Aunts Creek
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $16–$38Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 5553 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Aunts Creek campground is located on the James River Arm of Table Rock Lake. With easy access to the highly productive waters of the James River Arm, fishermen and campers looking to fish, will find no shortage of angling opportunities. The campground is primarily wooded with most sites offering a sweeping view of the water and surrounding foothills of the Ozark Mountains. Keep reading
Recreation
Whether on water or land, Aunts Creek campground offers visitors countless recreational activities. Picnicking, swimming, scuba diving, boating, fishing, hiking and wildlife viewing are all popular pastimes at the park. While the lake boasts an abundance of crappie, catfish, and bluegill, Table Rock is most famous for bass, and is acclaimed as one of the best bass fishing lakes in this hemisphere. Table Rock Lakeshore Trail, about two miles long, runs from the Dewey Short Visitor Center to the Table Rock State Park Marina. During the spring hikers will see dogwood, serviceberry and redbud trees in bloom as well as many wildflower species. During the autumn months, visitors are treated to nature's colorful fall foliage. The trail also offers beautiful views of Table Rock Lake. Other hiking and mountain biking opportunities are available at the Mark Twain National Forest, parts of which are easily accessible from the campground. Click here for more information.
Facilities
Aunts Creek offers 55 reservable campsites, along with one large reservable group picnic shelter. Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a comfortable camping experience. A boat ramp and swimming area are located at the campground, providing visitors with convenient access to the water. Right next to the swimming area, visitors will find a playground and grassy picnic area, perfect for spending a day outdoors.
Natural Features
Table Rock Lake is a beautiful, clear body of water surrounded by a forest of oak and hickory trees. The scenic waters wind down through the valleys and hollows of the Ozark Mountains, from Branson, Missouri to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. More than five million visitors a year take advantage of this recreational oasis. Originally built for flood control, the Table Rock Dam has created a lake that boasts 779 miles of shoreline for the public to enjoy.
Nearby Attractions
The Dewey Short Visitors Center is located at the south end of Table Rock Dam. It offers three educational films focused on the history of the dam, the story of Lewis and Clark and the history of eagles and their endangerment in the state of Missouri. The visitor center also contains exhibits on the natural history of the area. Aunts Creek Campground is only 15 miles from Branson, Missouri, which offers grocery stores, gas and additional tourist attractions.
What the agency tells you
Staffed booth hours are between the hours of 8:00 a.m-10:00 a.m. and from 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., seven days a week. Camphost and or Rangers will issue campground hangtags after valid check-in. Please check-out on departure. If Camphost is not present, please drop pink tag off at the drop box.
All checkout times are at 3:00 p.m. All RV's, vehicles, and supplies still on site after 3:00 p.m. may be subjected to impoundment our towed at the owners expense.
All discounted passes (Golden Age, Senior Lifetime, Senior Annual, Access) must be physically present upon arrival. Fraudulent use of a Golden Age or Golden Access Passport (Printouts, photos etc.) is prohibited and will not be discounted.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Failure to pay day use fees, and or properly display applicable receipt, permit or pass is prohibited. All daily guests must pay a day-use fee and have day-use receipt properly displayed. Day passes and USACE annual passes may be purchased at the kiosk next to the booth.
All personal equipment (boats, trailers, personal supplies etc. ) must be stored at reserved campsites. No equipment shall be stored in boat ramp/day-use parking for overnight storage.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
One tent and one RV, or two tents are allowed per campsite.
No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must deposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands.
Shower tents, changing tents, and latrines are prohibited.
Pets must be penned, caged, or on a leash under six feet in length at all times.
Please be advised that providing business services within a USACE campground is prohibited per Title 327.18(a) The engaging in or solicitation of business on project lands or waters without the express written permission of the District Commander is prohibited. This includes services such as RV or tent delivery & set-up, firewood sales and delivery.
Please review the Title 36 brochure for complete rules and regulations. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-36/chapter-III/part-327
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 55
- Hookups
- 49 electric, 21 water
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a comfortable camping experience.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…shelter. Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Ranger Station
- Swimming
- Water access
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 111th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 53 of the 55 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$38 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
56 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 53 mapped sitesAll 56 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. 52 of the 56 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AUNTS CREEK | 01 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 466 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 455 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 03 | rv electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 414 ft | $25 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 04 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 382 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 05 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 338 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 06 | type not stated | 45 ft | 50 amp | 326 ft | ||
| AUNTS CREEK | 07 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 387 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 08 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 318 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 09 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 328 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 10 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 352 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 11 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 367 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 12 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 398 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 13 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 321 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 14 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 283 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 15 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 436 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 16 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 475 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 17 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 428 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 18 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 517 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 19 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 462 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 20 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 470 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 21 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 554 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 22 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 96 ft | 219 ft | $16 | |
| AUNTS CREEK | 23 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 37 ft | 219 ft | $16 | |
| AUNTS CREEK | 24 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 37 ft | 251 ft | $16 | |
| AUNTS CREEK | 25 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 257 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 26 | type not stated | 45 ft | 30 amp | 244 ft | ||
| AUNTS CREEK | 27 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 200 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 28 | type not stated | 32 ft | 30 amp | 185 ft | ||
| AUNTS CREEK | 29 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 312 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 30 | standard electric | 34 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 248 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 31 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 209 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 32 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 273 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 33 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 309 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 34 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 99 ft | 254 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 35 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 32 ft | 239 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 36 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 32 ft | 271 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 37 | standard electric | 28 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 227 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 39 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 230 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 40 | standard electric | 22 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | 280 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 41 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | 243 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 42 | standard electric | 31 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 271 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 43 | standard electric | 22 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 308 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 44 | standard electric | 34 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 280 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 45 | standard electric | 34 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 292 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 46 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 360 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 47 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 339 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 48 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 385 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 49 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 365 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 50 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 418 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 51 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 387 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 52 | standard electric | 22 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 434 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 53 | standard electric | 24 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 377 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 54 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 435 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 55 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 396 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | 56 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 467 ft | $23–$38 |
| AUNTS CREEK | SR1 | day use | 15 amp | 137 ft | 90 ft | $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 56 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cape Fair5.2 mi
Mill Creek (Missouri)5.6 mi
Indian Point6.9 mi
Campbell Point7.4 mi
Baxter7.7 mi
Moonshine Beach Rec. Area9.5 miFrom Branson, Missouri, take Highway 13 south for about 4 miles. Turn west onto Highway 00 and continue for nearly 3 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kimberling City, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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
Aunts Creek is in Missouri’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Eric Burlison (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →