Ebenezer Park
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:25 UTC
- A night
- $14–$28Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 17 notices
In the agency’s own words
Ebenezer Park features some of the most beautiful horseback riding trails in southeast Texas. It's the only Army Corps of Engineers park on Sam Rayburn Reservoir with equestrian campsites, making it the go-to destination for horse-owners. The horse trail terrain is soft and sandy, so horseshoes are not required. Trails glide over rolling hills through creeks and gullies. Some trails even have beach access, allowing riders and their horses to cool off on a hot day. Note: The horse access beach and majority of the trail system are located on USFS property. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to horseback riding, activities include fishing, picnicking and swimming. Birding is also rewarding, with chances to see resident wood ducks and migratory birds on their journey to and from the Gulf Coast.
Facilities
Ebenezer caters best to equestrian campers and tent campers. Equestrian sites have electric hookups and horse corrals near each site. Ebenezer Hall, an enclosed building with a full kitchen, A/C and heating, is available for reservation. The designated Day Use swim beach is open seasonally from Apr 1 to Labor Day. The park does not have a boat ramp, and the nearest boat ramp is four miles down at Twin Dikes Park.
Natural Features
The campground, near the Sam Rayburn Dam, is fully shaded by towering pine trees. The lake is located deep in the woods, bordered by the Angelina National Forest and near the Sabine National Forest.
Nearby Attractions
The 20,700-acre Bannister Wildlife Management Area is on the northern peninsula of the lake. Here, hikers and bikers can explore the designated Eastern Wild Turkey restoration site.
What the agency tells you
Camping is permitted at designated campsites only.
Sites 1-13 are equestrian camping only and negative Coggin's Test is required. Max of 2 Horses Per Site/Corral.
All pets must be on a leash under six feet in length. All animals must not be left unattened. Abandonment of any animal on project lands or waters is prohibited. Unclaimed or unattended animals are subject to immediate impoundment and removal in occordance with state and local laws.
Everything else this campground posts · 14
No electric fences allowed.
Camping fees are charged on a per site basis.
No golf carts or ATVs/UTVs allowed.
All park users (including campers) must register with the attendant prior to occupying a site.
Use of developed sites for any reason (including picnicking) will require a camping fee.
The number of persons allowed per site is limited to ten (10).
Occupancy at each campsite is limited to two tents, or one tent and one trailer (including pop-up trailers, self-contained RVs and truck-mounted campers).
The number of vehicles per site shall be limited to two (2) per site. This does not include the camping unit. An extra vehicle tag may be purchased. America the Beautiful and Golden Age Passes do not allow entry into the park to visit a camp site.
Fires must be confined to fire rings.
All waste water, including gray water, must be properly disposed of at the park dump stations.
Quiet hours shall be observed between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and check-out time is 2:00 p.m.
Generators shall not be operated between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Fireworks are prohibited.
Swim beach closes after Labor Day and re-opens April 1st.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30 · 17 tent-only, 12 equestrian
- Hookups
- 13 electric, 13 water
- Longest rig
- 155 ft
- Paved pads
- 10 of 30
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- 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
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 48th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
18 of 40 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:25 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$28 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 16:25 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
31 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 31 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 29 of the 31 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LOOA | Horse 001 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 1,044 ft | |
| LOOA | Horse 002 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 1,029 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | Horse 003 | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 1,124 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | Horse 004 | equestrian electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 1,037 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | Horse 005 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 914 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | Horse 006 | equestrian electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 876 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | Horse 007 | equestrian electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 122 ft | 801 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | Horse 008 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 921 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | Horse 009 | equestrian electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 923 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | Horse 010 | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 118 ft | 805 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 416 ft | 351 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 158 ft | 239 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 016 | tent only nonelectric | 117 ft | 283 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 117 ft | 370 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 183 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 019 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 198 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 020 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 174 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 170 ft | 223 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 022 | tent only nonelectric | 108 ft | 281 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 023 | tent only nonelectric | 103 ft | 286 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 145 ft | 419 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 025 | tent only nonelectric | 162 ft | 371 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 141 ft | 315 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 141 ft | 192 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 028 | tent only nonelectric | 160 ft | 439 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 029 | tent only nonelectric | 111 ft | 476 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 030 | tent only nonelectric | 111 ft | 428 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | Ebenezer Hall | day use | $150 | ||||
| LOOB | Horse 011 | equestrian electric | 135 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 642 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | Horse 012 | equestrian electric | 120 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 596 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | Horse 013 | equestrian electric | 155 ft | 50 amp | 130 ft | 497 ft | $26–$28 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rayburn2.7 mi
Twin Dikes3.9 mi
Mill Creek (Texas)9.0 miCaney CreekAngelina National Forest · 9.1 miBoykin Springs CampingAngelina National Forest · 9.1 mi
San Augustine9.3 miFrom Jasper, Texas, take US Highway 96 North approximately 12 miles to the intersection of Recreation Road 255. Go west on 255 approximately 8 miles to the park entrance road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sam Rayburn, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 59°F, day 81°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°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
Ebenezer Park is in Texas’s 36th congressional district. Its representative, Brian Babin (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →