Cedron Creek
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:57 UTC
- A night
- $28–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 58All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cedron Creek Campground is located on Whitney Lake on the main channel of the Brazos River in Central Texas. The majority of campsites in Cedron Creek are 30 amp electric hook ups with water and 10 sites have water and 50 amp electric hook ups. Each site has a stand up BBQ cooker or a ground cooker/fire ring. The park also has 3 restrooms, showers, horseshoe pits, a trailer dump station, boat ramp and a playground. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, fishing, swimming, canoeing and kayaking are popular activities at Whitney Lake. Anglers can fish for a variety of bass, crappie and catfish.
Facilities
The campground offers 57 sites which all have either 30 or 50 amp electric and water. There is a group camp area located near the water and is within 100 yards of a large restroom with showers. The pavilion has a capacity of approximately 100 people and contains eight (8), eight foot tables, electricity, lights, a large (3' X 3') grill and eight campsites.
Natural Features
Cedron Creek is situated on the lakeshore among rolling hills covered with cedar, live and post oak.
Nearby Attractions
The 12.5 mile Hopewell Trail is nearby. It allows hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding. Visitors can choose to travel north on the trail to Kimball Bend Park, or south to Lakeside Village and Powelldale Mountain.
What the agency tells you
Before camping at Cedron Creek please familiarize yourself with all applicable rules and regulations. Click Here to review Title 36.
Inbound gates open at 6 a.m. and close at 10 p.m.
A maximum of three vehicles allowed per campsite, group sites excluded
Everything else this campground posts · 4
No ATVs/OHVs allowed
A fishing license is required to fish at all parks on Lake Whitney
Please call the Whitney Lake Project Office 254-622-3332 for more information and burn ban restrictions
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 58 · 1 group, 1 cabin
- Hookups
- 58 electric, 58 water
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “There is a group camp area located near the water and is within 100 yards of a large restroom with showers.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 79th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
23 of 112 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:57 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $28–$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.
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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:57 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
58 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 58 mapped sitesAll 58 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. 57 of the 58 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| CEDRON CREEK | 01 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 520 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 522 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 607 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 04 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 568 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 05 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 773 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 06 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 677 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 07 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 759 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 08 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 642 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 09 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 740 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 10 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 633 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 11 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 739 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 12 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 631 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 13 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 720 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 14 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 788 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 15 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 765 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 16 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 1,231 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 17 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 1,257 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 18 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 1,305 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 19 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 1,334 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 20 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 1,298 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 21 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 1,274 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 22 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 1,228 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 23 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 29 ft | 1,250 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 29 ft | 1,225 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 25 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 1,214 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 26 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 1,298 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 27 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 1,380 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 28 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 1,466 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 29 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 1,506 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 30 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 1,429 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 31 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 1,361 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 32 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 1,263 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 33 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 1,204 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 34 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 1,109 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 35 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 1,045 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 36 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 143 ft | 454 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 37 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 143 ft | 403 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 38 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 252 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 39 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 112 ft | 147 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 40 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 242 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 41 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 132 ft | 134 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 42 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 254 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 43 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 262 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 44 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 127 ft | 221 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 45 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 159 ft | 166 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 46 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 331 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 47 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 167 ft | 375 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 48 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 154 ft | 540 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 49 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 430 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 50 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 177 ft | 240 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 51 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 413 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 52 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 225 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 53 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 156 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 54 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 139 ft | 233 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 55 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 329 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 56 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 386 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | 57 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 469 ft | $28–$30 |
| CEDRON CREEK | GC | group shelter electric | 30 amp | 305 ft | 620 ft |
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 58 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
McCown Valley2.1 mi
Lofers Bend East6.3 mi
Lofers Bend West6.3 mi
Plowman Creek8.6 mi
Kimball Bend Park12 mi
Airport Park27 miFrom I-35 in Hillsboro, take HWY 22 west, continue 12 miles to Whitney. At Whitney, take HWY 933 north for 3 miles, turn left on FM 1713 and cross the bridge, over the lake. Cedron is the first road on the left. Follow signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Whitney, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°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
Cedron Creek 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 →