277 North Group Campground
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- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Situated on the United States-Mexico border, Amistad National Recreation Area is known primarily for excellent year-round, water-based recreation including boating, fishing, swimming, scuba diving, and waterskiing. Amistad National Recreation Area also provides opportunities for picnicking, camping, and hunting. Amistad Dam created the reservoir at the confluence of the Rio Grande, Devils, and Pecos Rivers in 1969. In addition to excellent recreation, Amistad National Recreation Area is rich in archeology and rock art and contains a wide variety of plant and animal life. Amistad park headquarters is in Del Rio, Texas, population 35,000. Keep reading
Recreation
Amistad National Recreation Area offers a diverse array of land- and water-based Outdoor Activities including fishing, swimming, boating, birding, hiking, picnicking, camping, and hunting. Visitors can experience expansive views, night skies, and a number of the area’s rock art sites. Examples of facilities that support these activities include boat ramps, picnic and camping areas, and hiking trails.
Facilities
The group campground offers a private primitive camping space for up to 35 people. The site has a large pavilion, vault toilet, campfire ring, pedestal grill and table. Bring your own water as water is not available at this site. Leashed pets are welcome.
Natural Features
Amistad National Recreation Area consists of 57,292 acres (23185 ha) of federally owned land and is one of the largest tracts of land available for hunting in southwest Texas. Three ecological zones and three rivers meet at Amistad National Recreation Area. Plant communities are determined by topography, soil type, and rainfall and support a wide variety of plant and animal life. Rugged canyons provide outstanding scenic vistas. A majority of Amistad National Recreation Area contains Lake Amistad, which is fed by the Pecos, Rio Grande, and Devils Rivers. Crystal clear stretches of river, natural springs, and fluctuating reservoir levels support a variety of aquatic plant and animal species. The recreation area has some of the best bass fishing in the American Southwest.
Nearby Attractions
Lake Amistad is a top quality fishing spot for largemouth, smallmouth and striped bass. Amistad National Recreation Area offers 12 boat ramps allowing access to Lake Amistad, however, due to low water levels only 4 ramps remain open. Boat rentals are available at Rough Canyon just 15 miles (24 km) from 277 North Campground. Park Approved Guides and Rentals offer activities such as guided fishing and kayak trips on the lake. Texas Parks and Wildlife maintains 3 state parks in the area-- Kickapoo Cavern State Park (63 miles/101 km NE off of Ranch Road 674), offering guided cave tours, Devils River State Natural Area (50 Miles/80 km NW off of St Hwy 277) offering paddling, swimming and fishing opportunities and Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site (41 miles/66 km NW off of Hwy 90), offering world class ancient rock art viewing. 277 North Group Campground is 11 miles (18 km) north of Del Rio, TX (pop. 35,0000). Del Rio enjoys many restauraunts, a movie theater and shopping.
What the agency tells you
Check-in time is 2:00 p. m.
Check-out time is 11:00 a.m.
Quiet hours are from 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
An individual cannot rent a group campsite for more than 14 days. An individual can only reserve the same group campsite twice within the same calendar year. This limit will be excepted if the group campsite has not been reserved by others 24 hours prior to the desired date.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Dump station
- No
- The agency record says no. recreation.gov’s amenity list says “Dump Station”. The record stands.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Picnicking
1 of 1 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:22 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
These counts cover the 1 reservable sites only. This campground also has first-come sites, and recreation.gov publishes no availability for a site you can’t reserve.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 10
What you actually pay
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 4
recreation.gov availability, read 14:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
| B | 277 North Group Campground | group standard nonelectric | 271 ft |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
San Pedro Group CampgroundAmistad National Recreation Area · 4.0 mi
Rough Canyon CampgroundAmistad National Recreation Area · 6.0 mi
Spur 406 CampgroundAmistad National Recreation Area · 7.3 mi
Governors Landing CampgroundAmistad National Recreation Area · 7.7 mi
Rock Quarry Group CampsiteAmistad National Recreation Area · 8.0 mi
Rock Quarry Group CampgroundAmistad National Recreation Area · 8.3 miFrom Amistad National Recreation Area's Visitor Center: Head east on Highway 90 (turn left out of parking area) and drive 5.3 miles (8.5 km). Get in the right lane, take Loop 79 on the ramp, and travel 0.2 miles (.3 km). Turn left onto US 277/US 377 (follow signs to Sonora) and follow for 5.2 miles (8.3 km). Take a sharp right onto Old Highway 377 and follow it to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lake View, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 60°F, day 83°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 39°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
277 North Group Campground is in Texas’s 23rd congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Tony Gonzales for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.