Bluff Landing
1Heads up1 fire 50 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 29 of the next 30 nights read 15:23 UTC
- A night
- $16–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bluff Landing is located immediately upstream of Newt Graham Lock and Dam 18 on the Verdigris River which is part of the McClellan-Kerr Navigation System. The park is approximately 12 east of Broken Arrow, OK. Visitors enjoy camping, picnicking, fishing, kayaking or simply enjoying the scenic beauty of the area Recreation The Newt Graham Lock and Dam 18 project was primarily constructed for the improvement of the Arkansas River and its tributaries for commercial barge traffic, however, it also offers recreation and resource opportunities. Boaters can experience locking downstream or explore the 24.8 miles of navigable waters upstream from the lock to the Port of Catoosa. Keep reading
Facilities
This year-around campground has two camping loops offering 25 campsites with electric, 5 non-electric campsites and a group day use shelter. The west loop is closed during the nonpeak season (Nov. 1 – Mar. 31). Amenities are available throughout the year and include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water, dump station, boat ramp and courtesy dock.
Natural Features
Bluff Landing is located on an oxbow off of the main Verdigris River channel and provides excellent access to the backwaters for fishermen and kayaks. The campground is surrounded by mixed hardwood forest and the majority of the campsites are shaded. The sloping high banks of the oxbow offer great water views and access to tie boats at the water's edge. Due to the high banks, this campground is rarely affected by flooding.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can watch vessels lock through Newt Graham Lock 18. Access to Lock 18 is off Highway 412 at Inola, Oklahoma. Visitors are also a short drive to Broken Arrow and Tulsa and the many attractions both cities have to offer. Also Known As McClellan-Kerr Navigation System Charges & Cancellations Cancellations made 48 hrs or more prior to the start of the reservation will incur the cancellation fee of $10. Cancellations made 24 hrs prior to the start of the reservation will incur a late cancellation fee ($10 + first nights camping fee)
What the agency tells you
• All campsites are reservation only. • No unlicensed UTV's/ATV's, dirt bikes or golf carts are allowed in the campground. Licensed UTV'S/ATV's, and golf carts are allowed on paved roads only. • All pets must be leashed at all times while in the campground. • Campers that are using the boat ramp do not have to pay the boat launch fee. • Day Use hours are from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM. Entrance gates close at 10:00 PM and reopen at 6:00 AM. • Address for GPS: Bluff Landing Campground DMS: 36°04’5.06”N, 95°33’54.08”W Decimal: 36.068072, -95.565022
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30 · 5 tent-only
- Hookups
- 24 electric, 25 water
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…the year and include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water, dump station, boat ramp…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 26 of 31 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Night sky · 105th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 5
5 of 60 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:23 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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–$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.
“Cancellations made 48 hrs or more prior to the start of the reservation will incur the cancellation fee of $10. Cancellations made 24 hrs prior to the start of the reservation will incur a late cancellation fee ($10 + first nights camping fee)” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
31 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 31 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. 29 of the 31 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BL-East | 19 | type not stated | 30 amp | 168 ft | |||
| BL-East | 20 | rv electric | 50 amp | 30 ft | 170 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | 21 | rv electric | 50 amp | 30 ft | 172 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | 22 | rv electric | 50 amp | 42 ft | 167 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | 23 | rv electric | 50 amp | 35 ft | 174 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | 24 | rv electric | 50 amp | 35 ft | 181 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | 25 | rv electric | 50 amp | 28 ft | 161 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | 26 | rv electric | 50 amp | 39 ft | 155 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | 27 | rv electric | 50 amp | 28 ft | 146 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | 28 | standard electric | 30 amp | 79 ft | 137 ft | $22 | |
| BL-East | 29 | standard electric | 30 amp | 98 ft | 123 ft | $22 | |
| BL-East | 30 | rv electric | 50 amp | 28 ft | 174 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | 31 | rv electric | 50 amp | 28 ft | 189 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | 32 | rv electric | 50 amp | 38 ft | 199 ft | $24 | |
| BL-East | BL Shelter | day use | 20 amp | 162 ft | 327 ft | $50 | |
| BL-West | 1 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 40 ft | 139 ft | $22 |
| BL-West | 10 | standard electric | 30 amp | 17 ft | 181 ft | $22 | |
| BL-West | 11 | standard electric | 30 amp | 46 ft | 201 ft | $22 | |
| BL-West | 14 | tent only nonelectric | 24 ft | 199 ft | $16 | ||
| BL-West | 15 | tent only nonelectric | 19 ft | 196 ft | $16 | ||
| BL-West | 16 | tent only nonelectric | 17 ft | 198 ft | $16 | ||
| BL-West | 17 | tent only nonelectric | 91 ft | 220 ft | $16 | ||
| BL-West | 18 | tent only nonelectric | 91 ft | 272 ft | $16 | ||
| BL-West | 2 | standard electric | 30 amp | 40 ft | 130 ft | $22 | |
| BL-West | 3 | standard electric | 30 amp | 97 ft | 138 ft | $22 | |
| BL-West | 4 | standard electric | 30 amp | 43 ft | 139 ft | $22 | |
| BL-West | 5 | standard electric | 30 amp | 43 ft | 148 ft | $22 | |
| BL-West | 6 | standard electric | 30 amp | 61 ft | 164 ft | $22 | |
| BL-West | 7 | standard electric | 30 amp | 46 ft | 173 ft | $22 | |
| BL-West | 8 | standard electric | 30 amp | 24 ft | 175 ft | $22 | |
| BL-West | 9 | standard electric | 30 amp | 19 ft | 177 ft | $22 |
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 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Afton Landing8.7 mi
Rocky Point (Ft Gibson)12 mi
Blue Bill Point13 mi
Flat Rock Creek13 mi
Tullahasse Loop14 mi
Redbud Bay15 miFrom Broken Arrow, OK at State Highway 51 take the Kenosha (E. 71st Street) exit and travel east for 12 miles. Turn left on S. 369 E. Ave. and travel north for 1/2 mile to park entrance.
From Tulsa, OK travel east on US Highway 412 for approximately 5 miles. Turn right on 412P and continue south on S. 305th E. for 7 miles. Turn left and travel east on 71st Street for 4 miles and turn left on S. 369 E. Ave. and travel north for 1/2 mile to park entrance. Watch for brown directional sign located at the intersection of S. 369 E. Ave and E. 71st Street
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Inola, 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
Bluff Landing is in Oklahoma’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Hern (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →