Caddo National Grasslands — Attraction in Bonham

Deep in the rolling fields of Caddo National Grassland, where the wind whispers through the tall grass and the dirt roads stretch farther than your gas gauge is comfortable with, there lurks a legend spoken only in hushed tones—Grassman. Half man, half worm, and entirely horrifying, Grassman is said to slither beneath the soil, feeling vibrations, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

No one knows how he came to be. Some say he was once a farmer who fell asleep in a fresh-plowed field and woke up… changed. Others claim the government was experimenting with superworms to create the perfect fishing bait, but something escaped. What is certain, however, is that if you feel the ground shift beneath your feet at Caddo, you better run.

Grassman moves silently, his upper body emerging from the earth like a prairie nightmare. His human-like torso is covered in patches of grass and dirt, but his lower half? A grotesque, pinkish-brown worm body, wriggling, undulating, churning up soil as he hunts. His eyes? Beady. His teeth? Too many. His favorite meal? Lost campers.

Old timers say if you get stuck in the mud, you better move fast—because that’s when Grassman strikes. He doesn’t drag you underground. Oh no. He spins you. Like a drill. Like a human auger being twisted into the earth, screaming, as the last thing you see is the stars vanishing above you.

Of course, some claim Grassman is just a myth. A campfire story to keep people from wandering too far into the tall grass at night. But if that’s true, then why do locals refuse to sleep on the ground? And why, every few years, does someone disappear without a trace, leaving nothing behind but a single, spiraled hole in the dirt?

If you ever find yourself at Caddo National Grassland and the ground beneath you starts to tremble… don’t stand still. And for the love of God,...

We had a pretty big spot by ourselves. We're harassed by US Forrestry Service, park rangers, game warden. You name it they stopped us upon pulling into a place they'd drive straight up to us questioning us then we'd look around then go to pull out of that location and another park ranger would pull up on us and question us again. We never even got to move to another location. Then again, half a mile over to the next location. Then when we finally decided on a place to camp, hadn't even got anything out of our vehicle and an actual cop like state trooper status pull up on us driving super fast and and ask what we are doing, question us just the same as all the others and preceded to search us and our vehicle and run our names. Then, left us alone. The next day, the same park rangers pulled up on us at every stop we went to talk to us about having to pay if we got out at that location. We decided to drive through it and look around, and then he pulled up on us again and said we looked a little lost. At that moment we had just located the trail head and was going to rent the camp spot right there until the ranger we spoke to 3 minutes prior and the day before wanted to keep rolling up on us. So we went back to the nice spot we stayed at the night before for free and watched the solar eclipse in totality it was our 3rd year wedding anniversary. Would be a decent place to hike and camp if you weren't being harassed every 2 or 3 minutes, and because of that, I don't really...

My wife and I went for a day hike in Caddo National Grassland while passing through the area. There are about 20 miles of multi-use trails for hiking and horseback riding. The day use parking area is just past the Bois d'Arc Campground. We hiked Trail 2 which makes a 3.5-mile loop passing by Coffee Mill Lake with nice views of the lake. Despite being a grassland, most of the area is forested. We saw a lot of wildflowers in April. Overall, a nice place for a hike and unlikely to see many other people...