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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TX

Mustang

ReservableBookable through April 16; tomorrow opens April 17.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $125From, per site
Sites: 1001 on recreation.gov

Photographs of individual campsites · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

710 ftElevation

500 ftWater · Mustang Creek

1.8 miSW of Fort Worth, TX

0%Tree cover

Bortle 6Night sky · 145th darkest of 154 in TX

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices

In the agency’s own words

Mustang Park is a spacious dayuse area on the south side of Benbrook Lake in north-central Texas, accessible from WInscott Plover Road. Swimming, picnicking, fishing, boat launching, and wildlife viewing are available. Keep reading

Recreation

Mustang is a unique recreation experience at Benbrook, where day-users are not restricted to designated table sites or roadways - you may set up and day-use anywhere in the park you like, even right on the shoreline. The adjacent swimming beach is popular, as is fishing along the shoreline of Mustang Point.

Facilities

Mustang Park offers open day-use, along with a large group pavilion with utilities, as well as restrooms with showers, and a trailer dump station.

Natural Features

Mustang Park is on the west side of Mustang Creek on the south side of the Lake, with wooded creek bottoms and gently sloping shorelines.

Nearby Attractions

Fort Worth's renowned Cultural & Museum District, Stockyards National Historic District, Botanical Gardens, Zoo, Bass Performance Hall, and downtown Sundance Square, are all only a short drive. The campground closes at 10:00 p.m. so plan ahead.. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (817) 292-2400 for general information.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Mustang Point Day Use longer accepts cash or checks as use entry fees. A paystation will instead be used to collect entry fees. This paystation will only accept debit or credit cards.

Rule

Fires allowed in campfire rings, grills or covered cookers only

Rule

Park is not specifically designated as accessible; however, it is a generally open and level setting without barriers, significant grade changes or slopes

Everything else this campground posts · 3

Rule

Gates are closed from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m.

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

Fishing is NOT permitted anywhere in the swim beach. Please fish along the plentiful shoreline in the day-use area of the park.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 100 · 100 tent-only
Hookups: None
Accessible sites: None listed

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Facilities Mustang Park offers open day-use, along with a large group pavilion with utilities, as well as restrooms with showers, and a trailer dump station.”
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: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, Creek, Beach; Boating; Fishing; Picnicking; Swimming

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:06 UTC

recreation.gov lists 1 of the 100 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Booking window6 months outBookable now through April 16, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$125plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$258DerivedFriday 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

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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

Every line of the receipt · 16

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night$125

Tent Only Nonelectric$125

Group area, a night$125

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.

Day-Use Prices: $5 Per vehicle $5 Boat Launch $2 Bicycle $125 Group Shelter All payment for day use activities is to be made through the pay station located at the entrance of the park.

Once paid, place your ticket face up on you vehicle dash for the duration of your visit.

All payment for the Mustang Group Shelter must be made through recreation.gov

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$133

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$258

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $125 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 · Sep 10, 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 16:06 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

101 records · the site map

All 101 records

2 of 101 records located

Tent only1Day use1

001 GS

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

Up to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 2 of the 101 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 100 of the 101 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	001	tent only nonelectric		355 ftBenbrook Lake	141 ft	$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	002	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	003	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	004	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	005	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	006	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	007	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	008	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	009	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	010	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	011	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	012	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	013	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	014	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	015	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	016	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	017	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	018	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	019	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	020	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	021	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	022	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	023	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	024	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	025	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	026	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	027	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	028	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	029	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	030	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	031	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	032	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	033	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	034	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	035	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	036	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	037	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	038	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	039	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	040	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	041	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	042	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	043	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	044	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	045	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	046	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	047	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	048	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	049	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	050	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	051	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	052	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	053	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	054	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	055	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	056	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	057	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	058	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	059	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	060	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	061	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	062	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	063	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	064	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	065	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	066	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	067	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	068	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	069	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	070	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	071	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	072	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	073	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	074	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	075	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	076	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	077	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	078	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	079	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	080	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	081	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	082	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	083	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	084	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	085	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	086	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	087	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	088	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	089	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	090	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	091	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	092	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	093	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	094	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	095	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	096	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	097	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	098	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	099	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG NON SITE SPECIFIC	100	tent only nonelectric				$125
MUSTANG POINT	GS	day use	15 amp	399 ftBenbrook Lake	304 ft	$125

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 · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 101 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

Coordinate32.59278, -97.48000

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone817-292-2400

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near hereMustang - Bear Creek Campground1.2 mi

Bear Creek1.3 mi

Rocky Creek Park (Benbrook Lake)1.9 mi

Holiday (Texas)2.0 mi

North Holiday Park4.1 mi

Longhorn4.4 mi

Getting there

From FM 1187 Crowley Plover Road, turn north on Winscott Plover Road for a mile (0.6 km) to the park entrance.

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

Tonight46°Mostly Clear

Saturday62°Sunny

Saturday Night44°Clear

Sunday67°Sunny

NWS forecast for Fort Worth, TX

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 54°F, day 81°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

110°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: BENBROOK DAM, TX (USC00410691), 4 miles away and 80 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

Mustang is in Texas’s 12th congressional district. Its representative, Craig Goldman (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: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.

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 1 of the 100 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 12, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 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: 6.6 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