On a Texas Tech home weekend, red and black flags climb the back ladders of the rigs as the RV lots by the stadium fill on Friday evening. Tailgate tents go up in the gaps between rows, generators hum after dark, and the stadium stands over the whole lot. Saturday is the game and the walk back to the rig after, and Sunday morning the rows empty out for the drive home.
The lots belong to Texas Tech, and its football parking page sells RV reserved spaces in the S-1 lot on 30-amp and 50-amp electric, plus RaiderPark RV passes, with the RV areas open from Friday evening until Sunday morning as of September 2026. A home weekend pulls on the same rental rigs and the same lake sites as the lot does. Book the lot pass or the lake site first and the rig second.
Plenty of families sleep somewhere quieter on either side of the game. Lubbock RV Park in town has level concrete pads, laundry and a pool for the night before, and Buffalo Springs Lake works for the whole weekend if you'd rather drive in for kickoff and come back to the water. If it's only two of you coming in for one game, a campervan is the lighter way to do the same weekend.
Swimming and fishing at Buffalo Springs Lake
Without a game on the calendar, the week moves to Buffalo Springs Lake, a High Plains reservoir with a beach the kids reach before the levelers are down and fishing for whoever gets up first. The caprock runs flat to the horizon in every direction. In summer the heat makes a site with hookups the whole point, with the air running through the afternoon while everyone is in the water.
The lake lists 34 full-hookup sites and 89 partial on its campsites page. Site A pads carry water, electric and sewer at 20, 30 and 50 amp, while B, S and V sites have water and electric, so a family settling in for a full week wants an A site. Reservations run through Campspot, and the site is the booking to make before the rig.
When the flat starts to wear on everyone, the red canyon walls of Caprock Canyons and Palo Duro are north toward the Panhandle, and the Amarillo RV page and Amarillo's campervan page cover those.
Lake Alan Henry, a canyon lake south of Lubbock
South of town the caprock breaks into canyon country, and Lake Alan Henry fills one of those canyons with clear water. Boats go in early, fishing lines stay out until dinner, and the evenings are a long way from the noise of a stadium lot.
Lake Alan Henry RV Resort has full hookups on 30-amp and 50-amp sites, and every spot is drive-thru. The motorhome pulls in, plugs in and stays put for the week without anyone backing it in.
For mountains instead of water, the out-and-back west to Cloudcroft, New Mexico trades the plains for pines and elk at about 7,200 feet, with full-hookup gravel pads at 20 and 30 amp at 16 Springs east of town. Carlsbad Caverns is the other long drive worth making once, for the walk down from the natural entrance into the cool dark of the Big Room.