been camping for the last 30+ years
grew up camping with primitive reenactment groups (civil war)
figured id throw my 2cents in
we have stayed at everyone of these places
ill add as i have time

Lake Whitney

Below the Dam by the power plant: (city park i think) go across the dam from whitney and its your first left....

Cost: FREE
Sites:8
Toilets: NO
Water: NO
Comments: some river access not much
VERY QUITE, not alot of people camp here
fire rings, one of our fav places to camp on Lake Whitney never had any issues with stealing camping stuff ect
fav site: the last one on the road by the turn around there are two sites here, excellent for 3 or more tents, good family place. very shaded!
only problem is with this area, people seem to like to dump their animals down there. 1 outta 3 times we go here, we bring back a dog. this spring someone dumped a litter of 4 week old kittens in a box in the dumpster at night. i was lucky to be walking by the dumpster in the morning and found them.

If you are on the river please pay attention to the generating sirens. I have seen at least 10-15 cars/trucks get washed down stream, as u can park on the river bed to launch. the water comes up very quickly. canoes, kayaks, very small 2 man boats with paddles, and air boats are fine, but river is too shallow for anything else.

Soldiers Bluff Campground: (across from dam campground)

Cost: FREE
Sites:10-15
Toilets: yes
Water: in-between sites
Comments: most sites are very shady, 2-4 are open but are within 30 feet of water.
gets pretty busy in the summer, as a ton of people swim here, water is very deep 80+ feet.straight drop off from cliffs...be careful with children that are not good swimmers...ive dived this area, down to 80 feet, and it just keeps going down.
Good fishing in the cove at night.
this park does have a gate and a attendant
gates close at 10:00pm

Lake Whitney State Park:

Cost:varies
Sites: tons
Toilets: yes
Showers: yes
Water: yes and shared
Comments: Fav site: # 60 right on the water sit at camp and fish
very nice state park a wonderful astronomy program once a month normally
nice swimming beach
a few skunks
good fishing areas



Loffers Bend West/East 2 parks: Core of Eng park
across the dam going back into whitney from the dam site

Cost: varies
Sites:tons
Toilets: yes
Water: yes
showers: yes
Comments:
ok park, not my fav, we prefer to camp below the dam for free typical core of eng park
nice swimming beach, but tends to be very very crowded hard to fish


Kimball Bend Park off of SH 174 (Core of eng)

Cost: free
Sites:tons
Toilets: yes
Water: yes shared
showers: no
Comments: on the brazos river, pretty nice sites, shady, good fishing on the river...

Cedar Creek Park: (core of eng)
off of FM 2604

Cost: Free
Sites:20 or so
Toilets: 1 restroom
Water: yes shared
showers: no
Comments:
very nice park, covered tables, fire rings,some open sites, some with huge trees
ok fishing double lane boat ramp

Walling Bend: (core of eng)

Cost: Free
Sites:8 i think
Toilets: 1 restroom
Water: yes shared
showers: no
Comments: very small park, but very quite
2 boats ramps, pretty good fishing about 100 ft of shore
stripers like to run through this area late spring

Plowman Creek: (core of Eng)
FM 56 south of kopperl

Cost: $10-16 per night
Sites:30+
Toilets: yes
Water: yes
showers: yes
Comments:
pretty nice park, 2nd on our list for whitney.
this park is very nice, horses are allowed and there is a 12 mile or so hiking trail
really good fishing in this area in the fall
covered tables fire rings ect

Cedron Creek Park: (core of eng)

Cost: $16 per night
Sites:40+
Toilets: yes
Water: yes
showers: yes
Comments:
very nice park also,
Fav sites: 45, 1 and #2
this park closes during the winter...i think starting oct


Steele Creek (core of eng)

Cost: Free
Sites:15-18+
Toilets: yes
Water: yes
showers: NO
Comments:
park fills up really really quickly on fri for the weekend covered tables, fire rings bbq grills
1 boat ramp, very nice camp sites our #3 pick for whitney

Juniper Cove: (Private campground)

Cost: $30 plus a night (camping) Cabins: $100+ a night
Sites:80+
Toilets: yes
Water: yes
showers: yes
Comments: more of a rv park . some nice spots thou
they do have cabins, if your wanting a place to get away from it all and not camp i would suggest
this place for sure. Marina gas food, everything u need for a week or a weekend trip
indoor heated fishing barge.... we normally make a trip over here to get bait and also fish on the barge at night

There are several other places on the lake that has cabins/rv park, we have just never stayed


Lake Tawakoni
Most of this lake's shore land is still privately owned.
this lake is very clean and has always been that way.

Wind Point Park: (just search they have a web page)
Cost: $16
Sites:80+
Toilets: yes
Water: yes
showers: yes
Comments:

Our fav place to camp at tawakoni, this is a privately run park, have camped here for the last 10+ years. 3 sides are surrounded by water
fishing from the bank everywhere, fishing pier, fish cleaning stations, boat ramp, banquet hall, play ground, swimming beach, Rv spots, Screened Shelters, small store with Ice ect
the park is not strict, u can park on the grass, just pull up to the shore where you want to fish
there are fire areas on the shore, that u can use I cant say enough about this park, it can get very very busy thou esp on holiday weekends.
The fishing here even from the bank can be incredible. on the point in the spring when the sand bass are running, u can catch a good 1.5# every cast. we have limited out several times within 1 hour. Shad are crazy here sometimes in the spring, slam a car/truck door shut and the lake turns over with silver. I caught my largest catfish ever off of this point also, a monster 47#.i average 4-10# blue cats from the bank all the time.
By the fishing pier about 200 yards out is a channel that runs through the trees. Fall the stripers like to run this channel.

Lake Tawakoni state park:

Cost: $20+
Sites:80+
Toilets: yes
Water: yes
showers: yes
Comments:
typical state park, nice swimming area, this is a small park thou...not many places to fish, there is a boat ramp. Camp sites are too close together.. fire rings are like 25 feet apart. whoever designed this park tried to cram too many campsites into too small a area..

Thanks Amy!

VERY good info---

Excellent post.

Thanks!