Mansfield Dam Park — Attraction in Lakeway

Mansfield Dam Park is open from sunrise until sunset. Its Seventy-one acres of public space offer beautiful views of Lake Travis, where families can picnic, fish, swim in a protected secluded cove, and play on the playground.

The park has the largest boat ramp on Lake Travis and is very active during peak boating season. On busy weekends and holidays, delays in launching boats can be expected. The deepest and most accessible boat ramp on Lake Travis, the ramp has four lanes with an adjoining wheelchair-accessible courtesy dock to make launching easier.

The park also has an extensive Scuba diving area. Underwater amusement has been enhanced by the addition of four underwater dive platforms at various lake levels, as well as an underwater trail and compass course that connects dive attractions such as sunken boats, historic dam construction materials, and geological points of interest. Barbecue grills and 
campsites are also available for SCUBA divers. Right now (as of 6/11/22), due to the extreme drought conditions, the Scuba area is probably not as accessible as Windy Point Park. Other amenities include six Chess tables, a climbing boulder, and seven covered shelters. The park is known for its fishing and paved multi-use trails. There’s a large pavilion (which needs reservations), picnic tables, and nice restrooms.

For safety reasons, access to the dam is not allowed.

Zebra Mussels have been found along the shoreline of our lake parks. Swimmers and others seeking water-based recreation should exercise caution when in or...

The boat ramp is closed due to the drought so call if you have plans to head over for that. I'm disappointed that they closed the "courtesy dock" midweek for construction to pull it out more due to the drought and when I went there today (Friday) no one was working on it. There seems to be no urgency to open in time for this weekend and there wasn't any time given to prepare businesses for the closure of the dock. Something like this should be done on a Monday and planned out better. It is not as though the drought popped up 2 weeks ago. I am not an engineer, but if marinas can move their whole structures in 2 days I cannot see why a small dock cannot be done in the same manner. Especially when companies are paying them $1000 per boat to operate out of dam. Also, if you're going to Mansfield bring $5 cash per person. They don't take card, venmo, cashapp, promises, nothing else. You will have to turn around and come back. Disabled Vetrans are free. I will give credit to the staff there that it is clean. People are gross and they maintain the parks image well. There is a lot of broken glass on the trails but that's because people are disrespectful and don't clean up after themselves. The staff shouldn't be expected to go out and pick up after slobs who will probably...

The park is nice and well maintained. Mansfield also has one of the deepest public boat ramps on the lake, which is very convenient when the lake is low. Theres a lot of parking for visitors, as well as boat & Trailer parking. They do charge $5 (cash only to enter) and the boat dock is very small unfortunately. If they were to double the size of the boat dock or build a second one this would significantly help with the boat traffic during the summer. On Saturday's (especially on holiday weekends) you can be stuck for hours waiting to use the dock and to get your boat out of the water due to the amount of traffic. The new boaters who don't have common boaters etiquette, or don't know how to load/unload their boats can cause a lot of issues. The boat dock's night lights some times do not work. Some of the staff can be very rude sometimes as well and they seem to always be understaffed. Iv had random groups of strangers jump on my boat before to take pictures while I went up to my car to grab something. During Covid, they closed the whole park, including the boat ramp, and wouldn't let the public on the lake which is absolutely insane. In my opinion the boat ramp should have public access all year long, and you shouldn't have to worry about what other...