I am thinking of renting a 172 and going for overnight camping within 4
hours flying distance of North Dallas.

I am an AOPA member and I did a search for the fields that allow
camping but without descriptions, it is hard to decide.

It would be nice to hear from others who have done this.

All we are looking for is a field that allows camping ( 4 hours from
KADS) and it should have interesting surrounding.

One thought is to go fly to SE New Mexico and see some mesas. Does
anyone have any comments on New Mexico?


Lake Whitney State Park at Lake Whitney between Waco and Dallas has an
airport with a short walk to the campsites. Scenery is ok, nothing too
great. Finding a place to camp on the field is a problem. Consider flying
to Arkansas to Ft Smith, Northwest Regional, or Rogers / Springdale /
Fayetteville and renting a car. You can get to some real good camping areas
that way and save a LOT of time over what it would take to drive that far.
It's a shame that more of the great state parks we have in Texas especially
in the hill country don't have airports.