Sandy Creek
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:59 UTC
- A night
- $10–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7573 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sandy Creek Park is located on the southeast side of B.A. Steinhagen Lake between the towns of Woodville and Jasper in southeast Texas. The lake provides a great getaway for fishing, boating, picnicking, camping and birding. Keep reading
Recreation
B.A. Steinhagen Lake is a prime location for boating, canoeing, fishing and wildlife viewing. Several parks with boat ramps and docks are scattered around the lake, including facilities within Sandy Creek. Boat rentals are also available. Fishing is a popular pastime. Largemouth bass, catfish and crappie are the primary sport species found in the lake. Fishing docks are located within the park. The road system within Sandy Creek Park offers excellent family biking opportunities for 3-5 mile rides. Campers enjoy the park's volleyball court and children's playground.
Facilities
Sandy Creek Park is open year-round and offers numerous campsites, 71 of which have water and electric hookups. A group day-use picnic shelter is also available. Flush and pit toilets, showers and a dump station are provided.
Natural Features
The lake lies in the heart of the East Texas Pineywoods, a beautiful region known for its pine uplands, bottomland hardwoods and pine-hardwood mixed forests, which provide habitat for a wide range of wildlife. White-tailed deer, squirrels, rabbits, red and gray fox, Bobwhite quail, and numerous species of ducks, geese, waterfowl and songbirds make their home in the area.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby Martin Dies, Jr. State Park offers hiking, canoeing, fishing, swimming, biking and wildlife viewing opportunities. The Walnut Slough, Sandy Creek and Neches Paddling Trails meander from 3-16 miles on the park's backwater sloughs, the open lake and the swift Neches River. The Angelina-Neches/Dam B Wildlife Management Area is located at the north end of the lake, covering nearly 13,000 acres. The area boasts beautiful mature hardwoods, including cypress, sweet gum and red and water oak. Some areas features stands of loblolly and shortleaf pine. Visitors have the opportunity to hunt, fish, hike and view wildlife in the extraordinary ecosystem.
Charges & Cancellations
General Policy No Refunds are given at the field location Individual Campsites If a customer cancels a campsite reservatiopn within 14 days of their scheduled arrival they shall be charged a $10.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's use fee.
What the agency tells you
Each campsite is limited to two (2) camping structures, such as two tents, one trailer and one tent, or a pickup camper and one tent. Two trailers (any wheeled unit) on one site are not allowed. Maximum site occupancy is limited to eight (8) persons (adults and children). Camping is permitted at designated sites only and is limited to 14 days within a 30-day period. Two (2) vehicles only are allowed at the campsite. One (1) boat trailer is allowed.
All title 36 rules and regulations must be adhered to. Violation of title 36 MAY result in issuance of citation and/or expulsion from the park.
Water based and inflatable objects, rides or toys including but not limited to small pools, inflatable pools, waterslides and bounce houses are not permitted in the park
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Reserved Campsites shall be held until CHECKOUT TIME the day after the scheduled arrival, then they will be conconsidered a "NO-SHOW"
There are NO sewer hook-ups in the park, only a dump station.
Fire ants are present in the park and can cause painful stings dangerous to small children; do not disturb the mounds
Park gates close nightly; campers may exit but vehicles cannot be driven into the park until morning
Off-road vehicles are not permitted, including golfcarts and all unregistered/ non-street legal vehicles.
30 Amp sites are for 30 Amp campers ONLY! 50 Amp sites are for 30 and 50 Amp Campers.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 75 · 6 tent-only, 2 group, 2 cabin
- Hookups
- 66 electric, 69 water
- Longest rig
- 200 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…shelter is also available. Flush and pit toilets, showers and a dump station are provided. Natural…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Night sky · 66th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
Something open on 30 of the next 30 bookable nightsread 15:59 UTC
recreation.gov lists 73 of the 75 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$20 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.
“General Policy No Refunds are given at the field location Individual Campsites If a customer cancels a campsite reservatiopn within 14 days of their scheduled arrival they shall be charged a $10.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's use fee.” · 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:59 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
76 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 73 mapped sitesAll 76 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. 66 of the 76 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| OFOL | 68 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 108 ft | $18–$20 |
| OFOL | 69 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 85 ft | $18–$20 |
| OFOL | 70 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 163 ft | 66 ft | $18–$20 |
| OFOL | 71 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 116 ft | 76 ft | $18–$20 |
| OFOL | 72 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 21 ft | $18–$20 |
| OFOL | 73 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 53 ft | $18–$20 |
| OFOL | 74 | standard electric | 91 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 118 ft | $18–$20 |
| OFOL | 75 | type not stated | 33 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | ||
| OFOL | 76 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 125 ft | 102 ft | $18–$20 |
| OFOL | 77 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 119 ft | 157 ft | $18–$20 |
| PPOI | 26 | standard electric | 88 ft | 30 amp | 36 ft | 363 ft | $18–$20 |
| PPOI | 27 | standard electric | 90 ft | 30 amp | 36 ft | 343 ft | $18–$20 |
| PPOI | 28 | standard electric | 69 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 315 ft | $18–$20 |
| PPOI | 29 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 134 ft | $18–$20 |
| PPOI | 30 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 127 ft | $18–$20 |
| PPOI | 31 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 55 ft | $18–$20 |
| PPOI | 32 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 173 ft | $18–$20 |
| PPOI | 33 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 66 ft | $18–$20 |
| PPOI | 34 | standard electric | 74 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 119 ft | $18–$20 |
| PPOI | 35 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 109 ft | 101 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 01 | tent only nonelectric | 108 ft | 393 ft | |||
| SCRE | 02 | tent only nonelectric | 77 ft | 285 ft | |||
| SCRE | 03 | tent only nonelectric | 77 ft | 208 ft | |||
| SCRE | 04 | tent only nonelectric | 150 ft | 267 ft | |||
| SCRE | 05 | tent only nonelectric | 150 ft | 338 ft | |||
| SCRE | 06 | tent only nonelectric | 158 ft | 294 ft | |||
| SCRE | 07 | type not stated | 50 ft | 30 amp | 138 ft | ||
| SCRE | 08 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 356 ft | 80 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 09 | standard electric | 44 ft | 30 amp | 183 ft | 99 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 10 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 130 ft | 54 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 11 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 130 ft | 72 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 12 | standard electric | 78 ft | 50 amp | 153 ft | 65 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 13 | overnight shelter electric | 87 ft | 50 amp | 201 ft | 118 ft | $30 |
| SCRE | 14 | standard electric | 200 ft | 50 amp | 201 ft | 276 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 15 | overnight shelter electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 156 ft | 129 ft | $30 |
| SCRE | 16 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 156 ft | 115 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 17 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 180 ft | 93 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 18 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 180 ft | 85 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 19 | standard electric | 94 ft | 50 amp | 109 ft | 71 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 20 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 62 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 21 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 72 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 22 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 73 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 23 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 47 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 24 | group standard electric | 54 ft | 50/50 amp | 735 ft | 99 ft | $30 |
| SCRE | 36 | standard electric | 72 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 46 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 37 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 147 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 38 | standard electric | 67 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 69 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 39 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 190 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 40 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 202 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 41 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 199 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 42 | standard electric | 69 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 77 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 43 | type not stated | 65 ft | 50 amp | 215 ft | ||
| SCRE | 44 | standard electric | 82 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 105 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 45 | standard electric | 81 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 236 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 46 | standard electric | 106 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 126 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 47 | standard electric | 91 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 254 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 48 | standard electric | 102 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 106 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 49 | standard electric | 86 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 106 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 50 | standard electric | 64 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 103 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 51 | standard electric | 88 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 29 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 52 | standard electric | 51 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 129 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 53 | standard electric | 66 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 106 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 54 | group standard electric | 52 ft | 50/50 amp | 52 ft | 181 ft | $30 |
| SCRE | 55 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | 152 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 57 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | 151 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 58 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 72 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 59 | standard electric | 67 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 64 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 60 | standard electric | 69 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 92 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 61 | standard electric | 92 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 128 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 62 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 142 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 63 | standard electric | 102 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 169 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 64 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 345 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 65 | standard electric | 160 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 386 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 66 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 273 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 67 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 264 ft | $18–$20 |
| SCRE | 79 | day use | 210 ft | 440 ft | $45 |
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 76 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Bluffview Park1.5 mi
Magnolia Ridge6.2 mi
Ebenezer Park18 miBoykin Springs CampingAngelina National Forest · 19 mi
Twin Dikes19 mi
Rayburn21 miFrom Jasper, Texas, take US-190 west for 10 miles. Turn south on FM 777 and travel 2 miles to County Road 155. Turn west and continue 2.5 miles, following signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Jasper, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 56°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 38°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
Sandy Creek is in Texas’s 36th congressional district. Its representative, Brian Babin (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →