National Park Service · Lake Meredith National Recreation Area · TX
Chimney Hollow 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: the 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
Photos · NPS Photo
2,920 ftElevation
under 10 ftWater · Lake Meredith
3.3 miNW of Fritch, TX
n/aTree cover · water-masked cell
Bortle 4Night sky · 53rd darkest of 154 in TX
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This remote and primitive area is located near Blue West. It is tucked in the Blue Creek embankment, which provides protection from prevailing winds. There is no drinking water or flush toilets; vault-evaporator only. There are picnic tables available.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…protection from prevailing winds. There is no drinking water or flush toilets; vault-evaporator only. There are…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
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
Coordinate35.69186, -101.64223
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
Blue West CampgroundLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 1.0 mi
Blue CreekLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 2.5 mi
Fritch FortressLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 2.6 mi
Harbor Bay CampgroundLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 3.1 miFort Ebey State ParkLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 3.2 mi
Bugbee CanyonLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 3.7 mi
Blue West CampgroundLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 1.0 miBlue CreekLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 2.5 miFritch FortressLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 2.6 miHarbor Bay CampgroundLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 3.1 miFort Ebey State ParkLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 3.2 miBugbee CanyonLake Meredith National Recreation Area · 3.7 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
Today66°Widespread Frost then Sunny
Tonight40°Mostly Clear
Sunday70°Areas Of Frost then Sunny
Sunday Night49°Mostly Clear2% rain
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 at about the same elevation
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Chimney Hollow 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.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 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, 2.3 mi NW (a census designated place). Straight line.