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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TX

Yegua Creek

ReservableBookable through February 28; a peak season follows March 1 to September 30.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:02 UTC
A night: $20–$30Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 8177 on recreation.gov

Photos · Jennifer Plair

104 ftLongest rig

270 ftElevation

926 ftWater · Somerville Lake

2.1 miSW of Somerville, TX

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices

In the agency’s own words

Yegua Creek is located at Somerville Lake near Somerville, Texas. The lake offers various types of recreation such as camping, fishing, boating, nature trails and much more for registered campers only. Keep reading

Recreation

Somerville Lake offers many opportunities for outdoor recreation. Water sports, hiking and biking are popular activities. White and hybrid-striped bass, crappie and catfish populate the lake, as well as largemouth bass which can reach 10 or more pounds.

Facilities

Yegua Creek Campground has 82 sites, 65 of which have 50-amp electrical and water hookups. Flush toilets and showers are provided, as are picnic tables and fire rings. Two boat ramps, an interpretive trail, and dump station are located on-site.

Natural Features

The campground is situated on the shoreline of scenic Somerville Lake. Pelicans and other waterfowl frequent the shoreline.

Nearby Attractions

Rocky Creek Park is nearby, offering additional access to Somerville Lake and all its great water activities. The city of Somerville, Texas is less than 10 miles from Rocky Creek, offering restaurants and shops.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

No all-terrain or off-road vehicle use permitted in park

Rule

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.

Rule

Check-out is 2:00pm; Check-in is 3:00pm. No Early arrivals allowed!

Everything else this campground posts · 3

Rule

RV campsites: No more than two (2) camping units and a maximum of ten (10) campers are allowed per campsite. Camping units are defined as any of the following: 1) travel trailer, 2) motor homes, 3) pop-up trailer, 4) pick-up camper/van, and 5) tent. No more than one self-contained camping unit (1, 2, 3, and 4 above) may be placed on an electrical campsite.

Rule

Tent Only Campsites: No more than two (2) tents and a maximum of ten (10) campers are allowed per campsite.

Rule

Please refer to the Somerville Lake Website for additional park information and policies under the recreation section at https://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/somerville/

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 81 · 15 tent-only
Hookups: 62 electric, 66 water
Longest rig: 104 ft
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…50-amp electrical and water hookups. Flush toilets and showers are provided, as are picnic tables and…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Flush toilets and showers are provided, as are picnic tables and fire rings.”
Dump station: Yes
Boat ramp: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, Creek, Beach; Boating; Fishing
Night sky · 95th darkest of 154 in TX: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Something open on 30 of the next 30 bookable nightsread 16:02 UTC

recreation.gov lists 77 of the 81 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

OpenBooked

Booking windowThrough February 28Bookable now through February 28, 2027, the end of the off-peak season. The peak season that follows runs March 1, 2027 through September 30, 2027; recreation.gov releases it on its own schedule, so check there before counting on those nights.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$20–$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$48–$68DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$20–$30

Tent Only Nonelectric$20

Standard Electric$30

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Oct 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$28–$38

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$48–$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$30 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:02 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

81 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 77 mapped sites

50 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop YCRE 057 122 ftLoop YCRE 008 110 ftLoop YCRE 083 101 ftLoop YCRE 060 101 ftLoop YCRE 042 101 ft

Least roomLoop YCRE 046 29 ftLoop YCRE 047 29 ftLoop YCRE 033 35 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 81 sites

81 of 81 sites located

Tent only15RV / electric62Type not stated4

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 81 of the 81 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. 77 of the 81 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


YCRE	001	standard electric	103 ft	50 amp	62 ft	129 ft	385 ft	$30
YCRE	002	standard electric	81 ft	50 amp	62 ft	150 ft	431 ft	$30
YCRE	003	type not stated	82 ft	50 amp		197 ft	443 ft
YCRE	004	standard electric	81 ft	50 amp	79 ft	318 ft	500 ft	$30
YCRE	005	standard electric	82 ft	50 amp	52 ft	348 ft	420 ft	$30
YCRE	006	standard electric	79 ft	50 amp	52 ft	353 ft	369 ft	$30
YCRE	007	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp	75 ft	342 ft	297 ft	$30
YCRE	008	standard electric	93 ft	50 amp	110 ft	297 ft	187 ft	$30
YCRE	009	standard electric	88 ft	50 amp	52 ft	239 ft	492 ft	$30
YCRE	010	standard electric	93 ft	50 amp	52 ft	237 ft	450 ft	$30
YCRE	011	standard electric	92 ft	50 amp	86 ft	233 ft	372 ft	$30
YCRE	012	standard electric	93 ft	50 amp	41 ft	232 ft	286 ft	$30
YCRE	013	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp	41 ft	207 ft	253 ft	$30
YCRE	014	standard electric	104 ft	50 amp	69 ft	358 ft	378 ft	$30
YCRE	015	standard electric	89 ft	50 amp	55 ft	309 ft	357 ft	$30
YCRE	016	standard electric	75 ft	50 amp	55 ft	268 ft	360 ft	$30
YCRE	017	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp	43 ft	245 ft	356 ft	$30
YCRE	018	standard electric	94 ft	50 amp	43 ft	204 ft	399 ft	$30
YCRE	019	standard electric	87 ft	50 amp	50 ft	164 ft	430 ft	$30
YCRE	020	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp	49 ft	136 ft	319 ft	$30
YCRE	021	standard electric	78 ft	50 amp	49 ft	158 ft	287 ft	$30
YCRE	022	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	52 ft	184 ft	258 ft	$30
YCRE	023	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	52 ft	211 ft	235 ft	$30
YCRE	024	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp	44 ft	166 ft	383 ft	$30
YCRE	025	standard electric	76 ft	50 amp	44 ft	180 ft	346 ft	$30
YCRE	026	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	39 ft	141 ft	345 ft	$30
YCRE	027	standard electric	82 ft	50 amp	39 ft	180 ft	310 ft	$30
YCRE	028	standard electric	71 ft	50 amp	74 ft	249 ft	238 ft	$30
YCRE	029	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	49 ft	398 ft	258 ft	$30
YCRE	030	standard electric	68 ft	50 amp	42 ft	379 ft	242 ft	$30
YCRE	031	standard electric	76 ft	50 amp	42 ft	390 ft	211 ft	$30
YCRE	032	standard electric	74 ft	50 amp	46 ft	376 ft	175 ft	$30
YCRE	033	standard electric	69 ft	50 amp	35 ft	327 ft	174 ft	$30
YCRE	034	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp	35 ft	329 ft	148 ft	$30
YCRE	035	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	53 ft	288 ft	165 ft	$30
YCRE	036	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	46 ft	270 ft	285 ft	$30
YCRE	037	standard electric	64 ft	50 amp	46 ft	230 ft	296 ft	$30
YCRE	038	type not stated	57 ft	50 amp		455 ft	266 ft
YCRE	039	standard electric	69 ft	50 amp	54 ft	474 ft	233 ft	$30
YCRE	040	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp	39 ft	494 ft	180 ft	$30
YCRE	041	standard electric	72 ft	50 amp	39 ft	510 ft	145 ft	$30
YCRE	042	tent only nonelectric			101 ft	366 ft	464 ft	$20
YCRE	043	tent only nonelectric	20 ft		84 ft	255 ft	515 ft	$20
YCRE	044	tent only nonelectric	20 ft		41 ft	328 ft	423 ft	$20
YCRE	045	tent only nonelectric	20 ft		41 ft	292 ft	441 ft	$20
YCRE	046	tent only nonelectric			29 ft	201 ft	484 ft	$20
YCRE	047	tent only nonelectric			29 ft	205 ft	455 ft	$20
YCRE	048	tent only nonelectric			67 ft	193 ft	397 ft	$20
YCRE	049	tent only nonelectric			56 ft	181 ft	294 ft	$20
YCRE	050	tent only nonelectric			56 ft	156 ft	272 ft	$20
YCRE	051	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp	43 ft	411 ft	312 ft	$30
YCRE	052	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	40 ft	442 ft	271 ft	$30
YCRE	053	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	40 ft	475 ft	233 ft	$30
YCRE	054	type not stated	50 ft	50 amp		504 ft	199 ft
YCRE	055	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp	60 ft	486 ft	181 ft	$30
YCRE	056	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp	60 ft	430 ft	171 ft	$30
YCRE	057	tent only nonelectric	52 ft		122 ft	293 ft	105 ft	$20
YCRE	058	tent only nonelectric	53 ft		88 ft	197 ft	222 ft	$20
YCRE	059	tent only nonelectric	50 ft		88 ft	109 ft	300 ft	$20
YCRE	060	tent only nonelectric	56 ft		101 ft	63 ft	349 ft	$20
YCRE	063	tent only nonelectric	52 ft		58 ft	166 ft	245 ft	$20
YCRE	064	tent only nonelectric	52 ft		58 ft	205 ft	244 ft	$20
YCRE	065	type not stated	48 ft	50 amp		240 ft	312 ft
YCRE	066	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	49 ft	208 ft	324 ft	$30
YCRE	067	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	49 ft	177 ft	348 ft	$30
YCRE	068	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	51 ft	127 ft	429 ft	$30
YCRE	069	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	47 ft	142 ft	463 ft	$30
YCRE	070	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	47 ft	138 ft	483 ft	$30
YCRE	071	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	44 ft	121 ft	491 ft	$30
YCRE	072	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	37 ft	119 ft	490 ft	$30
YCRE	073	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	37 ft	120 ft	487 ft	$30
YCRE	074	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	35 ft	131 ft	473 ft	$30
YCRE	075	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	35 ft	149 ft	464 ft	$30
YCRE	076	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	50 ft	158 ft	459 ft	$30
YCRE	077	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	51 ft	179 ft	453 ft	$30
YCRE	078	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	52 ft	200 ft	454 ft	$30
YCRE	079	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp	42 ft	184 ft	466 ft	$30
YCRE	080	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	42 ft	181 ft	458 ft	$30
YCRE	081	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	53 ft	137 ft	460 ft	$30
YCRE	082	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	53 ft	130 ft	450 ft	$30
YCRE	083	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	102 ft	154 ft	402 ft	$30

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 81 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate30.30278, -96.54472

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone979-596-1622; FOR BOOKING, CALL 1-877-444-6777

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Rocky Creek (Somerville Lake)1.4 mi Lake Somerville Marina & Campground1.7 mi

Wilson H Fox54 mi Kelly's Pond Campground: (936) 344-6205Sam Houston National Forest · 55 mi

Taylor55 mi

Friendship Park56 mi

Getting there

From Austin, Texas, take US 290 east to Brenham. Follow HWY 36 north 11.5 miles to FM 1948. Turn left and follow FM 1948 2.5 miles. Turn right into park complex, following campground signs.

From Houston, Texas, take HWY 290 west to Brenham. Follow HWY 36 north 11.5 miles to FM 1948. Turn left and follow FM 1948 2.5 miles. Turn right into park complex, following campground signs.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today67°Partly Sunny4% rain

Tonight50°Mostly Clear1% rain

Saturday66°Sunny

Saturday Night46°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Somerville, TX

Source: National Weather Service, HGX forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 53°F, day 83°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

110°30°

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.

Measured at: SOMERVILLE DAM, TX (USC00418446), 2 miles away and at about the same elevation

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Yegua Creek is in Texas’s 10th congressional district. Its representative, Michael McCaul (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 30 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 77 of the 81 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 81 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 1.1 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 154 rated federal campgrounds in Texas · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026