Cricket Creek
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25–$36Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3736 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cricket Creek is a spacious and sunny campground located along the Long Creek Arm of Table Rock Lake in the Arkansas countryside. With panoramic views of the lake and the rocky bluffs, which rise above the water, Cricket Creek is one of the more scenic campgrounds in the area. Cricket Creek is very popular in the spring months of April & May, & has become very busy in the summer months as well. This is a great setting for visitors and campers to relax and enjoy the lake. Keep reading
Recreation
A full-service public marina located at the campground offers everything from boat rentals to tubes, water skis and wakeboard rentals. Fisherman can purchase a license here and fuel up for a day on the water. While the lake boasts an abundance of crappie, catfish, and bluegill, Table Rock is most famous for bass, and is acclaimed as one of the best bass fishing lakes in this hemisphere. Scuba diving is also a popular activity in the crystal clear lake waters, which offer high visibility and plenty of underwater excitement, including the remnants of a submerged town and grove of old oak trees. For an indoor activity, visitors may enjoy a trip to the Dewey Short Visitors Center where 3 educational films are offered on topics including, the history of the dam, the story of Lewis and Clark and the history of eagles and their endangerment in the state of Missouri.
Facilities
Cricket Creek Campground offers 37 reservable campsites. Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a comfortable camping experience. A full service marina is located on site and offers everything from rentals to groceries to gas. A swim area, boat ramp, playground and picnic area make the campground perfect for family trips.
Natural Features
At Cricket Creek, a marina extends out over the bright blue waters on one end, and a large, sandy swimming beach is offered on the other, providing convenient access to the cool waters of Table Rock Lake from every angle. Table Rock Lake is a beautiful body of water surrounded by a forest of oak and hickory trees. Its waters wind down through the valleys and hollows of the Ozark Mountains, from Branson, Missouri to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. More than five million visitors per year take advantage of this recreational oasis. Originally built for flood control, the Table Rock Dam has created a lake that boasts 779 miles of shoreline for the public to enjoy.
Nearby Attractions
The Dewey Short Visitors Center is located at the south end of Table Rock Dam, with educational exhibits on the natural history of the area, a courtesy dock and scenic hikes that leave from the center. Cricket Creek Campground is about 12 miles from Branson, Missouri, which offers grocery stores, gas and additional tourist attractions.
What the agency tells you
Staffed booth hours are between the hours of 8:00 a.m-10:00 a.m. and from 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., seven days a week. Camphost and or Rangers will issue campground hangtags after valid check-in. Please check-out on departure. If Camphost is not present, please drop pink tag off at the drop box.
All checkout times are at 3:00 p.m. All RV's, vehicles, and supplies still on site after 3:00 p.m. may be subjected to impoundment our towed at the owners expense.
All discounted passes (Golden Age, Senior Lifetime, Senior Annual, Access) must be physically present upon arrival. Fraudulent use of a Golden Age or Golden Access Passport (Printouts, photos etc.) is prohibited and will not be discounted.
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Failure to pay day use fees, and or properly display applicable receipt, permit or pass is prohibited. All daily guests must pay a day-use fee and have day-use receipt properly displayed. Day passes and USACE annual passes may be purchased at the kiosk next to the booth.
All personal equipment (boats, trailers, personal supplies etc. ) must be stored at reserved campsites. No equipment shall be stored in boat ramp/day-use parking for overnight storage.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
One tent and one RV, or two tents are allowed per campsite.
No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must be disposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands.
Shower tents, changing tents, and latrines are prohibited.
Pets must be penned, caged, or on a leash under six feet in length at all times.
Please be advised that providing business services within a USACE campground is prohibited per Title 327.18(a) The engaging in or solicitation of business on project lands or waters without the express written permission of the District Commander is prohibited. This includes services such as RV or tent delivery & set-up, firewood sales and delivery.
Please review the Title 36 brochure for complete rules and regulations. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-36/chapter-III/part-327
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 37
- Hookups
- 36 electric, 37 water, 1 sewer
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a comfortable camping experience.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campsites. Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Ranger Station
- Swimming
- Water access
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 127th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 36 of the 37 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$36 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
37 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 36 mapped sitesAll 37 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. 36 of the 37 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.
| CRICKET CREEK | 01 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 517 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 02 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 448 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 03 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 369 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 04 | type not stated | 64 ft | 50 amp | 279 ft | ||
| CRICKET CREEK | 05 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 333 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 06 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 265 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 07 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 328 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 08 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 265 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 09 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 330 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 10 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 254 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 11 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 307 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 12 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 238 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 13 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 292 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 14 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 208 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 15 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 37 ft | 300 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 16 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 193 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 17 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 37 ft | 279 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 18 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 193 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 19 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 275 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 20 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 214 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 21 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 295 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 22 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 228 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 23 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 417 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 24 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 443 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 25 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 393 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 26 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 434 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 27 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 373 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 28 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 437 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 29 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 361 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 30 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 408 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 31 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 372 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 32 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 327 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 33 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 280 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 34 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 297 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 35 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 329 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 36 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 359 ft | $25–$36 |
| CRICKET CREEK | 37 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 377 ft | $25–$36 |
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.
25 of 37 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Old Highway 865.4 mi
Moonshine Beach Rec. Area8.6 mi
Indian Point11 mi
Mill Creek (Missouri)11 mi
Baxter13 mi
Aunts Creek16 miFrom Branson, Missouri, take US-65 south for nearly 12 miles. Turn right onto HWY 14 South for 1/4 mile which will turn Left, Stay on 14 South it will take you 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 Blue Eye, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°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
Cricket Creek is in Arkansas’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Rick Crawford (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →