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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TX

Lofers Bend East

ReservableBookable through April 17; tomorrow opens April 18.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:58 UTC
A night
$16–$28Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
67All of them booked ahead
Photos · USACE
45 ftLongest rig
560 ftElevation
357 ftWater · Lake Whitney
1.3 miNE of Laguna Park, TX
0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices

In the agency’s own words

Lofers Bend East Campground is located on Whitney Lake on the Brazos River in Central Texas. This campground has 66 campsites and six of which that are "water only" sites and the remaining sites have water and 30 amp hook ups. All sites have either a stand up BBQ grill or a ground cooker/fire ring. The park is equipped with flushable toilets, showers, trailer dump station and two boat ramps. Keep reading

Recreation

Boating, fishing, swimming, canoeing, and kayaking are popular activities at Whitney Lake. Anglers can fish for a variety of bass, crappie and catfish.

Facilities

This campground offers 66 family sites and one group site, all with water and electric hookups. Six non-electric sites are available as well. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp and playground.

Natural Features

The park is situated on the lakeshore among rolling hills covered with cedar, live, and post oak trees. Many deer claim this campground as their home. Nearby Attractions

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Before camping at Lofers Bend East please familiarize yourself with all applicable rules and regulations. Click Here to review Title 36.

Rule

Inbound gates open at 6 a.m. and close at 10 p.m.

Rule

Day-use picnic shelter must be reserved through Lofers Bend West; click here

Everything else this campground posts · 5
Rule

A maximum of three vehicles allowed per campsite, group sites excluded

Rule

No ATVs/OHVs allowed

Rule

A fishing license is required to fish at all parks on Lake Whitney

Rule

Please call the Whitney Lake Project Office 254-622-3332 for more information and burn ban restrictions

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.

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

Tents and rigs

Sites
67 · 6 tent-only, 1 group
Hookups
61 electric, 66 water
Longest rig
45 ft
Paved pads
All
Accessible sites
None listed
Pets
Allowed
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets
“…are available as well. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp…”
Showers
Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
“Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp and playground.”
Drinking water
Yes
“…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp and playground. Natural…”
Dump station
Yes
Boat ramp
Yes
Playground
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
Lake, River
Boating
Swimming
Night sky · 81st darkest of 154 in TX
Bortle 4
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

13 of 128 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:58 UTC

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

OpenBooked

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$16–$28plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$40–$64DerivedFriday 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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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.
Tell me when the season opens

Watch for the season to open

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 Sat, Jan 1 2028 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 · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night, per site$16–$28
Standard Nonelectric$16
Standard Electric$28
Group area, a night$105
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 a stay costs
One nightDerived$24–$36
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$40–$64

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$28 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 · 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
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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

67 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 67 mapped sites
72 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Most roomLOFERS BEND GROUP CAMP EGC 370 ftNON- E38 150 ftNON- E35 127 ftLoop ELEC E55 121 ftLoop ELEC E56 121 ft
Least roomLoop ELEC E25 35 ftLoop ELEC E32 35 ftLoop ELEC E05 49 ft
Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 67 sites

67 of 67 sites located
Tent only6RV / electric60Group1
E01E02E03E04E05E06E07E08E09E10E11E12E13E14E15E16E17E18E19E20E21E22E23E24E25E26E27E28E29E30E31E32E39E40E41E42E43E44E45E46E47E48E49E50E51E52E53E54E55E56E57E58E59E60E61E62E63E64E65E66EGCE33E34E35E36E37E38
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. 61 of the 67 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

ELECE01standard electric45 ft30 amp75 ft350 ft$28
ELECE02standard electric45 ft30 amp59 ft285 ft$28
ELECE03standard electric45 ft30 amp59 ft244 ft$28
ELECE04standard electric45 ft30 amp91 ft275 ft$28
ELECE05standard electric35 ft30 amp49 ft400 ft$28
ELECE06standard electric30 ft30 amp49 ft427 ft$28
ELECE07standard electric45 ft30 amp57 ft469 ft$28
ELECE08standard electric45 ft30 amp73 ft486 ft$28
ELECE09standard electric40 ft30 amp108 ft497 ft$28
ELECE10standard electric35 ft30 amp51 ft547 ft$28
ELECE11standard electric45 ft30 amp70 ft456 ft$28
ELECE12standard electric35 ft30 amp51 ft550 ft$28
ELECE13standard electric45 ft30 amp70 ft469 ft$28
ELECE14standard electric35 ft30 amp56 ft629 ft$28
ELECE15standard electric45 ft30 amp56 ft664 ft$28
ELECE16standard electric40 ft30 amp64 ft654 ft$28
ELECE17standard electric45 ft30 amp59 ft604 ft$28
ELECE18standard electric45 ft30 amp72 ft742 ft$28
ELECE19standard electric45 ft30 amp59 ft567 ft$28
ELECE20standard electric45 ft30 amp72 ft719 ft$28
ELECE21standard electric40 ft30 amp57 ft526 ft$28
ELECE22standard electric45 ft30 amp71 ft674 ft$28
ELECE23standard electric40 ft30 amp67 ft489 ft$28
ELECE24standard electric45 ft30 amp71 ft611 ft$28
ELECE25standard electric25 ft30 amp35 ft329 ft$28
ELECE26standard electric25 ft30 amp55 ft254 ft$28
ELECE27standard electric25 ft30 amp52 ft217 ft$28
ELECE28standard electric25 ft30 amp52 ft186 ft$28
ELECE29standard electric25 ft30 amp62 ft260 ft$28
ELECE30standard electric25 ft30 amp58 ft284 ft$28
ELECE31standard electric25 ft30 amp58 ft322 ft$28
ELECE32standard electric25 ft30 amp35 ft356 ft$28
ELECE39standard electric45 ft30 amp116 ft708 ft$28
ELECE40standard electric45 ft30 amp96 ft604 ft$28
ELECE41standard electric20 ft30 amp97 ft700 ft$28
ELECE42standard electric20 ft30 amp96 ft602 ft$28
ELECE43standard electric45 ft30 amp98 ft704 ft$28
ELECE44standard electric20 ft30 amp101 ft596 ft$28
ELECE45standard electric20 ft30 amp98 ft697 ft$28
ELECE46standard electric45 ft30 amp100 ft578 ft$28
ELECE47standard electric45 ft30 amp90 ft679 ft$28
ELECE48standard electric45 ft30 amp85 ft664 ft$28
ELECE49standard electric40 ft30 amp97 ft562 ft$28
ELECE50standard electric20 ft30 amp84 ft631 ft$28
ELECE51standard electric40 ft30 amp97 ft519 ft$28
ELECE52standard electric30 ft30 amp84 ft596 ft$28
ELECE53standard electric35 ft30 amp102 ft551 ft$28
ELECE54standard electric30 ft30 amp102 ft482 ft$28
ELECE55standard electric30 ft30 amp121 ft393 ft$28
ELECE56standard electric30 ft30 amp121 ft467 ft$28
ELECE57standard electric45 ft30 amp78 ft815 ft$28
ELECE58standard electric45 ft30 amp75 ft792 ft$28
ELECE59standard electric45 ft30 amp75 ft718 ft$28
ELECE60standard electric45 ft30 amp82 ft774 ft$28
ELECE61standard electric45 ft30 amp62 ft683 ft$28
ELECE62standard electric45 ft30 amp82 ft723 ft$28
ELECE63standard electric45 ft30 amp62 ft628 ft$28
ELECE64standard electric45 ft30 amp74 ft558 ft$28
ELECE65standard electric45 ft30 amp58 ft626 ft$28
ELECE66standard electric45 ft30 amp58 ft650 ft$28
LOFERS BEND GROUP CAMPEGCgroup standard electric30 amp370 ft682 ft$105
NON-E33tent only nonelectric30 ft50 ft313 ft
NON-E34tent only nonelectric30 ft50 ft325 ft
NON-E35tent only nonelectric30 ft127 ft268 ft
NON-E36tent only nonelectric20 ft103 ft229 ft
NON-E37tent only nonelectric45 ft103 ft229 ft
NON-E38tent only nonelectric45 ft150 ft335 ft
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 67 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
Coordinate31.88528, -97.36111
The phone254-622-3332
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near hereLofers Bend West0.0 miMcCown Valley4.6 miCedron Creek6.3 miPlowman Creek15 miKimball Bend Park18 miAirport Park20 mi
Getting there

From I-35 in Hillsboro, take Highway 22 west 12 miles to Whitney. Continue 7 miles past Whitney, turn right before dam. Follow park road to 4-way stop. Turn left to go to West Lofers or right to go to East Lofers.

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

Today67°Sunny
Tonight47°Mostly Clear
Sunday71°Sunny
Sunday Night49°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Laguna Park, TX

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 55°F, day 79°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: WHITNEY DAM, TX (USC00419715), 2 miles away and at about the same elevation
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

Jake Ellzey, official portrait

Lofers Bend East 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 →

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 and November 2026. It names 67 of the 67 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 14, 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: 0.85 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