Lofers Bend West
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $16–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 69All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lofers Bend West Campground is located on Whitney Lake on the Brazos River in Central Texas. Over two million people visit Whitney Lake each year to enjoy the plethora of recreational activities and scenic beauty the lake provides. 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
The campground offers 51 electric sites, one group site, and one day-use group picnic shelter with water and electric hookups. 23 non-electric sites are available, many of which have water hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a 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 like to enjoy their stay at Lofers West along with the racoons and foxes. Nearby Attractions
What the agency tells you
Before camping at Lofers Bend West 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
- 69 · 18 tent-only, 1 group, 5 cabin
- Hookups
- 51 electric, 67 water
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- 43 of 69
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 17 of 69 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 17 of 69 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 17 of 69 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Birding
- Swimming
- Water access
- Night sky · 81st darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Army Corps says
- Yes
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
69 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 69 mapped sitesAll 69 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. 51 of the 69 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ELEC | W01 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 502 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 419 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 322 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W04 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 297 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W05 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 208 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W28 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 780 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W29 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 706 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W30 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 746 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W31 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 662 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W32 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 694 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W33 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 618 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W34 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 599 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W35 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 581 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W36 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 560 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W37 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 511 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W38 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 520 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W39 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 385 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W40 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 369 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W42 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 453 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W43 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 418 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W44 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 125 ft | 296 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W45 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 439 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W46 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 487 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W47 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 883 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W48 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 879 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W49 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 745 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W50 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 843 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W51 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 731 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W52 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 784 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W53 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 691 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W54 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 685 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W55 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 583 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W56 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 543 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W57 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 616 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W58 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 565 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W59 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 413 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W60 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 444 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W61 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 482 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W62 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | 403 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W63 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 268 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W64 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 225 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W65 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 328 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W66 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 202 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W67 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 192 ft | $28–$30 |
| ELEC | W68 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 293 ft | $28–$30 |
| LBEC | WGC | group standard electric | 30 amp | 525 ft | 894 ft | $80 | |
| NON- | W06 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 110 ft | 281 ft | ||
| NON- | W07 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 110 ft | 219 ft | ||
| NON- | W08 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 158 ft | 296 ft | ||
| NON- | W09 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 158 ft | 216 ft | ||
| NON- | W10 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 131 ft | 411 ft | $30 | |
| NON- | W11 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 171 ft | 418 ft | $30 | |
| NON- | W12 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 171 ft | 247 ft | $30 | |
| NON- | W13 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 125 ft | 212 ft | $30 | |
| NON- | W14 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 125 ft | 190 ft | ||
| NON- | W15 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 135 ft | 272 ft | ||
| NON- | W16 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 176 ft | 259 ft | ||
| NON- | W17 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 164 ft | ||
| NON- | W18 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 99 ft | 186 ft | $30 | |
| NON- | W19 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 176 ft | 174 ft | ||
| NON- | W20 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 195 ft | 417 ft | ||
| NON- | W21 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 195 ft | 259 ft | ||
| NON- | W22 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 294 ft | 126 ft | ||
| NON- | W23 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 234 ft | 643 ft | ||
| NON- | W24 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 183 ft | 434 ft | ||
| NON- | W25 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 183 ft | 282 ft | ||
| NON- | W26 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 203 ft | 115 ft | ||
| NON- | W27 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 203 ft | 106 ft | ||
| NON- | W41 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 44 ft | 344 ft |
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 69 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lofers Bend East0.0 mi
McCown Valley4.6 mi
Cedron Creek6.3 mi
Plowman Creek15 mi
Kimball Bend Park18 mi
Airport Park20 miFrom I-35 in Hillsboro, take Hwy 22 west 12 miles to Whitney, continue 7 miles past Whitney, and turn right before dam. Follow park road to 4-way stop. Turn left for West Lofers or right for East Lofers.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Laguna Park, TX
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.
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
Lofers Bend West 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 17 of 69 campsites here”