnival, a parade and strawberries in every form (the 2026 edition was the 79th annual, April 10-12). 2027 is not yet officially dated — plan the second-weekend-of-April pattern, roughly April 9-11, 2027 (the 80th annual). The festival grounds sell on-site camping, which is the low-friction RV play; for a hookup base with more room, San Antonio's south-side RV parks are a straight shot up TX-16, close enough to fold in the Alamo City.

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2027. Austin City Limits Music Festival 2027. McKinney Falls State Park (TX Parks & Wildlife) + Pecan Grove RV Park give downtown-adjacent RV stays.

Terlingua International Chili Championship 2027. The Chili Appreciation Society International runs its championship by a calendar anyone can work out: finals on the first Saturday of November, with the celebration opening the Tuesday before. That puts 2027 at Tuesday, November 2 through Saturday, November 6, at Rancho CASI de los Chisos, which CASI locates on the north side of Highway 170 about eleven miles west of Study Butte and seven miles east of Lajitas. CASI hosted the first Terlingua championship in 1967 and still runs the tradition; the week builds from side contests and nightly bands to Saturday's final, which only qualified cooks may enter. CASI's cookoff information page lists a local service for portable toilet rental and RV cleanout, a set of ranch safety rules to read before arrival, and Terlingua-area lodging for anyone who comes without a rig. Big Bend National Park is the neighbor; its Rio Grande Village campground keeps full-hookup sites for a longer stay after the cookoff.

SXSW Austin 2028. SXSW 2028 edition.

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2028. Austin City Limits Music Festival 2028. McKinney Falls State Park + Pecan Grove RV.