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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TX

San Augustine

ReservableBookable through February 28; a peak season follows March 1 to September 30.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:06 UTC
A night: $16–$26Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 100All of them booked ahead

Photos · A Wegner

104 ftLongest rig

180 ftElevation

351 ftWater · Sam Rayburn Reservoir

7.1 miNW of Sam Rayburn, TX

45%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices

In the agency’s own words

San Augustine Park is set along the Ayish Bayou tributary on the shores of Sam Rayburn Reservoir. In spring, take advantage of excellent birding opportunities as neotropical birds like warblers and vireos pass through the lake en route to the Gulf of Mexico. Keep reading

Recreation

The lake is a highly popular destination for boating and fishing. Game fish include largemouth bass, bluegill and channel catfish, but it is the abundance of bass, which inspires more than 500 annual tournaments.

Facilities

San Augustine features 100 sites with electric and water hook-ups. Among the many amenities are a group shelter, designated swim beach (open Apr-Sep), volleyball, boat ramp and an interpretive trail.

Natural Features

With more than 114,000 surface acres, Sam Rayburn is the largest man-made lake that is completely within the boundaries of the state of Texas. The reservoir is fed by the Angelina River, a major tributary of the Neches River. The piney woods region boasts native flora like orchids, insect-eating plants and scores of animal species.

Nearby Attractions

From the eastern edge of the lake, hikers can embark on a 28-mile trail that heads east to the Toledo Bend Reservoir.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Camping is permitted at designated campsites only.

Rule

Camping fees are charged on a per site basis.

Rule

All park users (including campers) must register with the attendant prior to occupying a site.

Everything else this campground posts · 12

Rule

No golf carts or ATVs/UTVs allowed.

Rule

Use of developed sites for any reason (including picnicking) will require a camping fee.

Rule

The number of persons allowed per site is limited to ten (10).

Rule

Occupancy at each campsite is limited to two tents, or one tent and one trailer (including pop-up trailers, self-contained RVs and truck-mounted campers).

Rule

The number of vehicles per site shall be limited to two (2) per site. This does not include the camping unit. An extra vehicle tag may be purchased. America the Beautiful and Golden Age Passes do not allow entry into the park to visit a camp site.

Rule

Fires must be confined to fire rings.

Rule

All waste water, including gray water, must be properly disposed of at the park dump stations.

Rule

Quiet hours shall be observed between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and check-out time is 2:00 p.m.

Rule

All pets must be on a leash under six feet in length.

Rule

Generators shall not be operated between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.

Rule

Fireworks are prohibited.

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 100 · 6 tent-only
Hookups: 99 electric, 100 water
Longest rig: 104 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
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: Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach; Boating; Fishing; Hunting; Swimming
Night sky · 34th 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

78 of 118 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:06 UTC

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

OpenBooked

Booking windowThrough February 28Bookable now through February 28, 2027, the end of the off-peak season. The peak season that follows runs March 1, 2027 through September 30, 2027; recreation.gov releases it on its own schedule, so check there before counting on those nights.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$16–$26plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$40–$60DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

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

Watch for a cancellation

Full? Watch it.

One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.

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.

Tell me when the season opens

Watch for the season to open

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.

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 · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$16–$26

Tent Only Electric$16

Standard Electric 30 Amp$26

Group areas, a night$30

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Oct 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.

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

One nightDerived$24–$34

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$40–$60

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$26 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.

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

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · 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

recreation.gov availability, read 16:06 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

101 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 100 mapped sites

70 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop LOOG 87 154 ftLoop LOOF 85 143 ftLoop LOOD 55 137 ftLoop LOOA 28 136 ftLoop LOOB DU1 136 ft

Least roomLoop LOOD 60 31 ftLoop LOOD 61 31 ftLoop LOOD 57 37 ft

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

All 101 records

101 of 101 records located

Tent only6RV / electric93Type not stated1Day use1

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 DU1 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 55 56 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 86 100 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

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

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 99 of the 101 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


LOOA	01	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	63 ft	168 ft	$26
LOOA	02	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	72 ft	179 ft	$26
LOOA	03	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	72 ft	120 ft	$26
LOOA	04	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	57 ft	138 ft	$26
LOOA	05	standard electric	44 ft	30 amp	57 ft	129 ft	$26
LOOA	06	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	58 ft	110 ft	$26
LOOA	07	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	51 ft	107 ft	$26
LOOA	08	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp	51 ft	125 ft	$26
LOOA	09	standard electric	38 ft	30 amp	68 ft	128 ft	$26
LOOA	10	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	76 ft	138 ft	$26
LOOA	11	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	69 ft	85 ft	$26
LOOA	12	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	43 ft	154 ft	$26
LOOA	13	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	43 ft	169 ft	$26
LOOA	14	standard electric	56 ft	30 amp	75 ft	72 ft	$26
LOOA	15	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	76 ft	159 ft	$26
LOOA	16	standard electric	56 ft	30 amp	65 ft	138 ft	$26
LOOA	17	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	65 ft	136 ft	$26
LOOA	18	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	70 ft	130 ft	$26
LOOA	19	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	70 ft	110 ft	$26
LOOA	20	standard electric	82 ft	30 amp	82 ft	181 ft	$26
LOOA	21	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	58 ft	133 ft	$26
LOOA	22	standard electric	58 ft	30 amp	58 ft	127 ft	$26
LOOA	23	standard electric	68 ft	30 amp	67 ft	154 ft	$26
LOOA	24	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	46 ft	146 ft	$26
LOOA	25	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	46 ft	160 ft	$26
LOOA	26	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	46 ft	153 ft	$26
LOOA	27	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp	105 ft	106 ft	$26
LOOA	28	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	137 ft	69 ft	$26
LOOB	29	standard electric	63 ft	30 amp	77 ft	339 ft	$26
LOOB	30	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	63 ft	365 ft	$26
LOOB	31	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	63 ft	307 ft	$26
LOOB	32	standard electric	61 ft	30 amp	72 ft	236 ft	$26
LOOB	33	standard electric	68 ft	30 amp	95 ft	148 ft	$26
LOOB	47	standard electric	38 ft	30 amp	68 ft	202 ft	$26
LOOB	48	standard electric	104 ft	30 amp	59 ft	219 ft	$26
LOOB	49	standard electric	103 ft	30 amp	59 ft	238 ft	$26
LOOB	50	standard electric	43 ft	30 amp	60 ft	244 ft	$26
LOOB	51	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp	67 ft	274 ft	$26
LOOB	52	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	60 ft	299 ft	$26
LOOB	53	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	75 ft	348 ft	$26
LOOB	54	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	66 ft	364 ft	$26
LOOB	DU1	day use		15 amp	136 ft	243 ft	$30
LOOC	34	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	121 ft	84 ft	$26
LOOC	35	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	73 ft	187 ft	$26
LOOC	36	standard electric	63 ft	30 amp	94 ft	60 ft	$26
LOOC	37	standard electric	64 ft	30 amp	73 ft	133 ft	$26
LOOC	38	standard electric	58 ft	30 amp	71 ft	81 ft	$26
LOOC	39	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	64 ft	158 ft	$26
LOOC	40	standard electric	63 ft	30 amp	71 ft	71 ft	$26
LOOC	41	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	41 ft	60 ft	$26
LOOC	42	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	41 ft	62 ft	$26
LOOC	43	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	82 ft	56 ft	$26
LOOC	44	standard electric	61 ft	30 amp	47 ft	63 ft	$26
LOOC	45	standard electric	78 ft	30 amp	47 ft	94 ft	$26
LOOC	46	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	48 ft	140 ft	$26
LOOD	55	standard electric	49 ft	30 amp	137 ft	411 ft	$26
LOOD	56	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	82 ft	311 ft	$26
LOOD	57	standard electric	90 ft	30 amp	37 ft	247 ft	$26
LOOD	58	standard electric	68 ft	30 amp	37 ft	226 ft	$26
LOOD	59	standard electric	57 ft	30 amp	41 ft	188 ft	$26
LOOD	60	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	30 ft	129 ft	$26
LOOD	61	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	30 ft	107 ft	$26
LOOD	62	standard electric	49 ft	30 amp	70 ft	81 ft	$26
LOOD	63	standard electric	59 ft	30 amp	70 ft	59 ft	$26
LOOD	64	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	60 ft	154 ft	$26
LOOD	65	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	71 ft	55 ft	$26
LOOD	66	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	60 ft	140 ft	$26
LOOD	67	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	69 ft	59 ft	$26
LOOD	68	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	65 ft	93 ft	$26
LOOD	69	standard electric	71 ft	30 amp	65 ft	125 ft	$26
LOOD	70	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	104 ft	162 ft	$26
LOOD	71	standard electric	67 ft	30 amp	113 ft	238 ft	$26
LOOE	72	tent only electric		30 amp	103 ft	195 ft	$16
LOOE	73	tent only electric		30 amp	63 ft	134 ft	$16
LOOE	74	tent only electric		30 amp	63 ft	113 ft	$16
LOOE	75	tent only electric		30 amp	85 ft	112 ft	$16
LOOE	76	tent only electric		30 amp	85 ft	88 ft	$16
LOOE	77	tent only electric		30 amp	90 ft	64 ft	$16
LOOF	78	standard electric	88 ft	30 amp	90 ft	94 ft	$26
LOOF	79	standard electric	98 ft	30 amp	108 ft	235 ft	$26
LOOF	80	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	108 ft	131 ft	$26
LOOF	81	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	68 ft	196 ft	$26
LOOF	82	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	101 ft	94 ft	$26
LOOF	83	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	114 ft	157 ft	$26
LOOF	84	type not stated	40 ft	30 amp		62 ft
LOOF	85	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	143 ft	154 ft	$26
LOOF	86	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	68 ft	264 ft	$26
LOOG	100	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	70 ft	327 ft	$26
LOOG	87	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	154 ft	262 ft	$26
LOOG	88	standard electric	68 ft	30 amp	103 ft	107 ft	$26
LOOG	89	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp	103 ft	71 ft	$26
LOOG	90	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	90 ft	99 ft	$26
LOOG	91	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	90 ft	127 ft	$26
LOOG	92	standard electric	62 ft	30 amp	125 ft	266 ft	$26
LOOG	93	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	125 ft	387 ft	$26
LOOG	94	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp	91 ft	440 ft	$26
LOOG	95	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	91 ft	348 ft	$26
LOOG	96	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	94 ft	409 ft	$26
LOOG	97	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp	94 ft	323 ft	$26
LOOG	98	standard electric	80 ft	30 amp	92 ft	246 ft	$26
LOOG	99	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	70 ft	369 ft	$26

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.

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

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 101 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

Coordinate31.19917, -94.07889

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone409-384-5716

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Mill Creek (Texas)5.4 mi

Rayburn6.6 mi

Twin Dikes8.8 mi

Ebenezer Park9.3 mi Caney CreekAngelina National Forest · 11 mi Boykin Springs CampingAngelina National Forest · 15 mi

Getting there

From Pineland, TX, take FM 83 west 6 miles, then south on FM 1751 for 4 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

Tonight51°Mostly Clear

Saturday71°Sunny

Saturday Night48°Mostly Clear

Sunday74°Sunny

NWS forecast for Pineland, TX

Source: National Weather Service, SHV forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 59°F, day 81°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°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: SAM RAYBURN DAM, TX (USC00417936), 10 miles away and at about the same elevation

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

San Augustine 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 →

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 is offering sites on 30 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 100 of the 100 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 12, 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 101 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: 0.29 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: Pineland, TX, 5.8 mi WSW. 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