Buncombe Creek
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:15 UTC
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 54All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Buncombe Creek Campground is located on Lake Texoma in Oklahoma's Cross Timbers Region. The lake is said to be the "Playground of the Southwest," where outdoor activities like fishing, boating, hiking and hunting abound. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Texoma is a large reservoir with an excellent fishery and many access points. Boating, swimming, water skiing, hunting, birding and relaxing on the sandy beaches are the typical pursuits of most visitors. The lake is known as the "Striper Capital of the World," one of the few reservoirs in the nation where striped bass reproduce naturally. Other popular species include largemouth and smallmouth bass, white bass, hybrid striped bass, white crappie, black crappie, channel catfish and blue catfish. Also available is the scenic Cross Timbers hiking trail, a very popular trail that winds for 14 miles above the lake on rocky ledges and through blackjack woodland. Forty miles of equestrian trails surround the lake as well.
Facilities
This campground offers 54 campsites with electrical and water hookups. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and paved access. Two boat ramps, a dock and dump station are located on-site.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the northern side of Lake Texoma. Post and blackjack oaks forest the rolling hills of the region. Deer, turkeys, bobcats, hawks, waterfowl and songbirds are abundant around the lake.
Nearby Attractions
The lake features two wildlife refuges, two state parks and 23 commercial concession areas dedicated to the enjoyment of over six million visitors annually.
What the agency tells you
Entrance gates are open from 6 a.m.-10 p.m.
For more information on Lake Texoma, click here
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Park Closes during the off season months from December 1 to March 31.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 54
- Hookups
- 54 electric, 53 water
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 54
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and paved access. Two boat…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and paved access.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and paved access. Two boat ramps, a dock and dump…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Night sky · 84th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
52 of 74 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:15 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $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.
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 16:15 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
54 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 53 mapped sites2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 54 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 54 of the 54 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| A | A01 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 379 ft | $24 | ||
| A | A02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 311 ft | $24 | |
| A | A03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 233 ft | $24 | |
| A | A04 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 128 ft | $24 | |
| A | A05 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 57 ft | $24 | |
| A | A06 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 40 ft | $24 | |
| A | A07 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 46 ft | $24 | |
| A | A08 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 65 ft | $24 | |
| A | A09 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 61 ft | $24 | |
| A | A10 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 148 ft | 125 ft | $24 | |
| B | B01 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 199 ft | 59 ft | $24 | |
| B | B02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 90 ft | $24 | |
| B | B03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 110 ft | $24 | |
| B | B04 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 168 ft | $24 | |
| B | B05 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 105 ft | 264 ft | $24 | |
| B | B06 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 105 ft | 369 ft | $24 | |
| C | C01 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | $24 | |||
| C | C02 | standard electric | 40 ft | Electricity Hookup | 379 ft | $24 | ||
| C | C03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 457 ft | $24 | |
| C | C04 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 360 ft | $24 | |
| C | C05 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 399 ft | $24 | |
| C | C06 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 332 ft | $24 | |
| C | C07 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 302 ft | $24 | |
| C | C08 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 222 ft | $24 | |
| C | C09 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 195 ft | $24 | |
| C | C10 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 207 ft | $24 | |
| C | C11 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 79 ft | 205 ft | $24 |
| C | C12 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 73 ft | $24 | |
| C | C13 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 128 ft | $24 | |
| C | C14 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 105 ft | $24 | |
| C | C15 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 122 ft | $24 | |
| C | C16 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 130 ft | 93 ft | $24 | |
| C | C17 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 119 ft | 111 ft | $24 | |
| C | C18 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 109 ft | 139 ft | $24 | |
| C | C19 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 216 ft | $24 | |
| C | C20 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 262 ft | $24 | |
| C | C21 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 104 ft | 274 ft | $24 | |
| C | C22 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 322 ft | $24 | |
| C | C23 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 272 ft | $24 | |
| C | C24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 368 ft | $24 | |
| C | C25 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 294 ft | $24 | |
| C | C26 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 302 ft | $24 | |
| C | C27 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 339 ft | $24 | |
| C | C28 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 413 ft | $24 | |
| C | C29 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 490 ft | $24 | |
| C | C30 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 562 ft | $24 | |
| C | C31 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 610 ft | $24 | |
| C | C32 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 511 ft | $24 | |
| C | C33 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 477 ft | $24 | |
| C | C34 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 453 ft | $24 | |
| C | C35 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 419 ft | $24 | |
| C | C36 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 381 ft | $24 | |
| C | C37 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 335 ft | $24 | |
| C | C38 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 299 ft | $24 |
25 of 54 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Juniper Point2.8 mi
Caney Creek6.4 mi
Preston Bend9.4 mi
Burns Run West13 mi
Burns Run East14 mi
Lakeside (OK)15 miFrom Madill, OK, travel south on Highway 99 for 17 miles to Willis, OK, then east for one mile on paved access road. Physical address: 1010 West Buncombe Creek Road, Willis, OK 75020.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sherwood Shores, TX
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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
Buncombe 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 →