Big Bend (OK)
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 15:03 UTC
- A night
- $18–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 115113 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Big Bend Park is located on Canton Lake in northwest Oklahoma on the North Canadian River. The area hosts a large number of campers, picnickers, boaters, fishermen and hunters every year as one of the few places in western Oklahoma to offer so many activities. Keep reading
Recreation
Canton Lake is known for its fishing opportunities, especially walleye fishing. The Walleye Rodeo fishing derby is held annually in mid-May and draws thousands of visitors to the area for the 4 day event. Personal watercraft use, tubing and water skiing are popular on the broad expanse of water paralleling the dam where winds are subdued. Gently sloping beaches on the northern side of the lake are an inviation to swimmers and sunbathers. A Disc Golf Course is located in the Big Bend Day Use Area.
Facilities
The campground offers 102 campsites with electricity and water hookups and 12 non-electric campsites. Many of the campsites feature panoramic views of the lake. There is also a day-use group picnic shelter, 4 boat ramps and a disc golf course.
Natural Features
The shores of Canton Lake have several varieties of trees natural to the area which include eastern cottonwood, post and blackjack oak and black willow. Other trees planted in the campground to subliment the shade for campsites include american elm, sycamore, lacebark elm and silver maple.
Nearby Attractions
A major attraction for hunters is the 14,862 acre Canton Wildlife Managent. This area, operated by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is home to whitetail deer, wild turkey, bobwhite quail, squirrel, rabbits, dove and several varieties of waterfowl. There a several resturants located within 3 miles of the lake and also a casino and 9 hole golf course. Roman Nose State Park and Glass Mountains State Park are only about a 30 minute or so drive drive from the lake.
What the agency tells you
There are no sewer site hookups at this campground
2-night minimum required during the annual Walleye Rodeo (Thursday-Sunday the week after Mother's Day)
Maximum of two tents per campsite, or one RV and one tent per campsite
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Pets are not allowed at the Sandy Cove beach day-use area
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.
Gate House hours: April 1-30 & Tuesday following Labor Day to September 30 - 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. May 1 to Labor Day - 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Fees are collected by self-payment through Recreation.gov in October. Shower houses may be winterized and closed in late October.
Electricity and/or water may be turned off November through March. No charge for camping during this time.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 115
- Hookups
- 95 electric, 98 water
- Longest rig
- 48 ft
- Paved pads
- 112 of 115
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Disc Golf
- Hunting
- Picnicking
- Stargazing
- Tubing
- Night sky · 17th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
Something open on 15 of the next 15 bookable nightsread 15:03 UTC
recreation.gov lists 113 of the 115 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$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 15:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
116 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 113 mapped sitesAll 116 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 116 of the 116 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 112 of the 116 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| B | B01 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 136 ftCanton Lake | 302 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B02 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 95 ftCanton Lake | 359 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B03 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 87 ftCanton Lake | 419 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B04 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 87 ftCanton Lake | 484 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B05 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 69 ftCanton Lake | 554 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B06 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 65 ft | 20 ftCanton Lake | 589 ft | $18 | |
| B | B07 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 22 ftCanton Lake | 526 ft | $18 | |
| B | B08 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 19 ftCanton Lake | 467 ft | $18 | |
| B | B09 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 66 ft | 22 ftCanton Lake | 399 ft | $18 | |
| B | B10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 66 ft | 14 ftCanton Lake | 345 ft | $18 | |
| B | B11 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 60 ftCanton Lake | 180 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B12 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 62 ftCanton Lake | 162 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B13 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 174 ftCanton Lake | 78 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B14 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 61 ftCanton Lake | 168 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B15 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 173 ftCanton Lake | 129 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B16 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 69 ftCanton Lake | 185 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B17 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 183 ftCanton Lake | 193 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B18 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 85 ftCanton Lake | 213 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B19 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 195 ftCanton Lake | 245 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B20 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 86 ftCanton Lake | 266 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B21 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 195 ftCanton Lake | 307 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B22 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 102 ftCanton Lake | 318 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B23 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 207 ftCanton Lake | 364 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B24 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 96 ftCanton Lake | 369 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B25 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 221 ftCanton Lake | 437 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B26 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 95 ftCanton Lake | 424 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B27 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 224 ftCanton Lake | 487 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B28 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 109 ftCanton Lake | 485 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B29 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 216 ftCanton Lake | 557 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B30 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 109 ftCanton Lake | 548 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B31 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 197 ftCanton Lake | 616 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B32 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 96 ftCanton Lake | 609 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B33 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 207 ftCanton Lake | 812 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B34 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 99 ftCanton Lake | 661 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B35 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 212 ftCanton Lake | 866 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B36 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 88 ftCanton Lake | 716 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B37 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 214 ftCanton Lake | 924 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B38 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 106 ftCanton Lake | 791 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B39 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 232 ftCanton Lake | 988 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B40 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 114 ftCanton Lake | 854 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B41 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 234 ftCanton Lake | 1,044 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B42 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 116 ftCanton Lake | 917 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B43 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 237 ftCanton Lake | 1,109 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B44 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 122 ftCanton Lake | 979 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B45 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 229 ftCanton Lake | 1,176 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B46 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 126 ftCanton Lake | 1,038 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B47 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 222 ftCanton Lake | 1,235 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B48 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 148 ftCanton Lake | 1,131 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B49 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 63 ftCanton Lake | 1,220 ft | $23–$25 |
| B | B50 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 67 ft | 20 ftCanton Lake | 1,544 ft | $18 | |
| B | B51 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 67 ft | 85 ftCanton Lake | 1,515 ft | $18 | |
| B | B52 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 98 ft | 101 ftCanton Lake | 1,603 ft | $18 | |
| BBEN | A01 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 61 ft | 88 ftCanton Lake | 804 ft | $18 | |
| BBEN | A02 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 61 ft | 66 ftCanton Lake | 813 ft | $18 | |
| BBEN | A03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 214 ft | 94 ftCanton Lake | 1,023 ft | $18 | |
| BBEN | A04 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 322 ft | 80 ftCanton Lake | 991 ft | $18 | |
| BBEN | A05 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 281 ft | 311 ftCanton Lake | 1,054 ft | $18 | |
| BBEN | A06 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 65 ft | 490 ftCanton Lake | 925 ft | $18 | |
| BBEN | A07 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 65 ft | 553 ftCanton Lake | 969 ft | $18 | |
| BBEN | A08 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 83 ft | 601 ftCanton Lake | 1,074 ft | $18 | |
| BBEN | A09 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 83 ft | 558 ftCanton Lake | 1,090 ft | $18 | |
| BBEN | A10 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 166 ft | 348 ftCanton Lake | 671 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A11 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 104 ftCanton Lake | 619 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A12 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 58 ftCanton Lake | 653 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A13 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 47 ftCanton Lake | 648 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A14 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 80 ftCanton Lake | 610 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A15 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 155 ftCanton Lake | 509 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A16 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 104 ftCanton Lake | 488 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A17 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 60 ftCanton Lake | 477 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A18 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 42 ftCanton Lake | 445 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A19 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 49 ftCanton Lake | 424 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A20 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 46 ftCanton Lake | 421 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A21 | standard electric | 37 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 47 ftCanton Lake | 411 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A22 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 48 ftCanton Lake | 421 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A23 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 51 ftCanton Lake | 441 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A24 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 66 ftCanton Lake | 461 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A25 | standard electric | 37 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 67 ftCanton Lake | 482 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A26 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 82 ftCanton Lake | 507 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A27 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 91 ftCanton Lake | 549 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A28 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 76 ftCanton Lake | 593 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A29 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 155 ftCanton Lake | 553 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A30 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 371 ftCanton Lake | 327 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A31 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 256 ftCanton Lake | 298 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A32 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 409 ftCanton Lake | 242 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A33 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 283 ftCanton Lake | 239 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A34 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 447 ftCanton Lake | 162 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A35 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 285 ftCanton Lake | 199 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A36 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 336 ftCanton Lake | 124 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A37 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 344 ftCanton Lake | 142 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A38 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 345 ftCanton Lake | 189 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A39 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 375 ftCanton Lake | 237 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A40 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 424 ftCanton Lake | 271 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A41 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 488 ftCanton Lake | 304 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A42 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 442 ftCanton Lake | 427 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A43 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 389 ftCanton Lake | 421 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A44 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 360 ftCanton Lake | 384 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A45 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 312 ftCanton Lake | 356 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A46 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 258 ftCanton Lake | 315 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A47 | type not stated | 38 ft | 30 amp | 258 ftCanton Lake | 255 ft | ||
| BBEN | A48 | type not stated | 38 ft | 30 amp | 262 ftCanton Lake | 218 ft | ||
| BBEN | A49 | type not stated | 38 ft | 30 amp | 269 ftCanton Lake | 191 ft | ||
| BBEN | A50 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 179 ftCanton Lake | 385 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A51 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 185 ftCanton Lake | 334 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A52 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 150 ftCanton Lake | 326 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A53 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 154 ftCanton Lake | 305 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A54 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 158 ftCanton Lake | 310 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A55 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 152 ftCanton Lake | 325 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A56 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 150 ftCanton Lake | 352 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A57 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 195 ftCanton Lake | 385 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A58 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 273 ftCanton Lake | 403 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A59 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 269 ftCanton Lake | 449 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A60 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 261 ftCanton Lake | 482 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A61 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 294 ftCanton Lake | 501 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A62 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 350 ftCanton Lake | 508 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | A63 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 417 ftCanton Lake | 512 ft | $23–$25 |
| BBEN | SHR | day use | 30 amp | 208 ft | 110 ftCanton Lake | 752 ft | $40 |
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.
25 of 116 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Canadian2.2 mi
Fairview2.3 mi
Longdale2.4 mi
Blaine Park2.7 mi
Sandy Cove2.9 mi
Beaver Point60 miFrom Canton, OK, travel 1.8 miles west on HWY 51, then continue 4 miles north on the paved county road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Longdale, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°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
Big Bend (OK) 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 →