Applegate Cove
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 16 of the next 16 nights read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $23–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 27All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Applegate Cove sits along the shady banks of Robert S. Kerr Reservoir. Keep reading
Recreation
With over 250 miles of shoreline and 43,000 surface acres, R.S. Kerr has long been recognized for its outstanding fishing. Crappie, sand bass, catfish, and black bass in the lake reach record size. Boating and kayaking are popular activities in the area. A boat ramp is provided at the campground for easy access to the water. A variety of hiking trails wind throughout the hills and along the shoreline, offering additional activities for campers.
Facilities
Applegate Cove contains 27 campsites, two playgrounds, a boat ramp and courtesy dock.
Natural Features
Robert S. Kerr Reservoir is located within the Cookson Hills, on the Arkansas River in Sequoyah, Le Flore, Haskell, and Muskogee counties in eastern Oklahoma, US. It is about eight miles south of the nearest major town, Sallisaw, Oklahoma. The reservoir is impounded by Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam at river mile 336.2 (km 541.1) on the Arkansas River, just a few miles below its confluence with the Canadian River. The lock and dam are part of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, which provides for barge navigation on the Arkansas River and some of its tributaries. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (918) 487-5252.
What the agency tells you
- Gates open at 6AM and close at 10PM - Check out Time 3PM, Check in Time 6PM - Quiet Hours: 10PM to 6AM - Camping is permitted in designated campsites only. - Each campsite is limited to 1 wheeled camping unit with up to 3 tents. - Camping is limited to 14 consecutive days within any 30 day period. This applies to all members of the camping party and the camping unit. - Campers must occupy the campsite at least once during each 24 hour period. Abandoned personal property may be subject to impoundment after 24 hours. - Each campsite may not have its own water spigot, some share with adjacent sites. - 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. - Fires must be contained within the fire ring or grill provided. These are NOT trash receptacles, please leave them free of food and litter upon departure. - Pets must remain restrained on a leash or penned at all times. Pets are NOT allowed on swim beaches or in bathrooms. - Grey water and sewage must be properly disposed of in the provided dump station receptacle. Disposal of any water or waste on the ground is prohibited. - Fireworks are prohibited. - Fishing and hunting are regulated by federal and state laws.
When you have reserved and are occupying your campsite, a volunteer will check you in during their daily rounds. Thank you.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27
- Hookups
- 26 electric, 27 water
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach
15 of 54 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:22 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
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One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $23–$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 15:22 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
28 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 28 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 26 of the 28 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| 01 | standard electric | 50 amp | 96 ft | 494 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 02 | standard electric | 50 amp | 67 ft | 479 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 03 | standard electric | 50 amp | 105 ft | 599 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 04 | standard electric | 50 amp | 65 ft | 518 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 05 | standard electric | 50 amp | 65 ft | 562 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 06 | standard electric | 50 amp | 99 ft | 691 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 07 | standard electric | 50 amp | 99 ft | 635 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 08 | standard electric | 50 amp | 95 ft | 704 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 09 | standard electric | 50 amp | 95 ft | 616 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 10 | standard electric | 50 amp | 63 ft | 561 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 11 | standard electric | 50 amp | 63 ft | 550 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 12 | standard electric | 50 amp | 80 ft | 490 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 13 | standard electric | 50 amp | 104 ft | 423 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 14 | type not stated | 30 amp | 427 ft | |||
| 15 | standard electric | 30 amp | 113 ft | 402 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 16 | standard electric | 30 amp | 113 ft | 417 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 17 | standard electric | 30 amp | 68 ft | 456 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 18 | standard electric | 30 amp | 64 ft | 403 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 19 | standard electric | 30 amp | 59 ft | 362 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 20 | standard electric | 30 amp | 48 ft | 433 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 21 | standard electric | 30 amp | 59 ft | 310 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 22 | standard electric | 30 amp | 48 ft | 401 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 23 | standard electric | 30 amp | 51 ft | 258 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 24 | standard electric | 30 amp | 49 ft | 345 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 25 | standard electric | 30 amp | 51 ft | 216 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 26 | standard electric | 30 amp | 49 ft | 316 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 27 | standard electric | 30 amp | 57 ft | 193 ft | $23–$25 | |
| PS1 | day use | 15 amp | yes | $50 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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.
25 of 28 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cowlington Point2.9 mi
Short Mountain Cove3.4 mi
Snake Creek21 mi
Strayhorn Landing22 mi
Chicken Creek23 mi
Cookson Bend25 miHead south on US-59 out of Sallisaw, OK for 7 miles, turn right at Pier 7 General Store onto E1140 Rd for 2.4 miles, where road forks, keep left towards Applegate Cove Marina and you will dead end at your destination of Applegate Cove Campground
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Brent, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 73°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Applegate Cove is in Oklahoma’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Josh Brecheen (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →