Tejas Wilderness Campground
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This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 5All of them walk-up
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
A backcountry use permit is required for all use of these campsites. The extra distance to the Tejas Wilderness Campground is worth the time for those who wish to stay in a more densely forested surrounding. The tall trees provide deep shade in the morning and late afternoon and protection from high winds aloft. Centrally located, the Tejas campground is 5.5 miles from Pine Springs trailhead or 6.2 miles from Dog Canyon.
Facilities
- Toilets
- None. Pack out what you bring in
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Mescalero Wilderness CampgroundGuadalupe Mountains National Park · 1.1 mi
Pine Top Wilderness CampgroundGuadalupe Mountains National Park · 1.3 mi
Blue Ridge Wilderness CampgroundGuadalupe Mountains National Park · 1.5 mi
Bush Mountain Wilderness CampgroundGuadalupe Mountains National Park · 1.7 mi
Guadalupe PeakGuadalupe Mountains National Park · 3.0 mi
Pine Springs CampgroundGuadalupe Mountains National Park · 3.2 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dell City, TX
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Tejas Wilderness Campground is in Texas’s 23rd congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Tony Gonzales for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.