Malden Lake Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:09 UTC
- A night
- $24–$48Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3938 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Malden Lake Campground is situated on the shore of 30,000-acre Wright Patman Lake within the piney woods of northeast Texas. This facility offers year-round enjoyment of outdoor activities like fishing, hunting and wildlife viewing. Keep reading
Recreation
Wright Patman Lake hosts a wide range of recreational activities, including camping, swimming, boating, fishing, hunting, hiking, picnicking and wildlife viewing. Boaters flock to the lake, and anglers try their luck for bass, catfish, crappie and sunfish. Malden Lake Park has a trail system behind the campsites in the H Loop, which is great for walking and enjoying the the park.
Facilities
Malden Lake Campground offers 39 campsites, all with water and electricity. Ten of the sites have 50-amp electric service, and all sites contain a picnic table, grill, utility table, lantern post and trash can. RV campers have the convenience of a dump station. The park also has a boat ramp and courtesy dock.
Natural Features
The campground overlooks the lake and is set among a thick pine forest that provides plenty of shade. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages approximately 55,000 acres of public forestland around the lake, providing habitat for wild turkey, bobwhite quail, squirrel, white-tailed deer, waterfowl and migrating bald eagles, pelicans and ducks. Some poisonous snakes inhabit the area.
Nearby Attractions
The Texarkana region is full of activities such as shopping, movies, restaurants and local historical sites. Shreveport, Louisiana offers river boat gambling, horse races and numerous festivals, including the Four State Fair and Rodeo and the Jump, Jive and Jam Festival. Contact Info For local information, please call (903) 585-2497 or call (903) 838-8781 for general information.
What the agency tells you
Gatehouse hours: Monday through Saturday (11 am - 7 pm), and Sunday (1 pm - 7 pm). Park access gates are not operational at this time.
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.
Golf carts will be allowed to operate in the park only if the operator can display a disability placard. Permits will be issued by park rangers upon display of proper credentials. Copies of the Ft. Worth District policy on motorized vehicles are available at the gatehouse.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 39
- Hookups
- 38 electric, 39 water
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 42 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 74th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
Something open on 30 of the next 30 bookable nightsread 15:09 UTC
recreation.gov lists 38 of the 39 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
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 make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$48 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 15:09 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
39 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 39 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. 38 of the 39 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| H | H001 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 586 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H002 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 132 ft | 624 ft | $24–$48 |
| H | H003 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 108 ft | 552 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H004 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 108 ft | 513 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H005 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 121 ft | 550 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H006 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 607 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H007 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 520 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H008 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 441 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H009 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 385 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H010 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 481 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H011 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 123 ft | 355 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H012 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 125 ft | 318 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H013 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 128 ft | 427 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H014 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 125 ft | 301 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H015 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 428 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H016 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 513 ft | |||
| H | H017 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 372 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H018 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 578 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H019 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 577 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H020 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 617 ft | $24–$48 | |
| H | H021 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 139 ft | 521 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P001 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 526 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P002 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 498 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P003 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 431 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P004 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 374 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P005 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 138 ft | 199 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P006 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 331 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P007 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 134 ft | 334 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P008 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 210 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P009 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 169 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P010 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 110 ft | 298 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P011 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 156 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P012 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 109 ft | 253 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P013 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 157 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P014 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 147 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P015 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 161 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P016 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 145 ft | 194 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P017 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 631 ft | $24–$48 | |
| P | P018 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | yes | 99 ft | 635 ft | $24–$48 |
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 39 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Piney Point11 mi
Rocky Point(Wright Patman Dam)11 mi
Clear Springs (TX)11 mi
Oak Park (Wright Patman Lake)11 mi
North Shore11 mi
Sportsman's Cove12 miPhysical Address of Malden Lake Campground:
230 Malden Lake Road
Maud, TX 75567
From I-30, exit onto Highway 8 at New Boston, Texas. Take Highway 8 south through Maud. Approximately six miles south of Maud, the park road will be on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Maud, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 54°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 35°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Malden Lake Campground is in Texas’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Nathaniel Moran (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →