Terlingua......A Most Unique Place

We decided to give a different RV park a try. In the past I stayed at Big Bend Adventures and Resort but they have a call center take their reservations and they have no idea what the RV spaces are like nor do they care. I also read comments about the water not being good there. BJs RV Park had very good reviews until it was sold. Then there were some snarky comments about the new couple running it and how they kicked out some of the longer term residents who had been there for years. Well, we really enjoyed our time there. The owners could not have been nicer. The place is nice and clean and the water is good which is not the case everywhere else. I would definitely go back. It is a desert campground but so are all the others. Sites were well kept, pretty level and improvements are being made.

Big Bend Adventures owns the only gas station and they have a motel, tenting area, and restaurant.

So Terlingua and Study Butte are a ways from anywhere but the National Park.

There is a garage which I didn't know about and a grocery store as well as a number of restaurants

Terlingua is quirky.

Almost every visitor goes to the cemetery as it is like no other cemetery and still in regular use.

I know Carolyn would want to spend some time here.

Yes, this is a gravesite.....no idea how old or who is buried here

Almost every grave is different. There are definitely no specific requirements to be buried here.

Some sites are obviously very old.

I have no idea what the stones on the top mean but they must mean something to someone

This is a newer grave at 2014.

I wore out long before Carolyn and her camera did. It was really hot.

I thought that I had seen most of Terlingua but learned after we left that I have missed a number of places.

The Starlight was once a theatre but is now a restaurant.

On the other end of the porch is the trading company. You can spend a lot of time looking around in here.

A sign says no dogs.....obviously jokingly as these guys are regulars.

The jail is real handy if someone needs to be incarcerated.

Carolyn posed in one of the unique seats outside the theater as we were early for dinner

Out front there are parts left over from earlier mining efforts.

Inside the theater....

Dinner was not what you would expect in the setting.

Terlingua is very famous for the International Chili Cookoff the beginning of November.