Big Tree Campground
4Heads uppark alerts
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 7All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Big Tree is home to 7 campsites: 6 standard and 1 cluster. These sites are all located right along the river, making for a beautiful destination. Throughout the year, campers can enjoy views of the Current River, easy swimming access, and a variety of scenic ecosystems.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), 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
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Clubhouse CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 0.3 mi
Big SpringOzark National Scenic Riverways · 5.2 mi
Cedar Spring CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 5.8 miGrubb Hollow CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 6.6 mi
Pinewoods Lake Rec Area6.6 miPinewoods Lake Recreation AreaMark Twain National Forest · 7.1 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hunter, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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 Tree Campground is in Missouri’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Jason Smith (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →