Plowman Creek
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:59 UTC
- A night
- $16–$28Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 44All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Plowman Creek Campground is located on the west side of Whitney Lake off the main channel of the Brazos River in Central Texas. Plowman Creek not only offers many campsites but also includes flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp and playground. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, fishing, swimming, canoeing and kayaking are popular activities on the river and downstream at Whitney Lake. Anglers can fish for a variety of bass, crappie, and catfish. The 12.5 mile Hopewell Trail allows hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. Visitors can choose to travel north on the trail to Kimball Bend Park, or south to Lakeside Village and Powelldale Mountain.
Facilities
This year-round campground offers 44 campsites in Plowman Creek. Thirty of these sites have water and 30 amp electrical hook up (sites 1-7, 10-24 and equestrian sites 35-44). Twelve sites have water hookups only (sites 8,9 and 25-34). All sites have upright grills, covered picnic tables and a ground grill/fire ring. The park also has 2 restrooms with showers and a trailer dump station. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp, playground and a multi-use trail. * Please note that water for this facility is supplied by an onsite Public Water Supply (PWS) and in the event of a power ouatage that lasts more than 24 hours visitors may be asked to evacuate the park since water cannot be provided.
Natural Features
The Brazos River flows gently over sand and rocks at Plowman Creek. The surrounding rolling hills are covered with cedar, Live oak and Post oak.
What the agency tells you
Before camping at Plowman Creek please familiarize yourself with all applicable rules and regulations. Click Here to review Title 36.
Inbound gates open at 6 a.m. and close at 10 p.m.
A maximum of three vehicles allowed per campsite, group sites excluded
Everything else this campground posts · 4
No ATVs/OHVs allowed
A fishing license is required to fish at all parks on Lake Whitney
Please call the Whitney Lake Project Office 254-622-3332 for more information and burn ban restrictions
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 44 · 12 tent-only, 10 equestrian
- Hookups
- 32 electric, 32 water
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 34 of 44 sites
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…offers many campsites but also includes flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The park also has 2 restrooms with showers and a trailer dump station.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…also includes flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp and playground.…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Night sky · 84th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
41 of 84 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:59 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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, $16–$28 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 15:59 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
44 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 44 mapped sitesAll 44 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 44 of the 44 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. 44 of the 44 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| PCRE | P01 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 540 ft | 330 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 389 ft | 465 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 477 ft | 384 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P04 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 379 ft | 445 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P05 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 460 ft | 365 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P06 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 339 ft | 471 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P07 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 360 ft | 461 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P08 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 109 ft | 237 ft | 574 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P09 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 105 ft | 165 ft | 672 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P10 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 261 ft | 593 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P11 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 351 ft | 497 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P12 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 99 ft | 406 ft | 1,095 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P13 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 99 ft | 408 ft | 1,194 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P14 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 392 ft | 1,170 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P15 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 428 ft | 1,097 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P16 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 263 ft | 1,501 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P17 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 282 ft | 1,415 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P18 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 267 ft | 1,340 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P19 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 269 ft | 1,194 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P20 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 295 ft | 1,124 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P21 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 295 ft | 1,046 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P22 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 270 ft | 986 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P23 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 244 ft | 917 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 203 ft | 827 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P25 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 59 ft | 195 ft | 771 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P26 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 100 ft | 119 ft | 648 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P27 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 100 ft | 127 ft | 573 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P28 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 123 ft | 149 ft | 482 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P29 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 97 ft | 209 ft | 399 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P30 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 96 ft | 216 ft | 399 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P31 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 96 ft | 214 ft | 431 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P32 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 110 ft | 270 ft | 431 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P33 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 111 ft | 337 ft | 448 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P34 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 146 ft | 424 ft | 510 ft | $16 | |
| PCRE | P35 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 28 ft | 1,205 ft | 418 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P36 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 28 ft | 1,221 ft | 439 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P37 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 31 ft | 1,185 ft | 406 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P38 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 25 ft | 1,195 ft | 427 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P39 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 25 ft | 1,170 ft | 403 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P40 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 24 ft | 1,173 ft | 422 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P41 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 24 ft | 1,151 ft | 399 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P42 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 25 ft | 1,162 ft | 426 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P43 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 32 ft | 1,130 ft | 399 ft | $28 |
| PCRE | P44 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 35 ft | 1,143 ft | 429 ft | $28 |
25 of 44 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Kimball Bend Park3.7 mi
Cedron Creek8.6 mi
McCown Valley11 mi
Lofers Bend East15 mi
Lofers Bend West15 mi
Airport Park35 miFrom Kopperl, Texas, travel 1 mile south on FM 56. Follow signs into campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kopperl, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°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
Plowman Creek is in Texas’s 31st congressional district. Its representative, John Carter (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →