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Waxahachie Ck

Featured amenities

Showers
Showers

About Waxahachie Ck

Waxahachie Creek Park is on the western shore of Bardwell Lake, less than an hour south of the Dallas-Fort Worth area in north-central Texas. City-dwellers frequent the park's campground and day-use area to enjoy outdoor activities without going far from home. The lake has favorable fish and wildlife habitats, providing plenty of opportunities for fishing and hunting, and great locations for camping, boating and hiking. Deer, armadillo, rabbit, squirrel and a variety of bird species inhabit the area.

Number of accommodations: 40

Campground Amenities

  • Showers
    Showers
  • Dump Station
    Dump Station

Seasonal information

2026 (Current year)

2026 Season availability

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Open year round

This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.

365 Days

Sites & Availability

40 Sites Available

Site
Price
🚐 02, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 03, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 04, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 05, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 07, Loop: WCRE
50 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 09, Loop: WCRE
50 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 10, Loop: WCRE
50 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 11, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 12, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 13, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 14, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 16, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 17, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 18, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 19, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 20, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 21, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 22, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 23, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 24, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 25, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 26, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 27, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 28, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 29, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
31, Loop: WCRE
10 guests · Pet Friendly
$30.00
/ per night
32, Loop: WCRE
10 guests · Pet Friendly
$30.00
/ per night
33, Loop: WCRE
10 guests · Pet Friendly
$30.00
/ per night
34, Loop: WCRE
10 guests · Pet Friendly
$30.00
/ per night
35, Loop: WCRE
10 guests · Pet Friendly
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 53, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 54, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 55, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 56, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 57, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 58, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 86, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 87, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night
88, Loop: WCRE
10 guests · Campfire
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 89, Loop: WCRE
30 Amp · Water & Electric
$30.00
/ per night

Reviews (36)

What Guests Are Saying

Waxahachie Creek offers a peaceful and quiet camping experience, with friendly staff who are helpful and accommodating. While the park shows potential and has seen some recent improvements like new water lines, there are ongoing issues such as overgrown vegetation, insect problems, and some electrical malfunctions at campsites. Many campers express a desire for better maintenance and upgrades to fully enjoy the natural beauty of the area.

Review Summary

3.2
36 reviews
5
22.2%
8
4
25.0%
9
3
19.4%
7
2
13.9%
5
1
19.4%
7

Lem W

Verified

May 17, 2024 Stayed at: 32, Loop: WCRE

5

Nice, quiet park. Very friendly and helpful staff. There are some improvements ongoing to some campsites but overall it was clean and quiet and everything worked. Wouldn't hesitate to stay here again.

Jeanette W

Verified

May 1, 2024 Stayed at: 29, Loop: WCRE

3

I wish I could rate this campground higher because it was so peaceful with quite a bit of bushy vegetation to provide a small measure of privacy between sites. This is as close to nature as one can get in a campground! There was poison ivy on the trees next to us and in the mowed ground around the campsite. There were so many butterflies, flies, and other flying insects on the sunny side of our RV that it made entering and exiting through the sliding door very difficult. And, the ANTS! After one night in our site, the ants had formed an active trail to the top of our RV. Consequently, we had ants inside the RV!

The roads inside the campground need to be repaved.

The camp host and the park ranger were both very friendly and informative.

Dewayne M

Verified

April 30, 2024 Stayed at: 09, Loop: WCRE

2

The park has potential. It hadn't been maintained in a while, the grass was really high, and the restroom and showers were less desirable.

Kevin M

Verified

April 25, 2024 Stayed at: 09, Loop: WCRE

1

Our group of 7 couples with rv's was so excited that this park had opened back up after being closed for a couple years. We assumed it was closed for renovations...wrong! The only renovations that we could see was new water lines and spigots. The roads were in bad shape; the park and camp sites were overgrown with tall weeds; it was very difficult to reach the shoreline (we had boats) due to the overgrown weeds between the campsites and the shore; some of the sites had no electricity at the site's electrical stand which meant 2 of our group had to move sites after setting up; we were all invaded with armies of ants; there was only one dumpster for the entire park located at the group pavilion which had a rutted road leading to it; the restrooms were in bad shape and the one closest to our sites didn't have a sidewalk to it from the road so it sat in tall weeds; the boat ramp had a large tree limb blocking one lane; the floating dock was not accessible with the walk ramp no longer connected; one side of the park was yellow taped off. It's so sad that this park seems to have been forgotten for some reason. This COE park has the potential to be beautiful with some major attention!

Bryan D

April 25, 2024

1

Went to Ennis TX and stayed at the COE Waxahachie Creek on Bardwell Lake. It just opened back up after being closed for a few years. They need to close it back down again and have contractors come in and modernize it. Looks like they installed new water lines. But the areas around the sites need to be mowed and reworked to make it more level and make it easier to get campers in and out of especially with slides, very tight turns. The electric needs to be gone through and fixed. Two of our sites and another family had issues with power and had to move. The back up sites had worn out 30 amp outlets had to use 50 amp adapter. The gate host were nice and tried to help us find new spots to move to. Also one site played music loud till after midnight
Told the camp host about it, later found out from another camper that it was the.camp host drunk adult son. Still was playing it loud the next night. Would be a great camp ground if it was brought up to speed. Checked out the other camp ground on the lake (High View and Mott) were better but the sites were short and not level for the most part. Went there to see the Blue Bonnets and attend the festival in Ennis. Which was worth the trip. Want to come back to the festival next year but will look for somewhere else to stay unless the problems are fixed. Would look for a better campground if I was you.

Bryan D

Verified

April 25, 2024 Stayed at: 03, Loop: WCRE

1

Went to Ennis TX and stayed at the COE Waxahachie Creek on Bardwell Lake. It just opened back up after being closed for a few years. They need to close it back down again and have contractors come in and modernize it. Looks like they installed new water lines. But the areas around the sites need to be mowed and reworked to make it more level and make it easier to get campers in and out of especially with slides, very tight turns. The electric needs to be gone through and fixed. Two of our sites and another family had issues with power and had to move. The back up sites had worn out 30 amp outlets had to use 50 amp adapter. The gate host were nice and tried to help us find new spots to move to. Also one site played music loud till after midnight
Told the camp host about it, later found out from another camper that it was the.camp host drunk adult son. Still was playing it loud the next night. Would be a great camp ground if it was brought up to speed. Checked out the other camp ground on the lake (High View and Mott) were better but the sites were short and not level for the most part. Went there to see the Blue Bonnets and attend the festival in Ennis. Which was worth the trip. Want to come back to the festival next year but will look for somewhere else to stay unless the problems are fixed. Would look for other options to camp out in the area.

Bryan D

Verified

April 25, 2024 Stayed at: 04, Loop: WCRE

1

Went to Ennis TX and stayed at the COE Waxahachie Creek on Bardwell Lake. It just opened back up after being closed for a few years. They need to close it back down again and have contractors come in and modernize it. Looks like they installed new water lines. But the areas around the sites need to be mowed and reworked to make it more level and make it easier to get campers in and out of especially with slides, very tight turns. The electric needs to be gone through and fixed. Two of our sites and another family had issues with power and had to move. The back up sites had worn out 30 amp outlets had to use 50 amp adapter. The gate host were nice and tried to help us find new spots to move to. Also one site played music loud till after midnight
Told the camp host about it, later found out from another camper that it was the.camp host drunk adult son. Still was playing it loud the next night. Would be a great camp ground if it was brought up to speed. Checked out the other camp ground on the lake (High View and Mott) were better but the sites were short and not level for the most part. Went there to see the Blue Bonnets and attend the festival in Ennis. Which was worth the trip. Want to come back to the festival next year but will look for somewhere else to stay unless the problems are fixed. Has had a long track of bad reviews sadly they are true.

Cynthia M

Verified

April 24, 2024 Stayed at: 58, Loop: WCRE

3

We stayed April 11th through the 14th spot 58. When we arrived he guy at front said we may need to look at it first due to someone getting stuck the day before. We looked and said lets look at another open spot. So we moved to spot 2 well no electricity. So back to 58 to see if we could make it work cuz we do have a 30 ft motorhome. Thanks to the guy in front to help us back it in. Then we had to go to store to get wasp spray due to the awning was covered with wasp. The guy up front said he would talk to the head person for a future discount. Hopefully next time we come back which is ( May 10th through the 12th for Mother's Day weekend spots 56,57,58)the grass would be cut and the bathrooms are cleaned and fixed. It's a fun place just minor things that could be kept up.

The McDonald's

Blake N

April 23, 2024

4

Well maintained. Remote enough to feel away from the bustle. Great hook ups and fresh water for a smooth experience

Debra T

Verified

April 23, 2024 Stayed at: 04, Loop: WCRE

5

I had the pleasure of staying here 3 night of which only one was planned. The camp host were great. Upon learning I was new to towing they suggested I practice backing into any of the open sites which I did. That helped me a lot. A big thank you to them.
I stayed in site 4 twice and site 2 once!

I will come back again as it was really beautiful!

Location Waxahachie Ck

Address:
930 Bozek Road
Ennis, TX, 75119
United States

Latitude & Longitude: 32.2931 / -96.6939

Elevation: 143 feet

Policies & Rules

Category About
General

By using U.S. Army Corps of Engineers parks, you agree to adhere to the written policy of EP 1165-2-316, Title 36. See Here.

General

The entrance station is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Day use closes at 9:00 pm

General

Visitors with a pink 'visitor' car pass must exit the park by 10 p.m. daily

General

To reserve an equestrian site, guests must have a horse with them and proof of a current Coggins test at all times

General

Swimming pools, sprinklers and water slides are not allowed

General

Nothing may be nailed or screwed into trees or other plants.

General

A permit is required for special events or activities occurring in the park; applications must be submitted no later than 10 days prior to the event; Contact Bardwell Lake Office at 972-875-5711 for more information from Mon.-Fri. 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

General

Multiple site rentals may be made by advance reservation only

General

All camping vehicle passes must be returned to the gate house upon final departure and check-out

General

Reservations made with a discount pass require presentation of the pass with valid photo ID upon check-in and re-entering the park. For more information about discount passesClick Here

General

All boats are subject to inspection for Zebra mussels, an invasive aquatic species; For more informationClick Here

General

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.

General

All U.S. Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds are a maximum use of 14 days within a consecutive 30-day period per water resource project, which includes all of Bardwell Lake's parks.

General

50 amp services are available only for 50 amp campers. 30 amp services are available only for 30 amp campers. Converters/“dog bones” are not allowed.

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