Taylor
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30–$55Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 48All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Taylor Campground, on the banks of Granger Lake, is an excellent lakeside destination for families of all ages. The park pleases nature lovers with its hiking trail and water skiers with its easily accessible boat dock. Anglers flock to Granger Lake because it is one of the top five crappie and white bass fishing destinations in central Texas. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, hiking, hunting and wildlife viewing are all reasons visitors camp at Taylor. Hikers can enjoy the Comanche Bluff Trail, which loops around the campground and carries on in both directions along the southern side of the lake.
Facilities
The campground has 48 sites, each with water and electric hookups. Showers and flush toilets provide a comfortable camping experience and a playground and boat dock in the park, make entertaining easy.
Natural Features
Taylor Park is located in the gently rolling hills of the Texas Blackland Prairie, 40 miles from Austin TX. Granger Lake was formed by a dam built in 1980 for flood control. The lake is fed by the San Gabriel River and Willis Creek.
Nearby Attractions
Several designated wildlife areas border the lake, including Pecan Grove Wildlife Area, San Gabriel Wildlife Area, Sore Finger Wildlife Area, and Willis Creek Wildlife Area. Take the kids to Sore Finger and find out how the area earned its name.
What the agency tells you
Limit 2 vehicles per campsite
Double sites have water and electric hookups for just one RV
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
- 48
- Hookups
- 48 electric, 48 water
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 48 of 48 campsite records
- Showers
- Accessible Showers
- ACCESSIBLE SHOWERS on 48 of 48 campsite records
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 111th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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.
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.
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 rates for this season, $30–$55 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
48 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 48 mapped sitesAll 48 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 48 of the 48 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. 48 of the 48 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| TAYL | 01 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 116 ft | 718 ft | 969 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 02 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 662 ft | 914 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 03 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 772 ft | 846 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 04 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 768 ft | 766 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 05 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 659 ft | 827 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 06 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 633 ft | 782 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 07 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 566 ft | 894 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 08 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 453 ft | 972 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 09 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 423 ft | 918 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 10 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 459 ft | 823 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 11 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 428 ft | 748 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 306 ft | 681 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 13 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 276 ft | 748 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 14 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 350 ft | 789 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 15 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 319 ft | 884 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 408 ft | 827 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 17 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 436 ft | 891 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 18 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 344 ft | 972 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 19 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 357 ft | 992 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 20 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 317 ft | 1,062 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 21 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 283 ft | 1,160 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 22 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 383 ft | 1,073 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 23 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 333 ft | 1,190 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 24 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 410 ft | 1,169 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 25 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 506 ft | 1,265 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 26 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 581 ft | 1,331 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 27 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 516 ft | 1,348 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 28 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 517 ft | 1,424 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 29 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 461 ft | 1,424 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 30 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 447 ft | 1,538 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 31 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 335 ft | 1,611 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 32 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 541 ft | 1,722 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 33 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 552 ft | 1,811 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 34 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 657 ft | 1,717 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 35 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 638 ft | 1,810 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 36 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 779 ft | 1,791 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 37 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 689 ft | 1,849 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 38 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 106 ft | 786 ft | 1,894 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 39 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 680 ft | 1,926 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 40 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 743 ft | 2,046 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 41 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 651 ft | 2,079 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 42 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 746 ft | 2,148 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 43 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 655 ft | 2,188 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 44 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 789 ft | 2,213 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 45 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 711 ft | 2,279 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 46 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 858 ft | 2,249 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 47 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 114 ft | 807 ft | 2,357 ft | $30–$55 |
| TAYL | 48 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 868 ft | 2,246 ft | $30–$55 |
25 of 48 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Wilson H Fox1.7 mi
Willis Creek3.1 mi
Friendship Park4.8 mi
Cedar Breaks Park22 mi
Jim Hogg Park23 mi
Russell Park24 miFrom Interstate Highway 35 take Hwy 79 east to Hwy 95. Go north on Hwy 95 to FM 1331; go east on FM 1331 for approximately 5 miles to 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 Taylor, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 56°F, day 82°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 37°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
Taylor is in Texas’s 31st congressional district. Its representative, John Carter (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →