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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TX

Alley Creek Camp

ReservableOut of season; bookable March 1 through April 16.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $18–$44Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 80All of them booked ahead

Photos · COE

80 ftLongest rig

270 ftElevation

679 ftWater · an unnamed pond

10 miSE of Lone Star, TX

52%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices

In the agency’s own words

Alley Creek Campground is situated along the banks of Lake O' the Pines in the Ark-La-Tex portion of the Pineywoods of east Texas near the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Gate House Hours: 10am-6pm Monday through Saturday, 12pm-6pm Sunday Recreation Boating, fishing, water sports, and wildlife viewing are all popular pastimes at the campground. Hunting opportunities for white-tailed deer, waterfowl, and small game are available on nearby public lands. Lake O' the Pines fishing includes largemouth, spotted, and white bass along with crappie, catfish, and sunfish. Keep reading

In addition to boat fishing there are areas for bank fishing along the shore and below the dam along Big Cypress Bayou. Birdwatchers are also encouraged to bring their binoculars as numerous resident and migratory bird species inhabit the area. Bald eagle sightings are a common occurrence in fall and winter and they are occasionally sighted in spring and summer.

Facilities

Alley Creek features 49 RV campsites with water and electric hookups. There are also 30 tent campsites that have a picnic table, fire ring, and lantern pole. A group camping area is located in the park which has a group shelter with restrooms and showers and 12 RV sites with water and electric hookups. Restrooms with showers are located in each section of the park. Trash receptacles are located throughout the park. A boat ramp, playground, swimming beach, and sewer dump station are also provided.

Natural Features

Lake O' the Pines includes about 18,700 acres of water and 9,000 acres of land, encompassing an area so large it spans five counties. The lake was created by the construction of the Ferrell's Bridge Dam on the Big Cypress Bayou. The reservoir was originally created as part of an overall plan for flood control in the Red River Basin below Denison Dam in Oklahoma, and has now become a recreational oasis for outdoor enthusiasts.

Nearby Attractions

The nearby towns of Jefferson and Marshall offer historic and tourist attractions, and Texas Wildflower Trail routes are located along the roads surrounding the lake.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

No off-road vehicles permitted

Rule

Visitors of campers must leave by 10 p.m.

Rule

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.

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 80 · 30 tent-only, 1 group
Hookups: 50 electric, 50 water
Longest rig: 80 ft
Paved pads: 64 of 80
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; FLUSH TOILETS on 2 of 82 campsite records
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; SHOWERS on 2 of 82 campsite records, Shower/Bath Type states a shower on 1 campsite record(s) that are not a cabin, of this campground's 87
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Beach; Birding; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Hunting; Swimming; Water sports; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 83rd darkest of 154 in TX: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowFrom March 1Out of season now. Bookable for March 1, 2027 through April 16, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$18–$44plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$44–$96DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 17

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$18–$44

Tent Only Nonelectric$18

RV Electric$28

RV Electric$32

Standard Electric$32

Standard Electric$44

Group area, a night$175

These are next season’s rates, Mar 1, 2027 to Sep 30, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$26–$52

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$44–$96

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$44 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

87 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 62 mapped sites

75 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop GCAM G016 332 ftT206 118 ftLoop R2 E227 114 ftT113 113 ftT204 111 ft

Least roomLoop R2 E217 56 ftLoop R2 E219 56 ftLoop R2 E208 56 ft

2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 87 records

63 of 87 records located

Tent only30RV / electric31Group1Unnamed record1

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 80 of the 87 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


GCAM	G016	group standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	332 ft	187 ftLake O' the Pines	$175
MANAGEMENT SITES	XXX	unnamed record	72 ft	50 amp			$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES	XXX1	unnamed record					$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES	XXX2	unnamed record					$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES	XXX3	unnamed record					$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES	XXX4	unnamed record				391 ftLake O' the Pines	$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES	XXX5	unnamed record					$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES	XXX6	unnamed record					$33.97
R1	E101	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E102	rv electric	72 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E103	rv electric	64 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E104	rv electric	60 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E105	rv electric	60 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E106	rv electric	80 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E107	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E108	rv electric	60 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E109	rv electric	65 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E110	rv electric	60 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E111	rv electric	62 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E112	rv electric	56 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E113	rv electric	80 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E114	rv electric	72 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E115	rv electric	57 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E116	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E117	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E118	rv electric	57 ft	50 amp			$28–$32
R1	E119	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp		251 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E201	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp		251 ftLake O' the Pines	$32–$44
R2	E202	rv electric	75 ft	50 amp	91 ft	223 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E203	rv electric	60 ft	50 amp	71 ft	293 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E204	rv electric	78 ft	50 amp	101 ft	288 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E205	rv electric	80 ft	50 amp	73 ft	389 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E206	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp	81 ft	301 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E207	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	61 ft	369 ftLake O' the Pines	$32–$44
R2	E208	rv electric	80 ft	50 amp	56 ft	286 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E209	rv electric	63 ft	50 amp	61 ft	363 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E210	rv electric	73 ft	50 amp	57 ft	202 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E211	standard electric	66 ft	50 amp	56 ft	245 ftLake O' the Pines	$32–$44
R2	E212	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	57 ft	152 ftLake O' the Pines	$32–$44
R2	E213	rv electric	60 ft	50 amp	66 ft	115 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E214	rv electric	63 ft	50 amp	63 ft	89 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E215	rv electric	65 ft	50 amp	62 ft	78 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E216	rv electric	60 ft	50 amp	64 ft	202 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E217	rv electric	63 ft		56 ft	93 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E218	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	64 ft	201 ftLake O' the Pines	$32–$44
R2	E219	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp	56 ft	104 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E220	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp	76 ft	95 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E221	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp	90 ft	175 ftLake O' the Pines	$32–$44
R2	E222	rv electric	65 ft	50 amp	81 ft	94 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E223	rv electric	60 ft	50 amp	81 ft	83 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E224	rv electric	65 ft	50 amp	71 ft	86 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E225	rv electric	58 ft	50 amp	71 ft	88 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E226	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp	73 ft	146 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E227	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp	114 ft	197 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E228	rv electric	63 ft	50 amp	71 ft	225 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E229	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp	85 ft	259 ftLake O' the Pines	$28–$32
R2	E230	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp	85 ft	327 ftLake O' the Pines	$32–$44
T1	T101	tent only nonelectric			70 ft	235 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T102	tent only nonelectric			70 ft	208 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T103	tent only nonelectric			93 ft	229 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T104	tent only nonelectric			93 ft	322 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T105	tent only nonelectric			83 ft	220 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T106	tent only nonelectric			71 ft	303 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T107	tent only nonelectric			71 ft	369 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T108	tent only nonelectric			76 ft	316 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T109	tent only nonelectric			76 ft	243 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T110	tent only nonelectric			75 ft	328 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T111	tent only nonelectric			75 ft	262 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T112	tent only nonelectric			91 ft	205 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T113	tent only nonelectric			113 ft	116 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T114	tent only nonelectric			77 ft	123 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T1	T115	tent only nonelectric			77 ft	168 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T201	tent only nonelectric			110 ft	415 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T202	tent only nonelectric			65 ft	501 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T203	tent only nonelectric			110 ft	405 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T204	tent only nonelectric			111 ft	302 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T205	tent only nonelectric			109 ft	191 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T206	tent only nonelectric			118 ft	93 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T207	tent only nonelectric			82 ft	199 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T208	tent only nonelectric			75 ft	175 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T209	tent only nonelectric			75 ft	180 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T210	tent only nonelectric			88 ft	325 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T211	tent only nonelectric			88 ft	285 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T212	tent only nonelectric			77 ft	467 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T213	tent only nonelectric			77 ft	428 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T214	tent only nonelectric			88 ft	574 ftLake O' the Pines	$18
T2	T215	tent only nonelectric			65 ft	533 ftLake O' the Pines	$18

The agency files 7 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

The records with no site name: Derived by CAMPANAC from the agency’s own campsite records: recreation.gov files some overnight records with no site name, only a row of X characters. A block is read as the campground’s own sites, filed without names, only where the agency types those records as campsites rather than MANAGEMENT, gives each one a coordinate, and their numbering continues the campground’s own numbered sites with no gap. Everything else is left uncounted, and where the evidence doesn’t decide the record is counted as no kind of site rather than guessed at · Sep 12, 2026

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

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 87 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate32.79944, -94.59194

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone903-755-2637

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Johnson Creek Camp2.6 mi

Brushy Creek5.1 mi

Buckhorn Creek6.4 mi

Malden Lake Campground36 mi

Rocky Point(Wright Patman Dam)42 mi

Piney Point42 mi

Getting there

From Jefferson, TX, travel 3.8 miles northwest on Highway 49. Turn left onto FM 729 and continue for 12 miles to the park entrance on the left.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today68°Mostly Sunny3% rain

Tonight47°Mostly Clear

Saturday68°Sunny

Saturday Night44°Clear

NWS forecast for Pine Harbor, TX

Source: National Weather Service, SHV forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 55°F, day 77°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°30°

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.

Measured at: DAINGERFIELD 9 S, TX (USC00412225), 11 miles away and 30 ft higher

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Alley Creek Camp is in Texas’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Nathaniel Moran (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 80 of the 80 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 63 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.87 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 154 rated federal campgrounds in Texas · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Pine Harbor, TX, 4.3 mi WNW (a census designated place). Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026