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Loyd Park
Grand Prairie
817-467-2104
Website
 Texas Outside Rating: 7.6

Type:  Day Use Park

Map: Campsite Map

Texas Outside Favorite Sites: 208, 211, and sites on the water between 60 and 70

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Brief Overview: 
Loyd Park in Grand Prairie is a peaceful and beautiful park on the shores of the 7,000 acre Joe Pool Lake. The park offers a wide variety of activities for campers including fishing, swimming, hiking, biking, and softball. The terrain is flat and heavily treed with sites along the water as well as well off the water in the trees.

Amenities and Fun Things To Do:
100_6847Loyd Park has 221 very nice campsites complete with water and electric hookup, fire ring and covered picnic table. Most of the sites are level, well shaded, and there are quite a few sites on the lake or with a lake view. The sites are spacious and well maintained.

One of the group areas has 10 individual sites with water and electricity and a large pavilion positioned in the center of the individual sites.

There are 8 cabins now available for rent at Loyd Park. Three cabins have 2 bedrooms sleeping 6 people, four cabins have 1 bedroom and a bunk bed niche sleeping 6 people, and one cabin is ADA accessible, sleeping 4 people. The cabins include: electricity and running water: central heat and air conditioning; bathroom with shower; full kitchen with utensils; stove, oven, refrigerator, and sink; 4 person dinette; bed linens and towels; satellite TV; front porch with ceiling fan; covered pavilion with picnic table; and a charcoal BBQ grill & fire ring. All of the cabins are on the water.

Some of the other amenities in the park include a boat ramp, dump station, restrooms and showers, beach changing house, swimming area, boat dock, softball field, and club house for group meetings.

There are multi-use trails for hiking, biking and equestrian use.

A Typical Texas Outsider Day:

A typical day at Loyd Park includes a great outdoor breakfast and then heading out in the boat to enjoy the lake for skiing, anchoring and swimming, or heading over to Lynn Creek Marina and the floating restaurant the Oasis for food, drinks, and live music.

We also enjoy riding bikes in and around the campground and on the trails which are flat and easy.

Click here to read a review of Joe Pool Lake.

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Cool Nearby Activities:
Here are a few of the fun things to see and do that are nearby Loyd Park:

 

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Texas Outside Campground Rating System

Texas Outside uses a tough rating scale and it’s difficult for a campground to get a “10”.  Each park is rated on:

  • Scenic Beauty: a campground that is flat with no trees or character gets a “1” and hills, lots of trees, beautiful lake site, and lush ground cover gets a “10”
  • Park Condition:  the cleaner, well kept, and maintained campgrounds receive high scores
  • Amenities: we are looking for lots of amenities like restrooms, dump stations, playgrounds, boat ramps, shelters, concession stand, rental toys, and more.
  • Campsites:  low scores are given for sites that are right next to each other (good for getting to know your neighbors, but not what we’re looking for when we’re camping); have no lantern holder, no water or electricity, no fire pit, no grill, or no picnic table (or it’s rotten wood); have no trees and no view; the ground cover is crushed rock (my bare feet hate that stuff!); and they require a lot of work to get your rig level.
  • Things To Do: Bonus points are given for campgrounds that offer lots of fun things to do at the park or very nearby – this includes: biking, hiking, climbing, boating, entertainment, golf, swimming, fishing, volleyball, horseshoes, and more