Cedar Ridge (MO)
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:14 UTC
- A night
- $10–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 57All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cedar Ridge is located on Stockton Lake in the scenic Ozark Mountains of southwestern Missouri. The lake and surrounding landscape offer countless recreational opportunities along nearly 300 miles of shoreline, providing visitors with many ways to explore one of the most sought-after natural areas in the state. Fishing, hunting, camping, sailing, boating and scuba diving are popular activities. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating is a popular pastime at the lake. Sailing is especially popular and the lake hosts several races each year. The campground provides two boat ramps for easy access to the water. A swimming beach and an accessible fishing dock are also on-site. The waters of Stockton Lake are home to several species of fish including small and largemouth bass, crappie, white bass, walleye, catfish and sunfish, making it an ideal destination for anglers.
Facilities
Cedar Ridge Park is open year round. It offers 54 campsites, many of which have electric hookups. Twelve sites have been established for tent camping only. Flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station are provided.
Natural Features
The land surrounding the lake contains hundreds of acres of native prairie grasses, rolling hills and thick forests that turn crimson in autumn. An abundance of wildlife lives around the water, including wild turkey, Great Blue heron, deer and Bald eagles. Visitors can learn about the lake's Bald eagles at the area's annual eagle-watching event hosted each winter.
Nearby Attractions
Three full-service marinas are located around the lake, offering a wide range of services and supplies, including boat rentals, fuel, fishing tackle and restaurants.
What the agency tells you
Campground check in time is 4:00 PM. Checkout time is 4:00 PM.
Cedar Ridge is a campground facility. Campground for overnight stays only - day use prohibited. Reservations are subject to cancellation and removal from the park without valid camping unit (ie: tent, rv, etc)
One wheeled unit and two tents, or three tents are allowed per campsite
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Boat ramps at lake facilities are open Mar. 1 through Nov. 30
Please call the project office (417-276-3113) for more information during the off season
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.
The Cedar Ridge North boat ramp is available to registered campers only during peak recreation season of April 16-Sept 30. The Cedar Ridge South boat ramp is open to the public Jan 1-Dec 31.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 57 · 12 walk-in
- Hookups
- 30 electric
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 3 of 57
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 12 of 57 campsite records
- Showers
- Seasonal Showers
- SHOWERS (SEASONAL) on 12 of 57 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 12 of 57 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 12 of 57 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Visitor center
- Water sports
- Night sky · 77th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
77 of 114 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.
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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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$20 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
57 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 57 mapped sitesAll 57 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. 45 of the 57 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | A01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 210 ft | 580 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A02 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 63 ft | 371 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 100 ft | 319 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A04 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 63 ft | 313 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A05 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 116 ft | 210 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A06 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 116 ft | 99 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A07 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 263 ft | 95 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A08 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 252 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A09 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 102 ft | 263 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 125 ft | 188 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A11 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 285 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A12 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 276 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A13 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 255 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A14 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 244 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A15 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 105 ft | 150 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A16 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 229 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A17 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 224 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A18 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 136 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A19 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 224 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A20 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 100 ft | 127 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A21 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 67 ft | 250 ftStockton Lake | $20 |
| A | A22 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 221 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| A | A23 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 288 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A24 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 361 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A25 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 400 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A26 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 370 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A27 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 451 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A28 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 352 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A29 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 444 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A30 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 435 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A31 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 361 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A32 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 435 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A33 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 435 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A34 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 358 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| A | A35 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | yes | 54 ft | 426 ftStockton Lake | $20 |
| A | A36 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 239 ft | 182 ftStockton Lake | $10 | ||
| B | B1 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | yes | 59 ft | 165 ftStockton Lake | $20 |
| B | B2 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 182 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| B | B3 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 137 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| B | B4 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 123 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| B | B5 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 113 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| B | B6 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 101 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| B | B7 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 119 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| B | B8 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 156 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| B | B9 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 191 ftStockton Lake | $20 | |
| T | T01 | walk to | 96 ft | 60 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T02 | walk to | 73 ft | 85 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T03 | walk to | 73 ft | 90 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T04 | walk to | 74 ft | 100 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T05 | walk to | 51 ft | 107 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T06 | walk to | 51 ft | 88 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T07 | walk to | 62 ft | 181 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T08 | walk to | 62 ft | 174 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T09 | walk to | 63 ft | 180 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T10 | walk to | 66 ft | 88 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T11 | walk to | 66 ft | 103 ftStockton Lake | ||||
| T | T12 | walk to | 66 ft | 117 ftStockton Lake |
25 of 57 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Masters (MO)2.0 mi
Hawker Point5.9 mi
Crabtree Cove7.6 mi
Ruark Bluff East7.7 mi
Ruark Bluff West7.8 mi
Orleans Trail8.0 miFrom Bona, Missouri, take Highway 245 north for 0.5 miles to RA Highway. Turn left (north) on RA Highway and continue for 0.7 miles to the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dadeville, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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
Cedar Ridge (MO) is in Missouri’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Mark Alford (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →