Rocky Creek Park (Benbrook Lake)
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:42 UTC
- A night
- $14When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 11In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Rocky Creek Park is on the east side of Benbrook Lake in north central Texas, accessible form Granbury Road or McPherson Road. Day Use picnicking, hiking & horseback trails, and fishing are available. Park is mostly pedestrian access only, but parking is available. Open 6AM to 9PM. Keep reading
Recreation
Picnicking, fishing, boating, hiking and birding are all available in the Rocky Creek Park for day use access ONLY. Trails are for hiking and equestrian use only, no bicycles or vehicles. NO Motor Vehicle Access to main areas of the park, pedestrian access only. Open 6AM to 9PM. NO CAMPING. No open boat ramps.
Facilities
First come, first serve picnic areas available, accessible by pedestrian access only. There are several miles of hiking & horseback trail accessible from Rocky Creek Park. NO CAMPING. There is a dirt parking lot before the entrance, next to the trailhead for horse trailers and other hikers. There is additional parking after the entrance before the gates that are closed to the main areas of the Day Use park. Park is open at 6AM and Closed at 9PM.
Natural Features
The park is on the east side of wooded Rocky Creek. The main picnic area lies on an open peninsula below wooded hillsides. The wooded park is up the creek.
Nearby Attractions
Fort Worth's renowned Cultural & Museum District, Stockyards National Historic District, Botanical Gardens, Zoo, Bass Performance Hall, and downtown Sundance Square are all only as hort drive.
What the agency tells you
No hookups available. NO CAMPING ALLOWED. Pedestrian Access Day Use allowed 6AM to 9PM ONLY.
Park Main roads are closed by a gate, NO Motor Vehicle access allowed, pedestrian access ONLY. Park is not specifically designated as accessible; however, it is a generally open and level setting without significant grade changes or slopes
Park is located on a low-lying creek area and is impacted by water level. In drought, boating access to the main body of the lake may not be possible; during times of higher water levels, portions of this park will flood
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 148th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 6
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:42 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 · 12
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 Rocky Creek Park (Benbrook Lake) 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 · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Buckhorn Campground Loop AChickasaw National Recreation Area · 129 mi · walk-up · 19 sites
- Buckhorn Campground Loop CChickasaw National Recreation Area · 129 mi · 41 sites
- The Point Campground (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 130 mi · 16 sites
- Rock Creek CampgroundChickasaw National Recreation Area · 133 mi · some walk-up · 100 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 16:42 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 019 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 115 ft | 168 ftRock Creek | $14 |
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 020 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 140 ft | 102 ftRock Creek | $14 |
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 021 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 79 ft | 44 ftRock Creek | $14 |
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 022 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 79 ft | 65 ftRock Creek | $14 |
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 023 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 204 ft | 10 ftRock Creek | $14 |
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 024 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 182 ft | 134 ftRock Creek | $14 |
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 025 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 92 ft | 242 ftRock Creek | $14 |
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 026 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 88 ft | 194 ftRock Creek | $14 |
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 027 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 74 ft | 182 ftRock Creek | $14 |
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 028 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 74 ft | 168 ftRock Creek | $14 |
| ROCKY CREEK PARK (BENBROOK LAKE) | 029 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 115 ft | 235 ftRock Creek | $14 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Mustang1.9 miMustang - Bear Creek Campground2.5 mi
Holiday (Texas)2.8 mi
Bear Creek2.8 mi
Longhorn3.1 mi
North Holiday Park3.4 miFrom the intersection of Granbury Road / Summer Creek Drive and Sycamore School Road / Columbus Trail, go west and southwest 1.5 miles (2.6 km) to the intersection of Granbury Road, McPherson Road and St. Francis VIllage Road. Proceed on Rocky Creek Park Road 1 mile (1.6 km) to the park entrance. Or from the Chisholm Trail Parkway, exit for McPherson Road and go west to Rocky Creek Park Road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fort Worth, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 54°F, day 81°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°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
Rocky Creek Park (Benbrook Lake) is in Texas’s 12th congressional district. Its representative, Craig Goldman (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →