Camping at Navarro Mills Lake

Next we moved to a Corp of Engineers campground on Navarro Mills Lake, located between Waco and Corsicana, Texas. The lake itself is about 5000 acres and only reaches a depth of 49 feet at its deepest point. There’s good white bass, crappie, and channel catfish fishing, and this seemed to be the main attraction at the lake. In fact, a new Navarro Mills Lake catfish record was made a week before we got there, of nearly 70 pounds!

The campground is spread out along a big part of the southern shore and has a marina, store, playground, and lots of big shady campsites. Although it’d be a shorter walk to the lake from some of the other sites, we preferred one up near the woods with big oak trees all around it – and it was still well within walking distance of the lake. Our paved site was fairly level with a concrete picnic table under a large covered shelter, and was also totally shaded.

The kayaking was great, and we went a few times during our stay! We just carried them down to the closest cove to our site, although there are a couple boat ramps available. Towards the west end of the lake there are several large trees still standing in the water, which were fun to kayak around. The big peninsula that the marina sits on really blocks some of the winds and waves, and helps keep the water calm on the east side of it. Although, personally, I enjoyed kayaking in the waves!



Along the lake there were HUGE fields of blue
bonnets! They were plenty deep enough for
Tytus to sit down and be completely hidden... 



We also had fun doing a lot of bike riding around the camp. There are lots of little roads that wind through and around the campground, marina, and dam. Near the dam, there’s a really cool rock ledge along the lake that we rode to a few times. It’s probably about 10 feet tall, but one day when the wind picked up, the waves were crashing into the ledge so hard that they were splashing up over the top and getting us wet!

The playground was on the other end of the camp, but well within bike riding distance, so we also rode there several times and let the kids play.

We had a great time at the Navarro Mills Reservoir, and it’s definitely somewhere I’d recommend to anyone going to that area!