Twin Dikes
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:04 UTC
- A night
- $14–$28Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 47All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Twin Dikes Park is located on the waters of the Sam Rayburn Reservoir, in the Piney Woods of southeast Texas. The region lies in the migration path of warblers, vireos, and other species of neotropical migrants, so spring is an opportune time for birders to visit the park. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake is a highly popular recreation destination for boating and fishing. Game fish include largemouth bass, bluegill and channel catfish. The abundance of bass in the lake, has inspired more than 300 annual tournaments.
Facilities
The park features 48 campsites with 30 to 50 amp electric hookups, hot showers, a group picnic shelter and boat ramp.
Natural Features
Twin Dikes is on the southern shore of Sam Rayburn Reservoir, in the Big Thicket region of Texas, the densest portion of the Piney Woods, a region characterized by temperate coniferous forests. The 114,000-acre lake was impounded in 1965 along the Angelina River, and has an average depth of 80 feet with average clarity.
Nearby Attractions
The 20,700-acre Bannister Wildlife Management Area is on the northern peninsula of the lake. Hikers and bikers can come here to explore the designated Eastern Wild Turkey restoration site.
What the agency tells you
Camping is permitted at designated campsites only.
Camping fees are charged on a per site basis.
All park users (including campers) must register with the attendant prior to occupying a site.
Everything else this campground posts · 12
No golf carts or ATVs/UTVs allowed.
Use of developed sites for any reason (including picnicking) will require a camping fee.
The number of persons allowed per site is limited to ten (10).
Occupancy at each campsite is limited to two tents, or one tent and one trailer (including pop-up trailers, self-contained RVs and truck-mounted campers).
The number of vehicles per site shall be limited to two (2) per site. This does not include the camping unit. An extra vehicle tag may be purchased. America the Beautiful and Golden Age Passes do not allow entry into the park to visit a camp site.
Fires must be confined to fire rings.
All waste water, including gray water, must be properly disposed of at the park dump stations.
Quiet hours shall be observed between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and check-out time is 2:00 p.m.
All pets must be on a leash under six feet in length.
Generators shall not be operated between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Fireworks are prohibited.
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 47 · 17 tent-only, 3 cabin
- Hookups
- 23 electric, 24 water, 4 sewer
- Longest rig
- 156 ft
- Paved pads
- 30 of 47
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Facilities The park features 48 campsites with 30 to 50 amp electric hookups, hot showers, a group picnic shelter and boat ramp.”
- 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
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Night sky · 57th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
19 of 70 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:04 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$28 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 16:04 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
48 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 42 mapped sitesAll 48 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. 46 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.
| LOOA | 01 | tent only nonelectric | 198 ft | 207 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOA | 02 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 140 ft | 157 ft | $14 | |
| LOOA | 03 | tent only nonelectric | 94 ft | 190 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOA | 04 | standard electric | 59 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 263 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | 05 | standard electric | 63 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 299 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | 06 | tent only nonelectric | 75 ft | 181 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOA | 07 | standard electric | 59 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 303 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | 08 | tent only nonelectric | 75 ft | 193 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOA | 09 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 254 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOA | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 324 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOA | 12 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 393 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | 13 | standard electric | 64 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 381 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | 14 | standard electric | 79 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 369 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOA | DU1 | day use | 15 amp | 120 ft | 393 ft | $30 | |
| LOOA | S1 | overnight shelter electric | 76 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 384 ft | $38 |
| LOOA | S2 | overnight shelter electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 371 ft | $38 |
| LOOA | S3 | overnight shelter electric | 86 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 373 ft | $38 |
| LOOB | 15 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 114 ft | 458 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | 16 | type not stated | 77 ft | 50 amp | 382 ft | ||
| LOOB | 17 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 397 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | 18 | standard nonelectric | 156 ft | 123 ft | 281 ft | $14 | |
| LOOB | 19 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 370 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | 21 | standard electric | 68 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 411 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | 22 | standard electric | 97 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 432 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | 23 | standard electric | 91 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 448 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | 26 | tent only nonelectric | 103 ft | 262 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOB | 27 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 103 ft | 229 ft | $14 | |
| LOOB | 28 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 409 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | 29 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 135 ft | 178 ft | $14 | |
| LOOB | 30 | standard electric | 74 ft | 30 amp | 135 ft | 321 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | 31 | standard electric | 89 ft | 30 amp | 162 ft | 378 ft | $26–$28 |
| LOOB | 32 | standard nonelectric | 104 ft | 133 ft | 256 ft | $14 | |
| LOOB | 33 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 83 ft | 296 ft | $14 | |
| LOOB | 34 | standard nonelectric | 145 ft | 83 ft | 305 ft | $14 | |
| LOOB | 44 | standard electric | 82 ft | 50/50/30 amp | $26–$28 | ||
| LOOB | 45 | standard electric | 86 ft | 50/50/30 amp | $26–$28 | ||
| LOOB | 46 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50/50/30 amp | $26–$28 | ||
| LOOB | 47 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50/50/30 amp | $26–$28 | ||
| LOOB | 48 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50/50/30 amp | $26–$28 | ||
| LOOC | 35 | tent only nonelectric | 136 ft | 514 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOC | 36 | tent only nonelectric | 136 ft | 515 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOC | 37 | tent only nonelectric | 192 ft | 428 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOC | 38 | tent only nonelectric | 135 ft | 360 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOC | 39 | tent only nonelectric | 135 ft | 398 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOC | 40 | tent only nonelectric | 181 ft | 323 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOC | 41 | tent only nonelectric | 161 ft | 324 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOC | 42 | tent only nonelectric | 161 ft | 420 ft | $14 | ||
| LOOC | 43 | tent only nonelectric | 161 ft | 562 ft | $14 |
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 48 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rayburn3.7 mi
Ebenezer Park3.9 mi
Mill Creek (Texas)6.3 mi
San Augustine8.8 miCaney CreekAngelina National Forest · 13 miBoykin Springs CampingAngelina National Forest · 13 miFrom Jasper, TX, take US 96 north 13 miles. Go west on Recreation Rd, (FM 255) for 5 miles to the park entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sam Rayburn, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 59°F, day 81°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°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
Twin Dikes 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 →