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Rough Canyon Campground
Drive-up · National Park Service · TX · 29.57583, -100.97327
Inside a national park unit
Rough Canyon Campground sits inside Amistad National Recreation Area — a national recreation area run by the National Park Service.
Park rules apply, and they are stricter than dispersed camping: inside a National Park Service unit you camp in a designated campground or on a backcountry permit, not wherever you find a flat spot. Check the park before you go: nps.gov/amis ↗
Placed by point-in-polygon against the National Park Service’s own boundary layer (NPS Land Resources Division, 442 units, fetched 18 Sep 2026; this unit’s polygon edited 2024-09-06). Nothing about the price or the legal status on this page was changed by it.
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Rough Canyon Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,165 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Rough Canyon CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Rough Canyon Campground · National Park Service · TX
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel0 mi
- GGrocery0 mi
- LLaundry8 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- ShShower10 mi
- +Urgent care10 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- EVEV fast charger13 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- RxPharmacy15 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 0 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Water, Dump, Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Rough Canyon Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
National Park Service
Elevation
1,165 ft
Ground slope
8.3% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~7.0 mi · main line
State
TX
Coordinates
29.57583, -100.97327
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Rough Canyon Campground · National Park Service · TX (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWalk Lake · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Devils River (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townRough Canyon Colonia · ~0.2 mi
- Nearest rail line~7.0 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelExxon · ~7.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~7.8 mi
- PharmacyH-E-B Pharmacy · ~15.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicStat Specialty Hospital - Del Rio · ~12.8 mi
- HardwareDirt Cheap · ~13.2 mi
EV charging — from Rough Canyon Campground · National Park Service · TX — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger13.3 mi straight-line S — Del Rio, TX - Tesla Supercharger (at a restaurant) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 11 within 100 · 71 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS14.3 mi — HYUNDAI DEL RIO HDR 2, Del Rio
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO14.3 mi — HYUNDAI DEL RIO HDR 2, Del Rio
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.7 mi — Cecil Atkission Ford, Del Rio, TX · Blink Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 398477 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Rough Canyon Campground · National Park Service · TX — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomRC/Marina Comfort Station · ~0.2 mi SW · NPS
- RestroomSpur 406/Vault Toilet #2 · ~3.3 mi SW · NPS
- RestroomSpur 406/Vault Toilet #1 · ~3.4 mi SW · NPS
- Restroom277N/ Vault Toilet #1 · ~6.0 mi SE · NPS
Coming out here — Rough Canyon Campground · National Park Service · TX
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Walk Lake as a perennial lake or pond, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 8.3% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Rail line mapped ~7.0 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Rough Canyon Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Rough Canyon Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Spur 406 Campground~3.3 mi · fee
- 277 North Campground~5.9 mi · fee
- Amistad NRA Rock Quarry Dispersed Camping~6.9 mi
- Governors Landing Dispersed Camping~7.3 mi
How we know this — Rough Canyon Campground
Stay limit
14 nights (up to 14 consecutive nights)
Source
public land records
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Amistad National Recreation Area (NPS), on the Rio Grande / Lake Amistad near Del Rio. Camping page https://www.nps.gov/amis/planyourvisit/camping.htm, read 2026-08-16. FEE, verbatim: "$6-$10 per site" -- LOW COST, NOT FREE. First-come, first-served; the group sites at Rock Quarry, San Pedro and 277 North are separate and reservable on recreation.gov at $35-$155. STAY LIMIT, verbatim: campers may stay "up to 14 consecutive nights with a limit of 60 nights in the park in a calendar year". NPS describes these campgrounds as primitive with vault toilets and no drinking water except at Governors Landing. Coordinates from the NPS official GIS layer NPS_Public_POIs_Geographic (https://mapservices.nps.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NationalDatasets/NPS_Public_POIs_Geographic/FeatureServer/0, queried 2026-08-16 by UNITCODE). On the Devils River arm, north of Del Rio. This is the only one of the Amistad campgrounds the NPS POI layer marks POISTATUS='Existing' and OPENTOPUBLIC='Yes'. Primitive; vault toilets; no drinking water. Nearest incorporated town: Del Rio, 15.1 mi (US Census TIGERweb Incorporated Places, straight-line to the place's internal point). | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Rough Canyon Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Rough Canyon Campground
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Hot-weather camping →Getting unstuck →All field notes →