Doris Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $12–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 9391 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Worn by time and nature, the Wichita Mountains loom large above the prairie in southwest Oklahoma—a lasting refuge for wildlife. Situated just outside the Lawton/Ft. Sill area, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge preserves approximately 60,000 acres of mixed grass prairie, ancient granite mountains, and fresh water lakes and streams for the benefit of wildlife and the American people. Best known for its roaming herds of bison, longhorn, and Rocky Mountain elk, Wichita Mountains also offers quality opportunities for wildlife dependent recreation including fishing, bird watching, wildlife photography, hiking, camping, and kayaking. Keep reading
Recreation
Doris Campground is a recreational hub for visitors to the Wichita Mountains. Situated along the shoreline of Quanah Parker Lake, it’s a stone’s throw away from quality fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and hiking. Campers can toss a line in the water or start up the Little Baldly trail for a picturesque hike. The Visitor Center, additional trails, and notable features like Mt. Scott are just a few miles down the road.
Facilities
Doris Campground contains 3 group camping sites, 23 single family electric sites, 47 single family non-electric sites, and 20 semi-primitive, walk-in tent sites. Most campsites are sizeable enough for RVs and trailer. Each campsite is equipped with a picnic table, fire ring, and grill. Roads are paved. Flush toilets and showers are provided within easy walking distance in a centrally located shower/restroom complex. The group campsites and Loops A and D have chemical or vault toilets only, and no water. Water is available via hydrants throughout the campground. A dump station is provided for RVs and trailers.
Natural Features
Explore ancient granite mountains. Find yourself in a cedar forest. Dare to discover wide open spaces and fresh water lakes meant to support wildlife like the American bison and Rocky Mountain elk. Fish. Hike. Photograph. Immerse yourself in the wild.
Nearby Attractions
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge encompasses roughly 60,000 acres. Doris Campground is centrally located allowing visitors opportunities to explore all areas of the refuge with a short drive. Head up Mount Scott or hang out at Prairie Dog Town. Bring your fishing pole, a set of binoculars, or your camera. The possibilities are endless. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (580) 429-3222 for general information.
What the agency tells you
Know before you go...familiarize yourself with Wichita Mountain's rules and regulations .
No cell phone coverage in campground.
In case of emergency, call 911.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Frequent weather changes occur. Be prepared for severe heat, wind, rain, and possible tornadoes.
Bison and longhorn are free roaming, for your safety do not approach.
Camping Information and Regulations: 1. Campfires are permitted only in established fire grates. Fires must be attended at all times. Only dead, down, and detached wood may be gathered. Wood should not extend outside the fire grate perimeter. Do not break limbs off of standing trees, living or dead. Drown campfires thoroughly with water to make sure they are completely out. 2. Campfires may be restricted during high fire danger. 3. Parking off the pavement in the grass or around campsites is prohibited throughout the campground and the refuge. 4. Quiet hours are from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. 5. Generators are prohibited from operating between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Generators must be turned off during the day when campsite is not occupied by site renter. Generators may not exceed a noise level of 60 decibels at 50 feet. 6. ALL pets must be on a leash. 7. No trading sites, the site you reserve is your site. 8. Visitors may park at the overflow parking by the check station and hike to your site. 9. Alcohol is prohibited throughout the Refuge. 10. Maximum of 2 vehicles per site. 11. Maximum of 8 people per site. 12. Fourteen day maximum stay. 13. No ATV, UTV or Golf Carts in the camp grounds or on the refuge.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 93 · 1 tent-only, 20 walk-in, 3 group, 2 cabin
- Hookups
- 25 electric
- Paved pads
- 70 of 93
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…fire ring, and grill. Roads are paved. Flush toilets and showers are provided within easy walking… / …and Loops A and D have chemical or vault toilets only, and no water. Water is available via hydrants…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- Shower/Bath Type states a shower on 54 campsite record(s) that are not a cabin, of this campground's 93
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Canoeing
- Climbing
- Environmental Education
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Visitor center
- Wilderness access
- Wildlife viewing
Full this Saturdayread 15:22 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
Every one of the 90 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 65 are free on Wed, Oct 21. read 15:22 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $12–$24 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 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
93 sites
All 93 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. 71 of the 93 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 14 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 15 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 16 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 18 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 2 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 3 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 4 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 5 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 6 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 7 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 8 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| A | 9 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| B | 43 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| B | 44 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| B | 45 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| B | 46 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| B | 47 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| B | 48 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| B | 49 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| B | 50 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| B | 51 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| B | 52 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| C | 19 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 20 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 31 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 32 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 33 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 34 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 35 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 36 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 37 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 38 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 39 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 40 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 41 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| C | 42 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| D | 21 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| D | 22 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| D | 23 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| D | 24 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| D | 25 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| D | 26 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| D | 27 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| D | 28 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| D | 29 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| D | 30 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| E | 53 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 54 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 55 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 56 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 57 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 58 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 59 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 60 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 61 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 62 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 63 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 64 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 65 | standard electric | 30 amp | $22–$24 |
| E | 66 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| E | 67 | type not stated | ||
| E | 68 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| E | 69 | type not stated | ||
| E | 70 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| Group | A | group shelter electric | $40 | |
| Group | B | group shelter electric | $40 | |
| Group | C | group tent only area nonelectric | $30 | |
| SP | 71 | walk to | ||
| SP | 72 | walk to | ||
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25 of 93 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Fawn Creek Youth CampgroundWichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge · 3.1 miMoneka North Campground44 miWichita Ridge Campground44 mi
Kiowa Park I45 mi
Chisholm Trail Ridge47 miGuy Sandy CampgroundChickasaw National Recreation Area · 93 miFrom I-44 take Highway 49 (exit 45). Go west 7 miles to the Refuge gate or 14 miles to the Visitor Center. If coming from Highway 62, take Highway 115 (Cache exit) north to the Refuge Gate.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cache, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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
Doris Campground 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 →
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 moneyTom ColeU.S. Representative · Oklahoma’s 4th 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 Doris Campground, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Dear Tom Cole, I’m a constituent in Oklahoma’s 4th district. I tried to camp at Doris Campground, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 91 of the 93 campsites the agency files at Doris Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 90 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Doris Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Doris Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 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 Doris Campground (Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, 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 Doris Campground, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Dear Alan Armstrong, I’m a constituent in Oklahoma. I tried to camp at Doris Campground, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 91 of the 93 campsites the agency files at Doris Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 90 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Doris Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Doris Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 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 Doris Campground (Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, 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 Doris Campground, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Dear James Lankford, I’m a constituent in Oklahoma. I tried to camp at Doris Campground, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 91 of the 93 campsites the agency files at Doris Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 90 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Doris Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Doris Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 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 Doris Campground (Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma) via campanac.com