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Promontory

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read Oct 15

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read Oct 15
A night: $10–$34When it reopens, per site
Sites: 77In the agency’s record

Photos · Stephanie Jones

140 ftLongest rig

1,180 ftElevation

229 ftWater · Proctor Lake

7.1 miNE of Comanche, TX

0%Tree cover

The place

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

In the agency’s own words

Promontory Campground sits along Proctor Lake in the Cross Timbers Region of Texas. The area appeals to sportsmen, birders, naturalists or those simply wanting to relax in the outdoors. Keep reading

Recreation

Fishing is Proctor Lake's main draw; anglers enjoy the lake's tremendous populations of bass, shad and crappie. The lake is also recognized as one of the best hybrid striped bass lakes in the state. Boating and swimming are popular activities on the water as well, and boat ramps and docks provide easy lake access for visitors. The surrounding wildlife areas at Proctor Lake provide ample hunting opportunities for game like duck, dove, hog and other small game animals. High Point Park, located just 2 miles from the campground, offers more than 10 miles of of hiking and equestrian trails.

Facilities

This campground offers a variety of campsites, some with screened shelters, some with electrical hookups and some primitive sites for tent camping.

Natural Features

Large grassy areas dotted with black willow trees and buttonbush characterize the campground. Shade is sparse, but lake views are plentiful.

Nearby Attractions

The nearby town of Comanche, Texas, offers historical attractions, antique stores. museums, events and more.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

The park gate closes at night for security. Entrance into the park is not allowed between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Please plan accordingly.

Rule

Off-road vehicles, golf carts, ATVs, or UTVs are NOT permitted in the parks.

Rule

Campsites are allowed 2 extra vehicle permits at a cost of $4 per permit. Each campsite is not to exceed a total of 4 vehicles per campsite.

Everything else this campground posts · 3

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

Gray water must be held

Rule

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 77 · 16 tent-only, 4 group, 5 cabin
Hookups: 61 electric, 56 water
Longest rig: 140 ft
Paved pads: 74 of 77
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Boat ramp: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Hunting
Night sky · 44th 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

Nothing to book until it reopensread Oct 15

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.

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$10–$34plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

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

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, when it reopens$10–$34

Sngl Primitive$10

Sngl 30 Amp - No Sewer$24

Sngl 50 Amp - No Sewer$26

Dbl 30 Amp - No Sewer$34

Group areas, a night$28–$130

These are next season’s rates, Apr 1, 2027 to Sep 29, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

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 this campground addsits own record

Extra vehicle$4

“Campsites are allowed 2 extra vehicle permits at a cost of $4 per permit.” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice

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 · Oct 1, 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

What this campground adds: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · 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

Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Promontory 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.

Closure: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers status record · Oct 16, 2026

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.

recreation.gov availability, read Oct 15 · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

77 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 77 mapped sites

91 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomL#2 G1 1299 ftL#1 G3 743 ftL#4 G4 591 ftL#2 S39 193 ftL#3 45 172 ft

Least roomL#4 78 53 ftL#4 89 53 ftL#4 83 62 ft

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

All 77 sites

77 of 77 sites located

Tent only16RV / electric52Group4Cabin or shelter5

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 G3 G1 S35 S36 S37 S38 S39 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 98 99 G2 G4

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

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

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 77 of the 77 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. 77 of the 77 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


L#1	24	tent only nonelectric	35 ft		111 ft	189 ft	493 ft	$10
L#1	25	tent only nonelectric	40 ft		111 ft	85 ft	559 ft	$10
L#1	26	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	127 ft	239 ft	805 ft	$24–$34
L#1	27	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	83 ft	122 ft	694 ft	$24–$34
L#1	28	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	83 ft	43 ft	667 ft	$24–$34
L#1	29	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	88 ft	23 ft	737 ft	$24–$34
L#1	30	standard electric	140 ft	30 amp	97 ft	137 ft	889 ft	$24–$34
L#1	31	standard electric	100 ft	30 amp	97 ft	41 ft	847 ft	$24–$34
L#1	32	standard electric	85 ft	30 amp	119 ft	89 ft	993 ft	$24–$34
L#1	33	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	112 ft	72 ft	973 ft	$24–$34
L#1	34	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	127 ft	126 ft	946 ft	$24–$34
L#1	G3	group standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	743 ft	160 ft	741 ft	$56–$130
L#2	G1	group standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	1298 ft	237 ft	409 ft	$56–$130
L#2	S35	overnight shelter electric	70 ft	30 amp	153 ft	89 ft	188 ft	$28–$44
L#2	S36	overnight shelter electric		20 amp	153 ft	71 ft	330 ft	$28–$44
L#2	S37	overnight shelter electric		20 amp	135 ft	44 ft	486 ft	$28–$44
L#2	S38	overnight shelter electric		20 amp	135 ft	73 ft	410 ft	$28–$44
L#2	S39	overnight shelter electric		20 amp	193 ft	123 ft	236 ft	$28–$44
L#3	41	tent only nonelectric	100 ft		98 ft	123 ft	993 ft	$10
L#3	42	tent only nonelectric	25 ft		98 ft	64 ft	1,036 ft	$10
L#3	43	tent only nonelectric	30 ft		83 ft	31 ft	1,126 ft	$10
L#3	44	tent only nonelectric	30 ft		83 ft	72 ft	1,066 ft	$10
L#3	45	tent only nonelectric	35 ft		172 ft	138 ft	827 ft	$10
L#3	46	tent only nonelectric	50 ft		172 ft	95 ft	926 ft	$10
L#3	47	tent only nonelectric	30 ft		114 ft	93 ft	603 ft	$10
L#3	48	tent only nonelectric	25 ft		114 ft	54 ft	676 ft	$10
L#3	49	tent only nonelectric	25 ft		152 ft	208 ft	455 ft	$10
L#3	50	tent only nonelectric	40 ft		132 ft	67 ft	573 ft	$10
L#3	51	tent only nonelectric	50 ft		127 ft	123 ft	501 ft	$10
L#3	52	tent only nonelectric	25 ft		127 ft	98 ft	584 ft	$10
L#3	53	tent only nonelectric	25 ft		112 ft	300 ft	358 ft	$10
L#3	54	tent only nonelectric	50 ft		112 ft	306 ft	382 ft	$10
L#4	55	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	84 ft	222 ft	712 ft	$24–$34
L#4	57	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	103 ft	144 ft	682 ft	$24–$34
L#4	58	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	84 ft	193 ft	629 ft	$24–$34
L#4	59	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	102 ft	125 ft	554 ft	$24–$34
L#4	60	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	70 ft	146 ft	550 ft	$24–$34
L#4	61	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	101 ft	101 ft	451 ft	$24–$34
L#4	62	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	70 ft	136 ft	483 ft	$24–$34
L#4	63	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	94 ft	54 ft	339 ft	$24–$34
L#4	64	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	90 ft	133 ft	403 ft	$24–$34
L#4	65	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	80 ft	96 ft	374 ft	$24–$34
L#4	66	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	64 ft	87 ft	387 ft	$24–$34
L#4	67	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	64 ft	75 ft	381 ft	$24–$34
L#4	68	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	115 ft	80 ft	353 ft	$24–$34
L#4	69	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	96 ft	235 ft	109 ft	$24–$34
L#4	70	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	63 ft	308 ft	164 ft	$24–$34
L#4	71	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	97 ft	198 ft	213 ft	$24–$34
L#4	72	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	86 ft	288 ft	232 ft	$24–$34
L#4	73	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	79 ft	213 ft	332 ft	$24–$34
L#4	74	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	73 ft	256 ft	316 ft	$24–$34
L#4	75	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp	91 ft	170 ft	429 ft	$24–$34
L#4	76	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	69 ft	244 ft	469 ft	$24–$34
L#4	77	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	94 ft	148 ft	563 ft	$24–$34
L#4	78	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	54 ft	246 ft	542 ft	$24–$34
L#4	79	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	78 ft	147 ft	651 ft	$24–$34
L#4	80	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	79 ft	168 ft	668 ft	$24–$34
L#4	81	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	78 ft	138 ft	729 ft	$24–$34
L#4	82	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	65 ft	125 ft	871 ft	$24–$34
L#4	83	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	62 ft	140 ft	935 ft	$24–$34
L#4	84	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	62 ft	118 ft	957 ft	$24–$34
L#4	85	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	98 ft	70 ft	888 ft	$24–$34
L#4	86	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	75 ft	68 ft	732 ft	$24–$34
L#4	87	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	75 ft	136 ft	663 ft	$24–$34
L#4	88	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	75 ft	201 ft	601 ft	$24–$34
L#4	89	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	54 ft	197 ft	526 ft	$24–$34
L#4	90	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	75 ft	174 ft	460 ft	$24–$34
L#4	91	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	73 ft	183 ft	370 ft	$24–$34
L#4	92	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	86 ft	203 ft	295 ft	$24–$34
L#4	93	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	64 ft	128 ft	341 ft	$24–$34
L#4	94	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	63 ft	253 ft	214 ft	$24–$34
L#4	95	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	64 ft	166 ft	314 ft	$24–$34
L#4	96	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	64 ft	191 ft	296 ft	$24–$34
L#4	98	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	74 ft	209 ft	193 ft	$24–$34
L#4	99	standard electric	90 ft	30 amp	74 ft	189 ft	242 ft	$24–$34
L#4	G2	group standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	168 ft	77 ft	381 ft	$56–$130
L#4	G4	group standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	591 ft	163 ft	493 ft	$56–$130

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 · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 77 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

Coordinate31.98000, -98.49000

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone254-893-7545

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Copperas Creek1.2 mi

Sowell Creek1.9 mi

Plowman Creek59 mi

Kimball Bend Park59 mi

Cedron Creek63 mi

Flatrock (Texas)64 mi

Getting there

From Comanche, Texas, HWY 16 north for 12 miles to the town of Downing. Turn right on FM 2318 and continue for five miles 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

Tonight42°Partly Cloudy

Saturday62°Sunny

Saturday Night40°Mostly Clear

Sunday68°Sunny

NWS forecast for Proctor, TX

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 54°F, day 80°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

110°30°

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.

Measured at: PROCTOR RSVR, TX (USC00417300), 1 mile away and 41 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

Promontory is in Texas’s 25th congressional district. Its representative, Roger Williams (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 lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read Oct 15). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 77 of the 77 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 14, 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 77 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: 0.35 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 place of any size: Proctor, TX, 3.1 mi W (a census designated place). Straight line.

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