Appalachia Bay Recreation Area
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 14:24 UTC
- A night
- $15–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Welcome to Appalachia Bay! Located south of US 412 just 20 miles west of Tulsa, this park features a boat ramp, camping, fishing and other water sports, and a 400 acre off road park. The lake's blue-green water, beautiful natural surroundings and wide variety of recreational opportunities make it a popular destination for year-round fun. Keep reading
Recreation
Keystone Lake is a prime location for boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing. The lake is noted for its striped, sand, black and smallmouth bass, crappie and catfish. Downstream fisheries are accessible at nearby Whitewater and Brush Creek Parks. Appalachia Bay contains a 400 acre off road park, for Off Road Vehicles 64" wide or smaller. It also features a boat ramp, courtesy dock, fishing dock, and 24 campsites.
Facilities
This campground features 24 reservable campsites, most with 30 and 50 amp electrical services, water hookups, picnic tables, fire rings, and grills. This park also offers a restroom/shower facility, drinking water, and dump station. Additionally there is a boat ramp with parking, day use area with picnic tables, and a 400 acre off road park.
Natural Features
Keystone Lake is settled into many small valleys and contains almost 26,000 surface acres. Its 330 miles of shoreline are covered with bottomland timber and post oak, blackjack oak and prairie fields, which provide habitat for a variety of wildlife, including deer, squirrel, rabbit, quail, dove and waterfowl.
Nearby Attractions
Washington Irving South Recreation Area offers tent or RV camping with a playground in the day use area as well as a 1-mile out-and-back hiking trail. Brush Creek Recreation Area offers quiet camping below the dam with excellent fishing opportunities, a paved 1-mile fitness trail, basketball and sand volleyball courts. Walnut Creek Park, on the Arkansas River, has a variety of camping areas, day use areas, and 17 miles of multi-use/equestrian trails. Please note Off Road Vehicle use is not allowed at Walnut Creek. Whitewater, located below Keystone Dam on the south side of the river, is an off roading destination. There is no width restriction in this area, it is used by many Jeeps and trucks as well as ORVs. Keystone Ancient Forest is a unique old-growth forest preserve. It features many miles of hiking trails. The park is operated by the City of Sand Springs, and dogs are welcome on select days.
What the agency tells you
This park includes an Off Road area, there will be ATVs, Side-by-Sides, dirt bikes, etc. in the park. They will be noisy. The ORV area is past the gate on the causeway to the island. Off Road Vehicles must be 64" wide or smaller. When in the campground, ORVs must stay on the designated trail at idle speed. Please operate safely and politely at all times. Dogs must be on leash. BEGINNING APRIL 1, 2026: Check out time 1:00 PM, Check in time 3:00 PM Prior to April 1, 2026: Check out time is 4:00 PM, Check in time is 6:00 PM Quiet Hours: 10PM to 6AM Entrance gate is locked from 10PM to 6AM. Camping is permitted in designated campsites only. Each campsite is limited to 1 wheeled camping unit and 2 tents, or 3 tents. Camping is limited to 14 days within any 30 day period. Campers must occupy their campsite at least once during each 24 hour period. Campers shall keep their sites free of trash and litter during the period of occupancy and shall remove all personal equipment and clean their sites upon departure. Ground fires are restricted to metal fire rings. These are NOT trash receptacles, please leave them free of food and litter upon departure. All vehicles should have two wheels on pavement at all times; boat trailers are permitted on the grass. Please park extra vehicles in parking lots, not on empty camping pads.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- 24 electric, 24 water
- Longest rig
- 53 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 6 of 20 sites
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “This park also offers a restroom/shower facility, drinking water, and dump station.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 24 of 24 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 24 of 24 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Night sky · 100th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
3 of 24 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:24 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$25 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 14:24 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 24 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 24 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Appalachia Bay | 1 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 93 ft | 56 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 10 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 55 ft | 259 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 11 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 90 ft | 234 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 12 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 90 ft | 155 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 13 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 92 ft | 213 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 14 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 88 ft | 181 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 15 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 80 ft | 646 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 16 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 36 ft | 663 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 17 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 62 ft | 607 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 18 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 62 ft | 550 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 19 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 100 ft | 434 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 2 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 86 ft | 20 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 20 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 77 ft | 349 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 21 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 77 ft | 308 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 22 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 66 ft | 510 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 23 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 48 ft | 627 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 24 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 36 ft | 671 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 3 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 86 ft | 88 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 4 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 85 ft | 30 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 5 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 85 ft | 112 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 6 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 78 ft | 90 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 7 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 78 ft | 45 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 8 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 311 ft | 121 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
| Appalachia Bay | 9 | rv electric | 53 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 55 ft | 220 ftKeystone Lake | $25 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Westport, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Appalachia Bay Recreation Area is in Oklahoma’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Frank Lucas (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →