Flatrock (Texas)
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:03 UTC
- A night
- $24–$48When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 64In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Flatrock campground is situated on Hords Creek Lake with nice shade from trees, a fishing dock and gravel swimming areas for beating the Texas heat. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors come to Flatrock for fishing, boating and simple relaxation. The popular catches on the lake include largemouth bass, sunfish and white crappie. When water levels are high enough, water skiing is also a fun sport here.
Facilities
More than 50 campsites have water and electric hookups - ten of which have sewer hookups. Seven group shelters are available for day use. The swim beach, open to all overnight campers, is in Flatrock Park in area #1. Boat ramps, fishing piers are additional amenities at the park. Due to low lake levels all boat ramps are CLOSED Natural Features Hords Creek Lake is in the center of Texas, north of the Texas Hill Country. Gently rolling hills covered with live oaks make Hords Creek Lake a beautiful getaway, despite the sometimes unbearable heat.
Nearby Attractions
Circle the lake to cruise through neighboring Friendship Park and Lakeside Park. For a dose of city conveniences, head to Coleman, just eight miles east of the lake.
Charges & Cancellations
Standard Cancellation Rates Apply.
What the agency tells you
Hord's Creek Lake has an extra vehicle policy that states: A campsite is allowed 2 free vehicles and the 2 additional vehicles with a $5.00 a day extra vehicle fees for a total of 4 vehicles on a single occupancy site and 8 vehicles on a double occupancy site. Double occupancy sites can have 4 free vehicles and 4 additional vehicles with the $5.00 a day extra vehicle fee. All additional vehicles do not have to pay an entrance fee but are required to park at the office outside the park gates.
Gatehouse is open: Sun-Thurs 9:00am to 8:00pm | Fri-Sat & Holidays 9:00am to 10:00pm
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
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Low water level may expose underwater hazards; boat at your own risk
Please wear a life jacket for all lake activities
Cell phone coverage is very limited
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.
All vehicles must be operated in complaince with State laws; vehicles must have a current registration and inspection sticker. The operation of off-road vehicies (ATV's, UTV's, Mini bikes etc.) and golf carts is prohibited.
There are currently No Designated Swim Beach Areas due to low lake levels.
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
- 64 · 2 group, 6 cabin
- Hookups
- 43 electric, 64 water, 5 sewer
- Longest rig
- 100 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 6 of 64 campsite records
- 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
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Paddle Boating
- Paddling
- Swimming
- Water access
- Water Skiing
- Night sky · 24th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:03 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 22
What you actually pay
“Hord's Creek Lake has an extra vehicle policy that states: A campsite is allowed 2 free vehicles and the 2 additional vehicles with a $5.00 a day extra vehicle fees for a total of 4 vehicles on a single occupancy site…” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice
“Double occupancy sites can have 4 free vehicles and 4 additional vehicles with the $5.00 a day extra vehicle fee.” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice
“Standard Cancellation Rates Apply.” · this campground’s own terms
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Flatrock (Texas) closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
recreation.gov availability, read 16:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
64 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 48 mapped sites2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 64 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. 48 of the 64 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| 1 | 101 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 253 ft | 821 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 102 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 245 ft | 837 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 103 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 143 ft | 595 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 104 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 143 ft | 574 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 105 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 207 ft | 276 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 106 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 153 ft | 365 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 107 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 153 ft | 389 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 108 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 197 ft | 366 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 109 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 197 ft | 222 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 110 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 223 ft | 164 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 111 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 162 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 112 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 143 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 113 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 123 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 114 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 138 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 115 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 236 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 116 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 212 ft | 217 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 117 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 428 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 118 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 109 ft | 501 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 119 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 109 ft | 553 ft | $24–$48 |
| 1 | 303A | type not stated | 45 ft | 30 amp | under 10 ft | ||
| 2 | 201 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 171 ft | 178 ft | $24–$48 |
| 2 | 202 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 119 ft | 52 ft | $24–$48 |
| 2 | 203 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 119 ft | 42 ft | $24–$48 |
| 2 | 204 | type not stated | 60 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | ||
| 2 | 205 | type not stated | 60 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | ||
| 2 | GR-2 | group standard nonelectric | 30 amp | 557 ft | $110–$130 | ||
| 2 | S00G | overnight shelter nonelectric | 133 ft | 203 ft | $30 | ||
| 2 | S00H | overnight shelter electric | 98 ft | 263 ft | $34 | ||
| 2 | S00I | overnight shelter nonelectric | 98 ft | 289 ft | $30 | ||
| 2 | S00J | overnight shelter electric | 107 ft | 303 ft | $34 | ||
| 2 | S00K | overnight shelter nonelectric | 557 ft | $30 | |||
| 2 | S00L | overnight shelter electric | 107 ft | 322 ft | $34 | ||
| 3 | 301 | type not stated | 45 ft | 30 amp | 163 ft | ||
| 3 | 302 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 183 ft | ||
| 3 | 303 | type not stated | 100 ft | 30 amp | under 10 ft | ||
| 3 | 304 | type not stated | 48 ft | 30 amp | 194 ft | ||
| 3 | 305 | type not stated | 35 ft | 30 amp | 13 ft | ||
| 3 | 306 | type not stated | 35 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | ||
| 3 | 307 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | ||
| 3 | 308 | type not stated | 80 ft | 30 amp | 210 ft | ||
| 3 | 309 | type not stated | 56 ft | 30 amp | 220 ft | ||
| 3 | 310 | type not stated | 47 ft | 30 amp | 178 ft | ||
| 3 | 311 | type not stated | 70 ft | 30 amp | 212 ft | ||
| 3 | 312 | type not stated | 56 ft | 30 amp | 223 ft | ||
| 4 | 401 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 177 ft | 220 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 402 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 177 ft | 157 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 403 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 34 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 404 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 78 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 405 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 121 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 406 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 128 ft | 83 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 407 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 168 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 409 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 140 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 410 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 123 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 411 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 124 ft | 110 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 412 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 71 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 413 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 40 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 414 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 103 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 415 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 103 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 416 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 111 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 417 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 99 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 418 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 114 ft | 87 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | 419 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 322 ft | ||
| 4 | 420 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 226 ft | 333 ft | $24–$48 |
| 4 | GR-4 | group standard nonelectric | 30 amp | 288 ft | 389 ft | $110–$130 |
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 64 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
From Coleman, TX, take Highway 153 west for 8 miles to the main entrance of Hords Creek Lake. Follow signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Valera, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 80°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 32°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
Flatrock (Texas) is in Texas’s 11th congressional district. Its representative, August Pfluger (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →