Lavonia
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 14:54 UTC
- A night
- $14–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 5245 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lavonia Campground is a scenic Texas getaway just beyond the Dallas metropolitan area. Visitors can camp, swim, fish, boat or use the day use area. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors of all ages can enjoy activities like camping, fishing, boating and picnicking. Anglers seek species like channel catfish, crappie and striped bass.
Facilities
The campground offers 38 RV sites with water, 30 amp electric and sewer hook-ups. The campground has 15 tent sites. Additional perks include hot showers and a boat launch.
Natural Features
The Lavon Lake, in northern Texas, spans 21,400 acres and stems from the East Fork of the Trinity River.
Nearby Attractions
The paved Sister Groves Trail at Sister Grove Creek is a hot spot for biking and hiking. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (877) 444-6777.
What the agency tells you
The park entrance gate closes at 10 p.m., and the gate re-opens at 10 a.m. No vehicle entry allowed into the park between 10 p.m. and 10 a.m.
Day-use area closes at sunset
Help reduce energy costs when you leave by turning off the air conditioning, lights, fans, and electric water heater. When not in use, please turn down the temperature on the electric water heater, unplug chargers and appliances, turn off radios and the television.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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
- 52 · 15 tent-only
- Hookups
- 30 electric, 43 water, 35 sewer
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Additional perks include hot showers and a boat launch.”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 147th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 6
2 of 18 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:54 UTC
recreation.gov lists 45 of the 52 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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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$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 14:54 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 42 mapped sites2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 52 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. 41 of the 52 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ALOO | 01 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 120 ft | 913 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 02 | rv electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 1,034 ft | |
| ALOO | 03 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 123 ft | 928 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 04 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 1,062 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 05 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 123 ft | 936 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 06 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 127 ft | 1,009 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 07 | standard electric | 63 ft | 30 amp | 116 ft | 967 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 08 | type not stated | 54 ft | 30 amp | 947 ft | ||
| ALOO | 09 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 116 ft | 900 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 10 | type not stated | 62 ft | 30 amp | |||
| ALOO | 11 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 109 ft | 380 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 12 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 129 ft | 784 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 13 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 364 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 14 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 451 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 15 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 135 ft | 422 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 17 | type not stated | 62 ft | 30 amp | |||
| ALOO | 18 | type not stated | 54 ft | 30 amp | 591 ft | ||
| ALOO | 19 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 145 ft | 424 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 20 | type not stated | 53 ft | 30 amp | 540 ft | ||
| ALOO | 21 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 132 ft | 503 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 22 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 132 ft | 567 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 23 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 149 ft | 668 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | 24 | type not stated | 54 ft | 30 amp | 654 ft | ||
| ALOO | 25 | type not stated | 48 ft | 30 amp | 760 ft | ||
| ALOO | 26 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 149 ft | 790 ft | $30 |
| ALOO | T10 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 1,033 ft | $14 | ||
| ALOO | T11 | tent only nonelectric | 163 ft | 951 ft | $14 | ||
| ALOO | T12 | tent only nonelectric | 210 ft | 722 ft | $14 | ||
| ALOO | T13 | tent only nonelectric | 99 ft | 554 ft | $14 | ||
| ALOO | T14 | tent only nonelectric | 91 ft | 472 ft | $14 | ||
| ALOO | T15 | tent only nonelectric | 109 ft | 421 ft | $14 | ||
| BLOO | 27 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 829 ft | $30 |
| BLOO | 28 | standard electric | 31 ft | 30 amp | $30 | ||
| BLOO | 29 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 128 ft | 702 ft | $30 |
| BLOO | 30 | rv electric | 59 ft | 30 amp | 119 ft | 518 ft | |
| BLOO | 31 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 558 ft | $30 |
| BLOO | 32 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 453 ft | $30 |
| BLOO | 33 | rv electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | |||
| BLOO | 34 | standard electric | 61 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 420 ft | $30 |
| BLOO | 35 | rv electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 640 ft | |
| BLOO | 36 | standard electric | 51 ft | 30 amp | 119 ft | 670 ft | $30 |
| BLOO | 37 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 120 ft | 767 ft | $30 |
| BLOO | 38 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | $30 | ||
| BLOO | T01 | tent only nonelectric | 649 ft | $14 | |||
| BLOO | T02 | tent only nonelectric | 649 ft | $14 | |||
| TLOO | T03 | tent only nonelectric | 135 ft | 645 ft | $14 | ||
| TLOO | T04 | tent only nonelectric | 113 ft | 801 ft | $14 | ||
| TLOO | T05 | tent only nonelectric | 103 ft | 1,024 ft | $14 | ||
| TLOO | T06 | tent only nonelectric | 95 ft | 1,029 ft | $14 | ||
| TLOO | T07 | tent only nonelectric | 95 ft | 1,063 ft | $14 | ||
| TLOO | T08 | tent only nonelectric | 97 ft | 1,149 ft | $14 | ||
| TLOO | T09 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 1,082 ft | $14 |
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.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Clear Lake (TX)2.4 mi
East Fork (TX)3.8 mi
Lakeland Pavilion4.6 mi
Hickory Creek (TX)35 mi
Murrell Park38 mi
Waxahachie Ck53 miFrom Wylie, Texas take State Highway 78 North to Lake Road (County Road 486) located in the city of Lavon. Take a left on Lake Road. Follow signs into the campground by taking a left over the railroad tracks bridge.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wylie, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°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
Lavonia is in Texas’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Keith Self (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →