National Park Service · Lake Meredith National Recreation Area · TX
Blue West Campground
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Application for Special Use Permit Each applicant is required to complete a new "Application For Special Use Permit" prior to any new permit being issued
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Road Construction Work to begin May 4-October 24 Road construction work to occur Monday thru Friday between the hours of 7:00 am and 8:00 pm, weather permitting. Expect delays of up to 30 minutes during active construction periods.
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Roadwork to Begin at Sanford Yake Campground Monday, July 13th The National Park Service announces that Federal Highway Administration contractors will begin roadway and pavement maintenance at Sanford Yake Campground starting Monday, July 13, 2026. This project will include chip seal, micro seal…
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Condition of Turkey Creek Trail The South Turkey Creek Trail, located near the Harbor Bay Campground Area, is currently open for hiking for the first mile; however, the remainder of the trail is underwater and cannot be safely accessed.
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 30 sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 3030 of them walk-up
Photos · NPS Photo
3,080 ftElevation
360 ftWater · Lake Meredith
2.3 miNW of Fritch, TX
30Walk-up sites
0%Tree cover
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
A caprock campground, overlooking Lake Meredith. Access to shoreline is difficult. This campground is located north of the lake off FM Road 1913. These campgrounds have excellent views of the lake and offer picnic tables and shade shelters. This area is a great place to view the sunsets of the Texas Panhandle.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
Source: National Park Service and agency records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Night sky · 55th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
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 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate35.68246, -101.62856
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The phone(806) 857-3151
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
Chimney Hollow CampgroundLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 1.0 mi
Fritch FortressLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 1.7 mi
Harbor Bay CampgroundLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 2.4 miFort Ebey State ParkLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 2.4 mi
Blue CreekLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 3.4 mi
Bugbee CanyonLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 3.6 mi
Chimney Hollow CampgroundLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 1.0 miFritch FortressLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 1.7 miHarbor Bay CampgroundLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 2.4 miFort Ebey State ParkLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 2.4 miBlue CreekLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 3.4 miBugbee CanyonLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 3.6 miSource: 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
Tonight33°Clear then Widespread Frost
Saturday63°Widespread Frost then Sunny
Saturday Night39°Mostly Clear
Sunday70°Areas Of Frost then Sunny
NWS forecast for Lake Meredith Estates, TX
Source: National Weather Service, AMA forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 21°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
110°32°10°
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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
Measured at: SANFORD DAM, TX (USC00418040), 5 miles away and 144 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Blue West Campground is in Texas’s 13th congressional district. Its representative, Ronny Jackson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: National Park Service 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.
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 · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Park Service’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: Lake Meredith Estates, TX, 1.3 mi NW (a census designated place). Straight line.