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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TX

Pat Mayse West

1Heads up1 fire 35 mi away

Wildfire

Lake fire · 35 mi away · 105 acres · 50% contained · updated Oct 16, 2026

Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026

ReservableBookable through October 31; an off-peak season follows November 1 to February 28.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:14 UTC
A night: $16–$24Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 8886 on recreation.gov

Photos · Pat Mayse Lake

90 ftLongest rig

470 ftElevation

536 ftWater · Pat Mayse Lake

4.9 miNW of Powderly, TX

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices

In the agency’s own words

Pat Mayse West Campground is on the banks of its namesake 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 will find 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 habitats for migratory waterfowl. A few miles north of the project area are the famed Red River Bottoms where waterfowl congregate in impressive numbers.

Facilities

This year-round campground offers 88 sites, 83 of which have electric hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, 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.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

This area was a military artillery range in the 1940s; Report any ordinance to the park rangers or 911 if found.

Rule

Entrance gate opens at 6 a.m. and closes at 10 p.m.; vehicles may leave at any time but cannot enter until the following morning

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.

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 88
Hookups: 81 electric, 88 water
Longest rig: 90 ft
Paved pads: 86 of 88
Accessible sites: 1
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Toilets: Pit Toilets; “…hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp. Natural Features Pat…”
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, River, Beach; Accessible Swimming; Fishing; Hunting; Swimming
Night sky · 61st 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

128 of 162 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:14 UTC

recreation.gov lists 86 of the 88 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

OpenBooked

Booking windowThrough October 31Bookable now through October 31, 2026, the end of the peak season. The off-peak season that follows runs November 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027; recreation.gov releases it on its own schedule, so check there before counting on those nights.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$16–$24plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$40–$56DerivedFriday 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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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.

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.

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–$24

Standard Nonelectric$16

Standard Electric$20

50 Amp Service$24

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Mar 1, 2026 to Oct 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–$32

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$40–$56

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$24 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 16:14 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

88 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 86 mapped sites

71 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomC-LO C14 192 ftC-LO C15 154 ftB-LO B09 122 ftC-LO C10 116 ftC-LO C12 115 ft

Least roomB-LO B20 36 ftB-LO B22 36 ftB-LO B25 39 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 88 sites

88 of 88 sites located

Standard5RV / electric81Type not stated2

A01 A02 A03 A04 A05 A06 A07 A08 A09 A10 A11 A12 A13 A14 A15 A16 A17 A18 A19 A20 A21 A22 A23 A24 A25 A26 A27 A28 A29 A30 A31 A32 A33 A34 B01 B02 B03 B04 B05 B06 B07 B08 B09 B10 B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 B16 B17 B18 B19 B20 B21 B22 B23 B24 B25 B26 B27 B28 B29 B30 B31 B32 B33 B34 B35 B36 B37 B38 B39 C01 C02 C03 C04 C05 C06 C07 C08 C09 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15

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. 86 of the 88 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.


A-LO	A01	standard electric	10 ft	30 amp		73 ft	52 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A02	standard electric	15 ft	30 amp		73 ft	115 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A03	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		74 ft	66 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A04	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		110 ft	176 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A05	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		46 ft	67 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A06	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		46 ft	32 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A07	standard electric	40 ft	20/30 amp		112 ft	17 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A08	standard electric	45 ft	20/30/50 amp		69 ft	61 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A09	standard electric	45 ft	20/30/50 amp		53 ft	125 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A10	standard electric	40 ft	20/30/50 amp		53 ft	150 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A11	standard electric	60 ft	20/30/50 amp		80 ft	156 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A12	standard electric	40 ft	20/30/50 amp		44 ft	199 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A13	standard electric	40 ft	20/30 amp		99 ft	136 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A14	standard electric	80 ft	20/30/50 amp		44 ft	234 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A15	standard electric	80 ft	20/30/50 amp		68 ft	146 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A16	standard electric	60 ft	20/30/50 amp		68 ft	150 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A17	standard electric	80 ft	30 amp		74 ft	67 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A18	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		74 ft	94 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A19	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		97 ft	293 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A20	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		78 ft	367 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A21	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		77 ft	329 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A22	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		62 ft	339 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A23	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp		66 ft	345 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A24	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		61 ft	321 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A25	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		59 ft	317 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A26	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		72 ft	322 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A27	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		59 ft	312 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A28	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	yes	77 ft	272 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A29	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		75 ft	238 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A30	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		75 ft	197 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A31	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		59 ft	169 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A32	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		45 ft	222 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A33	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		45 ft	264 ft	$20–$24
A-LO	A34	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		61 ft	260 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B01	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		75 ft	112 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B02	standard electric	20 ft	30 amp		75 ft	82 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B03	standard electric	10 ft	30 amp		92 ft	82 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B04	standard electric	20 ft	30 amp		94 ft	55 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B05	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp		73 ft	120 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B06	standard electric	15 ft	30 amp		76 ft	15 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B07	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		76 ft	36 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B08	standard electric	15 ft	30 amp		94 ft	45 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B09	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		122 ft	58 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B10	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		46 ft	178 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B11	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		46 ft	185 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B12	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp		46 ft	196 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B13	standard nonelectric	55 ft			62 ft	21 ft	$16
B-LO	B14	standard nonelectric	40 ft			51 ft	26 ft	$16
B-LO	B15	standard nonelectric	45 ft			51 ft	54 ft	$16
B-LO	B16	standard nonelectric	60 ft			53 ft	50 ft	$16
B-LO	B17	standard nonelectric	40 ft			94 ft	100 ft	$16
B-LO	B18	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		39 ft	207 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B19	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		54 ft	198 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B20	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		36 ft	237 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B21	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		54 ft	237 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B22	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		36 ft	260 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B23	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		47 ft	317 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B24	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		49 ft	265 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B25	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		39 ft	313 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B26	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp		39 ft	315 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B27	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		49 ft	252 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B28	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		45 ft	315 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B29	type not stated	60 ft	30 amp			261 ft
B-LO	B30	type not stated	45 ft	30 amp			232 ft
B-LO	B31	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		71 ft	181 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B32	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		71 ft	170 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B33	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		72 ft	122 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B34	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		104 ft	142 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B35	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		104 ft	203 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B36	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		92 ft	99 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B37	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		83 ft	111 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B38	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		76 ft	147 ft	$20–$24
B-LO	B39	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		76 ft	185 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C01	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		46 ft	106 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C02	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		46 ft	96 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C03	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		53 ft	101 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C04	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		101 ft	47 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C05	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		75 ft	49 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C06	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		75 ft	50 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C07	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		51 ft	75 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C08	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		51 ft	100 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C09	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp		62 ft	146 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C10	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		116 ft	110 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C11	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		80 ft	28 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C12	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp		115 ft	145 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C13	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		80 ft	59 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C14	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		192 ft	88 ft	$20–$24
C-LO	C15	standard electric	90 ft	30 amp		154 ft	257 ft	$20–$24

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

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 88 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

Coordinate33.84778, -95.60694

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone903-732-4956

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Pat Mayse East1.4 mi

Sanders Cove4.2 mi

Kiamichi Park16 mi

Virgil Point19 mi

Mahaffey Point19 mi

West Lake Davy CrockettCaddo National Grassland · 20 mi

Getting there

From Paris, TX, take HWY 271 north for 12 miles to FM 906 W, then 4 miles to FM 197. Turn west for 3 miles to CR 35810, turn left 1 mile to CR 35800, then left into the park.

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

Overnight44°Mostly Clear

Saturday68°Sunny

Saturday Night44°Clear

Sunday70°Sunny

NWS forecast for Powderly, TX

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

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.

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: PARIS, TX (USC00416794), 12 miles away and 72 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

Pat Mayse West 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 →

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, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 86 of the 88 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 11, 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, taken as the median across the 88 campsites here that carry a reading · 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: 0.46 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