Airport Park
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:02 UTC
- A night
- $20–$36Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7569 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
The year-round campground at Airport Park is perfectly located between Waco Lake and the Waco Airport. Campers can look south and view the pristine waters of the lake, or look north and watch airplanes take off and land. Keep reading
Recreation
The main lake shoreline has a large amount of submerged timber, which typically holds fish year-round. Anglers will find plenty of catfish, crappie, large and smallmouth bass as well as sunfish. A boat ramp and dock help visitors enjoy the lake.
Facilities
Airport Park has 46 sites with 50-amp electric and water hookups, and 22 of these also have sewer hookups. There are 8 screen shelters with electrical outlets and water. Fourteen tent-only campsites without electric are also available. A group camping shelter is available for reservation, and comes with electric, sewer and water hookups. It is equipped with a six-foot grill, 12-foot serving bar, and pavillion with picnic tables. There are eight campsites with electric and water hookups, and six of these have sewer hookups. The group camping area fits about 80 guests.
Natural Features
Airport Park is on the northern banks of Waco Lake, near the dam. The lake is primarily fed by the Bosque River, which runs for 115 miles through central Texas. Contact Info For local information, please call (254) 756-5359 or call (877) 444-6777 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Airport Park is located within the City of Waco and is 10 miles from Magnolia Market. About 15 min from Airport Park, Waco Lake Wetlands offers educational tours that take visitors through a six-acre nursery of aquatic plants and more than 130 species of birds. Cameron Park Zoo is also located nearby.
What the agency tells you
Park gates are locked at 10 pm and do not reopen until 6am. There is a night exit to leave after 10pm, but no vehicle entry between 10pm and 6 am.
Maximum stay at Waco Lake Project is 14 days in any 30 consecutive day period, regardless of campground.
Quiet hours begin at 10 pm and end at 6 am. All visitors not camping must leave by 10 pm.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
Campsites are limited to 10 people per campsite, including visitors. No more than 4 vehicles per site.
Camping equipment is limited to one RV/Trailer and up to two tents per site or a total of three tents.
Campsites must be kept clean, and trash collected at all times.
All pets must be on a leash no longer than 6 foot at all times.
Off-road vehicles are not permitted.
No firearms, ammunition, fireworks, or weapons allowed in any area of Waco Lake.
Fires are allowed only in designated rings and cookers. No trees may be cut for firewood. Fires are not permitted during burn bans.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Bounce houses are prohibited in all areas of the parks excluding reserved group shelters. A permit is required prior to the use of bounce houses at any group shelter (size limitations may apply). Bounce houses that include water features are prohibited throughout the entirety of the parks, including group shelters. Bounce houses must be attended by an adult at all times.
Small swimming pools are permitted in the parks. Swimming pools may not exceed a water depth of 5 inches, height of 7 inches, width of 36 inches, and length of 36 inches. Swimming pools must be moved to a new location each day to prevent damage to the ground surface. Pools must be attended by an adult at all times unless the pool is empty. Waterslides, slip ‘n slides, and waterslide-like structures are prohibited in all areas of the parks.
All recreation users at Waco Lake are subject to following Title 36 at all times. Title 36 can be found here: https://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/waco/pdf/Title36.pdf
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 75 · 14 tent-only, 1 group, 8 cabin
- Hookups
- 55 electric, 66 water, 20 sewer
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Paved pads
- 54 of 75
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 56 of 58 sites
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 18 of 75 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Night sky · 124th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 5
26 of 137 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:02 UTC
recreation.gov lists 69 of the 75 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$36 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:02 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
75 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 69 mapped sitesAll 75 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 69 of the 75 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Group Shelter with 7 RV sites 37-43 | Group Shelter with 7 RV sites 37-43 | group standard electric | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 410 ft | 312 ft | $200 | |
| Sites 1 - 27 | 001 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 180 ft | 193 ft | $36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 002 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 180 ft | 242 ft | $36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 003 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 231 ft | 68 ft | $36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 004 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 231 ft | 257 ft | $36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 005 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 195 ft | 226 ft | $36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 006 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 167 ft | 135 ft | $36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 007 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 167 ft | 82 ft | $36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 008 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 195 ft | 114 ft | $36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 009 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 108 ft | 116 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 010 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 99 ft | 95 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 011 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 77 ft | 192 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 012 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 113 ft | 147 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 013 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 67 ft | 234 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 014 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 129 ft | 174 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 015 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 67 ft | 273 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 016 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 181 ft | 135 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 017 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 174 ft | 73 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 018 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 109 ft | 103 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 019 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 121 ft | 218 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 020 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 103 ft | 103 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 021 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 96 ft | 110 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 022 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 85 ft | 112 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 023 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 92 ft | 192 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 024 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 85 ft | 140 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 025 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 97 ft | 136 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 026 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 92 ft | 248 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 1 - 27 | 027 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 89 ft | 187 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 028 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 93 ft | 298 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 029 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 71 ft | 250 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 030 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 104 ft | 307 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 031 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 66 ft | 300 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 032 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 66 ft | 346 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 033 | rv electric | 45 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 88 ft | 272 ft | $32–$36 | |
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 034 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 92 ft | 375 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 035 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 87 ft | 318 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 036 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 87 ft | 383 ft | $32–$36 | |
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 043 | type not stated | 60 ft | 50 amp | 228 ft | |||
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 044 | tent only nonelectric | 308 ft | 167 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 28-36, 43-45 | 045 | tent only nonelectric | 308 ft | 136 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 046 | type not stated | 115 ft | |||||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 047 | type not stated | 45 ft | 75 ft | ||||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 048 | type not stated | 60 ft | 61 ft | ||||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 049 | type not stated | 65 ft | 72 ft | ||||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 050 | type not stated | 45 ft | 78 ft | ||||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 051 | tent only nonelectric | 69 ft | 221 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 052 | tent only nonelectric | 69 ft | 242 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 053 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 315 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 054 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 284 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 055 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 60 ft | 395 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 056 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 130 ft | 219 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 057 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 80 ft | 222 ft | $32–$36 | |
| Sites 46 - 66 | 058 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 71 ft | 327 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 059 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 71 ft | 309 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 060 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 80 ft | 205 ft | $32–$36 | |
| Sites 46 - 66 | 061 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 125 ft | 331 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 062 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 79 ft | 239 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 063 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 174 ft | 112 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 064 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 133 ft | 206 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 065 | tent only nonelectric | 133 ft | 169 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 46 - 66 | 066 | tent only nonelectric | 95 ft | 83 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 067 | tent only nonelectric | 95 ft | 75 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 068 | tent only nonelectric | 152 ft | 54 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 069 | tent only nonelectric | 63 ft | 59 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 070 | tent only nonelectric | 63 ft | 86 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 071 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 45 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 072 | tent only nonelectric | 87 ft | 56 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 073 | tent only nonelectric | 75 ft | 68 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 074 | tent only nonelectric | 75 ft | 85 ft | $20 | |||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 075 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 84 ft | 141 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 076 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 74 ft | 179 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 077 | rv electric | 50 amp | 74 ft | 196 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 078 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 136 ft | 274 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 079 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 132 ft | 386 ft | $32–$36 | ||
| Sites 67 - 81 | 080 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 60 ft | 444 ft | $32–$36 |
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.
25 of 75 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Reynolds Creek2.7 mi
Speegleville Park4.0 mi
Midway5.9 mi
Lofers Bend East20 mi
Lofers Bend West20 mi
McCown Valley25 miFrom I-35, take the Lake Shore Drive exit (Exit 339) and drive west to Steinbeck Bend Road. Turn right and proceed to second stop light. At the intersection with FM 1637 (China Spring Highway) turn right. Go to next stop light (Flat Rock Road). Turn left and drive approximately 1 mile to Skeet Eason Road. Turn left and drive about 0.5 mile. Airport Park is on the first road to the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Waco, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 56°F, day 81°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 36°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
Airport Park is in Texas’s 17th congressional district. Its representative, Pete Sessions (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →