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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TX

Buckhorn Creek

ReservableBookable through April 16; tomorrow opens April 17.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:14 UTC
A night: $18–$44Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 95All of them booked ahead

Photos · LOP

135 ftLongest rig

260 ftElevation

488 ftWater · Lake O' the Pines

6.8 miW of Jefferson, TX

29%Tree cover

The place

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

In the agency’s own words

Buckhorn 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. Address to get here: 2669 FM 726, Jefferson, TX 75657 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. Keep reading

Lake O' the Pines fishing includes largemouth, spotted, and white bass along with crappie, catfish, and sunfish. 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

Buckhorn Creek features 57 RV campsites with water and electric hookups. There are also 38 non-electric tent campsites which have a tent pad, picnic table, fire ring, and lantern pole. Restrooms with showers are located in each section of the park. Trash receptacles are located throughout the park. A boat ramp, courtesy dock, playground, 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 the 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 plenty of 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

Click Here to learn more about the Lake O' the Pines

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: 95 · 38 tent-only
Hookups: 57 electric, 57 water
Longest rig: 135 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Restrooms with showers are located in each section of the park.”
Drinking water: Yes; DRINKING WATER on 1 of 95 campsite records
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes

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

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

Around the campground

On the water: Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Swimming; Water sports; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 77th darkest of 154 in TX: Bortle 4
Cell signal · Cell signal · Army Corps says: Yes

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

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own per-site records, 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. · Sep 8, 2026

104 of 188 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:14 UTC

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

OpenBooked

Booking window6 months outBookable now through April 16, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov

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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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

RV Electric$44

Standard Electric$44

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.

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 · Sep 10, 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

recreation.gov availability, read 16:14 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

95 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 79 mapped sites

76 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop R2 E206 399 ftT219 173 ftT222 166 ftT218 155 ftT220 145 ft

Least roomLoop R1 E129 44 ftLoop R1 E130 44 ftT201 48 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 95 sites

79 of 95 sites located

Tent only38RV / electric41

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

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

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 79 of the 95 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 95 of the 95 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


R1	E101	rv electric	65 ft	50 amp		397 ft	136 ft	$28–$44
R1	E102	rv electric	56 ft	50 amp	74 ft	360 ft	220 ft	$28–$44
R1	E103	rv electric	90 ft	50 amp	66 ft	333 ft	290 ft	$28–$44
R1	E104	rv electric	75 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R1	E105	rv electric	65 ft	50 amp	66 ft	297 ft	356 ft	$28–$44
R1	E106	rv electric	84 ft	50 amp	80 ft	400 ft	325 ft	$28–$44
R1	E107	standard electric	94 ft	50 amp	80 ft	365 ft	366 ft	$32–$44
R1	E108	rv electric	84 ft	50 amp	85 ft	196 ft	448 ft	$28–$44
R1	E109	rv electric	86 ft	50 amp	101 ft	299 ft	330 ft	$28–$44
R1	E110	rv electric	60 ft	50 amp	85 ft	175 ft	415 ft	$28–$44
R1	E111	rv electric	84 ft	50 amp	85 ft	250 ft	323 ft	$28–$44
R1	E112	standard electric	102 ft	50 amp	85 ft	213 ft	335 ft	$32–$44
R1	E113	rv electric	66 ft	50 amp	53 ft	106 ft	428 ft	$28–$44
R1	E114	rv electric	75 ft	50 amp	53 ft	87 ft	424 ft	$28–$44
R1	E115	rv electric	90 ft	50 amp	69 ft	178 ft	326 ft	$28–$44
R1	E116	rv electric	66 ft	50 amp	62 ft	58 ft	435 ft	$28–$44
R1	E117	rv electric	65 ft	50 amp	61 ft	61 ft	429 ft	$28–$44
R1	E118	rv electric	66 ft	50 amp	56 ft	80 ft	417 ft	$28–$44
R1	E119	rv electric	77 ft	50 amp	56 ft	64 ft	363 ft	$28–$44
R1	E120	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp	72 ft	126 ft	300 ft	$28–$44
R1	E121	rv electric	54 ft	50 amp	56 ft	54 ft	309 ft	$28–$44
R1	E122	rv electric	47 ft	50 amp	48 ft	53 ft	222 ft	$28–$44
R1	E123	rv electric	67 ft	50 amp	48 ft	55 ft	175 ft	$28–$44
R1	E124	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp	85 ft	139 ft	149 ft	$28–$44
R1	E125	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	80 ft	178 ft	244 ft	$32–$44
R1	E126	rv electric	66 ft	50 amp	69 ft	161 ft	324 ft	$28–$44
R1	E127	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp	65 ft	321 ft	169 ft	$28–$44
R1	E128	rv electric	52 ft		65 ft	318 ft	186 ft	$28–$44
R1	E129	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp	44 ft	283 ft	244 ft	$28–$44
R1	E130	rv electric	45 ft	50 amp	44 ft	256 ft	282 ft	$28–$44
R1	E131	rv electric	80 ft	50 amp	51 ft	240 ft	332 ft	$28–$44
R1	E132	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp	51 ft	228 ft	372 ft	$28–$44
R1	E133	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp	52 ft	208 ft	420 ft	$28–$44
R1	E134	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp	73 ft	210 ft	293 ft	$28–$44
R1	E135	rv electric	45 ft	50 amp	53 ft	179 ft	343 ft	$28–$44
R1	E136	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	53 ft	134 ft	388 ft	$32–$44
R1	E137	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	72 ft	133 ft	412 ft	$32–$44
R1	E138	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	76 ft	109 ft	480 ft	$32–$44
R1	E139	rv electric	80 ft	50 amp	76 ft	98 ft	533 ft	$28–$44
R1	E140	rv electric	135 ft	50 amp	95 ft	87 ft	482 ft	$28–$44
R2	E201	rv electric	63 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E202	rv electric	65 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E203	rv electric	85 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E204	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp				$32–$44
R2	E205	rv electric	65 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E206	rv electric	65 ft	50 amp	399 ft	265 ft	324 ft	$28–$44
R2	E207	rv electric	58 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E208	rv electric	54 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E209	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp				$32–$44
R2	E210	rv electric	52 ft	50 amp		397 ft	136 ft	$28–$44
R2	E211	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp				$32–$44
R2	E212	rv electric	48 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E213	rv electric	110 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E214	rv electric	45 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E215	rv electric	55 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E216	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
R2	E217	rv electric	85 ft	50 amp				$28–$44
T1	T101	tent only nonelectric			99 ft	114 ft	365 ft	$18
T1	T102	tent only nonelectric			91 ft	105 ft	340 ft	$18
T1	T103	tent only nonelectric			82 ft	96 ft	359 ft	$18
T1	T104	tent only nonelectric			76 ft	86 ft	395 ft	$18
T1	T105	tent only nonelectric			76 ft	62 ft	459 ft	$18
T1	T106	tent only nonelectric			77 ft	112 ft	475 ft	$18
T1	T107	tent only nonelectric			78 ft	113 ft	480 ft	$18
T1	T108	tent only nonelectric			60 ft	127 ft	450 ft	$18
T1	T109	tent only nonelectric			77 ft	228 ft	321 ft	$18
T1	T110	tent only nonelectric			77 ft	196 ft	389 ft	$18
T1	T111	tent only nonelectric			82 ft	305 ft	272 ft	$18
T1	T112	tent only nonelectric			60 ft	123 ft	455 ft	$18
T1	T113	tent only nonelectric			82 ft	226 ft	351 ft	$18
T1	T114	tent only nonelectric			86 ft	205 ft	330 ft	$18
T1	T115	tent only nonelectric			90 ft	116 ft	412 ft	$18
T1	T116	tent only nonelectric			120 ft	116 ft	375 ft	$18
T2	T201	tent only nonelectric			48 ft	122 ft	57 ft	$18
T2	T202	tent only nonelectric			48 ft	120 ft	104 ft	$18
T2	T203	tent only nonelectric			61 ft	99 ft	165 ft	$18
T2	T204	tent only nonelectric			64 ft	100 ft	237 ft	$18
T2	T205	tent only nonelectric			64 ft	98 ft	301 ft	$18
T2	T206	tent only nonelectric			79 ft	90 ft	380 ft	$18
T2	T207	tent only nonelectric			103 ft	70 ft	482 ft	$18
T2	T208	tent only nonelectric			58 ft	113 ft	464 ft	$18
T2	T209	tent only nonelectric			58 ft	112 ft	416 ft	$18
T2	T210	tent only nonelectric			89 ft	178 ft	374 ft	$18
T2	T211	tent only nonelectric			50 ft	100 ft	359 ft	$18
T2	T212	tent only nonelectric			50 ft	84 ft	323 ft	$18
T2	T213	tent only nonelectric			73 ft	79 ft	267 ft	$18
T2	T214	tent only nonelectric			107 ft	185 ft	171 ft	$18
T2	T215	tent only nonelectric			81 ft	78 ft	226 ft	$18
T2	T216	tent only nonelectric			111 ft	60 ft	228 ft	$18
T2	T217	tent only nonelectric			111 ft	82 ft	253 ft	$18
T2	T218	tent only nonelectric			155 ft	105 ft	369 ft	$18
T2	T219	tent only nonelectric			173 ft	192 ft	615 ft	$18
T2	T220	tent only nonelectric			145 ft	270 ft	786 ft	$18
T2	T221	tent only nonelectric			145 ft	385 ft	920 ft	$18
T2	T222	tent only nonelectric			166 ft	536 ft	1,070 ft	$18

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 · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 95 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

Coordinate32.75528, -94.49444

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone903-665-8261

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Brushy Creek2.6 mi

Johnson Creek Camp3.9 mi

Alley Creek Camp6.4 mi

Malden Lake Campground37 mi

Rocky Point(Wright Patman Dam)41 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 3.5 miles, then turn left again onto FM 726. Travel 2.5 miles. The park entrance is on the right.

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 Sunny4% rain

Tonight47°Mostly Clear

Saturday67°Sunny

Saturday Night43°Clear

NWS forecast for Pine Harbor, TX

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 52°F, day 79°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°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: JEFFERSON, TX (USC00414577), 8 miles away and 49 ft lower

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

Buckhorn Creek 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 →

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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: recreation.gov is offering sites on 30 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 95 of the 95 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 14, 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 79 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: 0.81 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

“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 1 of 95 campsites here”

Nearest place of any size: Pine Harbor, TX, 0.1 mi SSE (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