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The map
ReservableBookable through February 28; a peak season follows March 1 to September 30.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read Oct 15
A night
$24–$32Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
94All of them booked ahead
Photos · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
100 ftLongest rig
1,920 ftElevation
513 ftWater · Hords Creek Lake
7.7 miW of Coleman, TX
0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices

In the agency’s own words

The Lakeside Campground and Recreation Area is partially open year-round on the northern side Hords Creek Lake and fully open March 1 through September 30 . Keep reading

Recreation

Bring your rod for fishing that includes largemouth bass, white crappie, channel and flathead catfish and sunfish. The record largemouth bass caught here is 11 pounds 4 ounces.

Facilities

All of the campsites have water and electric hookups, some have sewer hookups. Boat ramps, fishing piers and showers can be found throughout the campground. Also, six sites come with screened shelters to aid with windy weather.

Natural Features

The lake is nestled in the middle of Texas, surrounded by gently rolling hills dotted with Live oak trees.

Nearby Attractions

Drive through neighboring Friendship Park and Lakeside Park or for a dose of city conveniences, head to Coleman, just eight miles east of the lake.

Charges & Cancellations

Standard Cancellation Rates Apply.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

This park is located on Hords Creek Lake, Texas. Please ensure this is the correct 'Lakeside Campground' you wish to reserve.

Rule

Gatehouse is open: Sun-Thurs 9:00am to 8:00pm | Fri-Sat & Holidays 9:00am to 10:00pm

Rule

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 · 8
Rule

Low water level may expose underwater hazards; boat at your own risk

Rule

Please wear a life jacket for all lake activities

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

Sites 1-39, Screen Shelters A-F, and Group Shelters 1,3, and 5 will close seasonally 01 October through 28 February.

Rule

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.

Rule

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.

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.

Rule

Due to low lake levels there are No Designated Swim Beach Areas.

Read them on the agency’s own page →
Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
94 · 5 group, 6 cabin
Hookups
93 electric, 94 water, 31 sewer
Longest rig
100 ft
Paved pads
All
Accessible sites
4
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
89 of 90 sites
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets
FLUSH TOILETS on 4 of 95 campsite records
Showers
Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
SHOWERS on 2 of 95 campsite records
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: counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek
Biking
Boating
Canoeing
Fishing
Jet Skiing
Kayaking
Motor Boat
Mountain biking
Non-Motorized Boating
Paddle Boating
Paddling
Scenic drives
Swimming
Tubing
Night sky · 22nd darkest of 154 in TX
Bortle 3
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

38 of 80 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread Oct 15

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBooked

Booking windowThrough February 28Bookable now through February 28, 2027, the end of the off-peak season. The peak season that follows runs March 1, 2027 through September 30, 2027; recreation.gov releases it on its own schedule, so check there before counting on those nights.recreation.gov
Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
A night$24–$32plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$56–$72DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
Watch for a cancellation

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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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’ll write once, when the season that starts Mon, Mar 1 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

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

Every line of the receipt · 18

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night, per site$24–$32
Standard Electric$24
Standard Electric$28
Standard Electric$30
Standard Electric$32
Group areas, a night$30–$260
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Oct 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 this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$5

“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

Extra vehicle$5

“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

What a stay costs
One nightDerived$32–$40
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$56–$72

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$32 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

“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 · 7
Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 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
What this campground adds: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Sep 9, 2026
This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · 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 Oct 15 · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

95 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 93 mapped sites
106 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Most roomLoop L1 GR-3 339 ftLoop L2 T062 334 ftLoop L2 GR-6 325 ftLoop L1 GR-5 298 ftLoop L2 GR-7 294 ft
Least roomLoop L1 T015A 53 ftLoop L1 T15B 53 ftLoop L1 T15C 59 ft

2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.

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

All 95 records

95 of 95 records located
RV / electric82Group5Cabin or shelter6Type not stated1Day use1
GR-12GR-3GR-5S00AS00BS00CS00DS00ET001T002T003T004T005T006T007T008T009T010T011T012T013T014T015T015AT016T017T018T019T020T021T022T023T024T025T026T027T028T029T030T031T032T033T034T035T036T037T038T039T07AT15BT15CT16AGR-6GR-7GR-8T040T041T042T043T044T045T046T047T048T048AT049T050T051T052T053T054T055T056T057T058T059T060T061T062T063T064T065T066T067T068T069T070T071T072T073T074T075T076T077
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026
Imagery: Esri World Imagery
SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 93 of the 95 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

L1GR-1group standard electric30 amp434 ft$90–$260
L1GR-3group standard electric30 amp339 ft36 ft$90–$260
L1GR-5group standard electric30 amp298 ft618 ft$90–$260
L1S00Aovernight shelter electric30 amp243 ft159 ft$30–$34
L1S00Bovernight shelter electric30 amp133 ft189 ft$30–$34
L1S00Covernight shelter electric30 amp133 ft183 ft$30–$34
L1S00Dovernight shelter electric30 amp131 ft157 ft$30–$34
L1S00Eovernight shelter electric30 amp131 ft180 ft$30–$34
L1S00Fovernight shelter electric30 amp434 ft$30–$34
L1T001standard electric60 ft30 amp90 ft137 ft$24–$32
L1T002standard electric30 ft30 amp90 ft72 ft$24–$32
L1T003standard electric40 ft30 amp59 ft60 ft$24–$32
L1T004standard electric40 ft30 amp59 ft56 ft$24–$32
L1T005standard electric60 ft30 amp96 ft79 ft$24–$32
L1T006standard electric80 ft30 amp96 ft105 ft$24–$32
L1T007standard electric75 ft30 amp106 ft88 ft$24–$32
L1T008standard electric100 ft30 amp130 ft49 ft$24–$32
L1T009standard electric45 ft30 amp125 ft34 ft$24–$32
L1T010standard electric60 ft30 amp125 ft50 ft$24–$32
L1T011standard electric75 ft30 amp93 ft57 ft$24–$32
L1T012standard electric60 ft50 amp93 ft18 ft$24–$32
L1T013standard electric60 ft50 amp113 ft34 ft$24–$32
L1T014standard electric65 ft50 amp113 ft60 ft$24–$32
L1T015standard electric65 ft50 amp64 ft19 ft$24–$32
L1T015Astandard electric45 ft50 amp53 ft11 ft$24–$32
L1T016standard electric75 ft30 amp92 ft138 ft$24–$32
L1T017standard electric60 ft30 amp136 ft74 ft$24–$32
L1T018standard electric70 ft30 amp83 ft37 ft$24–$32
L1T019standard electric75 ft30 amp83 ft25 ft$24–$32
L1T020standard electric70 ft30 amp150 ft38 ft$24–$32
L1T021standard electric60 ft30 amp98 ft142 ft$24–$32
L1T022standard electric75 ft30 amp69 ft118 ft$24–$32
L1T023standard electric75 ft30 amp69 ft172 ft$24–$32
L1T024standard electric75 ft30 amp85 ft167 ft$24–$32
L1T025standard electric60 ft30 amp86 ft225 ft$24–$32
L1T026standard electric75 ft30 amp102 ft172 ft$24–$32
L1T027standard electric36 ft30 amp105 ft167 ft$24–$32
L1T028standard electric55 ft30 amp108 ft190 ft$24–$32
L1T029standard electric55 ft30 amp74 ft213 ft$24–$32
L1T030standard electric55 ft30 amp74 ft225 ft$24–$32
L1T031standard electric60 ft30 amp98 ft299 ft$24–$32
L1T032standard electric50 ft30 amp67 ft313 ft$24–$32
L1T033standard electric60 ft30 amp67 ft265 ft$24–$32
L1T034standard electric40 ft30 amp102 ft218 ft$24–$32
L1T035standard electric45 ft30 amp110 ft312 ft$24–$32
L1T036standard electric60 ft30 amp129 ft395 ft$24–$32
L1T037standard electric75 ft30 amp116 ft428 ft$24–$32
L1T038standard electric45 ft30 amp80 ft327 ft$24–$32
L1T039standard electric65 ft30 amp80 ft315 ft$24–$32
L1T07Astandard electric60 ft30 ampyes106 ft94 ft$24–$32
L1T15Bstandard electric65 ft50 ampyes53 ft45 ft$24–$32
L1T15Cstandard electric60 ft50 ampyes59 ft104 ft$24–$32
L1T16Astandard electric65 ft30 ampyes103 ft99 ft$24–$32
L2GR-6group standard electric30 amp325 ft279 ft$90–$260
L2GR-7group standard electric20/30/50 amp294 ft678 ft$90–$260
L2GR-8day use26 ft
L2T040standard electric50 ft30 amp105 ft309 ft$24–$32
L2T041standard electric50 ft30 amp105 ft390 ft$24–$32
L2T042standard electric55 ft30 amp122 ft358 ft$24–$32
L2T043standard electric75 ft30 amp77 ft369 ft$24–$32
L2T044standard electric50 ft30 amp77 ft402 ft$24–$32
L2T045standard electric50 ft30 amp112 ft469 ft$24–$32
L2T046standard electric60 ft30 amp133 ft348 ft$24–$32
L2T047standard electric60 ft30 amp114 ft312 ft$24–$32
L2T048standard electric65 ft30 amp131 ft323 ft$24–$32
L2T048Astandard electric70 ft30 amp101 ft245 ft$24–$32
L2T049standard electric80 ft30 amp101 ft254 ft$24–$32
L2T050standard electric75 ft30 amp108 ft19 ft$24–$32
L2T051standard electric50 ft30 amp106 ft36 ft$24–$32
L2T052standard electric60 ft30 amp106 ft22 ft$24–$32
L2T053standard electric45 ft30 amp151 ft52 ft$24–$32
L2T054standard electric40 ft30 amp124 ft55 ft$24–$32
L2T055standard electric50 ft30 amp124 ft29 ft$24–$32
L2T056standard electric55 ft30 amp177 ft75 ft$24–$32
L2T057standard electric50 ft30 amp97 ft108 ft$24–$32
L2T058standard electric65 ft30 amp97 ft150 ft$24–$32
L2T059standard electric35 ft30 amp111 ft123 ft$24–$32
L2T060standard electric90 ft30 amp111 ft71 ft$24–$32
L2T061type not stated82 ft30 amp225 ft
L2T062standard electric48 ft30 amp334 ft229 ft$24–$32
L2T063standard electric60 ft50 amp142 ft197 ft$24–$32
L2T064standard electric60 ft50 amp140 ft164 ft$24–$32
L2T065standard electric60 ft50 amp140 ft138 ft$24–$32
L2T066standard electric75 ft50 amp151 ft137 ft$24–$32
L2T067standard electric75 ft50 amp164 ft127 ft$24–$32
L2T068standard electric60 ft50 amp99 ft154 ft$24–$32
L2T069standard electric75 ft50 amp107 ft285 ft$24–$32
L2T070standard electric75 ft50 amp99 ft136 ft$24–$32
L2T071standard electric75 ft50 amp107 ft268 ft$24–$32
L2T072standard electric75 ft50 amp136 ft96 ft$24–$32
L2T073standard electric75 ft50 amp128 ft233 ft$24–$32
L2T074standard electric75 ft50 amp96 ft131 ft$24–$32
L2T075standard electric75 ft50 amp111 ft259 ft$24–$32
L2T076standard electric75 ft50 amp96 ft114 ft$24–$32
L2T077standard electric75 ft50 amp111 ft277 ft$24–$32

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.

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 · Oct 1, 2026

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 95 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
Coordinate31.84667, -99.57944
The phone325-625-2322
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near hereFlatrock (Texas)1.6 miCopperas Creek64 miPromontory65 miSowell Creek67 mi
Getting there

From Coleman, TX, take Hwy 153 west 7 miles to the main entrance to Hords Creek Lake. Follow signs into the campground.

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

Tonight40°Partly Cloudy
Saturday59°Sunny
Saturday Night38°Mostly Clear
Sunday66°Sunny

NWS forecast for Valera, TX

Source: National Weather Service, SJT forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

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.

100°32°20°

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: HORDS CREEK DAM, TX (USC00414278), 1 mile away and 29 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

Who answers for this land

August Pfluger, official portrait

Lakeside (TX) 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

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 94 of the 94 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
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: 0.14 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 place of any size: Valera, TX, 6.3 mi NNW (a census designated place). Straight line.
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