Buckhorn Campground Loop A
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This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 1919 of them walk-up
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Buckhorn Campground has four loops. Loop A is open seasonally on a first come, first served basis. There are no hookups for RVs on Loop A. Located next to Lake of the Arbuckles, Buckhorn Campground is also located near the Buckhorn Boat Launch and near the southern trailhead for the Rock Creek Multi-Use Trail.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Night sky · 60th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Buckhorn Campground (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 0.1 miBuckhorn Campground Loop BChickasaw National Recreation Area · 0.3 miBuckhorn Campground Loop CChickasaw National Recreation Area · 0.6 miBuckhorn Campground Loop DChickasaw National Recreation Area · 0.6 mi
Buckhorn PavilionChickasaw National Recreation Area · 1.3 mi
The Point Campground (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 2.8 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sulphur, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 75°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
Buckhorn Campground Loop A is in Oklahoma’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Tom Cole (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →