Cleburne State Park, State park in Johnson County, Texas, United States

Cleburne State Park is a 528-acre (2.14 km2) state park in Johnson County, Texas, built around the 116-acre spring-fed Cedar Lake, formed by a Civilian Conservation Corps earthen dam. The land is heavily wooded with eastern redcedar, Ashe juniper, Texas live oak, bur oak and other oaks, cedar elm and eastern redbud. Camp Creek flows through the park, and 13 miles of mountain bike trails loop around it over hills and flats.

Cleburne State Park was established in 1934, when a group of Cleburne businessmen bought several hundred acres and handed them to the State Parks Board. From 1935 to 1940 the Civilian Conservation Corps built the park's facilities: the earthen dam that created Cedar Lake, a water tower, a shelter, a residence and nature trails. Comanche Indians had earlier hunted in the area and a trail of theirs passed through it.

The park is named after the nearby town of Cleburne, and its land was Comanche hunting ground crossed by an old trail before settlement. Today Cedar Lake is a community fishing lake, so jet skis are banned and boats run at no-wake speed; anglers cast for largemouth bass, channel catfish, bluegill, redear sunfish and crappie.

Campsites with utilities and shelters hold up to eight people and take motor vehicles or trailers; each has a picnic table, grill and campfire ring, with hot showers nearby. The two-barracks Group Camp sleeps 44, and its dining hall seats about 70. Buildings are heated but not air-conditioned. Boats on Cedar Lake must keep to no-wake speed and jet skis are barred.

Cedar Lake is a 116-acre spring-fed lake created by a CCC earthen dam, and it is managed as a community fishing lake because the state park surrounds it entirely. That status bans jet skis and limits boats to no-wake speed, so anglers casting for largemouth bass, channel catfish, bluegill, redear sunfish and crappie have mostly still water.