Clear Creek (MS)
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:15 UTC
- A night
- $24When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 52In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Clear Creek Campground is nestled in the forests surrounding Sardis Lake. It is conveniently located within 15 minutes of Oxford, MS. Clear Creek campground offers close access to mountain biking, boating, and picnicking at Sardis Lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Sardis Lake offers an array of recreational activities, including fishing, boating, water skiing and swimming. A scenic trail near the campground offers great hiking and biking opportunities.
Facilities
Clear Creek Campground offers 19 open sites with electric and water hookups. Flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
Sardis Lake covers over 98,000 acres in the rolling hills of northwest Mississippi. The man-made lake sits on the Tallahatchie River at an approximate elevation of 400 feet. The campground is forested with bottomland hardwoods.
Nearby Attractions
The John W. Kyle State Park, across the lake from Clear Creek, offers a swimming pool, golf course and recreation hall. Just east of Sardis Lake is Holly Springs National Forest, where wildlife viewing is a popular activity.
What the agency tells you
Visitors are expected to be aware of general park rules
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.
Much of Clear Creek campground is closed but it does have 19 sites available for reservation. All open sites are located in the back section of the campground. As you enter the campground road you'll follow the road passing several closed campsites until you reach the Site 20 on your left and Site 62 on your right. Those sites begin the open section of the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Campers and/or their camping units will be limited to a stay of no more than 14 days in any 30-day period at a single USACE Vicksburg District campground. At the end of their 14-day stay, campers and camping unit must leave the campground but will be allowed to relocate to a different USACE campground at the same lake.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 52
- Hookups
- 20 electric, 21 water
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…sites with electric and water hookups. Flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided. Natural…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…hookups. Flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided. Natural Features Sardis Lake covers…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Night sky · 33rd darkest of 61 in MS
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:15 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.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Clear Creek (MS) 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.
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.
- Bear Creek Lake Recreation AreaSt. Francis National Forest · 60 mi
recreation.gov availability, read 16:15 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 52 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. 18 of the 52 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CLEAR CREEK | 01 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 740 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 02 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 660 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 03 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 575 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 04 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 560 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 05 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 540 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 06 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 553 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 07 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 570 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 08 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 534 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 09 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 500 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 10 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 504 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 11 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 545 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 12 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 533 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 13 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 481 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 19 | rv electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | yes | 184 ft | 670 ft | |
| CLEAR CREEK | 64 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 662 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 65 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 686 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 66 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 655 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 67 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 639 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 68 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 662 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 69 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 634 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 70 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 579 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 71 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 511 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 72 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 449 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 73 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 562 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 74 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 629 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 75 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 681 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK | 76 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 754 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 20 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 110 ft | 685 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 21 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 104 ft | 783 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 22 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 104 ft | 883 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 23 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 104 ft | 893 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 24 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 878 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 25 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 816 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 26 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 739 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 27 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 630 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 28 | rv electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 587 ft | ||
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 29 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 504 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 30 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 408 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 31 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 136 ft | 378 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 32 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 136 ft | 499 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 33 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 138 ft | 638 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 34 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 792 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 35 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 874 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 60 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 482 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 61 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 472 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 62 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 119 ft | 496 ft | $24 | |
| CLEAR CREEK (MS) | 63 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 581 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK 2 | 14 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 458 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK 2 | 15 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 466 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK 2 | 16 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 559 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK 2 | 17 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | 587 ft | |||
| CLEAR CREEK 2 | 18 | type not stated | 65 ft | 30 amp | yes | 627 ft |
25 of 52 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pat's Bluff1.4 mi
Engineer Point4.8 mi
Outlet Channel (Sardis)4.9 mi
Big Acres5.0 miOak Grove Campground5.1 mi
Paradise Point5.2 miFrom Oxford, Mississippi, take Highway 314 north 8 miles 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 Oxford, MS
Typical weather
Typical October night 54°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°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
Clear Creek (MS) is in Mississippi’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Trent Kelly (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: D-. See every public-lands vote →