Cold Springs Campground (Chickasaw)
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 64All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cold Springs Campground is a popular summer campground conveniently located 5-7 minutes from the town of Sulphur. Travertine Creek, directly across from Cold Springs, provides several refreshing spring-fed swimming areas to escape the summer heat. Other nearby attractions, such as Little Niagara and the Travertine Nature Center, make this campground an ideal location for both seasoned and first-time campers. El Camping Cold Springs es un popular camping de verano, convenientemente ubicado a 5-7 minutos del pueblo de Sulphur. El arroyo Travertine, justo enfrente de Cold Springs, ofrece varias zonas de baño refrescantes con agua de manantial para escapar del calor del verano. Otras atracciones cercanas, como Little Niagara y el Centro Natural Travertine, hacen de este camping un lugar ideal tanto para campistas experimentados como para quienes lo hacen por primera vez. Keep reading
Recreation
Travertine Creek, located directly across the road from Cold Springs Campground, is a popular area for swimming and picnicking. The creek is fed by nearby Antelope and Buffalo Springs. El arroyo Travertine, ubicado justo enfrente del camping Cold Springs, es una zona popular para nadar y hacer picnics. El arroyo se alimenta de los manantiales Antelope y Buffalo, ubicados en las cercanías. The scenic and shaded Antelope and Buffalo Springs Trail is located behind the Travertine Nature Center and is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) in length. El pintoresco y sombreado sendero Antelope and Buffalo Springs Trail está ubicado detrás del Travertine Nature Center y tiene una longitud de aproximadamente 1 milla (1,6 km).
Facilities
Cold Springs is a non-electric tent-only campground. Cold Springs es un camping exclusivo para tiendas de campaña, sin electricidad. Two restroom buildings are located in the campground. Both restrooms have flush toilets and sinks. No showers are available at this campground. El camping cuenta con dos baños. Ambos cuentan con inodoros y lavabos con cisterna. No hay duchas disponibles.
Natural Features
Mature oak and hickory forests cover this historic part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area. This area of the park is abundant with cold spring-fed waterfalls and beautiful geologic formations. Bosques maduros de robles y nogales cubren esta parte histórica del Área Recreativa Nacional Chickasaw. Esta zona del parque abunda en cascadas de aguas frías de manantiales y hermosas formaciones geológicas.
Nearby Attractions
Swimming Areas: Bear Falls Garfield Falls Panther Falls Little Niagara Hiking and Walking Trails: Antelope And Buffalo Springs Trail Travertine Creek Trail Bison Pasture Trail Other: Travertine Nature Center Charges & Cancellations Refunds will not be given due to inclement weather. Please read the official Recreation.gov cancellation rules and policies above thoroughly before booking your campsite.
What the agency tells you
Check out time is noon CST and check in time is 2:30 PM CST. Guests may check in early if the previous visitor has already left and the campsite has been cleaned. La hora de salida es al mediodía (CST) y la de entrada es a las 2:30 p. m. (CST). Los huéspedes pueden entrar antes si el huésped anterior ya se ha marchado y el camping está limpio.
ALCOHOL IS PROHIBITED in this campground between May 1st through September 30th each year. EL ALCOHOL ESTÁ PROHIBIDO en este campamento desde el 1 de Mayo hasta el 30 de Septiembre de cada año.
Recreational and medical marijuana are not permitted in Chickasaw National Recreation Area at any time. La marihuana recreativa y medicinal no está permitida en el Área Recreativa Nacional Chickasaw en ningún momento.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Parking is extremely limited and no more than two average size vehicles per site are allowed. No overflow parking is available at Cold Springs Campground. El estacionamiento es extremadamente limitado, con un máximo de dos vehículos de tamaño promedio por sitio. No hay estacionamiento adicional disponible en el Campamento Cold Springs.
There are no shower facilities at Cold Springs Campground. No hay duchas en el camping Cold Springs.
In case of emergency, call 911. If you have a non-emergency after hours and no Camp Host is available, the local dispatch number is 580-622-3918. En caso de emergencia, llame al 911. Si tiene una situación que no es de emergencia fuera del horario de atención y no hay ningún anfitrión del campamento disponible, el número de despacho local es 580-622-3918.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 64 · 63 tent-only, 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 18 ft
- Paved pads
- 2 of 64
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 1 of 63 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “No showers are available at this campground.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 60 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Creek
- Biking
- Environmental Education
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Swimming
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 74th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
66 of 128 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:31 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $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.
“Refunds will not be given due to inclement weather. Please read the official Recreation.gov cancellation rules and policies above thoroughly before booking your campsite.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:31 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
64 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 64 mapped sitesAll 64 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 64 of the 64 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 64 of the 64 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.
| Cold Springs | 01 | tent only nonelectric | 71 ft | 2,014 ft | 239 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 02 | tent only nonelectric | 71 ft | 2,081 ft | 178 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 03 | tent only nonelectric | 37 ft | 2,095 ft | 109 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 04 | tent only nonelectric | 37 ft | 2,124 ft | 95 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 05 | tent only nonelectric | 64 ft | 2,174 ft | 63 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 06 | tent only nonelectric | 64 ft | 2,185 ft | 87 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 07 | tent only nonelectric | 43 ft | 2,086 ft | 186 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 08 | tent only nonelectric | 43 ft | 2,091 ft | 183 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 09 | tent only nonelectric | 50 ft | 2,017 ft | 254 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 50 ft | 1,997 ft | 280 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 11 | tent only nonelectric | 58 ft | 1,935 ft | 339 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 12 | tent only nonelectric | 41 ft | 1,897 ft | 278 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 13 | tent only nonelectric | 41 ft | 1,902 ft | 253 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 14 | tent only nonelectric | 84 ft | 1,793 ft | 174 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 15 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 1,784 ft | 92 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 16 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 1,722 ft | 111 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 17 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,663 ft | 66 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 18 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,621 ft | 112 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 19 | tent only nonelectric | 80 ft | 1,658 ft | 137 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 20 | tent only nonelectric | 93 ft | 1,623 ft | 294 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 21 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 1,530 ft | 328 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 22 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 1,484 ft | 326 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 23 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 1,531 ft | 270 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 24 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 1,484 ft | 282 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 25 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 1,491 ft | 249 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 26 | tent only nonelectric | 77 ft | 1,569 ft | 153 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 27 | tent only nonelectric | 31 ft | 1,599 ft | 182 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 28 | tent only nonelectric | 31 ft | 1,583 ft | 213 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 29 | tent only nonelectric | 104 ft | 1,693 ft | 229 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 30 | tent only nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,771 ft | 324 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 31 | tent only nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,787 ft | 288 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 32 | tent only nonelectric | 53 ft | 1,877 ft | 347 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 33 | tent only nonelectric | 53 ft | 1,874 ft | 391 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 34 | tent only nonelectric | 73 ft | 1,961 ft | 333 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 35 | tent only nonelectric | 73 ft | 2,028 ft | 260 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 36 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 2,087 ft | 230 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 37 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 2,109 ft | 193 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 38 | tent only nonelectric | 85 ft | 2,076 ft | 167 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 39 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 2,032 ft | 170 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 40 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 1,977 ft | 229 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 41 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 1,961 ft | 239 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 42 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 1,911 ft | 287 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 43 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 1,939 ft | 273 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 44 | tent only nonelectric | 64 ft | 1,891 ft | 334 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 45 | tent only nonelectric | 80 ft | 1,737 ft | 113 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 46 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 1,796 ft | 86 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 47 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 1,847 ft | 139 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 48 | tent only nonelectric | 77 ft | 1,856 ft | 136 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 49 | tent only nonelectric | 63 ft | 1,933 ft | 212 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 50 | tent only nonelectric | 63 ft | 1,929 ft | 218 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 51 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 2,005 ft | 292 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 52 | tent only nonelectric | 56 ft | 2,069 ft | 282 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 53 | tent only nonelectric | 37 ft | 2,087 ft | 233 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 54 | tent only nonelectric | 37 ft | 2,116 ft | 228 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 55 | tent only nonelectric | 89 ft | 2,173 ft | 139 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 57 | tent only nonelectric | 81 ft | 2,251 ft | 83 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 58 | tent only nonelectric | 81 ft | 2,245 ft | 151 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 59 | tent only nonelectric | 83 ft | 2,187 ft | 204 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 60 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 2,198 ft | 286 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 61 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 2,153 ft | 296 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 62 | tent only nonelectric | 44 ft | 2,134 ft | 358 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs | 63 | tent only nonelectric | 44 ft | 2,094 ft | 347 ft | $20 | |
| Cold Springs Group Sites | 64 | group standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 139 ft | 1,991 ft | 488 ft | $30 |
| Cold Springs Group Sites | 65 | group tent only area nonelectric | 18 ft | 139 ft | 1,894 ft | 444 ft | $50 |
25 of 64 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Central Group Camp (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 0.0 mi
Rock Creek Group Camp (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 0.0 mi
Rock Creek CampgroundChickasaw National Recreation Area · 1.2 mi
Veterans Lake PavilionChickasaw National Recreation Area · 1.3 mi
The Point Campground (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 4.3 miBuckhorn Campground Loop CChickasaw National Recreation Area · 5.2 miFrom I-35, take Exit 55 and drive towards the city of Davis, OK. Once in Davis, go east on Highway 7. Watch for Chickasaw National Recreation Area signs. Drive approximately 8 miles east of Davis to the only 4 way stop (Jct Hwy 7 and Hwy 177) in the city of Sulphur. Turn right for approximately 0.2 miles on Highway 177. Take the first left turn on NE Perimeter Road. Keep driving on NE Perimeter Road until you see the sign for Cold Springs Campground. The campground will be on your left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sulphur, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°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 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
Cold Springs Campground (Chickasaw) 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 →