Kimball Bend Park
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:08 UTC
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 36All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Kimball Bend Campground is located on Whitney Lake off the main channel of the Brazos River in Central Texas. The campground offers thirty four 50 amp campsites. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, fishing, swimming, canoeing and kayaking are popular activities on the river and downstream at Whitney Lake. Anglers can fish for a variety of bass, crappie and catfish. Visitors enjoy hiking the Chisholm Trail, a historic route followed by upwards of ten million cattle as they traveled northbound from southern Texas to Kansas and adjacent destinations between 1867 and the 1880s. It crosses through the campground and past several historic structures.
Facilities
This year-round campground offers 34 sites with water and electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp. * Please note that water for this facility is supplied by an onsite Public Water Supply (PWS) and in the event of a power ouatage that lasts more than 24 hours visitors may be asked to evacuate the park since water cannot be provided.
Natural Features
The Brazos River flows gently over sand and rocks at Kimball Bend. The surrounding rolling hills are covered with cedar, live, and post oak trees.
Nearby Attractions
The 12.5 mile Hopewell Trail is nearby. It allows hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding. Visitors can travel south to Lakeside Village and Powelldale Mountain.
What the agency tells you
Before camping at Kimball Bend please familiarize yourself with all applicable rules and regulations. Click Here to review Title 36.
Inbound gates open at 6 a.m. and close at 10 p.m.
A maximum of three vehicles allowed per campsite, group sites excluded
Everything else this campground posts · 4
No ATVs/OHVs allowed
A fishing license is required to fish at all parks on Lake Whitney
Please call the Whitney Lake Project Office 254-622-3332 for more information and burn ban restrictions
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 36
- Hookups
- 36 electric, 36 water
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 36 of 36 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 36 of 36 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp. * Please note that…”
- 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, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 92nd darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
26 of 66 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:08 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
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.
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 16:08 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
36 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 34 mapped sitesAll 36 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. 36 of the 36 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Inside Loop | 001 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 690 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 002 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 120 ft | 802 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 003 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 680 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 004 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | $30 | ||
| Inside Loop | 005 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 793 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 006 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 808 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 007 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 734 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 008 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 602 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 009 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 547 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 010 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 642 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 011 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 485 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 012 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 490 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 013 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 615 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 014 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 493 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 015 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 590 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 016 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 124 ft | 535 ft | $30 | |
| Inside Loop | 017 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | $30 | ||
| Outside Loop | 018 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 205 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 019 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 306 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 020 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 223 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 021 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 357 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 022 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 289 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 023 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 405 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 024 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 313 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 025 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 291 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 026 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 408 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 027 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 136 ft | 423 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 028 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 130 ft | 227 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 029 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 115 ft | 348 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 030 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 224 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 031 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 170 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 032 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 137 ft | 369 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 033 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 471 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 034 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 115 ft | 382 ft | $30 | |
| Outside Loop | 035 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 103 ft | 588 ft | $30 |
| Outside Loop | 036 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 489 ft | $30 |
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 36 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Plowman Creek3.7 mi
Cedron Creek12 mi
McCown Valley14 mi
Lofers Bend East18 mi
Lofers Bend West18 mi
Mustang32 miFrom Kopperl, TX, travel north on HWY 56 for approximately 2.5 miles. Turn right on HWY 174 and go approximately 2.3 miles. Turn left into the park, just before the HWY 174 bridge.
From Cleburne, TX, travel south on HWY 174 for 22 miles. Turn right into the park after you cross the HWY 174 bridge.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kopperl, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 54°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°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
Kimball Bend Park is in Texas’s 31st congressional district. Its representative, John Carter (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →