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Oak Park is located on the northeastern 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.
Birding 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.
This facility has 48 campsites, all of which have electric and water hookups, as well as one group campsite that can accommodate up to 125 people. A boat ramp, swim beach, playground, fishing pier and group shelter are located in the park. Oak Park swim beach is for registered campers only, Oak Park Day Use is a separate park available for day use visitors. Life Jacket Loaner Station located at gatehouse.
Most of the campsites are shady, and Oak Park 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.
From town: Go 4 mi NE on Hwy-31, then 1-1/2 mi NW on FM-667.
Our favorite local campground. It's a hidden gem. Awesome camp hosts, great views, clean park, friendly campers, & clean facilities. What's not to love?!?
Great park for tent camping and RV (30amp-50amp service) including motorhomes... Gate Attendants are very welcoming.
The crappie and catfish seasons are very good... But make sure you reserve in advance so you get a good spot. Buy a season pass for $40 and use it instead of the $5 daily pass if you fish alot. Campers do not have to pay to fish/ launch a boat, etc.
Oak park Navarro Mills RV spot number 1: 1. paved with a down hill and slight slope so bring your levelers and ramps. 2. If you back in your door will not face the picnic table and fire ring. 3. Lots of shade real nice spot. If your using solar not a spot for you. 4. The view from spot one very nice open meadow on one side and lots of big oaks on the other side. 5. We have T-mobile and Visible phone service. One or sometimes Two bars so not so good. Digital TV we got about 10 stations.
A beautiful park and the gate attendants, Cliff and Gina are wonderful people as long as your behavior doesn't become a problem in the park. I had campsite #48 which is the closest one to the fishing dock but the water level in the lake is very low (September 2022) so I had no luck fishing from the dock, which is situated in a cove where the water was only knee deep at best.
Great park! We usually go to state parks but this was a great edition to our list. Most of the sites were pretty level or wouldn't take much to get there. The lake was awesome and the amount of stars we could see was amazing!! The people were friendly and helpful and the park was clean. We will be back for sure!!
