WOLF CREEK (Navarro Mills Lake)
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:07 UTC
- A night
- $18–$35When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 73In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Wolf Creek Park is located on the northern shore of Navarro Mills Lake in central Texas. Visitors can enjoy a view of the lake from the facility and participate in popular outdoor actives like camping, boating, fishing and picnicking. The lake area provides the perfect setting to get away from it all, especially for city-dwellers from the nearby Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. Keep reading
Recreation
Birdwatching is a favorite year-round pastime for lake guests. Many species of songbirds, hawks, great blue herons, ducks, geese, other shorebirds and even an occasional bald eagle visit the area. Fishing is also popular at Navarro Mills, and the lake holds the current state record for white crappie. Fishermen come from near and far to sample some of the best crappie fishing anywhere. There are also healthy populations of channel and yellow catfish, and hefty hybrid stripers are often caught below the dam when water is being released. Liberty Hill has a fishing pier, and there is a full-service marina at the lake.
Facilities
Wolf Creek Park offers 50 campsites with water and electric hookups, 22 non-electric sites, two double sites and one group site. Public restrooms with showers, a group picnic shelter, fishing pier, dump station and a two-lane boat ramp with a courtesy dock are provided within the facility.
Natural Features
Most of the campsites are partly shaded, and Wolf Creek is also a favorite viewing area for wildflowers. The brilliant array of native flowers draws visitors from all over to the lake area during the spring. Bluebonnets, paintbrushes and a myriad of other native plants transform the often-bleak winter landscape into an incredible palette of colors. A wide variety of habitat provides a home and abundant food supply to diverse wildlife. Visitors might stumble across squirrels, rabbits, coyotes, foxes, bobcats, white-tailed deer, raccoon or armadillo.
What the agency tells you
This facility is open from April to September 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Campers may proceed to their campsite and will be checked in by a Park Host; a night exit is available for campers who leave after 10 p.m.
Visitor hours end at 10:00pm and Day Use (fishing) hours end at sunset.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Park Hosts live on-site and are available 24 hours/day in case of emergency 24 hours per day.
Off-road vehicles: ATV's, UTV's and golf carts are not permitted.
Day Use Fee: There is a $5 day use fee per vehicle for fishing, swimming, and using the boat ramp or dump station. Day Use hours end at sunset for day users that are not registered campers. This includes swimming, fishing and drive throughs.
Visitors must park in overflow parking.
Pools: Small pools are permitted, but slip-n-slides are prohibited.
Fireworks: Fireworks are not authorized at any time.
Bounce Houses authorized at group shelters by permit only. Contact the lake office for more information (254) 578-1431.
Argentine Ants: Please be advised that Argentine ants exist in our parks. They are listed by the World Conservation Union as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species. There is currently no reliable treatment or chemical available to effectively control Argentine ant populations, but we are aware of the problem and are working with pesticide applicators, other agencies and partners to find an effective means of control, so we may provide pleasant, safe, and healthy recreation opportunities for you and other members of the public.You can help during your visit to Navarro Mills Lake by following these steps: 1) Do not leave food and drinks sitting around. 2) Keep sites free of trash. 3) Hang trash bags during the day. 4) Do not leave trash bags out overnight. 5) Spread (Argentine) ant poison around the tires and jack of your campers, as well as power and water connections.
Fires are restricted to designated areas only. 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. Branches and sticks found on the ground may be used.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 73 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 51 electric, 61 water
- Longest rig
- 110 ft
- Paved pads
- 54 of 73
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Public restrooms with showers, a group picnic shelter, fishing pier, dump station and a two-lane boat ramp with a courtesy dock are provided within the facility.”
- 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, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Night sky · 90th darkest of 154 in TX
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:07 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at WOLF CREEK (Navarro Mills Lake) closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
recreation.gov availability, read 16:07 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
73 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 73 mapped sitesAll 73 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 73 of the 73 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| WCRE | 01 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 347 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 310 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 404 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 04 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 291 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 05 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 132 ft | 404 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 06 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 112 ft | 283 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 07 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 215 ft | 340 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 08 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 489 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 09 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 519 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 10 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 543 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 11 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 570 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 12 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 588 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 13 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 628 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 14 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 627 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 15 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 636 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 16 | standard electric | 85 ft | 30 amp | 281 ft | 349 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 17 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 679 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 18 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 621 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 19 | standard electric | 90 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 737 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 20 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 615 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 21 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 663 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 22 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 718 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 23 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 824 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 24 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 882 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 25 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 931 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 26 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 967 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 27 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 989 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 28 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 944 ft | $30 |
| WCRE | 29 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 932 ft | $30 |
| WCRE | 30 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 872 ft | $30 |
| WCRE | 31 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 889 ft | $30 |
| WCRE | 32 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 782 ft | $30 |
| WCRE | 33 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 124 ft | 662 ft | $30 |
| WCRE | 34 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 797 ft | $30 |
| WCRE | 35 | standard electric | 22 ft | 30 amp | 133 ft | 772 ft | $30 |
| WCRE | 36 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 360 ft | 515 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 42 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 129 ft | 208 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 43 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 168 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 44 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 111 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 45 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 132 ft | 72 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 46 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 169 ft | 243 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 47 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 132 ft | 83 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 48 | standard electric | 90 ft | 30 amp | 281 ft | 207 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 49 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 225 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 50 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 95 ft | 363 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 51 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 325 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 52 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 231 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 53 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 41 ft | 298 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 54 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 41 ft | 311 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 55 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 30 ft | 329 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 56 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 30 ft | 345 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 57 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 60 ft | 358 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 58 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 87 ft | 285 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 59 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 92 ft | 150 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 60 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 134 ft | 235 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 61 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 92 ft | 106 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 62 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 142 ft | 148 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 63 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 91 ft | 255 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 64 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 91 ft | 199 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 65 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 99 ft | 95 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 66 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 105 ft | 42 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 67 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 99 ft | 147 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 68 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 118 ft | 164 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 69 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 132 ft | 176 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $18–$35 | |
| WCRE | 70 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 132 ft | 65 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 71 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 161 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 72 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 154 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 73 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 50 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 74 | standard electric | 110 ft | 50 amp | 128 ft | 33 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 75 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 115 ft | 167 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 76 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 128 ft | 130 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | 77 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 134 ft | 261 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $30 |
| WCRE | GS | group standard electric | 80 ft | 30/30/50 amp | 360 ft | 504 ftNavarro Mills Lake | $80 |
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 73 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
OAK (Navarro Mills Lake)0.6 mi
LIBERTY HILL (Navarro Mills Lake)2.4 mi
PECAN POINT PARK (Navarro Mills Lake)2.9 mi
Mott19 mi
High View21 mi
Love21 miFrom Corsicana or Waco, Texas, travel on State Highway 31 toward the lake. Turn north onto FM 667 and continue about 3 miles to the intersection with FM 639. Turn west and continue about 2 miles into 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 Dawson, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 35°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
WOLF CREEK (Navarro Mills Lake) is in Texas’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Jake Ellzey (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →