Tejas Park
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:37 UTC
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 1312 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Tejas Park sits on the south side of Georgetown Lake in the Hill Country of Texas, about 25 miles north of Austin. Tejas park sits upon the south bank of the North San Gabriel River offering good opportunities for fishing, wading or floating and features plenty of large, grassy open areas for running around and enjoying the scenic Texas countryside. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating is the most popular way to enjoy the clear waters of the lake. Fishing is excellent in the area, and the lake contains Black bass, White bass, Hybrid stripers, White crappie, Channel catfish and Flathead catfish, but its most known for its abundance of Smallmouth bass. The San Gabriel River Trail is a 26 mile rugged trail winding through dense juniper forest, hardwood bottomlands and prairie grasslands. The trail wraps completely around Georgetown Lake via the dam and is open to both hiking and biking. Hunting is available for for small game like dove, waterfowl, rabbit and squirrel, as well as white tail deer. Hunting is by permit only.
Facilities
Tejas Park has 12 primitive campsites, allowing visitors to enjoy the outdoor experience with the added convenience of a picnic table with grills and fire rings. A Group Area is available for use by larger groups (maximum 25 people). The group site does not have a shelter.
Natural Features
Lake Georgetown is a reservoir on the north fork of the San Gabriel River in central Texas. The dam was completed in 1979 to provide flood control and water supply for the nearby community of Georgetown, and now provides countless recreation opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby town of Georgetown offers gas, groceries and more. The historic downtown square district has shops and restaurants, and concerts and events are held on a regular basis. Additionally, Austin is located just 25 miles from the lake, offering countless tourist attractions.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations: Once a reservation date has begun, customers cannot change a reservation using the online system or through the Call Center. On-site personnel are not able to modify reservations. Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. Group Facility (including Cabins and Lookouts): Customers who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee. Refunds: Customers can request refunds online up to 7 days after the scheduled departure date. After 7 days, customers must request refunds through the call center. Cancellation fees are non-refundable.
What the agency tells you
Check-in time is 3 p.m. and check-out is 2 p.m.
Campers with a confirmed Recreation.gov reservation may go directly to their assigned campsite upon arrival. If you have questions about your site, please see the volunteer park host in the park.
Camping is by reservation only. To make a reservation, visit Recreation.gov or call 1-877-444-6777.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Camper parking is available in a centrally located parking lot. Customers cannot drive directy to their campsite.
The Group Area does not have a shelter on the site.
Maximum 14 day stay limit enforced. No extensions permitted.
To modify a reservation, customers must use the online system or contact the Recreation.gov Call Center. Customers cannot change their reservation within 2 days of their arrival date. Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation).
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
- 13 · 12 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Mountain biking
- Paddling
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 137th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 5
Full this Saturdayread 16:37 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
3 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:33 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 12 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 12 are free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:37 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
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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, $10 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.
“On-site personnel are not able to modify reservations. - Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay 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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 3
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:33 UTC
- Russell ParkGeorgetown Lake · 4.2 mi · 10 of 56 site-nights open
- Union GroveStillhouse Hollow Lake · 25 mi · 13 of 68 site-nights open
- Wilson H FoxGranger Lake · 29 mi · 2 of 96 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:37 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
13 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 13 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 13 of the 13 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. 11 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| TEJAS PARK | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 207 ft | 204 ft | 195 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 377 ft | 252 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 346 ft | 209 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 39 ft | 426 ft | 296 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 39 ft | 430 ft | 320 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 006 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 476 ft | 413 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 007 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 452 ft | 440 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 49 ft | 440 ft | 479 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 49 ft | 424 ft | 514 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 79 ft | 406 ft | 585 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 86 ft | 328 ft | 614 ft | $10 | |
| TEJAS PARK | 10-mgmt | type not stated | 243 ft | 448 ft | |||
| TEJAS PARK | Group Area | group tent only area nonelectric | 20 ft | 149 ft | 214 ft | 711 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Russell Park4.2 mi
Jim Hogg Park4.9 mi
Cedar Breaks Park5.7 mi
Union Grove25 mi
Willis Creek25 mi
Dana Peak26 miFrom I-35, take Williams Drive west, then turn south on Farm to Market Rd 3405. Turn east on County Rd 258 and continue across the North San Gabriel River. Turn left into Tejas Park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Georgetown, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 57°F, day 81°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
Tejas Park 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 →
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 moneyJohn R. CarterU.S. Representative · Texas’s 31st 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 Tejas Park, Texas
Dear John R. Carter, I’m a constituent in Texas’s 31st district. I tried to camp at Tejas Park, Texas, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 12 of the 13 campsites the agency files at Tejas Park, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 12 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Tejas Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Tejas 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 Tejas 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 Tejas Park, Texas
Dear John Cornyn, I’m a constituent in Texas. I tried to camp at Tejas Park, Texas, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 12 of the 13 campsites the agency files at Tejas Park, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 12 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Tejas Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Tejas 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 Tejas 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 Tejas Park, Texas
Dear Ted Cruz, I’m a constituent in Texas. I tried to camp at Tejas Park, Texas, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 12 of the 13 campsites the agency files at Tejas Park, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 12 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Tejas Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Tejas 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 Tejas Park (Texas) via campanac.com