Bear Creek
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:05 UTC
- A night
- $26–$28When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 47In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bear Creek Campground is on the south side of Benbrook Lake in north central Texas, accessible from Ben Day Murrin Road. Individual & group camping, along with boat launching, is available. Keep reading
Recreation
Both individual & group camping are available in Bear Creek, April thru September, along with boat launching and wildlife viewing. Deer, hawks, owls, roadrunners and woodpeckers can be spotted around the lake.
Facilities
Bear Creek has individual campsites with utility hookups, a large group camping pavilion, restrooms with showers, trailer dump station, and boat launching.
Natural Features
Bear Creek campground lies along the east side Bear Creek on the south side of the lake, with wooded hillsides and prairie above the lake. Contact Info For local information, please call (817) 292-2400 or call (877) 444-6777 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Fort Worth’s renowned Cultural & Museum District, Stockyards National Historic District, Botanical Gardens, Zoo, Bass Performance Hall, and downtown Sundance Square, are all only a short drive from the park. The campground closes at 10:00 p.m. so plan ahead.
What the agency tells you
Campground is open April – September.
Park is not specifically designated as accessible; however, it is a generally open and level setting without barriers, significant grade changes or slopes
Gates are closed from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Fires allowed in campfire rings, grills or covered cookers only
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 only allowed with a Lake Activity Permit from the Benbrook Lake Project Office.
As of 1 October 2023, Bear Creek Campground will no longer accept cash payments for campsite reservations.
CHECK OUT 2PM CHECK IN 3PM
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Inflatable or plastic pools are prohibited. Benbrook Lake is on a well-house system that can not support the use to fill those types of items. It also proposes several drowning hazards for wildlife.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 47 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 47 electric, 46 water, 2 sewer
- Longest rig
- 85 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Facilities Bear Creek has individual campsites with utility hookups, a large group camping pavilion, restrooms with showers, trailer dump station, and boat launching.”
- 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, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 143rd darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 6
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:05 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Every line of the receipt · 14
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Bear Creek closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 150 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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recreation.gov availability, read 16:05 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
47 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 47 mapped sitesAll 47 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. 47 of the 47 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BEAR CREEK | 01 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 116 ft | 415 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 02 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 372 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 351 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 04 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 271 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 05 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 222 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 06 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 168 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 07 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 205 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 08 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 283 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 09 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 280 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 10 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 155 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 11 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | 136 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 12 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 122 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 13 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 83 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 14 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 84 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 15 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 137 ft | 77 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 16 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 150 ft | 89 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 17 | standard electric | 85 ft | 30 amp | 175 ft | 90 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 18 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 175 ft | 74 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 19 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | yes | 259 ft | 33 ft | $26–$28 |
| BEAR CREEK | 20 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 178 ft | 195 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 21 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 138 ft | 103 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 22 | standard electric | 85 ft | 30 amp | 138 ft | 124 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 23 | standard electric | 85 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 58 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 24 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 81 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 25 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 122 ft | 203 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 26 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 101 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 27 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 123 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 28 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 78 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 29 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 105 ft | 31 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 30 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 105 ft | 73 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 31 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 187 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 32 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 283 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 33 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 392 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 34 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 411 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 35 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 297 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 36 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 144 ft | 308 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 37 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 143 ft | 326 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 38 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 286 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 39 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 295 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 40 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 283 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 41 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 383 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 42 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 471 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 43 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 531 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 44 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 618 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 45 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 601 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | 46 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 539 ft | $26–$28 | |
| BEAR CREEK | GS | group standard electric | 30 amp | 109 ft | 508 ft | $125 |
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 47 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Mustang1.3 mi
Holiday (Texas)1.3 mi
Rocky Creek Park (Benbrook Lake)2.8 mi
North Holiday Park3.9 mi
Longhorn4.7 miFrom Interstate 20 or 820 in southwest Fort Worth, take exit 429A for Highway 377 toward Granbury and go south 5.7 miles (9.2 km); turn left or southeast onto FM Road 1187 and continue for 1.4 miles (2.2 km), then turn left or east onto Ben Day-Murrin Road and continue another 1.6 miles (2.7 km) to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fort Worth, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 54°F, day 81°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°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
Bear Creek is in Texas’s 12th congressional district. Its representative, Craig Goldman (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →