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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TX

Cedar Breaks Park

Reservable, and full this SaturdayEvery one of the 56 sites on offer is taken this Saturday, and the record lists no site held back for a walk-up. read 16:14 UTC

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Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:14 UTC
A night: $30From, per site
Sites: 64All of them booked ahead

Photos · Park Ranger

55 ftLongest rig

890 ftElevation

516 ftWater · an unnamed pond

In townGeorgetown, TX

28%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices

In the agency’s own words

Cedar Breaks Park sits on the south side of Georgetown Lake in the Hill Country of Texas, about 25 miles north of Austin. Keep reading

Recreation

Boating is the most popular way to enjoy the lake, and a boat ramp is provided for guests. Fishing is excellent in the area, and the lake contains Black bass, White bass, Hybrid stripers, White crappie, Channel catfish and Flathead catfish, but its most known for its abundance of Smallmouth bass. The San Gabriel River Trail is a 26 mile rugged trail winding through dense juniper forest, hardwood bottomlands and prairie grasslands. The trail extends completely around Georgetown Lake via the dam and is open to hiking and biking. Hunting is available for for small game like dove, waterfowl, rabbit and squirrel, as well as white tail deer. Hunting is by permit only.

Facilities

Cedar Breaks Park has 59 reservable campsites, and convenient amenities like flush toilets and electric hookups are provided. Two groups picnic shelters are also available, allowing for large parties, cookouts and family trips.

Natural Features

Lake Georgetown is a reservoir on the north fork of the San Gabriel River in central Texas. The dam was completed in 1979 to provide flood control and water supply for the nearby community of Georgetown, and now provides countless recreation opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts. The park is aptly named for the abundance of cedar in the surrounding forest.

Nearby Attractions

The nearby town of Georgetown offers gas, groceries and more. The historic downtown square district has shops and restaurants, and concerts and events are held on a regular basis. Additionally, Austin is located just 25 miles from the lake, offering countless tourist attractions.

Charges & Cancellations

Once a reservation date has begun, customers cannot change a reservation using the online system or through the Call Center. On-site personnel are not able to modify reservations. Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Camping by reservation only. Reservations must be made online through Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777.

Rule

Camper check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and check-out is 2:00 p.m.

Rule

Gate house hours of operation are Friday through Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Hours may vary during Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor Day.

Everything else this campground posts · 6

Rule

Park entrance gates close at 10:00 p.m. An emergency exit is provided.

Rule

Maximum 14 day stay limit enforced. No extensions permitted.

Rule

The number of personal vehicles per site is two. Additional vehicles are required to park in the overflow parking lot with the purchase of Daily Activity Pass and Additional Vehicle Pass provided by the Park Host at the gatehouse. Camping unit(s) on campsite may include only one RV, one tent, and/or two tents.

Rule

Day Use Areas close at sunset.

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.

Rule

Do not feed the wildlife

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 64
Hookups: 64 electric, 64 water
Longest rig: 55 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

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…campsites, and convenient amenities like flush toilets and electric hookups are provided. Two groups…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Camp host: On site; recreation.gov lists “Host”
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

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

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Reservoir, Lake, River; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Hunting; Mountain biking; Paddling; Picnicking
Night sky · 141st darkest of 154 in TX: Bortle 5

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

Full this Saturdayread 16:14 UTC

How full the weekend is nationally.

4 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:48 UTC. See them

OpenBooked

Every one of the 56 sites on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 35 are free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:14 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t

Booking window6 months outBookable now through April 15, 2027. Today at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 16, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$68DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

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

Watch for a cancellation

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We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Where there’s room this weekend Book on recreation.gov ↗

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

Every line of the receipt · 22

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night$30

Standard Electric$30

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

Cancellations: Once a reservation date has begun, customers cannot change a reservation using the online system or through the Call Center.

On-site personnel are not able to modify reservations.

Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee.

A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation).

Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee.

Group Facility (including Cabins and Lookouts): Customers who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee.

Group Day Use Area: Customers who cancel a group day-use facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will forfeit the total day-use fee.

Refunds: Customers can request refunds online up to 7 days after the scheduled departure date.

After 7 days, customers must request refunds through the call center.

Cancellation fees are non-refundable.

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$38

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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

“On-site personnel are not able to modify reservations. - Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (…” · this campground’s own terms

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 · 6

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

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · 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

Open within 30 miles this weekend · 4

Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:48 UTC

Russell ParkGeorgetown Lake · 1.4 mi · 12 of 56 site-nights open
Willis CreekGranger Lake · 20 mi · 1 of 52 site-nights open
Wilson H FoxGranger Lake · 24 mi · 2 of 96 site-nights open
Union GroveStillhouse Hollow Lake · 25 mi · 17 of 68 site-nights open

Open this weekend: recreation.gov availability · derived by CAMPANAC: site-nights the agency offered this weekend that nobody has taken, within the radius, closures removed by the closure rule · Oct 15, 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

64 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 64 mapped sites

86 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most room050 142 ft046 129 ft061 128 ft063 126 ft058 123 ft

Least room037 57 ft039 57 ft015 58 ft

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

All 64 sites

64 of 64 sites located

RV / electric64

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064

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 64 of the 64 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. 64 of the 64 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


CEDAR BREAKS PARK	001	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	67 ft	457 ftLake Georgetown	550 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	002	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	108 ft	564 ftLake Georgetown	442 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	003	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	67 ft	452 ftLake Georgetown	508 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	004	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	113 ft	567 ftLake Georgetown	421 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	005	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	83 ft	461 ftLake Georgetown	384 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	006	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	91 ft	493 ftLake Georgetown	334 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	007	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	83 ft	470 ftLake Georgetown	312 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	008	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	91 ft	459 ftLake Georgetown	248 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	009	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	101 ft	458 ftLake Georgetown	241 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	010	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	70 ft	436 ftLake Georgetown	194 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	011	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	70 ft	419 ftLake Georgetown	202 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	012	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	77 ft	311 ftLake Georgetown	102 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	013	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	103 ft	362 ftLake Georgetown	253 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	014	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	90 ft	259 ftLake Georgetown	327 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	015	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	58 ft	241 ftLake Georgetown	296 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	016	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	59 ft	283 ftLake Georgetown	173 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	017	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	58 ft	193 ftLake Georgetown	292 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	018	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	65 ft	112 ftLake Georgetown	280 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	019	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	65 ft	84 ftLake Georgetown	251 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	020	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	59 ft	225 ftLake Georgetown	169 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	021	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	91 ft	120 ftLake Georgetown	179 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	022	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	79 ft	235 ftLake Georgetown	81 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	023	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	71 ft	117 ftLake Georgetown	158 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	024	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	89 ft	233 ftLake Georgetown	79 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	025	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	71 ft	78 ftLake Georgetown	215 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	026	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	67 ft	224 ftLake Georgetown	165 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	027	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	109 ft	92 ftLake Georgetown	301 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	028	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	67 ft	217 ftLake Georgetown	230 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	029	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	91 ft	96 ftLake Georgetown	371 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	030	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	99 ft	245 ftLake Georgetown	317 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	031	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	86 ft	116 ftLake Georgetown	288 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	032	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	108 ft	235 ftLake Georgetown	200 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	033	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	86 ft	113 ftLake Georgetown	246 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	034	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	108 ft	234 ftLake Georgetown	122 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	035	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	78 ft	115 ftLake Georgetown	227 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	036	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	78 ft	126 ftLake Georgetown	246 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	037	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	57 ft	278 ftLake Georgetown	175 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	038	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	87 ft	160 ftLake Georgetown	308 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	039	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	57 ft	301 ftLake Georgetown	220 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	040	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	87 ft	189 ftLake Georgetown	367 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	041	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	101 ft	340 ftLake Georgetown	316 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	042	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	97 ft	242 ftLake Georgetown	459 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	043	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	58 ft	369 ftLake Georgetown	414 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	044	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	97 ft	288 ftLake Georgetown	544 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	045	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	58 ft	405 ftLake Georgetown	464 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	046	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	129 ft	359 ftLake Georgetown	636 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	047	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	65 ft	453 ftLake Georgetown	520 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	048	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	116 ft	499 ftLake Georgetown	689 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	049	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	66 ft	535 ftLake Georgetown	591 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	050	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	142 ft	669 ftLake Georgetown	677 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	051	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	62 ft	558 ftLake Georgetown	542 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	052	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	106 ft	694 ftLake Georgetown	569 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	053	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	62 ft	560 ftLake Georgetown	489 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	054	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	106 ft	682 ftLake Georgetown	484 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	055	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	96 ft	554 ftLake Georgetown	399 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	056	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	107 ft	631 ftLake Georgetown	383 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	057	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	94 ft	504 ftLake Georgetown	303 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	058	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	123 ft	590 ftLake Georgetown	284 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	059	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	94 ft	460 ftLake Georgetown	210 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	060	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	64 ft	353 ftLake Georgetown	180 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	061	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	128 ft	450 ftLake Georgetown	111 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	062	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	70 ft	597 ftLake Georgetown	261 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	063	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	126 ft	496 ftLake Georgetown	190 ft	$30
CEDAR BREAKS PARK	064	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	70 ft	647 ftLake Georgetown	319 ft	$30

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 64 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

Coordinate30.66813, -97.73757

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone512-930-5253

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Jim Hogg Park1.4 mi

Russell Park1.4 mi

Tejas Park5.7 mi

Willis Creek20 mi

Taylor22 mi

Wilson H Fox24 mi

Getting there

From I-35, take Farm to Market Road 2338 west for 3.5 miles to D.B. Wood Road. Turn left and continue for 2.5 miles. Turn right onto Cedar Breaks Road and follow signs to the park.

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

Today66°Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy18% rain

Tonight47°Mostly Clear1% rain

Saturday66°Sunny

Saturday Night44°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Georgetown, TX

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 57°F, day 81°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 36°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

110°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: GEORGETOWN LAKE, TX (USC00413507), 1 mile away and at about the same elevation

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 · a letter you can send

Who answers for this land

Cedar Breaks Park is in Texas’s 31st congressional district. Its representative, John Carter (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

Who can change it · 3

Write to somebody who can change it

Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.

The member who votes the moneyJohn R. CarterU.S. Representative · Texas’s 31st district
Open their contact form ↗Their record →
Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn CornynU.S. Senator · Texas
Open their contact form ↗
Your senator, on the same appropriationTed CruzU.S. Senator · Texas
Open their contact form ↗

Read the draft, or change the wording

For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.

To John R. Carter

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Cedar Breaks Park, Texas

Dear John R. Carter,

I’m a constituent in Texas’s 31st district. I tried to camp at Cedar Breaks Park, Texas, and couldn’t.

All 64 sites at Cedar Breaks Park are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 56 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Cedar Breaks Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Cedar Breaks Park. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

Sent about Cedar Breaks Park (Texas) via campanac.com

To John Cornyn

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Cedar Breaks Park, Texas

Dear John Cornyn,

I’m a constituent in Texas. I tried to camp at Cedar Breaks Park, Texas, and couldn’t.

All 64 sites at Cedar Breaks Park are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 56 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Cedar Breaks Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Cedar Breaks Park. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

Sent about Cedar Breaks Park (Texas) via campanac.com

To Ted Cruz

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Cedar Breaks Park, Texas

Dear Ted Cruz,

I’m a constituent in Texas. I tried to camp at Cedar Breaks Park, Texas, and couldn’t.

All 64 sites at Cedar Breaks Park are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 56 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Cedar Breaks Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Cedar Breaks Park. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

Sent about Cedar Breaks Park (Texas) via campanac.com

How we know this · 4

Contacts: Contact forms from @unitedstates/congress-legislators · Sep 9, 2026

The figures in these drafts: Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress (CRS Report RS20643) · Updated December 4, 2025 · “The ship’s final procurement cost was $13,316.5 million (i.e., about $13.3 billion) in then-year dollars.”

The figures in these drafts: Salary Table 2026-GS, Incorporating the 1% General Schedule Increase, Effective January 2026 (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) · Effective January 2026 · “Grade 5, Step 1: $34,799 (annual rate, before locality pay).”

The figures in these drafts: Update to Civilian Position Full Fringe Benefit Cost Factor, Federal Pay Raise Assumptions, and Inflation Factors used in OMB Circular No. A-76 (OMB Memorandum M-08-13) · March 11, 2008 · “the civilian position full fringe benefit cost factor needs to be adjusted downward, from 36.45 percent to 36.25 percent”

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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 64 of the 64 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 64 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: 4.3 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 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