Piney Point
1Heads up1 fire 27 mi away
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:03 UTC
- A night
- $14–$26When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 52In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Piney Point Park is situated on the shore of 30,000-acre Wright Patman Lake within the piney woods of northeast Texas. This facility offers campers a complete range of services and year-round outdoor activities like fishing, hunting and wildlife viewing. Keep reading
Recreation
Piney Point has plenty of open space and shade in which children can play, as well as a volleyball court and a 1.3-mile hiking trail that leads to nearby Rocky Point Campground and its swimming beach. Other activities on the lake include boating, fishing, hunting, picnicking and wildlife viewing. Boaters can make use of the park's boat ramp, and anglers can try their luck for bass, catfish, crappie and sunfish.
Facilities
The campground has comfortable accommodations with 45 campsites with water and electricity, as well as a group picnic shelter for day use only that can host up to 75 people. Campsites have picnic tables, grills, utility tables and trash cans. Restrooms, showers and a dump station are provided.
Natural Features
The park is located in a southern pine forest overlooking the lake. 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.
What the agency tells you
Gatehouse hours: Monday through Saturday (11 am - 7 pm), and Sunday (1 pm - 7 pm). Park access gates will be left open during these hours, but will be closed outside of these times. Only campers and visitors with access codes will be allowed entrance when the gatehouse is closed.
Campground is open seasonally between March and September.
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 · 2
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.
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
- 52 · 7 tent-only
- Hookups
- 45 electric, 45 water
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Paved pads
- 44 of 52
- Accessible sites
- 4
- 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, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Water sports
- Night sky · 94th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:03 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Piney Point closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 150 miles · 2
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Cedar Lake Recreation AreaWinding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area · 106 mi
- Cove Lake Recreation AreaOzark National Forest · 136 mi · 36 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 16:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
53 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 45 mapped sitesAll 53 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 45 of the 53 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ALOO | A01 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 540 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A02 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 473 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 568 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A04 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 480 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A05 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 531 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A06 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 468 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A07 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 458 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A08 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 401 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A09 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 373 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A10 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 344 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A11 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 312 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 269 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A13 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 302 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A14 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 211 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A15 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 238 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A19 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 219 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A20 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 270 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A21 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 333 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A22 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 55 ft | 344 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A23 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 404 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 55 ft | 344 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A25 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 404 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A26 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 306 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A27 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 362 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A28 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 112 ft | 240 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A29 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 81 ft | 191 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A30 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | 166 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A31 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 132 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A32 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 108 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A33 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 160 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A34 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 170 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A35 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 46 ft | 248 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A36 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 208 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A37 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 201 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A38 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 233 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A39 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 180 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A40 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 242 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A41 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 183 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A42 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 264 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A43 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 205 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A44 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 335 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A45 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 224 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A46 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 367 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A47 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 399 ft | $24–$26 | |
| ALOO | A48 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 505 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B01 | tent only nonelectric | ||||||
| B | B02 | tent only nonelectric | ||||||
| B | B03 | tent only nonelectric | ||||||
| B | B04 | tent only nonelectric | ||||||
| B | B05 | tent only nonelectric | ||||||
| B | B06 | tent only nonelectric | ||||||
| B | B07 | tent only nonelectric | ||||||
| DUSS | GS1 | day use | Electricity Hookup | yes | 295 ft |
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.
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 53 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rocky Point(Wright Patman Dam)0.8 mi
Oak Park (Wright Patman Lake)1.7 mi
Sportsman's Cove4.1 mi
North Shore4.1 mi
Clear Springs (TX)4.3 mi
Malden Lake Campground11 miPhysical Address of Piney Point Park:
710 Piney Point Park Road
Queen City, TX 75572
From Texarkana, take Highway 59 south to Wright Patman Lake. Just south of Sulphur River Dam, turn right into the park area, following signs. Proceed one mile to the park. Piney Point is just north of Rocky Point Park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Domino, 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
Piney Point 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 →