Damsite Texas
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $21–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Damsite Texas is a relatively small campground which consists of a total of 19 campsites. Each of the campsites do have water and electric. The campground is located right along the Red River which gives easy access to popular outdoor activities like fishing. Most of all the campsites are covered by pecan trees within the campground which allows for great shade during the summer time. Before the enterance to the camground you will notice there are multiple picnic tables and a pavillion to be able to utilize for the day, this allows visitors to spend the day along the Red River and enjoy the scenary while not having to pay the cost for overnight camping within the campground. If a visitor does choose to bring a boat to explore lake Texoma, there is a popular spillway boat ramp area that is located at the Denison dam. Keep reading
Recreation
Even though the Damsite Texas campground is located along the Red River, Lake Texoma is located just right on the other side of the Dension Dam. Lake Texoma is a large reservoir with an excellent fishery and many access points. Boating, swimming, water skiing, hunting, birding and relaxing on the sandy beaches are the typical pursuits of most visitors. The lake is known as the "Striper Capital of the World," one of the few reservoirs in the nation where Striped bass reproduce naturally. Other popular species include largemouth and smallmouth bass, white bass, hybrid striped bass, white crappie, black crappie, channel catfish and blue catfish. Many visitors fish in the Red River in which they catch a vaiety of differnt species like Striped Bass, Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish, Alligator Gar, and occasionally American Paddlefish.
Facilities
Damsite Texas offers 19 campsites, all with 30 amp electric service and water hook-ups. Vault toilets are located in the area. A dump station is located along the Red River. Restaurants and stores are available within 5 miles of the campground.
Natural Features
The campground is situated right along the Texas side of the Red River by the Denison Dam. Deer, turkeys, bobcats, hawks, waterfowl and songbirds are abundant around the river.
Nearby Attractions
Lake Texoma features two wildlife refuges, two state parks and 23 commercial concession areas dedicated to the enjoyment of over six million visitors annually.
What the agency tells you
- Enterance gates stay open - Park closed from December 1 - March 31st. - reservation only - No Gate Attendant (Must make a reservation over the phone)
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- 20 electric, 20 water
- Paved pads
- 1 of 20
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 20 of 20 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 19 of 20 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $21–$25 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites
All 20 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. 20 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 10 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 11 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 12 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 13 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 14 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 15 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 16 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 17 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 18 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 19 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 2 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 20 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 3 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 4 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 5 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 6 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 7 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 8 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
| A | 9 | standard electric | 30 amp | $21–$25 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Denison, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 75°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
Damsite Texas is in Texas’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Pat Fallon (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →