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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TX

East Fork (TX)

ReservableBookable through April 17; tomorrow opens April 18.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 14:47 UTC
A night: $14–$30Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 7470 on recreation.gov

Photos · Ranger Walker

60 ftLongest rig

510 ftElevation

491 ftWater · Lavon Lake

In townWylie, TX

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices

In the agency’s own words

East Fork Campground, on the southern shores of Lavon Lake, is a popular escape for city dwellers in the Dallas, Texas area or for any visitors passing through the Northern Texas region. The campground boasts everything including RV campsites, tent campsites, equestrian campsites, a group shelter and a swimming beach to keep visitors entertained during their stay. Keep reading

Recreation

Boating and fishing are consistently popular activities for lake-goers. Horseback riding and hiking is great along the Trinity Trail, with a trailhead beginning adjacent to the East Fork campground.

Facilities

The campground offers 50 sites with water and electric hookups, plus 12 tent-only sites. There are not sewer hook-ups at the campsite, but there is a dump station located near the park entrance. It's the only campground at Lavon Lake with 50-amp electricity. Extra conveniences include hot showers and two boat ramps. The group campground is available year-round and fits 175 guests. Horses are allowed at the Equestrian Loop, and each equestrian site has a portable horse stall.

Natural Features

Lavon Lake, in northern Texas, flows from the East Fork tributary of the Trinity River. Its surface area spans 21,400 acres and the maximum lake depth of around 59 ft..

Nearby Attractions

The Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary features natural history exhibits and nature trails.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Day-use facilities close at sunset

Rule

Walk-in sites are available

Rule

The park entrance gate closes at 10 p.m., and the gate re-opens at 10 a.m. No vehicle entry allowed into the park between 10 p.m. and 10 a.m.

Everything else this campground posts · 1

Rule

Help reduce energy costs when you leave by turning off the air conditioning, lights, fans, and electric water heater. When not in use, please turn down the temperature on the electric water heater, unplug chargers and appliances, turn off radios and the television.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 74 · 12 tent-only, 1 group, 10 equestrian
Hookups: 58 electric, 50 water
Longest rig: 60 ft
Paved pads: 63 of 74
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed at 63 of 74 sites
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Extra conveniences include hot showers and two boat ramps.”
Dump station: Yes
Boat ramp: Yes
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: Lake, River, Beach; Boating; Fishing
Night sky · 151st darkest of 154 in TX: Bortle 7

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

6 of 55 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:47 UTC

recreation.gov lists 70 of the 74 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

OpenBooked

Booking window6 months outBookable now through April 17, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 18, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$14–$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$36–$68DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

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

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Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$14–$30

Tent Only Nonelectric$14

Equestrian Electric$30

Standard Electric$30

Group area, a night$150

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

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$22–$38

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$36–$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$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

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

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

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

recreation.gov availability, read 14:47 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

74 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 70 mapped sites

83 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop GRPS GCS 846 ftLoop CLOO 30 145 ftLoop CLOO 21 136 ftLoop CLOO 49 130 ftEquestrian E03 127 ft

Least roomEquestrian E01 50 ftEquestrian E02 50 ftLoop TLOO T-03 53 ft

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

All 74 sites

74 of 74 sites located

Tent only12RV / electric47Group1Equestrian10Type not stated4

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 E01 E02 E03 E04 E05 E06 E07 E08 E09 E10 E11 GCS T-01 T-02 T-03 T-04 T-05 T-06 T-07 T-08 T-09 T-10 T-11 T-12

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 74 of the 74 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. 70 of the 74 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


CLOO	01	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	99 ft	1,148 ft	345 ft	$30
CLOO	02	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	83 ft	1,029 ft	325 ft	$30
CLOO	03	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	99 ft	1,215 ft	444 ft	$30
CLOO	04	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	83 ft	1,086 ft	392 ft	$30
CLOO	05	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	113 ft	1,228 ft	428 ft	$30
CLOO	06	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	84 ft	1,127 ft	425 ft	$30
CLOO	07	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	104 ft	1,202 ft	330 ft	$30
CLOO	08	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	80 ft	1,116 ft	348 ft	$30
CLOO	09	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	104 ft	1,144 ft	238 ft	$30
CLOO	10	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	80 ft	1,077 ft	268 ft	$30
CLOO	11	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	100 ft	1,046 ft	189 ft	$30
CLOO	12	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	98 ft	1,015 ft	170 ft	$30
CLOO	13	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	100 ft	1,019 ft	255 ft	$30
CLOO	14	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	94 ft	904 ft	135 ft	$30
CLOO	15	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	119 ft	972 ft	345 ft	$30
CLOO	16	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	77 ft	891 ft	229 ft	$30
CLOO	17	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	120 ft	899 ft	254 ft	$30
CLOO	18	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	77 ft	852 ft	301 ft	$30
CLOO	19	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	120 ft	792 ft	178 ft	$30
CLOO	20	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	80 ft	799 ft	302 ft	$30
CLOO	21	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	136 ft	642 ft	235 ft	$30
CLOO	22	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	80 ft	719 ft	302 ft	$30
CLOO	23	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	109 ft	551 ft	383 ft	$30
CLOO	24	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	81 ft	654 ft	375 ft	$30
CLOO	25	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	108 ft	539 ft	426 ft	$30
CLOO	26	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	81 ft	679 ft	304 ft	$30
CLOO	27	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	108 ft	583 ft	349 ft	$30
CLOO	28	type not stated	50 ft	50 amp		726 ft	208 ft
CLOO	29	type not stated	53 ft	50 amp		598 ft	330 ft
CLOO	30	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	145 ft	743 ft	196 ft	$30
CLOO	31	type not stated	50 ft	50 amp		608 ft	341 ft
CLOO	32	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	83 ft	723 ft	295 ft	$30
CLOO	33	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	96 ft	585 ft	408 ft	$30
CLOO	34	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	80 ft	700 ft	371 ft	$30
CLOO	35	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	92 ft	558 ft	486 ft	$30
CLOO	36	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	80 ft	669 ft	449 ft	$30
CLOO	37	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	92 ft	544 ft	407 ft	$30
CLOO	38	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	79 ft	642 ft	394 ft	$30
CLOO	39	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	104 ft	492 ft	303 ft	$30
CLOO	40	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	76 ft	633 ft	335 ft	$30
CLOO	41	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	108 ft	524 ft	209 ft	$30
CLOO	42	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	74 ft	631 ft	295 ft	$30
CLOO	43	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	109 ft	560 ft	196 ft	$30
CLOO	44	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp	74 ft	664 ft	305 ft	$30
CLOO	45	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	109 ft	613 ft	268 ft	$30
CLOO	46	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	75 ft	715 ft	350 ft	$30
CLOO	47	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	114 ft	652 ft	299 ft	$30
CLOO	48	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	63 ft	787 ft	254 ft	$30
CLOO	49	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	130 ft	717 ft	169 ft	$30
CLOO	50	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	63 ft	832 ft	207 ft	$30
Equestrian	E01	equestrian electric		50 amp	50 ft	782 ft	879 ft	$30
Equestrian	E02	equestrian electric		50 amp	50 ft	756 ft	923 ft	$30
Equestrian	E03	equestrian electric		50 amp	127 ft	749 ft	950 ft	$30
Equestrian	E04	equestrian electric		50 amp	57 ft	840 ft	823 ft	$30
Equestrian	E05	equestrian electric		50 amp	57 ft	813 ft	817 ft	$30
Equestrian	E06	equestrian electric		50 amp	57 ft	921 ft	681 ft	$30
Equestrian	E07	equestrian electric		50 amp	57 ft	920 ft	689 ft	$30
Equestrian	E08	type not stated		50 amp		937 ft	530 ft
Equestrian	E09	equestrian electric		50 amp	89 ft	838 ft	648 ft	$30
Equestrian	E10	equestrian electric		50 amp	89 ft	753 ft	700 ft	$30
Equestrian	E11	equestrian electric		50 amp	92 ft	749 ft	789 ft	$30
GRPS	GCS	group standard electric		15 amp	846 ft	361 ft	805 ft	$150
TLOO	T-01	tent only nonelectric			71 ft	635 ft	602 ft	$14
TLOO	T-02	tent only nonelectric			71 ft	567 ft	634 ft	$14
TLOO	T-03	tent only nonelectric			54 ft	551 ft	715 ft	$14
TLOO	T-04	tent only nonelectric			54 ft	548 ft	758 ft	$14
TLOO	T-05	tent only nonelectric			59 ft	607 ft	723 ft	$14
TLOO	T-06	tent only nonelectric			83 ft	530 ft	578 ft	$14
TLOO	T-07	tent only nonelectric			83 ft	449 ft	651 ft	$14
TLOO	T-08	tent only nonelectric			66 ft	380 ft	742 ft	$14
TLOO	T-09	tent only nonelectric			66 ft	359 ft	793 ft	$14
TLOO	T-10	tent only nonelectric			72 ft	365 ft	831 ft	$14
TLOO	T-11	tent only nonelectric			116 ft	392 ft	895 ft	$14
TLOO	T-12	tent only nonelectric			116 ft	462 ft	925 ft	$14

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 74 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

Coordinate33.03889, -96.51028

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone972-442-3141

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Clear Lake (TX)2.0 mi

Lavonia3.8 mi

Lakeland Pavilion6.0 mi

Hickory Creek (TX)31 mi

Murrell Park34 mi

Waxahachie Ck53 mi

Getting there

From Lavon, TX, travel South on Highway 78, take a right onto County Road 384. Travel until you come to a stop sign, then turn left onto Skyview Dr. and travel West for approximately 1.6 miles. East Fork will be on your right.

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°Sunny

Tonight48°Clear

Sunday70°Sunny

Sunday Night50°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Wylie, TX

Source: National Weather Service, FWD forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 55°F, day 77°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°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: LAVON DAM, TX (USC00415094), 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

Who answers for this land

East Fork (TX) is in Texas’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Keith Self (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

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

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, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 70 of the 74 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 11, 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 74 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: 10 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