High View
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:03 UTC
- A night
- $28–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4939 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
High View Park is on a long peninsula on the western shore of Bardwell Lake, less than an hour south of the Dallas-Fort Worth area in north-central Texas. Keep reading
Recreation
Many local fishermen consider Bardwell Lake one of the best kept secrets in the state. Bass fishermen seldom leave empty-handed. Crappie fishing is moderate, and catfish are usually excellent.
Facilities
High View Park offers campsites with water and 50-amp electric hookups, and 30-amp electric hookups, picnic sites and one reservable Day Use group picnic pavilion, accommodating up to 50 people. A four-lane boat ramp and a courtesy dock make access to the lake easy. While public restrooms with showers help provide a comfortable camping experience.
Natural Features
The park is grassy and partially forested with a mix of shade and sun. The lake's cool, blue water provides a refreshing break from the Texas heat, while bluebonnets and other wildflowers surround the lakeshore each spring.
Nearby Attractions
Numerous amenities, as well as cultural and historical attractions, lie in the nearby cities of Dallas and Fort Worth.
What the agency tells you
By using U.S. Army Corps of Engineers parks, you agree to adhere to the written policy of EP 1165-2-316, Title 36. See here.
The entrance station is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Day use and swim beach close at 9:00pm
Campsite Check-in: 3:00pm Check-out: 2:00pm
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Visitors with a 'visitor' car pass must exit the park by 10 p.m.
Reservations made with a discount pass require the pass and proper photo ID upon check-in and re-entering the facility; Click here to learn more about discount passes
All vehicle passes must be returned to the gate house upon final departure and check-out
A permit is required for special events or activities occurring in the park; applications must be submitted 10 days prior to the event; contact Bardwell Lake Office at 972-875-5711 for more information, Mon.-Fri., 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Swimming pools, sprinklers and water slides are not allowed
Nothing may be nailed to trees or other plants.
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.
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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds are a maximum use of 14 days within a consecutive 30-day period per water resource project, which includes all of Bardwell Lake's parks.
50 amp services are available only for 50 amp campers. 30 amp services are available only for 30 amp campers. Converters/“dog bones” are not allowed.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 49
- Hookups
- 38 electric, 39 water
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Paved pads
- 7 of 49
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 32 of 51 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 14 of 51 campsite records / VAULT TOILETS on 32 of 51 campsite records
- Showers
- Accessible Showers
- ACCESSIBLE SHOWERS on 14 of 51 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Boating
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 125th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 5
2 of 56 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:03 UTC
recreation.gov lists 39 of the 49 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $28–$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.
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 16:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
51 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 51 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 50 of the 51 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. 17 of the 51 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| HIGH VIEW | 01 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 459 ftBardwell Lake | 2,242 ft | $28–$30 | |
| HIGH VIEW | 02 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 368 ftBardwell Lake | 2,140 ft | $28–$30 | |
| HIGH VIEW | 03 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 293 ftBardwell Lake | 2,028 ft | $28–$30 | |
| HIGH VIEW | 04 | rv electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 314 ftBardwell Lake | 1,953 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 05 | rv electric | 71 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 354 ftBardwell Lake | 1,891 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 06 | rv electric | 76 ft | 30 amp | 118 ft | 387 ftBardwell Lake | 1,811 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 07 | rv electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 124 ft | 413 ftBardwell Lake | 1,568 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 08 | rv electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 372 ftBardwell Lake | 1,453 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 09 | rv electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 350 ftBardwell Lake | 1,376 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 10 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 314 ftBardwell Lake | 1,285 ft | $28–$30 | |
| HIGH VIEW | 11 | standard electric | 76 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 270 ftBardwell Lake | 1,203 ft | $28–$30 | |
| HIGH VIEW | 12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 241 ftBardwell Lake | 1,113 ft | $28–$30 | |
| HIGH VIEW | 13 | rv electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 299 ftBardwell Lake | 1,093 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 14 | rv electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 225 ftBardwell Lake | 956 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 15 | rv electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 179 ftBardwell Lake | 965 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 16 | rv electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 144 ftBardwell Lake | 1,013 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 17 | rv electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 151 ftBardwell Lake | 1,133 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 18 | rv electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 159 ftBardwell Lake | 1,210 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 19 | rv electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 200 ftBardwell Lake | 1,305 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 20 | rv electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 241 ftBardwell Lake | 1,400 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 21 | rv electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 253 ftBardwell Lake | 1,455 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 22 | rv electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 282 ftBardwell Lake | 1,517 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 23 | rv electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 287 ftBardwell Lake | 1,576 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 24 | rv electric | 73 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 289 ftBardwell Lake | 1,662 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 25 | rv electric | 71 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 244 ftBardwell Lake | 1,681 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 26 | rv electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 255 ftBardwell Lake | 1,755 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 27 | rv electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | 111 ft | 192 ftBardwell Lake | 1,807 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 28 | rv electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 132 ft | 307 ftBardwell Lake | 2,268 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 29 | rv electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 132 ft | 435 ftBardwell Lake | 2,352 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 39 | type not stated | 182 ftBardwell Lake | 446 ft | $5 | ||||
| HIGH VIEW | 40 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 119 ftBardwell Lake | 165 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 41 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 98 ftBardwell Lake | 168 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 42 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 90 ftBardwell Lake | 182 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 43 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 103 ftBardwell Lake | 208 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 44 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 179 ftBardwell Lake | 96 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 45 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 193 ftBardwell Lake | 130 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 46 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 183 ftBardwell Lake | 199 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 47 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 171 ftBardwell Lake | 263 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 48 | type not stated | 30 ft | 30 amp | 152 ftBardwell Lake | 366 ft | $5 | ||
| HIGH VIEW | 49 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 212 ft | 154 ftBardwell Lake | 473 ft | ||
| HIGH VIEW | GP1 | day use | 18 ft | yes | 507 ft | 2,147 ft | $50 | ||
| HIGH VIEW | XXX | unnamed record | 66 ft | $5 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 30 | type not stated | 203 ftBardwell Lake | 376 ft | $5 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 31 | type not stated | 205 ftBardwell Lake | 260 ft | $5 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 32 | type not stated | 227 ftBardwell Lake | 118 ft | $5 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 33 | type not stated | 220 ftBardwell Lake | 217 ft | $5 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 34 | type not stated | 185 ftBardwell Lake | 292 ft | $5 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 35 | type not stated | 154 ftBardwell Lake | 387 ft | $5 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 36 | type not stated | 152 ftBardwell Lake | 495 ft | $5 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 37 | type not stated | 127 ftBardwell Lake | 575 ft | $5 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 38 | type not stated | 184 ftBardwell Lake | 539 ft | $5 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it files as day use and 1 it types MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 51 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Mott1.2 mi
Love1.3 mi
Waxahachie Ck2.1 mi
WOLF CREEK (Navarro Mills Lake)21 mi
OAK (Navarro Mills Lake)21 mi
PECAN POINT PARK (Navarro Mills Lake)22 miFrom Ennis, Texas: From Interstate 45, exit onto U.S. Highway 287 Bypass (Exit #247). Travel 4.5 miles and exit at the Bardwell Lake exit sign. Turn left onto Highway 34 and go 2.5 miles southwest. After crossing the Bardwell Lake bridge, take the first left onto High View Park Road. Travel 0.2-mile to the High View Park entrance station.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ennis, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 36°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
High View is in Texas’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Jake Ellzey (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →