Berry Bend
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 27 of the next 30 nights read 16:29 UTC
- A night
- $14–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 93All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Berry Bend Campground sits on the shores of Harry S. Truman Lake in the hills of western Missouri. Visitors enjoy fishing, hunting, and boating. Click here for the Harry S. Truman Lake virtual tour. Keep reading
Recreation
Berry Bend Area is an excellent fishing location. Truman Lake is also a popular destination for tournament fishermen. Several miles of trails are available for hikers and horses within Berry Bend. The Park Trail is a 2.5 mile trail that is a great hike for beginners and those wanting to explore the area. The West Trail is approximately 10 miles and traverses many steep ridges and valleys, while the East Trail is approximately 16 miles and is somewhat more level and overlooks the lake in several areas. Both the West and the East trails have cut through trails for riders that dont wish to go the entire route.
Facilities
This large campground offers two loops, B and C Loop with a total of 91 sites. B loop consists of 7 campsites that are very spacious with full hook-ups including 50-amp electricity, water, and sewage. There is a flush restroom in B loop, but no showers. B loop campers needing shower facilities must use the shower house in C Loop. C Loop offers 86 sites. Sites 39-78 are 50-amp with water while the remainder of C loop is 30-amp with dispersed hydrants. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities, and a dump station. A boat ramp and playground offer additional recreation opportunities.
Natural Features
Harry S Truman Reservoir lies among the rolling hills and rocky bluffs of the Ozark Plateau. Mature hardwoods of Oak and Hickory with cedar trees mixed in cover the area. Wildlife such as whitetail deer, turkey, hawks, ospreys, eagles, and many different water birds can be found in and around the park. An abundance of fish such as crappie, bass, walleye, paddlefish, blue and channel catfish can also be found in Harry S Truman Reservoir. Approximately 8,800 acres of standing timber were left in the lake to provide quality aquatic habitat.
Nearby Attractions
The 950 miles of shoreline around Truman Lake provide plentiful opportunities for fun in the outdoors. Many parks surround the lake, including Harry S. Truman State Park. The Harry S. Truman Visitor Center sits atop Kaysinger Bluff and provides a spectacular view of the dam and reservoir. Exhibits provide information about the rich history of the Osage River Valley from pre-civilization to modern day. Waterfowl, bald eagles and turkey vultures are commonly seen from the observation deck.
What the agency tells you
Click here for more information about Truman Lake
Help stop the spread of the invasive zebra mussel by draining all water from equipment and discarding live bait before leaving the park.
Campers must have permit before camping. Available at park booth. *There is a limit of 1 wheeled camper and 2 tents or 3 tents per camp pad.* All equipment must fit on the site pad. Vehicles park in developed areas only. This park requires a 3 night minimum stay on holiday weekends and 2 night minimum stay on weekends.*
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 93
- Hookups
- 91 electric, 43 water, 8 sewer
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Paved pads
- 6 of 93
- Accessible sites
- 8
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 2 of 95 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 2 of 95 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Night sky · 65th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
108 of 182 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:29 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.
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, $14–$24 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 16:29 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
95 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 93 mapped sitesAll 95 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. 91 of the 95 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| B | B002 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 130 ft | 571 ft | $14–$24 | |
| B | B003 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 562 ft | $14–$24 | |
| B | B004 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 584 ft | $14–$24 | |
| B | B005 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 113 ft | 692 ft | $14–$24 | |
| B | B006 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 587 ft | $14–$24 | |
| B | B007 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 644 ft | $14–$24 | |
| B | B008 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 700 ft | $14–$24 | |
| BERRY BEND | GR001 | day use | 60 ft | 20 amp | yes | 1992 ft | 700 ft | $40 |
| BERRY BEND | GR002 | day use | 60 ft | 20 amp | yes | 1992 ft | 185 ft | $40 |
| C | C001 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | yes | 45 ft | 533 ft | $14–$24 |
| C | C002 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 534 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C003 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 683 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C004 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 597 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C005 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 636 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C006 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 705 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C007 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 635 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C008 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 668 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C009 | standard electric | 69 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 645 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C010 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 580 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C011 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 529 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C012 | standard electric | 69 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 500 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C013 | standard electric | 69 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 428 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C014 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 138 ft | 340 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C016 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 477 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C018 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 525 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C020 | standard electric | 67 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 589 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C022 | standard electric | 67 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 673 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C024 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | yes | 63 ft | 729 ft | $14–$24 |
| C | C039 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 633 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C040 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 124 ft | 732 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C043 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 743 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C044 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 125 ft | 758 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C045 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 695 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C047 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 647 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C048 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 144 ft | 554 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C049 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 594 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C051 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 132 ft | 428 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C052 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 483 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C053 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 120 ft | 363 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C054 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 454 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C055 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 386 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C056 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 344 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C057 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 370 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C058 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 346 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C059 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 261 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C060 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 210 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C061 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 293 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C062 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 312 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C063 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 243 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C064 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 365 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C065 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 269 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C066 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 319 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C067 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | yes | 62 ft | 466 ft | $14–$24 |
| C | C068 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 408 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C069 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 62 ft | 513 ft | $14–$24 |
| C | C070 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 466 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C071 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 600 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C074 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 702 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C075 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 625 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C076 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 625 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C077 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 592 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C078 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | yes | 99 ft | 488 ft | $14–$24 |
| C | C079 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 391 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C080 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 353 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C081 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 288 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C082 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 319 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C083 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 214 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C084 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | yes | 74 ft | 288 ft | $14–$24 |
| C | C085 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 189 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C086 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | yes | 84 ft | 297 ft | $14–$24 |
| C | C087 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 205 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C088 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 342 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C089 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 108 ft | 206 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C090 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 390 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C091 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 298 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C092 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 230 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C093 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 266 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C094 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 116 ft | 382 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C097 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 268 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C098 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 258 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C100 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 267 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C101 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 344 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C102 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 106 ft | 447 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C103 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 407 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C104 | type not stated | 70 ft | 50 amp | 510 ft | |||
| C | C105 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 631 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C106 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 580 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C107 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 657 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C108 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 543 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C109 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 625 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C110 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 522 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C111 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 611 ft | $14–$24 | |
| C | C112 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | yes | 91 ft | 519 ft | $14–$24 |
| C | C113 | type not stated | 70 ft | 50 amp | 608 ft | |||
| C | C114 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 110 ft | 512 ft | $14–$24 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is 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 95 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Long Shoal5.7 mi
Shawnee Bend6.3 mi
Osage Bluff6.4 mi
Bucksaw6.7 mi
Bledsoe Ferry7.5 mi
Thibaut Point9.1 miFrom Z Highway, travel approximately 2 miles south on the Berry Bend Access Road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bent Tree Harbor, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°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
Berry Bend is in Missouri’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Mark Alford (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →