VISITOR CTR, Texarkana, TX

Visitor Ctr, Texarkana, TX

RUN BY:   State of Texas

LOCATION:  33.470037   -94.056462

UTILITIES:  NONE

COST:  NONE

DISCOUNTS:  N/A
Last Visited: 11/30/2018

OUR RATING (1-5):  Category III.  Score 5

NOTES:  If you just need to get off the road to sleep and want security and a good telephone signal, this is your Texarkana place.  There are only about four places.  There is a nice grassy area with picnic tables right by you. The visitor center’s toilets are, of course, open all night. 

Environment:  city

Amenities:  None

Dump:  No

Public Water: In the bathroom  

Toilets:  Yes

Showers:  No

Laundry:  No

Phone Service: good Verizon 

Nearest Propane: unknown

Location:  Be careful. Many directions are more complicated than necessary and misleading. We were heading west so we got off at the North State Line Avenue exit, went across the intersection and stayed on the west-bound service road to the visitor’s center.

Proximity to shopping:  you have all of Texarkana

Camping Population:   N/A

Sites:  room for about four fair sized rigs.

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RATING KEY:    category - score 

Categories:  I - established campgrounds where one might spend a vacation or several days

                    II -  boondocking, dry camping where there are no designated sites and no amenities but

                               one might choose to stay for more than a night.

                    III - over-night areas 

You must remember that we are scoring 1 thru 5 according to things which are important to us: the environment, cost, amenities, location, safety, camping population, site, phone service 

* There are people who are not full-timers and van-dwellers by choice. We try hard not to be demeaning or assume that they are bad people but sadly, as you find in the poorer parts of a city, there seems to be more crime. Many call these people van-dwellers. That isn’t really accurate even though they do often live in vans. We know quite a few van-dwellers who have good incomes, are full-timers by choice and prefer a van to other types of vehicles. To try to show some respect for people who have a difficult lot in life, I’m calling them ‘residential campers’.  It is only when you get a high proportion of residential campers in an area that you find an increase in petty theft, etc.