This is really a cool place for a day long outing, get your tents, food and other recreational material to have fun. The lake gives a beach kind of feeling with abundant sand for kids to play, swimming over this lake is permitted. They have a dedicated bike and trek trail with approximately 3 miles loop (not exactly sure if this is one side of the park or is it entirely). I believe there is boating and of course due to time constraints on unprepared planning couldn’t explore that and saw people kayaking (get your own).

Today there was kids trout fishing event in kids pond. Amazing weather, lake is great. This state park is maintained well and all the employees are excellent and friendly to the visitors like me. They do such events to encourage kids and attract people to the park. Location seems very far away from city that is the only con of this place else love it

One of the best place for camping. Love the most oak point primitive camp sites. If you are a group of more than 10 people book site 133 and 134.

So peaceful!!! Beautiful drive to this place as well. So beautiful and relaxing place. Get your own food n non alcoholic drinks to enjoy this place. ( Alcohol prohibited in this area 🚫)

Campsites are clean and neat. We stayed in electricity and water amenities area which is $25 per night. Restrooms are clean and it has showers inside. Lake was amazing. It was warm and clean, but be careful bottom is mud and it makes you feel weird. When you go there, you will see RESERVED sign everywhere, however you can walk up after certain time and do your reservations online. You can pay it to the office if you would like to. It was our first time, so we did not know about reservations and other details. We spent so much time looking for available spot. Lake is kids friendly because they can swim in low level of water. Please Do not forget that you need to leave campsite at noon if you are leaving otherwise rangers are going to warn you. It was quite place to stay and security was good. We enjoyed staying there. Hopefully you will find these details helpful.

Been to several Ray Roberts locations and this is my favorite location thus far. It feels bigger than Isle de Bois (although I don't know if that is actually true - it could easily be my perception). They have paved and dirt trails, as well as DORBA trails. Nice way to spend a day.

I wasn’t particularly impressed with the trail systems here at this end of Ray Robs. I strongly recommend Isle Du Bois (south of Lake Ray Robs) over this Johnson part of the park. From what I saw in all my ambling, DuBois got a much better variety of trees (including the Lost Pines), trails, views, and wildlife. Here at Johnson I found the map they give you at the entrance does not correspond with the trail markers. The trail markers in the woods use letters and colors whereas the black and white map only shows names of the trails and does not actually show most of the trail networks that are back there at all. Once on the trail, then, my map was almost totally useless. Only using my own bearings and memory did I get back to the parking lot, and only then did I see the much more useful map posted at the trailhead. I had missed it because, as far as I saw, there are no signs directing you towards the trailheads from the parking lot. So only after wandering through the campsite paths for a spell did I discover the hiking/biking trails. Anyway, take a picture of the colored map before you begin because that map actually does correspond with the colors and letters on the trail markers. Maybe the park app would work well, too,I couldn’t say. I was trying to go a little old school with the paper map, I guess, but since that’s just about useless I had to go even older still: compass and landmarks, baby! Nor was I particularly impressed with the environment here. It’s nice and woodsy, sure, and that’s always good, but it felt kind of homogenous or something, lacking diversity. Lots of oaks, greenbriar, and poison ivy (but never fear, plenty of Virginia creeper, too). I was also chagrined to find nearly zilch for wildlife on such a pleasant spring day. There are posted signs talking about deer and squirrels and copperheads and bobcats in the park, but the only one of those I saw was the Bobcat clearing chunks of felled tree. Nary a squirrel in miles of wood did I see, nor birds, nor deer, no nothing but insects. Where have all the animals gone? The public access swimming zone for the lake seemed like a nice place to grill and chill with friends and fam. But I was alone. And remained alone, as the geese I tried to make friends with started honking some pretty racist, super toxic stuff. Well, one of them was, but the other one didn’t speak up and put a stop to her companion’s honk-based violence against me, so she’s complicit, part of the problem, too, right? They ended up paddling away into the sunset. So I finally found some wild life out there and ended up driving it away myself. The absurd misadventures of me continue ever on. Well, so, especially if you’re trail-minded, I definitely wouldn’t spend $7 per person to come here. That’s one of the highest park day fees I’ve seen and probably the most underwhelming park. I did feel like DuBois was well worth $7, though, and it ain’t that far from here, so just go there if you’re trying to check out Ray Robs. Happy trails, y’all.

Camped 2 nights at site 74. It was a last minute trip and that was the only spot available. The site was spacious and clean. All parts of the part were well kept. The playgrounds are old, which is pretty on par for Texas State Parks. I will go back in the future and get spot that backs up to the lake.

Alot of shade some water spickets on sidewalk, showers restrooms. Nice beach and swimming area. Keep in mind it's nature, I seen snake it slither across me on sidewalk near dusk, spiders,scorpion.

Great place for tent camping. There are drive up sites and walk-in sites. Beautiful walking trails and scenery. Fishing was a little difficult from shore as the water levels have been low.

A great place to disconnect. Lots of wildlife: rabbits, deer, birds. Nice walking trails. Clean dump station.

Amazing experience camping out at the johnson branch-walnut loop. We had a site so close to the restrooms which were very clean with hot showers. There were a lot of bugs but we had the bug spray so sprayed it around the tent and none got inside. The lake is huge with clear water and perfect temperatures early June. There are kayak and boat rentals, picnic tables, restrooms. Will go again for sure!

Great place to hangout. On busy day it may need a reservation. Water was dirty where we were. Enter fee is $7/person for whole day.

Beautiful park, trails, lake, hiking, friendly and helpful park rangers, clean restroom facilities.

The Johnson Branch unit is definitely more quiet than Isle DuBois.

Not the absolute best you'll find (hence 4 stars) but this place is wonderful. They have a great play/day use area with volleyball net and other activities. Great swim beach and high quality flush toilets and hot showers. Though parts have vaulted toilets the main areas are all flush toilets. Very clean.

We do a lot of camping and really loved this park. The thing that stuck out the most at this park was the people. The staff across the board were so nice. Due to our experience here, we decided to go ahead and buy the park pass. We will definitely be back.

Great state park just north of Denton, Texas. Has several lake side campsites for both tents and trailers. Clean facilities for showering. Great bike trails (both paved and off road) for plenty of miles of biking available.

Great park despite the dorba trail being closed the whole trip... (wish status had been updated on fb) we still did lots of bike riding on the concrete and dogwood trails. This state park would be our favorite IF it had sewer hookups for rvs.

Great park overall, lake with a beach , nice biking trails, decent hiking trail, and really well taken care park.

Great park, great swimming, great hiking trails, the fishing was not so good, it might be because all of the flooding and the fish have plenary rooms eat. Showers were private and hot. The site was quiet and peaceful. The people were rude. The park sits on federal property and they do not honor the Texas license to carry and you could go to prison for carrying your firearm.

Our campsite could have used a little more shade and grass cut but overall a great site. Easy water access and not a lot of boat activity where we camped making it good for swimming and relaxing. The park was clean just needed a little mowing.