Dyess AFB FamCamp

This is the most expensive Fam Camp we have stayed at outside of California. The site operations is very lacking! No one answers the phone or returns calls, They say they have WiFi but no info on how to log in. No one at the Fam Camp to meet us when we arrived. The address on the web page is incorrect. They are supposed to be open 9-5 on Saturday, been calling since 1500 hrs with no answer or call back. No directions or signs to the Camp. No base maps available! Very poor customer service. One of the worst run operations in the Air Force! Please have your commanding Officer call me! J. R. Fazio, Jr MSGT Retired

Good but small campground with concrete pads and car parking spots at each site. The sites look short but a 45' coach will fit in the pull thru spots. Our biggest complaint is the lack of any base signage to the FamCamp. Once thru the Tye Gate go to Avenue A and turn left. Proceed to the traffic circle and take the 3rd exit onto Arnold Blvd. Drive past the aircraft display on the left toward the main gate. Once past the display turn left at the traffic light onto Louisiana Rd (toward the hospital). DO NOT GO PAST THIS INTERSECTION! If you drive too far you will not be able to turn around or exit the base thru the main gate due to a ridiculous number of barriers. The FamCamp has a small sign on the right side past the hospital.

This campground was adequate for an over night stay. I put cleanliness/hospitality at 3/5 because the grass was very tall and we never saw a camp host or outdoor rec person. We dropped our payment in a mail slot in the office. Amenities 4/5 because they had a clean and working bath house and laundry room, but no shade or really any type of landscaping other than the tall grass. Just very basic. Value is a 2 because it was $35 a night which is the most we've paid outside of Washington DC, and that is for a gorgeous campground with fishing piers and walking access to a wonderful outdoor rec. There really was nothing special here to justify the cost. 

This is a very nice FamCamp except - $35/night in the middle of west Texas is a LOT pricey. I could list all of the FamCamps we've stayed at for a lot less but $35 is overpriced. I am not sure who setup the pricing format but $35/night, $130/week and $395 per month is sorta silly. With that said, this is a clean well spaced park with concrete pads. Given the hassle with getting in and out, we'd probably stay at the nearby KOA the next time even though staying with military is family. So staying somewhere else is hard for me to say.

Clean and well maintained campground.Similar to many military FamCamps, a large parking lot with sites.All hookups working well.Laundry and bathrooms at the beginning of the area were clean. It is an open area and if the winds are blowing (as they were when we were here) you'll be in a wind tunnel. They do now have WiFi, with 2 different connections,WiFi 1 and WiFi 2.Unlike a previous poster stated, you do need a password, so need to call when you arrive to get it. WiFi2 had a much stronger signal for us, but unfortunately were only able to connect to it once. WiFi 1 was extremely slow, no bars connection that disconnected every few minutes. FamCamps are a great deal, this one definitely is overpriced.We just left Fort Smith,Arkansas @ $8.50 a night in a wooded lot overlooking a pond and golf course.Next stop White Sands at $10 a night.Do use only Tye gate when entering or exiting with your RV. All in all a nice FamCamp.

They have placed barriers at the Main Gate and all RV’s must enter the Commercial Gate (Tye Gate) on the North side of the base. Coordinates N32.43871/W099.84536.

Update to those who have been here before, they now have WiFi which is strong and solid. The areas are clean and well taken care of. There are no trees and most here are permanent including one unit that has the tires rotted off. We are pleased with the location and facilities. Easy to access through the gate, very nice base and pleasant staff. The cost seems a little high for a Famcamp, but not unreasonable.

Nice place, especially coming from El Paso heading East on 20. The price was not much of an issue but without WiFi its high. It gets off set since w stayed at Gila Bend for 10 bucks and Ft Bliss for 17 bucks a night. Loved the pads with lots of room for my 40 foot Newmar. I have a handicapped accessible unit and we picked a spot that as easy to get in and out of. Never once saw a camp manager Just slipped the paper in the door slot. The spot I was assigned was taken so I picked a different one. Thankfully one was open. That’s why I marked down in hospitality. All in all had a good stay but would have been nice to have actually met the camp manager. 

Dyess FamCamp is overpriced for the area, for the campground, for the space, and for what it offers. Many much better, much nicer Famcamps are way less money. This is basically a parking lot, with short sites, spaced closely together. The back in sites are not even numbered so that those of us arriving with reservations can know which site to park in! How hard is it to number the sites??? Sites are short, and pretty close to neighbors considering the vacant base land all around. There are many homesteaders, and they occupy the pull throughs. Why do long term stays have pull throughs, while visitors have the back in sites? Move the homesteaders to the back ins! Let those passing through have the pull through sites! Sorry, we need to compare Famcamps to Famcamps, not Famcamps to billeting/lodging rooms. The "immaculate shower facilities" don't even have hand soap at the sinks! The information board on the outside of the laundry/shower facility has no information on it. The folder with "base maps" inside the laundry room has no maps in it. We have stayed in Famcamps across the nation, and even at $25 per night this one would be overpriced. Truly, this Famcamp is a disgrace in the overall system. It saddens me that Dyess has overpriced for the area, while offering so little for the high price (as FamCamps go). I planned to move the VFW off base near the gate, but they are 100 percent full. I certainly see why the VFW campground is full, and the base FamCamp is not. By the way, the "very cute power/water towers at each site" are a industry standard on newer campgrounds. I see the exact same "very cute power/water towers" very often in our travels, including many FamCamps. The only thing saving this campground is the homesteaders paying by the month. I certainly will never return again at a daily rate again at the price gouging on here. And that is a true shame as this is the base I retired at. Call the VFW and if they have space to go there instead. I can see why so many others have done EXACTLY that. 

Come on folks, it is 2017 ,not 1967. Yes, the price is more than most RV facilities on military installations. Get over it; have you stayed in billeting lately? 60 bucks a night when most of old-timers remember when it was 20. For 35 dollars you get a clean campgrounds with pull-throughs on a safe AFB with immaculate shower facilities and very cute power/water towers at each site. No, the place has no ambiance but it sure is clean and well thought out. Yes, it could use some trees.

We came in late on 10/12/16 looking for a site and all sites were full and parked for the night at the VFW parking lot and went back to Dyess campground on 10/13/16 and was able to get a site. We were not told we could only camp there for 1 night and they did not ask how many days we needed. The next day we went to the office to pay for that day and several days more as we were visiting relatives in the area and were told we had to leave as the site was assigned and no other sites were available. We could see that most sites were homesteaded one even having a full size freezer next to the camper. It appears that these sites are homesteaded and there is no arrangement for people who come in to camp for more than a day. We were also told that we couldn't pay by credit card or debit card as the machine was broke. Thankfully we had paper checks. This campground is poorly managed and there are mostly long term people living there. Don't bother to stop because if you need more than 1 night you will be disappointed. Way too many living there full time. Also it is located in an open field with no shade at all. The nightly rate is way out of range for nothing really to offer you except a small bath house and laundry. We stayed at a resort campground with water front parking for less than we stayed at Dyess for 1 night. The resort had amenites galore. We also had to stay at the VFW campsite our first night in town because Dyess had no sites. The VFW was very very nice and accommodating and seemed to have their act together for campers coming in at night. Way to go VFW! Dyess could learn something from you all. Dress also charges $35.00 a night and if you stay a week it goes down to about $18.00 to $20.00 per night. So now we see who they are catering to. I guess they get their money off of those who can only camp for less than a week because they have no available sites for a week and the homesteaders get the big breaks.

$35 a night is pretty pricey for where you are at. No views of really anything.  Just a bunch of bunnies hopping around. I payed $21 a night at mayport naval station and it was right by the water in Florida. Ok not a fair comparison but I think $35 is a bit much. Facilities were clean and place was all new nice grounds. Large airforce plane museum on base and large exchange and commissary. There are after hour instructions to make a payment but no camp host which is strange but everywhere you go is different. Also if you have a non military guest with you must obtain a guest pass from the visitor center. Again different base rules. I decided I'd rather dry camp the cost was $15 a night.

Overall, it was a good experience in a nice new campground with a good staff.  If you thought the price at $35 a day were keeping people away, you would be wrong.  The majority of 'campers" here seem to be permanent party living out of the cheapest vehicle they can find on wheels.  Diesel trucks idling in the early morning hours as these people get ready for work, make one wonder why they call it a FamCamp instead of a trailer park. There might have been four sites for actual campers to rotate in and out.  Outdoor Rec people say the dry sites will someday be FHU sites.  There is also a site in front of Outdoor Rec that can be used with water and electric while you wait to move into a FHU site.