Brush Creek Public Use Area
1Heads up1 fire 20 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 28 of the next 30 nights read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 17All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Brush Creek is located downstream of Keystone Dam, just 10 minutes from Tulsa, Oklahoma. This park features campground provided activities such as horseshoes, cornhole, a basketball court, a sand volleyball court, a mile-long fitness trail, and quick access to nearby multi-purpose trails. This is a popular destination for fishermen as they have the ability to cross along the pedestrian bridge from the campground to the fishing berm below the dam. In additon to fishing, this area offers prime opportunities to observe multiple wildlife species. Please note when camping here, while typically quiet, water releases from the dam are preceded by several warning signals from a horn. This is a brief safety measure for anyone in or near the water below the dam, and there is no danger to the campground. Keep reading
Recreation
This park features fishing opportunities with disabled access, a pedestrian bridge, playground, horseshoe, cornhole, basketball court, volleyball court, and a fitness trail. Recreation opportunities that are offered nearby include the Two Rivers Trail, Keystone Singletrack Trail, and White Water Off Road Vehicle Area.
Facilities
This popular, quaint campground features 50 amp electrical service, water hookups, picnic tables, fire rings, grills, and lantern hooks at all sites. Additionally, sewer hookups are included at sites 1-14. This park also offers a restroom/shower facility.
Natural Features
The park is nestled along the Arkansas River, downstream from Keystone Dam. This location is popular for striped bass, white bass, white crappie, and various catfish species.
Nearby Attractions
BOK Center The Gathering Place Tulsa Zoo Jenks Aquarium White Water and Appalachia Bay Off Road Vehicle Areas Multi-purpose trails OneOK Field Downtown Tulsa Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area Various casinos, malls and shopping centers
What the agency tells you
Check out time 1:00 PM, Check in time 3:00 PM Quiet Hours: 10PM to 6AM Entrance gate is locked from 10PM to 6AM. Camping is permitted in designated campsites only. Each campsite is limited to 1 wheeled camping unit and 2 tents, or 3 tents. Camping is limited to 14 days within any 30 day period. Campers must occupy the campsite at least once during each 24 hour period. Campers shall keep their sites free of trash and litter during the period of occupancy and shall remove all personal equipment and clean their sites upon departure. Ground fires are restricted to metal fire rings. These are NOT trash receptacles, please leave them free of food and litter upon departure. All vehicles should have two wheels on pavement at all times; boat trailers are permitted on the grass. Please park extra vehicles in parking lots, not on empty camping pads.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17
- Hookups
- 17 electric, 17 water, 11 sewer
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “This park also offers a restroom/shower facility.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Coast
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 104th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 5
2 of 36 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:22 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $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 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
18 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 17 mapped sitesAll 18 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. 17 of the 18 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Brush Creek | GS1 | day use | $25 | ||||
| 1 | rv electric | 35 ft | 30/50 amp | 98 ft | 243 ft | $25 | |
| 10 | rv electric | 65 ft | 30/50 amp | 52 ft | 549 ft | $25 | |
| 11 | rv electric | 60 ft | 30/50 amp | 52 ft | 513 ft | $25 | |
| 15 | rv electric | 65 ft | 30/50 amp | 50 ft | 152 ft | $25 | |
| 16 | rv electric | 65 ft | 30/50 amp | 50 ft | 139 ft | $25 | |
| 17 | rv electric | 70 ft | 30/50 amp | 55 ft | 136 ft | $25 | |
| 18 | rv electric | 60 ft | 30/50 amp | 51 ft | 144 ft | $25 | |
| 19 | rv electric | 55 ft | 30/50 amp | 25 ft | 168 ft | $25 | |
| 2 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | 78 ft | 231 ft | $25 | |
| 20 | rv electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 25 ft | 177 ft | $25 | |
| 3 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30/50 amp | 42 ft | 254 ft | $25 | |
| 4 | rv electric | 35 ft | 30/50 amp | 42 ft | 280 ft | $25 | |
| 5 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | 44 ft | 310 ft | $25 | |
| 6 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30/50 amp | 68 ft | 377 ft | $25 | |
| 7 | rv electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 67 ft | 420 ft | $25 | |
| 8 | rv electric | 55 ft | 30/50 amp | 67 ft | 487 ft | $25 | |
| 9 | rv electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 71 ft | 535 ft | $25 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Washington Irving South3.4 mi
Appalachia Bay Recreation Area3.5 mi
Walnut Creek7.3 mi
Tall Chief Cove14 mi
Sheppard Point14 mi
Sunset Bay14 miFrom Highway 412 take the Keystone Dam Exit on to Highway 151 and take the first left before you cross the Dam. At the stop sign you will travel straight and take the second right turn to the park entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sand Springs, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Brush Creek Public Use Area 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 →