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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TX

Hickory Creek (TX)

Reservable, and full this SaturdayEvery one of the 112 sites on offer is taken this Saturday, and the record lists no site held back for a walk-up. read 15:58 UTC

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Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:58 UTC
A night: $30From, per site
Sites: 134129 on recreation.gov

Photos · USACE Lewisville Lake

110 ftLongest rig

520 ftElevation

under 10 ftWater · Lake Lewisville

In townHickory Creek, TX

n/aTree cover · water-masked cell

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices

In the agency’s own words

Hickory Creek sits on the extremely popular Lewisville Lake near Dallas, Texas. The almost 30,000-acre reservoir attracts a fair amount of visitors in summer months with warm water temperatures and excellent fishing opportunities. Keep reading

Recreation

Visitors at Lewisville Lake enjoy picnicking, swimming, boating, fishing and relaxing. Photographers will stay entertained with wildlife and colorful sunsets, while hikers and bikers like to explore the 50 miles of natural surface and paved trails surrounding the lake.

Facilities

The large campground boasts 121 sites with electric hookups. Tent primitive walk-in sites are not available at this time. Park amenities include hot showers, a dump station, and boat ramp.

Natural Features

The lake stems from the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in northern Texas, and offers little visibility, but plenty of room for boating and watercraft. The park sits on the Hickory Creek Arm of Lewisville Lake, very near to the suburbs of Dallas, Texas.

Nearby Attractions

Several public golf courses are located around the lake, and horseback riding opportunities are available, too. Hickory Creek is just 35 miles away from downtown Dallas.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Check in starts at 3:00pm. No early check-in. You may be asked to wait OUTSIDE of park if you arrive early.

Rule

The park gate closes at 10pm and there is no entry/re-entry until 6am. Exit gate will open in case of emergency. There is NO code for the gate. Please plan accordingly.

Rule

No fireworks, firearms or chainsaws allowed

Everything else this campground posts · 6

Rule

No off-road vehicles allowed, including golf carts.

Rule

Primitive sites are CLOSED at this time.

Rule

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.

Rule

Campers are alloted 14 days in a 30 day period. Without authorization ANY attempts to circumvent system such as but not limited to changing reservation details may result in the revocation of any current and or future reservations.

Rule

Pets must be on a physical restraint no longer than 6ft at all times. Pets may not be left unattended or unsupervised at any time. This includes being left outside on restraint while you're in your tent/camper/rv.

Rule

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 134 · 10 walk-in
Hookups: 119 electric, 124 water
Longest rig: 110 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: 32
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: 117 of 118 sites

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

Facilities

Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Park amenities include hot showers, a dump station, and boat ramp.”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
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: Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Water access
Night sky · 153rd 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

Full this Saturdayread 15:58 UTC

How full the weekend is nationally.

OpenBooked

Every one of the 112 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 61 are free on Tue, Oct 20. read 15:58 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t

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$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$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

Watch for a cancellation

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 12

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night$30

Standard Electric$30

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$38

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $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 15:58 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

134 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 107 mapped sites

80 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomP06 184 ftP07 145 ftP08 145 ftP03 142 ft060 115 ft

Least room008 44 ft010 44 ft032 47 ft

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

All 134 sites

112 of 134 sites located

RV / electric97Walk, hike or boat in10Type not stated5

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 101 102 103 104 P01 P02 P03 P04 P05 P06 P07 P08 P09 P10

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 106 of the 134 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. 129 of the 134 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.


HICKORY CREEK	001	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		114 ft	388 ft	1,206 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	002	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		112 ft	356 ft	1,209 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	003	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		112 ft	278 ft	1,113 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	004	type not stated	51 ft	50 amp			193 ft	1,050 ft
HICKORY CREEK	005	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		106 ft	90 ft	911 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	006	standard electric	41 ft	50 amp		70 ft	195 ft	979 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	007	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp		87 ft	139 ft	844 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	008	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp		44 ft	203 ft	956 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	009	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		87 ft	118 ft	844 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	010	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		44 ft	181 ft	970 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	011	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp		90 ft	89 ft	965 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	012	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp		90 ft	163 ft	1,052 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	013	standard electric	61 ft	50 amp		80 ft	129 ft	1,074 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	014	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp		80 ft	150 ft	1,071 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	015	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		105 ft	63 ft	966 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	016	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		72 ft	178 ft	1,047 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	017	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp		82 ft	150 ft	957 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	018	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		72 ft	210 ft	1,077 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	019	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		82 ft	151 ft	990 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	020	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp		65 ft	155 ft	1,152 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	021	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp		100 ft	42 ft	1,179 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	022	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		65 ft	142 ft	1,213 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	023	standard electric	64 ft	50 amp		71 ft	70 ft	1,292 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	024	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		91 ft	169 ft	1,303 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	025	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp		91 ft	160 ft	1,389 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	026	standard electric	93 ft	50 amp		71 ft	59 ft	1,360 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	027	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp		80 ft	85 ft	1,440 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	028	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		69 ft	66 ft	1,569 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	029	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		106 ft	172 ft	1,521 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	030	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp		69 ft	61 ft	1,635 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	031	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		74 ft	168 ft	1,622 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	032	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp		47 ft	171 ft	1,690 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	033	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		97 ft	72 ft	1,720 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	034	standard electric	61 ft	50 amp		47 ft	183 ft	1,730 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	035	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp		101 ft	101 ft	1,810 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	036	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		50 ft	192 ft	1,765 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	037	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp		110 ft	129 ft	1,843 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	038	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp		106 ft	143 ft	1,936 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	039	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		74 ft	38 ft	1,954 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	040	type not stated	56 ft	50 amp			189 ft	2,025 ft
HICKORY CREEK	041	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		74 ft	93 ft	2,024 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	042	standard electric	68 ft	50 amp		93 ft	269 ft	2,895 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	043	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp		93 ft	153 ft	2,966 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	044	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		92 ft	241 ft	2,987 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	045	standard electric	41 ft	50 amp		62 ft	159 ft	3,078 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	046	standard electric	68 ft	50 amp		72 ft	262 ft	3,069 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	047	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp		62 ft	188 ft	3,129 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	048	standard electric	66 ft	50 amp		101 ft	152 ft	3,213 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	049	standard electric	95 ft	50 amp	yes	72 ft	220 ft	3,112 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	050	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp					$30
HICKORY CREEK	051	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		69 ft	185 ft	3,111 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	052	standard electric	66 ft	50 amp		69 ft	187 ft	3,110 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	053	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		102 ft	86 ft	3,211 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	054	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		91 ft	223 ft	3,111 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	055	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp		66 ft	277 ft	3,078 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	056	standard electric	64 ft	50 amp		66 ft	224 ft	3,047 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	057	standard electric	64 ft	50 amp		77 ft	147 ft	3,137 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	058	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp		85 ft	91 ft	3,074 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	059	standard electric	61 ft	50 amp		77 ft	193 ft	2,983 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	060	standard electric	95 ft	50 amp		114 ft	133 ft	2,963 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	061	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		72 ft	238 ft	2,907 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	062	type not stated	62 ft	50 amp			210 ft	2,847 ft
HICKORY CREEK	063	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		72 ft	297 ft	2,835 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	064	standard electric	41 ft	50 amp		76 ft	230 ft	2,768 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	065	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp		76 ft	213 ft	2,704 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	066	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		63 ft	226 ft	2,629 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	067	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp		63 ft	220 ft	2,568 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	068	standard electric	66 ft	50 amp		107 ft	324 ft	2,560 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	069	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		94 ft	229 ft	2,466 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	070	standard electric	66 ft	50 amp		114 ft	335 ft	2,398 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	071	type not stated	50 ft	50 amp			302 ft	2,334 ft
HICKORY CREEK	072	standard electric	93 ft	50 amp	yes	94 ft	192 ft	2,401 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	073	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	yes	70 ft	287 ft	2,290 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	074	standard electric	85 ft	50 amp		89 ft	192 ft	2,331 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	075	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp		70 ft	281 ft	2,257 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	076	standard electric	102 ft	50 amp	yes	108 ft	177 ft	2,283 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	077	standard electric	89 ft	50 amp		85 ft	281 ft	2,204 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	078	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		87 ft	191 ft	2,180 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	079	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		88 ft	307 ft	2,122 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	080	standard electric	69 ft	50 amp		87 ft	274 ft	2,094 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	081	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp		69 ft	223 ft	3,208 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	082	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		77 ft	193 ft	3,211 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	083	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		69 ft	186 ft	3,271 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	084	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		82 ft	182 ft		$30
HICKORY CREEK	085	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp		75 ft	133 ft		$30
HICKORY CREEK	086	standard electric	61 ft	50 amp		82 ft	136 ft		$30
HICKORY CREEK	087	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		70 ft	97 ft		$30
HICKORY CREEK	088	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp		70 ft	87 ft		$30
HICKORY CREEK	089	standard electric	64 ft	50 amp		81 ft	77 ft		$30
HICKORY CREEK	090	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		73 ft	125 ft	3,246 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	091	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		73 ft	76 ft	3,198 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	092	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		64 ft	87 ft	3,185 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	093	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		64 ft	68 ft	3,234 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	094	type not stated	110 ft	50 amp	yes		266 ft	1,878 ft
HICKORY CREEK	095	standard electric	61 ft	50 amp		63 ft	365 ft	1,866 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	096	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp		61 ft	352 ft	1,722 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	097	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		63 ft	388 ft	1,804 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	098	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	yes	61 ft	411 ft	1,674 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	099	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	yes	68 ft	442 ft	1,745 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	100	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	101	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	68 ft	496 ft	1,687 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	102	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	yes	84 ft	565 ft	1,613 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	103	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	yes	71 ft	539 ft	1,492 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	104	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	yes	71 ft	478 ft	1,421 ft	$30
HICKORY CREEK	105	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	106	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	107	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	108	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	109	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	110	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	111	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	112	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	113	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	114	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	115	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	116	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	117	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	118	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	119	standard electric	61 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	120	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	121	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	122	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	123	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	124	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	yes				$30
HICKORY CREEK	P01	walk to				94 ft	81 ft	1,988 ft	$14
HICKORY CREEK	P02	walk to				94 ft	27 ft	2,023 ft	$14
HICKORY CREEK	P03	walk to				142 ft	44 ft	1,946 ft	$14
HICKORY CREEK	P04	walk to				109 ft	58 ft	1,807 ft	$14
HICKORY CREEK	P05	walk to				109 ft	69 ft	1,742 ft	$14
HICKORY CREEK	P06	walk to				184 ft	143 ft	1,361 ft	$14
HICKORY CREEK	P07	walk to				145 ft	268 ft	1,311 ft	$14
HICKORY CREEK	P08	walk to				145 ft	162 ft	1,334 ft	$14
HICKORY CREEK	P09	walk to				82 ft	137 ft	1,372 ft	$14
HICKORY CREEK	P10	walk to				82 ft	85 ft	1,427 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 134 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

Coordinate33.10389, -97.04333

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone469-645-9100(NOT FOR RESERVATIONS)

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

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Lavonia35 mi

Black Creek LakeLyndon B. Johnson National Grassland · 36 mi

Getting there

When traveling North on I-35E, take exit 458A toward Swisher Rd/FM-2181 onto S stemmons Fwy. Continue onto N Stemmons Fwy toward Hundley Dr/Turbeville Rd. Turn right on to N Lake Dallas Dr towards Hundley Dr/Turbeville Rd. Turn sharp right onto W Hundley Dr towards Hickory Creek. Continue on Turbeville Rd, and turn left onto Point Vista Rd. After 0.5 miles, Hickory Creek Campground will be on the right.

When traveling South on I-35E, take exit 457 toward Lake Dallas Dr onto Stemmons Fwy. Then, take ramp towards Turbeville Rd/Hundley Dr/Hickory Creek. Turn left onto Turbeville Rd towards Hickory Creek. Turn left onto Point Vista Rd. After 0.5 miles, Hickory Creek Campground will be on the 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

Sunday71°Sunny

Sunday Night51°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Hickory Creek, TX

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 55°F, day 78°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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: DENTON 2 SE, TX (USC00412404), 8 miles away and 110 ft higher

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 · a letter you can send

Who answers for this land

Hickory Creek (TX) is in Texas’s 26th congressional district. Its representative, Brandon Gill (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

Who can change it · 3

Write to somebody who can change it

Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.

The member who votes the moneyBrandon GillU.S. Representative · Texas’s 26th district
Open their contact form ↗Their record →
Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn CornynU.S. Senator · Texas
Open their contact form ↗
Your senator, on the same appropriationTed CruzU.S. Senator · Texas
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For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.

To Brandon Gill

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Hickory Creek (TX), Texas

Dear Brandon Gill,

I’m a constituent in Texas’s 26th district. I tried to camp at Hickory Creek (TX), Texas, and couldn’t.

recreation.gov lists 129 of the 134 campsites the agency files at Hickory Creek (TX), and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 112 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hickory Creek (TX) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Hickory Creek (TX). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

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To John Cornyn

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Hickory Creek (TX), Texas

Dear John Cornyn,

I’m a constituent in Texas. I tried to camp at Hickory Creek (TX), Texas, and couldn’t.

recreation.gov lists 129 of the 134 campsites the agency files at Hickory Creek (TX), and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 112 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hickory Creek (TX) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Hickory Creek (TX). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

Sent about Hickory Creek (TX) (Texas) via campanac.com

To Ted Cruz

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Hickory Creek (TX), Texas

Dear Ted Cruz,

I’m a constituent in Texas. I tried to camp at Hickory Creek (TX), Texas, and couldn’t.

recreation.gov lists 129 of the 134 campsites the agency files at Hickory Creek (TX), and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 112 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hickory Creek (TX) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Hickory Creek (TX). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

Sent about Hickory Creek (TX) (Texas) via campanac.com

How we know this · 4

Contacts: Contact forms from @unitedstates/congress-legislators · Sep 9, 2026

The figures in these drafts: Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress (CRS Report RS20643) · Updated December 4, 2025 · “The ship’s final procurement cost was $13,316.5 million (i.e., about $13.3 billion) in then-year dollars.”

The figures in these drafts: Salary Table 2026-GS, Incorporating the 1% General Schedule Increase, Effective January 2026 (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) · Effective January 2026 · “Grade 5, Step 1: $34,799 (annual rate, before locality pay).”

The figures in these drafts: Update to Civilian Position Full Fringe Benefit Cost Factor, Federal Pay Raise Assumptions, and Inflation Factors used in OMB Circular No. A-76 (OMB Memorandum M-08-13) · March 11, 2008 · “the civilian position full fringe benefit cost factor needs to be adjusted downward, from 36.45 percent to 36.25 percent”

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 129 of the 134 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 112 campsites here that carry a reading. The cell reads 0% and sits within 30 m of water, where NLCD’s water mask can zero the canopy, so no figure is printed · 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: 13 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