Speegleville Park
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 22 of the next 30 nights read 16:08 UTC
- A night
- $32From, per site
- Sites
- 32All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Speegleville Park is perched on the south end of a scenic cove of Waco Lake. The park provides outdoor recreation options like boating, jet skiing, fishing, swimming and bird watching. Keep reading
Recreation
The main lake shoreline has a large amount of submerged timber, which typically holds fish year-round. Anglers will find plenty of catfish, crappie, large and smallmouth bass as well as sunfish. At least 51 species of fish inhabit the lake's waters, and a record flathead catfish weighed in at a whopping 59.5 pounds. A four-lane boat ramp helps visitors enjoy the lake.
Facilities
The park includes two screened shelters along with 30 campsites with water and electric hookups.
Natural Features
Waco Lake, located in central Texas within Waco city limits, boasts 79,000 acre-feet of water, providing irrigation and drinking water to residents of the Waco area. The lake is primarily fed by the Bosque River, which runs for 115 miles through central Texas. Contact Info For local information, please call (254) 756-5359 or call (877) 444-6777 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Horseback riding, hiking and biking can be done on the 20-mile Lacy Point Hiking and Biking Trail. The trail is accessible from the Lacy Point boat ramp, which is a short drive around the cove.
What the agency tells you
Park gates are locked at 10 pm and do not reopen until 6am. There is a night exit to leave after 10pm, but no vehicle entry between 10pm and 6 am.
Maximum stay at Waco Lake Project is 14 days in any 30 consecutive day period, regardless of campground.
Camping equipment is limited to one RV/Trailer and up to two tents per site or a total of three tents.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
Campsites are limited to 10 people per campsite, including visitors. No more than 4 vehicles per site.
Quiet hours are from 10 pm to 6 am. All visitors that are not camping must leave the campground by 10pm.
Campsites must be kept clean, and trash collected at all times.
All pets must be on a leash no longer than 6 foot at all times.
Off-road vehicles not permitted
No firearms, ammunition, fireworks, or weapons allowed in any area of Waco Lake.
Fires are allowed only in designated rings and cookers. No trees may be cut for firewood. Fires are not permitted during burn bans.
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.
Bounce houses are prohibited in all areas of the parks excluding reserved group shelters. A permit is required prior to the use of bounce houses at any group shelter (size limitations may apply). Bounce houses that include water features are prohibited throughout the entirety of the parks, including group shelters. Bounce houses must be attended by an adult at all times.
Small swimming pools are permitted in the parks. Swimming pools may not exceed a water depth of 5 inches, height of 7 inches, width of 36 inches, and length of 36 inches. Swimming pools must be moved to a new location each day to prevent damage to the ground surface. Pools must be attended by an adult at all times unless the pool is empty. Waterslides, slip ‘n slides, and waterslide-like structures are prohibited in all areas of the parks.
All recreation users at Waco Lake are subject to following Title 36 at all times. Title 36 can be found here: https://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/waco/pdf/Title36.pdf
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 32 · 2 cabin
- Hookups
- 32 electric, 32 water
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 2 of 32 campsite records
- 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
- Boating
- Fishing
Full this Saturdayread 16:08 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
7 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:26 UTC. See them
OpenBookedClosed
Every one of the 32 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 19 are free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:08 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $32 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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 7
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first; the nearest 5 of 7. read 16:26 UTC
- MidwayWaco Lake · 2.1 mi · 9 of 74 site-nights open
- Reynolds CreekWaco Lake · 2.5 mi · 17 of 20 site-nights open
- Airport ParkWaco Lake · 4.0 mi · 26 of 137 site-nights open
- Lofers Bend EastWhitney Lake · 24 mi · 13 of 128 site-nights open
- Winkler ParkBelton Lake · 25 mi · 5 of 28 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:08 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
32 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 32 mapped sitesAll 32 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 32 of the 32 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 32 of the 32 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 001 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 117 ft | 194 ft | 645 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 002 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 79 ft | 159 ft | 732 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 003 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 79 ft | 179 ft | 767 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 004 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 132 ft | 216 ft | 784 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 005 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 124 ft | 327 ft | 654 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 006 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 99 ft | 445 ft | 548 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 007 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 107 ft | 378 ft | 526 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 008 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 99 ft | 484 ft | 453 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 009 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 95 ft | 579 ft | 309 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 010 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 90 ft | 469 ft | 376 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 011 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 70 ft | 546 ft | 287 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 012 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 70 ft | 615 ft | 218 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 013 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 86 ft | 671 ft | 304 ft | $32 |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 014 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 93 ft | 691 ft | 187 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 015 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 86 ft | 635 ft | 241 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 016 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 95 ft | 594 ft | 378 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 017 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 107 ft | 505 ft | 453 ft | $32 |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 018 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 86 ft | 570 ft | 312 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 019 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 86 ft | 530 ft | 388 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 020 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 86 ft | 477 ft | 471 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 021 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 111 ft | 399 ft | 558 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 022 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 113 ft | 367 ft | 596 ft | $32 |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 023 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 123 ft | 255 ft | 751 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 024 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 123 ft | 282 ft | 704 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 025 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 142 ft | 291 ft | 675 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 026 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 91 ft | 277 ft | 692 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 027 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 91 ft | 264 ft | 648 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 028 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 107 ft | 345 ft | 526 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 029 | rv electric | 50 amp | 107 ft | 318 ft | 449 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 030 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp | 114 ft | 285 ft | 389 ft | $32 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 031 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 101 ft | 235 ft | 490 ft | $36 | |
| SPEEGLEVILLE PARK | 032 | overnight shelter electric | 20 amp | 101 ft | 232 ft | 538 ft | $36 |
25 of 32 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Midway2.1 mi
Reynolds Creek2.5 mi
Airport Park4.0 mi
Lofers Bend East24 mi
Lofers Bend West24 mi
Winkler Park25 miFrom I-35, take exit 330B Hwy 6 N toward Meridian for about 6 miles. After passing over the Lake on the Twin Bridges, take the first exit toward Lake Waco/Speegleville Park. Take a left on the access road. You will continue past the Twin Bridges Park about a quarter of a mile until you reach Overflow Road. Turn right on Overflow Road and drive for about 1.5 miles until you reach the entrance on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Waco, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 57°F, day 80°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 36°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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Speegleville Park is in Texas’s 17th congressional district. Its representative, Pete Sessions (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyPete SessionsU.S. Representative · Texas’s 17th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn CornynU.S. Senator · Texas
- Your senator, on the same appropriationTed CruzU.S. Senator · Texas
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Speegleville Park, Texas
Dear Pete Sessions, I’m a constituent in Texas’s 17th district. I tried to camp at Speegleville Park, Texas, and couldn’t. All 32 sites at Speegleville Park are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 32 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Speegleville Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Speegleville Park. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Speegleville Park (Texas) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Speegleville Park, Texas
Dear John Cornyn, I’m a constituent in Texas. I tried to camp at Speegleville Park, Texas, and couldn’t. All 32 sites at Speegleville Park are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 32 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Speegleville Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Speegleville Park. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Speegleville Park (Texas) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Speegleville Park, Texas
Dear Ted Cruz, I’m a constituent in Texas. I tried to camp at Speegleville Park, Texas, and couldn’t. All 32 sites at Speegleville Park are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 32 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Speegleville Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Speegleville Park. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Speegleville Park (Texas) via campanac.com