Pat Mayse East
1Heads up1 fire 35 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 2625 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pat Mayse East Campground is on the banks of Pat Mayse Lake in the Red River Basin in Lamar County, Texas. Easy access to developed park areas has made the lake a haven for families who enjoy camping, picnicking, swimming, boating, fishing and other outdoor recreation. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake provides excellent opportunities for boating, swimming and fishing. Anglers fish for largemouth bass, white crappie, sunfish, striped bass and channel and flathead catfish, among other species. Hunting is a very popular activity in the area. The surrounding lands are managed for upland game and whitetail deer. Other species present include fox squirrel, gray squirrel, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, cottontail rabbit, raccoon and fox. Opossum, beaver, mink, skunk and nutria are also present. The lake also provides resting and feeding habitat for migratory waterfowl. A few miles north of the project area are the famed Red River Bottoms where waterfowl congregate in impressive numbers. Equestrian trails are available right next to the campground.
Facilities
This year-round campground offers 85 sites with electric hookups. Amenities pit toilets, drinking water, a dump station, and boat ramp.
Natural Features
Pat Mayse Lake covers almost 6,000 acres and has 67 miles of shoreline. It is situated among gently rolling grasslands and mixed hardwood forests studded with mature pines. Wildlife is abundant in the surrounding area.
What the agency tells you
This area was a military artillery range in the 1940s; Report any ordinance to the park rangers or 911 if found.
There is not a Gate House but there are volunteers at this location.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
A-Loop has an Equestrian Trail and horse corrals.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26
- Hookups
- 25 electric, 26 water
- Longest rig
- 100 ft
- Accessible sites
- 25
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…sites with electric hookups. Amenities pit toilets, drinking water, a dump station, and boat ramp.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…electric hookups. Amenities pit toilets, drinking water, a dump station, and boat ramp. Natural Features…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Accessible Swimming
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Water access
- Night sky · 67th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
Something open on 30 of the next 30 bookable nightsread 15:22 UTC
recreation.gov lists 25 of the 26 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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 26 sites
| A | A01 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | yes | 59 ft | 42 ft |
| A | A02 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | yes | 59 ft | 71 ft |
| A | A03 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | yes | 105 ft | 78 ft |
| A | A04 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | yes | 116 ft | 181 ft |
| A | A05 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | yes | 67 ft | 275 ft |
| A | A06 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 67 ft | 318 ft |
| A | A07 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | yes | 96 ft | 319 ft |
| A | A08 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 91 ft | 463 ft |
| A | A09 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | yes | 56 ft | 488 ft |
| A | A10 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | yes | 56 ft | 444 ft |
| A | A11 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | yes | 69 ft | 372 ft |
| A | A12 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | yes | 69 ft | 303 ft |
| A | A13 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | yes | 58 ft | 182 ft |
| A | A14 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | yes | 42 ft | 210 ft |
| A | A15 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | yes | 42 ft | 206 ft |
| A | A16 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | yes | 60 ft | 159 ft |
| B | B01 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | yes | 60 ft | 73 ft |
| B | B02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 52 ft | 64 ft |
| B | B03 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | yes | 52 ft | 78 ft |
| B | B04 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | yes | 55 ft | 45 ft |
| B | B05 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | yes | 55 ft | 43 ft |
| B | B06 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | yes | 55 ft | 53 ft |
| B | B07 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | yes | 62 ft | 41 ft |
| B | B08 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | yes | 85 ft | 56 ft |
| B | B09 | type not stated | 55 ft | 30 amp | 151 ft | ||
| B | B10 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | yes | 119 ft | 138 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 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pat Mayse West1.4 mi
Sanders Cove3.0 mi
Kiamichi Park16 mi
Virgil Point19 mi
Mahaffey Point19 mi
West Lake Davy CrockettCaddo National Grassland · 21 miFrom Paris, TX, take HWY 271 north for 12 miles to FM 906 W, then 4 miles to FM 197. Turn west for 1 mile to CR 35850. Keep straight until reaching the signs for the two loops.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Powderly, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°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
Pat Mayse East is in Texas’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Pat Fallon (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →