Crabtree Cove
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:03 UTC
- A night
- $10–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 5955 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Crabtree Cove is a shady campground located on Stockton Lake in the scenic Ozark Mountains of southwestern Missouri. The lake and surrounding landscape offer countless recreational opportunities along its nearly 300 miles of shoreline, providing visitors with many ways to explore one of the most sought-after natural areas in the state. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating is always a popular pastime at the lake. Sail boating is especially popular and the lake hosts several races each year. The facility provides a boat ramp for easy access to the water. 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 area for anglers. Several trails wind around the lake shore and through the landscape. The Stockton Lake Equestrian Trail continues approximately 15 miles between Hawker Point and Orleans Trail Campgrounds.
Facilities
Crabtree Cove Park offers 58 campsites, most of which have electric hookups. Amenities like showers, flush toilets and a dump station create a comfortable camping environment.
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 both in and around the water, including wild turkey, great blue heron, deer and bald eagles. Visitors can learn about the lake's bald eagles by attending an annual eagle-watching event during the winter.
Nearby Attractions
There are three full-service marinas located around the lake, which offer 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. Check out time is 4:00 PM.
Crabtree Cove 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)
Customers may not call the park to make reservations
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Drinking water and electric hookups are available during the reservation season
One RV and two tents or three tents per campsite
Park rangers and County Sheriffs Deputies routinely patrol this facility
Call the park (417-276-6799) or project office (417-276-3113) for more information
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.
Shoulder Seasons run from (15 March-15 April) & (1 October-30 November) amenities are reduced
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 59
- Hookups
- 32 electric
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- 2 of 59
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…hookups. Amenities like showers, flush toilets and a dump station create a comfortable camping…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities like showers, flush toilets and a dump station create a comfortable camping environment.”
- 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
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 74th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
37 of 51 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 15:03 UTC
recreation.gov lists 55 of the 59 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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.
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Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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 15:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
59 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 55 mapped sitesAll 59 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. 55 of the 59 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 electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 218 ft | $20 | |
| A | A02 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 199 ft | $20 | |
| A | A03 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 191 ft | $20 | |
| A | A04 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 48 ft | 248 ft | $20 | |
| A | A05 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 46 ft | 242 ft | $20 | |
| A | A06 | standard electric | 22 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 229 ft | $20 | |
| A | A07 | standard electric | 29 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 170 ft | $20 | |
| A | A08 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 48 ft | 179 ft | $20 | |
| A | A09 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 232 ft | $20 | |
| A | A10 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 48 ft | 201 ft | $20 | |
| A | A11 | standard electric | 29 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 262 ft | $20 | |
| A | A12 | standard electric | 29 ft | 30 amp | yes | 85 ft | 268 ft | $20 |
| A | A13 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 471 ft | $20 | |
| A | A14 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | yes | 58 ft | 458 ft | $20 |
| A | A15 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 386 ft | $20 | |
| A | A16 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 419 ft | $20 | |
| A | A17 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 387 ft | $20 | |
| A | A18 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 386 ft | $20 | |
| A | A19 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 379 ft | $20 | |
| A | A20 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 344 ft | $20 | |
| A | A21 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 374 ft | $20 | |
| A | A22 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 293 ft | $20 | |
| A | A23 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 300 ft | $20 | |
| A | A24 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 245 ft | $20 | |
| A | A25 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 270 ft | $20 | |
| A | A26 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 180 ft | $20 | |
| A | A27 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 168 ft | $20 | |
| A | A28 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 103 ft | $20 | |
| A | A29 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 79 ft | 105 ft | $10 | ||
| A | A30 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 79 ft | 156 ft | $10 | ||
| A | A31 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 55 ft | 156 ft | $10 | ||
| A | A32 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 55 ft | 133 ft | $10 | ||
| A | A33 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 34 ft | 92 ft | $10 | ||
| A | A34 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 34 ft | 57 ft | $10 | ||
| A | A35 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 75 ft | $10 | ||
| A | A36 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 109 ft | 47 ft | $10 | ||
| A | A37 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 124 ft | $20 | |
| A | A37A | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 17 ft | 130 ft | $20 | |
| A | A38 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 40 ft | 121 ft | $20 | |
| A | A39 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 17 ft | 123 ft | $20 | |
| A | A40 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 53 ft | $10 | ||
| A | A41 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 95 ft | 55 ft | $10 | ||
| A | T1 | type not stated | 222 ft | |||||
| A | T2 | type not stated | 197 ft | |||||
| A | T3 | type not stated | 172 ft | |||||
| A | T4 | type not stated | 143 ft | |||||
| B | B01 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 509 ft | 473 ft | $10 | |
| B | B02 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 509 ft | 121 ft | $10 | |
| B | B03 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 49 ft | 169 ft | $10 | ||
| B | B04 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 49 ft | 202 ft | $10 | ||
| B | B05 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 40 ft | 190 ft | $10 | ||
| B | B06 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 40 ft | 215 ft | $10 | ||
| B | B07 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 63 ft | 271 ft | $10 | ||
| B | B08 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 73 ft | 291 ft | $10 | ||
| B | B09 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 76 ft | 240 ft | $10 | ||
| B | B10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 297 ft | $10 | ||
| B | B11 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 64 ft | 292 ft | $10 | ||
| B | B12 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 57 ft | 209 ft | $10 | ||
| B | B13 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 632 ft | 224 ft | $10 |
25 of 59 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Orleans Trail1.8 mi
Stockton Park (MO)2.2 mi
Hawker Point4.6 mi
Masters (MO)5.9 mi
Cedar Ridge (MO)7.6 mi
Ruark Bluff West10 miFrom Stockton, Missouri, take State Highway 32 east for 3.5 miles. Turn right onto the access road and follow signs into the park area.
The weather
the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
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
Crabtree Cove 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 →