Blue Creek
1Heads up1 fire 41 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 16:16 UTC
- A night
- $16–$22Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 50All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Blue Creek is located on Oologah Lake in northeast Oklahoma, about 45 miles from Tulsa. The lake provides an ideal getaway for fishing, boating, picnicking and camping. Prevailing winds make Oologah one of the most popular lakes in the area for sailing. Keep reading
Recreation
Oologah Lake is a prime location for boating, sailing, water skiing and swimming. Several recreation areas with boat ramps and docks are scattered around the lake. Fishing is a popular pastime. Black bass, crappie, paddlefish, channel and blue catfish, walleye and hybrid striped bass are the primary sport species found in the lake. Young anglers love the Kid's Sun, Fun and Fishing Derby Day held annually in June. The Will Rogers Country Centennial Trail stretches 18 miles from Blue Creek Park to the Spillway. This scenic path winds around the east side of the shore and is open to hikers and horseback riders. The forested hills of the Oologah Wildlife Management Area provide excellent hunting opportunities, with nearly 13,000 acres open to the public.
Facilities
The campground offers spacious campsites with electric hookups. A group day-use picnic shelter with electric is also available and can accommodate up to 100 guests. The campground also includes a loop of equestrian sites.
Natural Features
Oologah Lake sits on the Verdigris River with a surface area of nearly 30,000 acres. Over 200 miles of shoreline are dominated by old-growth post oak and blackjack oak forests, which provide habitat for a variety of wildlife and birds, including deer, turkey, rabbits, quail, squirrels, ducks, geese and doves.
Nearby Attractions
Dog Iron Ranch, the birthplace of Will Rogers, is nearby. The ranch is a living history museum featuring Rogers' two-story post-Civil War birth home, educational programs, picnic areas and a 400-acre pasture on the lake shore with Texas Longhorn cattle and other livestock. The ranch is open year-round.
What the agency tells you
Check Out 4:00 PM Check In 6:00 PM
Entrance Gate will be open from 6am - 10pm from 1 April through 31 October Entrance Gate will be open from 6am - 8pm from 1 November through 31 March
No person shall bring or allow dogs, cats, or other pets into developed recreation areas or adjacent waters unless penned, caged, on a leash under 6ft in lenth or otherwise physically restrained.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Wild or exotic pets and animals,or any animals displaying vicioius or aggressive behavior,or otherwise posing a threat to public safety, or deemed a public nuisance are prohibited from project lands and waters unless authorized by the Distrcit Commander.
A camping unit at one or more campsites at any one lake for a period longer than 14 days durring any 30-consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
American the Beautiful/Golden Age/Golden Access passes are limited to one campsite per pass. Pass holder must be present or discounnt may be terminated.
Pass holders will be asked to provide the physical pass at time of check in. Failure to provide such pass or pass misuse may result in discount termination or may void pass validity all together.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 50
- Hookups
- 24 electric
- Longest rig
- 100 ft
- Paved pads
- 11 of 50
- Accessible sites
- 2
- 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, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Visitor center
- Water sports
- Night sky · 89th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
30 of 100 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:16 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$22 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 16:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
51 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 51 mapped sitesAll 51 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. 50 of the 51 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BCRE | 14 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 99 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 15 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 136 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 16 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 154 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 17 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 109 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 18 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 211 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 19 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 86 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 20 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 113 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 21 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 199 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 22 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 122 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 23 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 234 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 24 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 260 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 25 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 141 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 26 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 165 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 27 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 230 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 28 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 154 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 29 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 241 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 30 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 159 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 31 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 254 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 32 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 214 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 33 | standard electric | 63 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 144 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 34 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 211 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 35 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 251 ft | $22 | |
| BCRE | 36 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 89 ft | 123 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 37 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 112 ft | 356 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 38 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 73 ft | 292 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 39 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 114 ft | 198 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 40 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 80 ft | 170 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 41 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 80 ft | 152 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 42 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 105 ft | 137 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 43 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 73 ft | 249 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 44 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 83 ft | 242 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 45 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 87 ft | 145 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 46 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 83 ft | 232 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 47 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 92 ft | 109 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 48 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 79 ft | 216 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 49 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 71 ft | 126 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 50 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 71 ft | 196 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 51 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 79 ft | 128 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 52 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 79 ft | 207 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 53 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 111 ft | 101 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 54 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 95 ft | 161 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 55 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 126 ft | 81 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 56 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 85 ft | 196 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 57 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 71 ft | 193 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 58 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 71 ft | 264 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 59 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 84 ft | 257 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 60 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 58 ft | 334 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | 61 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 58 ft | 312 ft | $16 | ||
| BCRE | ADA12 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | yes | 64 ft | 219 ft | $22 |
| BCRE | ADA13 | standard electric | 100 ft | 30 amp | yes | 64 ft | 155 ft | $22 |
| BCRE | GRP | day use | 30 amp | 180 ft | 407 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 51 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Spencer Creek4.4 mi
Hawthorn Bluff5.1 mi
Redbud Bay18 mi
Bluff Landing26 mi
Tall Chief Cove31 mi
Blue Bill Point32 miFrom Tulsa, OK, take U.S. Highway 169 north for 23 miles to Highway 88. Turn right and continue for nearly 6 miles. Turn right onto Edgewater Road, then left on Spencer Creek Road. After about a mile turn left onto Blue Creek Road and continue into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bushyhead, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 24°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
Blue Creek 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 →