Sanders Cove
1Heads up1 fire 32 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:15 UTC
- A night
- $16–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 90All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sanders Cove Campground is on the banks of Pat Mayse Lake in the Red River Basin in Lamar County, Texas. Easy access to developed park areas has made the lake a haven for families who enjoy camping, picnicking, swimming, boating, fishing and other outdoor recreation. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake provides excellent opportunities for boating, swimming and fishing. Anglers fish for largemouth bass, white crappie, sunfish, striped bass and channel and flathead catfish, among other species. Hunting is a very popular activity in the area. The surrounding lands are managed for upland game and whitetail deer. Other species present include fox squirrel, gray squirrel, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, cottontail rabbit, raccoon and fox. Opossum, beaver, mink, skunk and nutria are also present. The lake also provides resting and feeding habitat for migratory waterfowl. A few miles north of the project area are the famed Red River Bottoms where waterfowl congregate in impressive numbers.
Facilities
This year-round campground offers 85 sites with electric hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp.
Natural Features
Pat Mayse Lake covers almost 6,000 acres and has 67 miles of shoreline. It is situated among gently rolling grasslands and mixed hardwood forests studded with mature pines. Wildlife is abundant in the surrounding area.
What the agency tells you
This area was a military artillery range in the 1940s; Report any ordinance to the park rangers or 911 if found.
Entrance gate opens at 6 a.m. and closes at 10 p.m.; vehicles may leave at any time but cannot enter until the following morning
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
- 90 · 3 tent-only, 1 group, 1 cabin
- Hookups
- 85 electric, 86 water
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Paved pads
- 19 of 90
- Accessible sites
- 10
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp. Natural Features Pat…”
- 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, River, Beach
- Accessible Swimming
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Water access
- Night sky · 70th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
110 of 176 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:15 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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.
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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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$24 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 16:15 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
91 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 86 mapped sitesAll 91 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 88 of the 91 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A-LO | A001 | tent only nonelectric | $16 | |||||
| A-LO | A002 | tent only nonelectric | $16 | |||||
| A-LO | A003 | tent only nonelectric | $16 | |||||
| A-LO | A004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $16 | ||||
| A-LO | A005 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 153 ft | 69 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A006 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 227 ft | 36 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A007 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30/30 amp | 130 ft | 198 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A008 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 174 ft | 344 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A009 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 390 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A010 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 34 ft | 436 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A011 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 34 ft | 418 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A012 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 372 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A013 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 342 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A014 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 319 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A015 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 286 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A016 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 241 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A017 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 233 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A018 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 242 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A019 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 242 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A020 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 414 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A021 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 345 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A022 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 353 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A023 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 275 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A024 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 332 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A025 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 260 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A026 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 272 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A027 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 256 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A028 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 99 ft | 198 ft | $20–$24 | |
| A-LO | A029 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 114 ft | 234 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B001 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 554 ft | |||
| B-LO | B002 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 159 ft | 578 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B003 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 161 ft | 395 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B004 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 335 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B005 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 350 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B006 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 277 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B007 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 342 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B008 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 241 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B009 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 328 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B010 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 230 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B011 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 314 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B012 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 210 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B013 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 287 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B014 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | 60 ft | 431 ft | $20–$24 |
| B-LO | B015 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 60 ft | 389 ft | $20–$24 |
| B-LO | B016 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 68 ft | 362 ft | $20–$24 |
| B-LO | B017 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 37 ft | 267 ft | $20–$24 |
| B-LO | B018 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 37 ft | 283 ft | $20–$24 |
| B-LO | B019 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 60 ft | 234 ft | $20–$24 |
| B-LO | B020 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 66 ft | 242 ft | $20–$24 |
| B-LO | B021 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 66 ft | 276 ft | $20–$24 |
| B-LO | B022 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 78 ft | 367 ft | $20–$24 |
| B-LO | B023 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 512 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B024 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 526 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B025 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 500 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | B026 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 483 ft | $20–$24 | |
| B-LO | Group Camp | group shelter electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 164 ft | 315 ft | $100 |
| C-LO | C001 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 482 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C002 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 416 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C003 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 326 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C004 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 277 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C005 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 277 ft | ||
| C-LO | C006 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 304 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C007 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 33 ft | 315 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C008 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 33 ft | 296 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C009 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 35 ft | 274 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C010 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 286 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C011 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 242 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C012 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 241 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C013 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 199 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C014 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 159 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C015 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 144 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C016 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 170 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C017 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 194 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C018 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 217 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C019 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 247 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C020 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 148 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C021 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 111 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C022 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 204 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C023 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 125 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C024 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 202 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C025 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 119 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C026 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 133 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C027 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 142 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C028 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 150 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C029 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 171 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C030 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 196 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C031 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 257 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C032 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 276 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C033 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 257 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | C034 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 232 ft | $20–$24 | |
| C-LO | Uncle Jesse Shelter | day use | 30 amp | yes | 105 ft | 215 ft | $100 |
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.
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 91 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pat Mayse East3.0 mi
Pat Mayse West4.2 mi
Kiamichi Park14 mi
Virgil Point17 mi
Mahaffey Point17 mi
West Lake Davy CrockettCaddo National Grassland · 24 miFrom Paris, TX, take HWY 271 north 12 miles to FM 906 W and follow it 1 mile to CR 35920. Turn left into the park following signs.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Powderly, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 78°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
Sanders Cove is in Texas’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Pat Fallon (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →