Copperas Creek
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:57 UTC
- A night
- $24–$44Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 69All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Copperas Creek Park is nestled within the beautiful Cross Timbers Region of Texas and located on the southwestern side of Proctor Lake. Copperas Creek appeals to sportsmen, birdwatchers, naturalists or those simply wanting to relax in the outdoors. Keep reading
Recreation
Copperas Creek offers families and friends with an excellent venue to enjoy the outdoors. The park offers overnight camping as well as a day-use area for picnicing and several swim beaches for folks to soak up the sun and enjoy the beautiful lake water. Fishing is Proctor Lake's main attraction: anglers enjoy the lake's tremendous populations of Bass, Crappie, and Catfish. The lake is also recognized as one of the best Hybrid Striped Bass fishing areas in the state. Copperas Creek offers three boat ramps that provides guests with easy access to the lake. Also, two fishing docks are located within the park and one fishing platform located in deep water and immediately in front of the Proctor Lake dam. High Point Park, located adjacent to Sowell Creek Park on FM 1496 (31.999944, -98.470486), offers more than 10 miles of of hiking and equestrian trails.
Facilities
Copperas Creek provides 67 campsites and two group shelters during the summer (April - September); and 30 campsites and one group shelter during the winter (October - March). Campsites are equipped with electric hookups ranging from 50 amp, 30 amp, and 20 amp; water hookups; sewer; and a covered picnic table. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station thus creating a comfortable camping environment for visitors.
Natural Features
Large, open grassy areas; Cottonwoods; Black Willow; and Cypress trees characterize the campground: Some campsites have shade and the lake views are plentiful.
Nearby Attractions
The surrounding towns of Comanche, De Leon, and Dublin offers historical attractions, antique stores. museums, events and more.
What the agency tells you
The park gate closes at night for security. Entrance into the park is not allowed between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Please plan accordingly.
Off-road vehicles, golf carts, ATVs, or UTVs are NOT permitted in the parks.
Campsites are allowed 2 extra vehicle permits at a cost of $4 per permit. Each campsite is not to exceed a total of 4 vehicles per campsite.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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.
Some campsites may not have a shelter top over the picnic table.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 69 · 2 group
- Hookups
- 69 electric, 69 water, 24 sewer
- Longest rig
- 150 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…table. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station thus…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station thus creating a comfortable camping environment for visitors.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station thus creating a comfortable…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Night sky · 45th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
7 of 62 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.
OpenBooked
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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.
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One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 19
What you actually pay
“Campsites are allowed 2 extra vehicle permits at a cost of $4 per permit.” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$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.
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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:57 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
69 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 69 mapped sitesAll 69 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 69 of the 69 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. 69 of the 69 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| East | G1 | group standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 345 ft | 341 ft | 1,033 ft | $100–$130 |
| L#1 | 01 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 310 ft | 277 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 02 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 453 ft | 302 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 03 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 363 ft | 327 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 04 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 493 ft | 353 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 05 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 473 ft | 429 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 06 | standard electric | 140 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 337 ft | 509 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 07 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 331 ft | 406 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 08 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 234 ft | 542 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 08A | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 180 ft | 513 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 09 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 250 ft | 421 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 10 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 247 ft | 359 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 11 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 121 ft | 437 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 12 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 81 ft | 395 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 13 | standard electric | 105 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 63 ft | 342 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 14 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 194 ft | 241 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#1 | 15 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 279 ft | 214 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 16 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 172 ft | 308 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 17 | standard electric | 85 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 94 ft | 238 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 18 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 82 ft | 328 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 19 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 78 ft | 395 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 20 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 75 ft | 445 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 21 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 53 ft | 512 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 22 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 66 ft | 514 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 23 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 152 ft | 422 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 24 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 89 ft | 530 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 25 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 74 ft | 490 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 26 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 41 ft | 470 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 27 | standard electric | 150 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 107 ft | 394 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 28 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 102 ft | 334 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#2 | 29 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 198 ft | 246 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#3 | 30 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 286 ft | 581 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#3 | 31 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 211 ft | 704 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#3 | 32 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 212 ft | 576 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#3 | 33 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 120 ft | 719 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#3 | 34 | standard electric | 110 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 144 ft | 538 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#3 | 35 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 124 ft | 86 ft | 652 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#3 | 36 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 124 ft | 54 ft | 675 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#4 | 37 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 237 ft | 433 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#4 | 38 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 223 ft | 367 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#4 | 39 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 105 ft | 123 ft | 257 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#4 | 40 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 105 ft | 84 ft | 356 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#4 | 41 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 105 ft | 454 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#4 | 42 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 195 ft | 138 ft | 626 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 43 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 223 ft | 214 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 44 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 207 ft | 234 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 45 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 116 ft | 199 ft | 210 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 46 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 176 ft | 290 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 47 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 123 ft | 343 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 48 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 145 ft | 344 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 49 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 117 ft | 417 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 50 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 72 ft | 479 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 51 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 97 ft | 421 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 52 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 120 ft | 65 ft | 564 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 53 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 82 ft | 491 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 54 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 68 ft | 553 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 55 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 57 ft | 607 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#5 | 56 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 45 ft | 665 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#6 | 57 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 112 ft | 209 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#6 | 58 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 69 ft | 222 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#6 | 59 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 205 ft | 120 ft | 183 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#6 | 60 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 417 ft | 453 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#6 | 61 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 360 ft | 378 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#6 | 62 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 380 ft | 345 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#6 | 63 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 328 ft | 316 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#6 | 64 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 331 ft | 285 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#6 | 65 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 312 ft | 239 ft | $24–$44 |
| L#6 | 66 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 291 ft | 220 ft | $24–$44 |
| West | G2 | group standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 284 ft | 106 ft | 282 ft | $100–$130 |
25 of 69 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Promontory1.2 mi
Sowell Creek3.1 mi
Plowman Creek60 mi
Kimball Bend Park60 mi
Flatrock (Texas)63 mi
Lakeside (TX)64 miFrom Comanche, Texas, take HWY 67/377 northeast for 5 miles, then turn left on FM 2861. Follow for 2.5 miles to the park entrance. Park entrance is on the North side of FM 2861.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Proctor, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 54°F, day 80°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Copperas Creek is in Texas’s 25th congressional district. Its representative, Roger Williams (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →