Copan Point
1Heads up1 fire 38 mi away
We don’t think it should be. Every campground should hold some sites for whoever drives up.Tell your representative →
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:32 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Copan Point is a day-use area located on the banks of Copan Lake in Oklahoma's Green Country. Camping, boating, picnicking and fishing are popular activities here. Keep reading
Recreation
Copan Lake offers its visitors extensive opportunities for a memorable outdoor recreation experience. The lake is home to many species of game fish, including largemouth bass, white crappie, channel and flathead catfish, and various species of sunfish. Hikers and horseback riders enjoy exploring the area on a 3 mile trail that winds through the wooded and open meadows of the lake shore. 11,000 acres of land around the lake have been set aside for wildlife management. These lands are open for public hunting of deer, waterfowl, bobwhite quail, turkey, cottontail rabbit and squirrel.
Facilities
This day-use area offers one group picnic shelter that can accommodate up to 45 people. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, drinking water, and picnic sites with utility tables, grills and fire pits. A boat ramp with a courtesy dock, seperate fishing dock and a swimming beach with a volleyball court are also within the park.
Natural Features
The 4,850-acre lake sits on the Little Caney River among a prairie landscape of grasslands and croplands.
What the agency tells you
Visitors are expected to be aware of park general 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.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…45 people. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, drinking water, and picnic sites with utility…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Amenities include flush and pit toilets, drinking water, and picnic sites with utility tables, grills and…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach, Meadow
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 40th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
Full this Saturdayread 16:32 UTC
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in. How full the weekend is nationally.
5 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:23 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:32 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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 · 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 · 5
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 5
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:23 UTC
- Post Oak ParkCopan Lake · 0.9 mi · 6 of 36 site-nights open
- Washington CoveCopan Lake · 1.4 mi · 84 of 210 site-nights open
- Card CreekElk City Lake · 26 mi · 25 of 40 site-nights open
- Birch CoveBirch Lake · 27 mi · 82 of 190 site-nights open
- Outlet ChannelElk City Lake · 28 mi · 23 of 29 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:32 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
| COPAN POINT | GS-01 | day use | 17 ft | 30 amp | yes | 120 ft | $35 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Post Oak Park0.9 mi
Washington Cove1.4 mi
Card Creek26 mi
Twin Cove Point27 mi
Birch Cove27 mi
Outlet Channel28 miFrom HWY 75, travel 2 miles west on HWY 10 and 1 mile north on County Road 3970, then turn left on W 850 Road and go 1 mile 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 Copan, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 73°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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Copan Point is in Oklahoma’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Josh Brecheen (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyJosh BrecheenU.S. Representative · Oklahoma’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAlan ArmstrongU.S. Senator · Oklahoma
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJames LankfordU.S. Senator · Oklahoma
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Copan Point, Oklahoma
Dear Josh Brecheen, I’m a constituent in Oklahoma’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Copan Point, Oklahoma, and couldn’t. Every site at Copan Point is reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Copan Point keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Copan Point. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Copan Point (Oklahoma) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Copan Point, Oklahoma
Dear Alan Armstrong, I’m a constituent in Oklahoma. I tried to camp at Copan Point, Oklahoma, and couldn’t. Every site at Copan Point is reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Copan Point keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Copan Point. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Copan Point (Oklahoma) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Copan Point, Oklahoma
Dear James Lankford, I’m a constituent in Oklahoma. I tried to camp at Copan Point, Oklahoma, and couldn’t. Every site at Copan Point is reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Copan Point keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Copan Point. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Copan Point (Oklahoma) via campanac.com