Cape Fair
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 15:58 UTC
- A night
- $16–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 46All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cape Fair is a spacious and shady campground that sits along the James River Arm of Table Rock Lake. Perfect for water and nature lovers alike, Cape Fair campground provides a scenic escape in the beautiful foothills of the Ozark Mountains. Keep reading
Recreation
Whether on water or land, Cape Fair Campground offers visitors countless recreational activities. But above all, this is a fisherman's favorite--Its location on the upper James River Arm affords visitors the opportunity to be near some of the best fishing action on Table Rock Lake. With plenty of campsites located right near the water's edge, visitors don't even have to leave the campground to find excellent fishing along the campground's spacious shoreline. For visitors looking to get out on the water, the Cape Fair Boat Dock and Marina can service all of your boating needs, including fuel, storage and equipment rentals. Popular activities include water skiing, wakeboarding and tubing on the bright blue waters of Table Rock Lake. A large swimming beach is located on the left side of the campground, within walking distance of a picnic area. Visitors can make a day of picnicking by the water, soaking up the sun and cooling off in the lake. Table Rock Lakeshore Trail, about 2 miles long, runs from the Dewey Short Visitor Center to the Table Rock State Park Marina. During the spring hikers will see dogwood, serviceberry and redbud trees in bloom as well as many wildflower species. During the autumn months, visitors are treated to nature's colorful fall foliage. The trail also offers beautiful views of Table Rock Lake. Other hiking and mountain biking opportunities are available at the Mark Twain National Forest, parts of which are easily accessible from the campground. Click here for more information.
Facilities
Cape Fair Campground offers 45 reservable campsites, along with one large reservable group picnic shelter. With a good number of sites along the waterfront and almost all sites offering stunning views of the lake, visitors can't go wrong with Cape Fair Campground. Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a comfortable camping experience. While a large swim area, boat ramp, playground and marina provide the perfect everything you need for endless family-friendly entertainment.
Natural Features
Table Rock Lake is a beautiful body of water surrounded by a forest of oak and hickory trees. Its waters wind down through the valleys and hollows of the Ozark Mountains, from Branson, Missouri to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. More than five million visitors per year take advantage of this recreational oasis. Originally built for flood control, the Table Rock Dam has created a lake that boasts 779 miles of shoreline for the public to enjoy.
Nearby Attractions
The Dewey Short Visitors Center is located at the south end of Table Rock Dam. It offers three educational films focused on the history of the dam, the story of Lewis and Clark and the history of eagles and their endangerment in the state of Missouri. The visitor center also contains exhibits on the natural history of the area. Cape Fair Campground is about 25 miles from Branson, Missouri, which offers grocery stores, gas and additional tourist attractions.
What the agency tells you
Staffed booth hours are between the hours of 8:00 a.m-10:00 a.m. and from 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., seven days a week. Camphost and or Rangers will issue campground hangtags after valid check-in. Please check-out on departure. If Camphost is not present, please drop pink tag off at the drop box.
All checkout times are at 3:00 p.m. All RV's, vehicles, and supplies still on site after 3:00 p.m. may be subjected to impoundment our towed at the owners expense.
All discounted passes (Golden Age, Senior Lifetime, Senior Annual, Access) must be physically present upon arrival. Fraudulent use of a Golden Age or Golden Access Passport (Printouts, photos etc.) is prohibited and will not be discounted.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Failure to pay day use fees, and or properly display applicable receipt, permit or pass is prohibited. All daily guests must pay a day-use fee and have day-use receipt properly displayed. Day passes and USACE annual passes may be purchased at the kiosk next to the booth.
All personal equipment (boats, trailers, personal supplies etc. ) must be stored at reserved campsites. No equipment shall be stored in boat ramp/day-use parking for overnight storage.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
One tent and one RV, or two tents are allowed per campsite.
No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must be disposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands.
Shower tents, changing tents, and latrines are prohibited.
Pets must be penned, caged, or on a leash under six feet in length at all times.
Please be advised that providing business services within a USACE campground is prohibited per Title 327.18(a) The engaging in or solicitation of business on project lands or waters without the express written permission of the District Commander is prohibited. This includes services such as RV or tent delivery & set-up, firewood sales and delivery.
Please review the Title 36 brochure for complete rules and regulations. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-36/chapter-III/part-327
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 46
- Hookups
- 46 electric, 46 water
- Longest rig
- 72 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a comfortable camping experience.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Campground. Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Ranger Station
- Scuba Diving
- Swimming
- Water access
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 105th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
2 of 94 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:58 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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
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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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$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 15:58 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
47 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 47 mapped sitesAll 47 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. 46 of the 47 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.
| CAPE FAIR | 01 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 91 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 02 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 74 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 03 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 74 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 04 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 74 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 05 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 86 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 06 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 153 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 07 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 80 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 08 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 73 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 09 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 73 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 10 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 69 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 11 | standard electric | 27 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 159 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 12 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 97 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 13 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 77 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 14 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 141 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 15 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 163 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 16 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 161 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 17 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 142 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 18 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 41 ft | 82 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 19 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 41 ft | 80 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 20 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 88 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 21 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 128 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 22 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 168 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 23 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 222 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 24 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 219 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 25 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 280 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 26 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 289 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 27 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 340 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 28 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 309 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 29 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 377 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 30 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 320 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 31 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 31 ft | 333 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 32 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 412 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 33 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 319 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 34 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 416 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 35 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 34 ft | 319 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 36 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 29 ft | 368 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 37 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 29 ft | 372 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 38 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 197 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 39 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 194 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 40 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 188 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 41 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 180 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 42 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 178 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 43 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 312 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 44 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 338 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 46 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 338 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | 47 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 304 ft | $23–$25 |
| CAPE FAIR | Group Shelter (Pavilion) | day use | 15 amp | 941 ft | 197 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.
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 47 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Aunts Creek5.2 mi
Campbell Point8.8 mi
Mill Creek (Missouri)10 mi
Baxter11 mi
Viola12 mi
Indian Point12 miFrom Reeds Spring, Missouri, head south on Highway 13 for 1.4 miles. Turn West onto Highway 76 and continue for 8 miles to Cape Fair. Turn southwest onto Lake Road 76-82 and follow signs to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for McCord Bend, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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
Cape Fair is in Missouri’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Eric Burlison (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →