National Park Service · Amistad National Recreation Area · TX

Rock Quarry Group Campground

ReservableBookable through April 16; today opens April 17.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:33 UTC
Sites
1All of them booked ahead
1,140 ftElevation
147 ftWater · Walk Lake
9.1 miNW of Del Rio, TX
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 69th darkest of 154 in TX

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices

In the agency’s own words

Situated on the United States-Mexico border, Amistad National Recreation Area is known primarily for excellent year-round, Outdoor Activities including boating, fishing, swimming, scuba diving, and waterskiing. Amistad National Recreation Area also provides opportunities for picnicking, camping, and hunting. Amistad Dam created the reservoir at the confluence of the Rio Grande, Devils, and Pecos Rivers in 1969. In addition to excellent recreation, Amistad National Recreation Area is rich in archeology and rock art and contains a wide variety of plant and animal life. Keep reading

Amistad park headquarters is in Del Rio, Texas, population 35,000 Recreation Amistad National Recreation Area offers a diverse array of land- and water-based recreational opportunities, including fishing, swimming, boating, birding, hiking, picnicking, camping, and hunting. Visitors can experience expansive views, night skies, and a number of the area’s rock art sites. Examples of facilities that support these activities include boat ramps, picnic and camping areas, and hiking trails.

Facilities

The group campground offers a private, primitive camping space for up to 35 people. The site has a large pavilion, vault toilet, campfire ring, pedestal grill and table. Bring your own water as water is not available at this site. Leashed pets are welcome.

Natural Features

Amistad National Recreation Area consists of 57,292 acres (23185 ha) of federally owned land and is one of the largest tracts of land available for hunting in southwest Texas. Three ecological zones and three rivers meet at Amistad National Recreation Area. Plant communities are determined by topography, soil type, and rainfall and support a wide variety of plant and animal life. Rugged canyons provide outstanding scenic vistas. A majority of Amistad National Recreation Area contains Lake Amistad, which is fed by the Pecos, Rio Grande, and Devils Rivers. Crystal clear stretches of river, natural springs, and fluctuating reservoir levels support a variety of aquatic plant and animal species. The recreation area has some of the best bass fishing in the American Southwest.

Nearby Attractions

Lake Amistad is a top quality fishing spot for largemouth, smallmouth and striped bass. Amistad National Recreation Area offers 12 boat ramps allowing access to Lake Amistad, however, due to low water levels only 4 ramps remain open. Boat rentals are available at Rough Canyon just 29 miles (47 km) from Rock Quarry Group Campground. Park Approved Guides and Rentals offer activities such as guided fishing and kayak trips on the lake. Texas Parks and Wildlife maintains 3 state parks in the area; Kickapoo Cavern State Park (67 miles/108 km NE off of Ranch Road 674 ) offering guided cave tours, Devils River State Natural Area (67 Miles/108 km NW off of St Hwy 277) offering paddling, swimming and fishing opportunities and Seminole Canyon State Park & Historical Site (26 miles/42 km NW off of Hwy 90) offering world class ancient rock art viewing. The campground is just 15 miles (24 km) NW of Del Rio, TX (pop. around 35,0000). Del Rio enjoys many restauraunts, a movie theater and shopping.

Charges & Cancellations

Canellations and/or changes must be made at least two days in advance in order to receive a refund. All camping regulations apply.

What the agency tells you

Rule

Check-in time is 2:00 p. m.

Rule

Check-out time is 11:00 a.m.

Rule

Quiet hours are from 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m.

Everything else this campground posts · 1
Rule

An individual cannot rent a group campsite for more than 14 days. An individual can only reserve the same group campsite twice within the same calendar year. This limit will be excepted if the group campsite has not been reserved by others 24 hours prior to the desired date.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
1 · 1 group
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
Drinking water
None, bring your own
“…grill and table. Bring your own water as water is not available at this site. Leashed pets are welcome. Natural…”
Boat ramp
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Reservoir, Lake, River
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

2 of 2 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:33 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBooked

Booking window6 months outBookable now through April 16, 2027. Today at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itNational Park ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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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 · 11

What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.
1-15 people for $35.00 per night, 16-35 people $75.00 per night.
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
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
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

“Canellations and/or changes must be made at least two days in advance in order to receive a refund. All camping regulations apply.” · this campground’s own terms

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 15:33 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

1 sites · the site map

All 1 sites

1 of 1 sites located
Group1
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
Sleeps
ARock Quarry Group Campgroundgroup standard nonelectric147 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.

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight48°Partly Cloudy
Saturday65°Sunny
Saturday Night49°Partly Cloudy1% rain
Sunday69°Mostly Sunny1% rain

NWS forecast for Lake View, TX

Typical weather

Typical October night 60°F, day 82°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 40°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: AMISTAD DAM, TX (USC00410225), 3 miles away and at about the same elevation

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Rock Quarry Group Campground is in Texas’s 23rd congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →

Our roster still carries Tony Gonzales for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.

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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.
Cell signal: the Park Service’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: Lake View, TX, 5.3 mi WNW (a census designated place). Straight line.