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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · OK

Chisholm Trail Ridge

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:33 UTC

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:33 UTC
A night: $18–$22When it reopens, per site
Sites: 95In the agency’s record

Photos · Waurika Lake Office

60 ftLongest rig

960 ftElevation

178 ftWater · Waurika Lake

2.2 miSW of Comanche, OK

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices

In the agency’s own words

Chisholm Trail Ridge Park lies along the scenic shore of Waurika Lake in the Great Plains Region of southern Oklahoma. The area offers many recreation activities, including fishing, boating and hunting. Waurika Lake encompasses 10,100 acres of water and about 12,000 acres of land, which provide ample space for visitors to enjoy the outdoors. It is about six miles northwest of the city of Waurika and lies in portions of Jefferson, Cotton and Stephens Counties. This facility is named after the Chisholm Trail, a trail used to transport cattle from Texas ranches to Kansas railroads in the late 1800s. Keep reading

Recreation

Waurika Lake provides excellent opportunities for fishing and hunting. Anglers seek out channel and flathead catfish, largemouth bass, white bass, hybrid striper, crappie, walleye and sunfish. Approximately 6,040 acres of land around the lake are managed for game. Sought-after species include white-tailed deer, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, wood duck, mallard, pintail, teal, canvas back, cottontail rabbits and wild turkey. Boating and skiing enthusiasts play on the large areas of open water and along the the scenic shoreline. There are four large embayments and a number of smaller coves that make boating on the lake a pleasure.

Facilities

Chisholm Trail Ridge has 95 campsites that all feature electric and accessible water hookups. Families with children enjoy the open space, playground and swimming areas. Boaters have the convenience of an accessible dock and boat ramp.

Natural Features

The large shade trees, gently sloping shoreline and expansive lakefront views of the horizon invite the visitor to relax and take in the scenery. Grassland prairies, farms and forests surround the lake area. Wildlife such as white-tail deer, ducks, rabbits and wild turkey graze the landscape.

Nearby Attractions

Additional services and supplies are available in Waurika, Oklahoma.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

A park attendant is on duty from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Rule

The entrance gate is locked from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m.; an exit is available to customers.

Rule

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

Rule

All campfires must be contained in a fireplace or grill. Fires must be elevated off the ground. Groundfires are prohibited. "Fires shall not be left unattended and must be completely extinguished prior to departure."

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 95
Hookups: 95 electric, 51 water
Longest rig: 60 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: 1
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 31 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, Beach; Boating; Fishing; Swimming
Night sky · 27th darkest of 106 in OK: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:33 UTC

recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Max stay31 nightsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$18–$22plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

What’s open near here

Tell me when it reopens

Watch for it to come back

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We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Every line of the receipt · 12

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, when it reopens$18–$22

Standard Electric$18

Standard Electric$20

Standard Electric$22

These are next season’s rates, May 1, 2027 to Sep 30, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 4

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Chisholm Trail Ridge closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.

Closure: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers status record · Oct 16, 2026

There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.

Open within 60 miles · 1

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

The Point Campground (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 60 mi · 16 sites

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 16, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:33 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

95 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 95 mapped sites

79 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop CTRR 053 145 ftLoop CTRR 010 142 ftLoop CTRR 059 126 ftLoop CTRR 068 121 ftLoop CTRR 008 120 ft

Least roomLoop CTRR 057 54 ftLoop CTRR 058 54 ftLoop CTRR 078 56 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 95 sites

95 of 95 sites located

RV / electric95

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 95 of the 95 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


CTRR	001	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		88 ft	298 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	002	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		83 ft	299 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	003	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		79 ft	217 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	004	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		83 ft	235 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	005	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		79 ft	152 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	006	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		85 ft	77 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	007	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		97 ft	82 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	008	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		120 ft	224 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	009	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		120 ft	136 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	010	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		142 ft	172 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	011	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		75 ft	280 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	012	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		80 ft	158 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	013	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		75 ft	276 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	014	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		80 ft	171 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	015	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		95 ft	228 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	016	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		112 ft	319 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	017	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		118 ft	207 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	018	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		107 ft	150 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	019	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		107 ft	88 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	020	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		74 ft	51 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	021	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		74 ft	41 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	022	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		73 ft	141 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	023	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		73 ft	148 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	024	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		75 ft	70 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	025	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		71 ft	176 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	026	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		71 ft	104 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	027	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		71 ft	196 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	028	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		71 ft	91 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	029	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		71 ft	169 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	030	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		80 ft	58 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	031	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		74 ft	154 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	032	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		69 ft	42 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	033	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		74 ft	150 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	034	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		69 ft	34 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	035	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		78 ft	41 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	036	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		71 ft	42 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	037	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		71 ft	46 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	038	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		79 ft	42 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	039	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		79 ft	48 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	040	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		92 ft	32 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	041	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		113 ft	212 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	042	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		88 ft	109 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	043	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		77 ft	98 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	044	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		114 ft	148 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	045	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		77 ft	45 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	046	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		69 ft	50 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	047	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		118 ft	134 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	048	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		69 ft	30 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	049	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		106 ft	155 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	050	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		71 ft	54 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	051	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		71 ft	58 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	052	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		79 ft	64 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	053	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		145 ft	38 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	054	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		112 ft	167 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	055	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		77 ft	56 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	056	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		102 ft	206 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	057	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		54 ft	85 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	058	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		54 ft	106 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	059	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		126 ft	171 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	060	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		83 ft	377 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	061	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		83 ft	444 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	062	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		91 ft	567 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	063	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		78 ft	496 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	064	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		78 ft	429 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	065	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		108 ft	275 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	066	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		84 ft	190 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	067	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		84 ft	141 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	068	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		121 ft	231 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	069	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		87 ft	113 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	070	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	yes	115 ft	207 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	071	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		63 ft	106 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	072	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		63 ft	95 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	073	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		61 ft	110 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	074	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		109 ft	232 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	075	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		61 ft	128 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	076	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		107 ft	278 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	077	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		82 ft	160 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	078	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		56 ft	171 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	079	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		56 ft	174 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	080	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		109 ft	431 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	081	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		94 ft	342 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	082	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		88 ft	435 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	083	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		95 ft	554 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	084	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		80 ft	521 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	085	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		80 ft	595 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	086	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		98 ft	660 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	087	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		82 ft	670 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	088	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		78 ft	743 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	089	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		75 ft	796 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	090	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		91 ft	775 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	091	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		75 ft	846 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	092	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		63 ft	812 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	093	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		63 ft	787 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	094	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		62 ft	751 ft	$18–$22
CTRR	095	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		62 ft	707 ft	$18–$22

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 95 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate34.25917, -98.03500

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone580-439-8040

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

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Getting there

From Waurika, Oklahoma, take Highway 5 northwest for 5 miles. Turn right onto Advent Road and proceed 3 miles. Turn left on Chisholm Trail Road and drive one mile to the park entrance.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today59°Mostly Sunny

Tonight41°Mostly Clear

Saturday59°Sunny

Saturday Night39°Clear

NWS forecast for Comanche, OK

Source: National Weather Service, OUN forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 53°F, day 77°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

110°32°20°

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.

Measured at: WAURIKA, OK (USC00349395), 6 miles away and 48 ft lower

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Chisholm Trail Ridge 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 16:33 UTC). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 95 of the 95 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 95 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.38 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 106 rated federal campgrounds in Oklahoma · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026