Dam Site (Fort Gibson Lake)
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 14 nights read 16:20 UTC
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dam Site Campground is situated below Fort Gibson Dam on the west bank of the Grand River in northeastern Oklahoma. The campground was severely damaged during the 2019 flood. None of the campsites offer water or electric. The campground is open for day use and primitive camping. The group shelter and Overlook shelter are only reservable through recreation.gov Recreation The nearly 20,000-acre lake offers great boating and swimming opportunities. Anglers enjoy fishing for black bass, white bass, crappie and several varieties of catfish and panfish. The lake's 225 miles of shoreline are home to thousands of acres of public hunting lands, where white-tailed deer, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, duck, geese, cottontail rabbit and squirrel roam. Keep reading
Facilities
This seasonal campground offers 23 primitive campsites. Large family groups can take advange of the group day use shelter within the park, as well as, one located at the Overlook.
Natural Features
Fort Gibson Lake sits nearly 8 miles from the confluence of the Grand and Arkansas Rivers. An oak-hickory woodland covers the rolling hills of the region. A wide variety of waterfowl migrates through the area annually and provides plenty of opportunities for bird watchers.
Nearby Attractions
Historic Fort Gibson, established in 1824, served as an important military post on the western frontier for close to 70 years. Now a National Historical Landmark, the site is open to the public year round. Volunteers reenact the lifestyle of the late 1800s during various events held throughout the year. A reconstructed log stockade, and original barracks, hospital, bakehouse and other structures still stand today.
What the agency tells you
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and buring it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirwood.org for further information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
2 of 2 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:20 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $14 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 16:20 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 26 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 26 of the 26 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. 24 of the 26 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.
| Main | 1 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 183 ft | 1,114 ft | $14 |
| Main | 14 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | 259 ft | 1,499 ft | $14 |
| Main | 23 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 161 ft | 1,853 ft | $14 |
| Main | 24 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 123 ft | 1,798 ft | $14 |
| Main | 25 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 217 ft | 1,750 ft | $14 |
| Main | 26 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 125 ft | 1,745 ft | $14 |
| Main | 27 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 193 ft | 1,635 ft | $14 |
| Main | 28 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 139 ft | 1,701 ft | $14 |
| Main | 3 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 205 ft | 1,141 ft | $14 |
| Main | 30 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 128 ft | 1,674 ft | $14 |
| Main | 31 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 115 ft | 1,637 ft | $14 |
| Main | 34 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 177 ft | 1,580 ft | $14 |
| Main | 35 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 125 ft | 1,549 ft | $14 |
| Main | 36 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 124 ft | 1,524 ft | $14 |
| Main | 37 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 103 ft | 1,483 ft | $14 |
| Main | 38 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 91 ft | 1,443 ft | $14 |
| Main | 39 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 196 ft | 1,422 ft | $14 |
| Main | 4 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 169 ft | 1,230 ft | $14 |
| Main | 40 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 153 ft | 1,372 ft | $14 |
| Main | 43 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 110 ft | 1,207 ft | $14 |
| Main | 5 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 228 ft | 1,166 ft | $14 |
| Main | 6 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 192 ft | 1,257 ft | $14 |
| Main | 7 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 262 ft | 1,174 ft | $14 |
| Main | 9 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 286 ft | 1,207 ft | $14 |
| Main | DS Shelter | day use | 558 ft | 172 ft | 898 ft | $50 |
| Overlook | OL Shelter | day use | 1013 ft | 889 ft | 157 ft | $50 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Wahoo Bay3.3 mi
Wildwood (OK)3.7 mi
Taylor Ferry5.4 mi
Tullahasse Loop12 mi
Rocky Point (Ft Gibson)13 mi
Flat Rock Creek13 miUpdated with Fort Gibson Dam closure.
From Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, turn onto US-62 W. Turn right onto OK-16 E/Okay Rd/N York St and continue to follow OK-16 E. Continue onto OK-251A E. The park will be on your right at the bottom of the hill just before the dam.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mallard Bay, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°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
Dam Site (Fort Gibson Lake) 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 →