Burns Run East
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:14 UTC
- A night
- $28–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 47All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Burns Run East 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
Burns Run East offers to 47 campsites, 44 of which have electrical and water hookups. A large, day-use group picnic shelter with electricity is available as well. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water. A dump station, two boat ramps, a dock, playground, and beach are located on-site. Restaurants and stores are available 1/2-mile from the campground.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the southeastern shores 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.
During winter months, one frost-free hydrant is available within the campground to fill water tanks; individual water hookups are shut off annually after November.
For more information on Lake Texoma, click here
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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.
Some sites in East Burns Run will be closed during the off season, pay boat launch fee at the vault located at the front of the park. Park will be fully open starting April 1st.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 47
- Hookups
- 47 electric, 47 water, 19 sewer
- Longest rig
- 95 ft
- Paved pads
- 34 of 47
- Accessible sites
- 5
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…well. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water. A dump station, two…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water. A dump station, two boat ramps, a dock,…”
- 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, Beach
- Swimming
- Night sky · 99th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
2 of 96 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:14 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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $28–$30 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 16:14 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
48 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 48 mapped sitesAll 48 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. 47 of the 48 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BRUE | 001 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | yes | 51 ft | 221 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 |
| BRUE | 002 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 208 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 003 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 116 ft | 119 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 004 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 62 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 005 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 22 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 006 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 72 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 007 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 86 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 008 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 104 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 009 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 41 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 010 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 55 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 011 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 77 ft | 69 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 |
| BRUE | 012 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | yes | 90 ft | 107 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 |
| BRUE | 013 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 125 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 014 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 187 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 015 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 224 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 016 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 261 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 017 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 268 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 018 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 307 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 019 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 307 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 020 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 333 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 021 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 324 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 022 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 341 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 023 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 378 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 024 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 384 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 025 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 81 ft | 458 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 |
| BRUE | 026 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 443 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 027 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 455 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 028 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 365 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 029 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 373 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 030 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 279 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 031 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 323 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 032 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 243 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 033 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 253 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 034 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 183 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 035 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 127 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 036 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 111 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 037 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 183 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 038 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 139 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 039 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 118 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 040 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 231 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 041 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 159 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 042 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 272 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 043 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 254 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 044 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 359 ftLake Texoma | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 045 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 168 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 046 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 203 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BRUE | 047 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 99 ft | 154 ft | $28–$30 |
| BRUE | S1-E | day use | 30 amp | yes | 267 ft | 327 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.
25 of 48 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Burns Run West0.9 mi
Damsite Texas2.4 mi
Preston Bend4.7 mi
Platter Flats5.1 mi
Lakeside (OK)6.3 mi
Caney Creek9.3 miFrom Highway 75 in Denison, Texas, take Exit 72 to Highway 91, travel north on 91 across Denison Dam 5 miles, take first exit left. Physical address: 525 East Burns Run Road Cartwright, OK 74731.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cartwright, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Burns Run East 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 →