Johnson Creek
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:16 UTC
- A night
- $24–$44Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 54All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Johnson Creek Campground is located on Lake Texoma in Oklahoma's Cross Timbers Region. The lake is said to be the "Playground of the Southwest," where outdoor activities like fishing, boating, hiking and hunting abound. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Texoma is a large reservoir with an excellent fishery and many access points. Boating, swimming, water skiing, hunting, birding and relaxing on the sandy beaches are the typical pursuits of most visitors. The lake is known as the "Striper Capital of the World," one of the few reservoirs in the nation where striped bass reproduce naturally. Other popular species include largemouth and smallmouth bass, white bass, hybrid striped bass, white crappie, black crappie, channel catfish and blue catfish. Also available is the scenic Cross Timbers hiking trail, a very popular trail that winds for 14 miles above the lake on rocky ledges and through blackjack woodland. Forty miles of equestrian trails surround the lake as well.
Facilities
This popular campground offers 54 paved campsites with electrical and water hookups. Sites 15-17, 44, 49, 50, and 52-54 have covered picnic tables. A day-use group picnic shelter with electricity is available as well. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water. A boat ramp, dock and dump station are located on-site. A marina and general store are within one mile of the campground.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the eastern side of Lake Texoma. Post and blackjack oaks forest the rolling hills of the region. Deer, turkeys, bobcats, hawks, waterfowl and songbirds are abundant around the lake.
Nearby Attractions
The lake features two wildlife refuges, two state parks and 23 commercial concession areas dedicated to the enjoyment of over six million visitors annually.
What the agency tells you
Entrance gates are open from 6 a.m.-10 p.m.
During winter months, one frost-free hydrant is available within the campground to fill water tanks; individual water hookups are shut off annually after November
For more information on Lake Texoma, click here
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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.
Some sites in Johnson will be closed during the off season, pay boat launch fee at vault located at the front of the park. Park will be fully open starting April 1st.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 54
- Hookups
- 54 electric, 54 water
- Longest rig
- 90 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…well. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water. A boat ramp, dock and…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water. A boat ramp, dock and dump station are located…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 79th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
38 of 108 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:16 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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$44 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 16:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
55 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 54 mapped sitesAll 55 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 54 of the 55 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| JCRE | 01 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 435 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 02 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 386 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 03 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 235 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 04 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 219 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 05 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 213 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 06 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 185 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 07 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 181 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 08 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 254 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 09 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 178 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 10 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 157 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 11 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 132 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 12 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 207 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 13 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 204 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 14 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 190 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 15 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 128 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 127 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 17 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 127 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 18 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 160 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 19 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 278 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 20 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 304 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 21-22 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 312 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 23 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 213 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 24 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 253 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 25 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 357 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 26 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 312 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 27 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 359 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 28 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 384 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 29 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 378 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 30 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 355 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 31 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 263 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 32 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 331 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 33 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 358 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 34 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 405 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 35 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 318 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 36 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 245 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 37 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 160 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 38 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 146 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 39 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 160 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 40 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 209 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 41 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 345 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 42 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 305 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 43 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 342 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 44 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 366 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 45 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 313 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 46 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 261 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 47 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 191 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 48 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | $24–$44 | |||
| JCRE | 49 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 188 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 50 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 188 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 51 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 260 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 52 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 322 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 53 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 384 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 54 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 401 ft | $24–$44 | |
| JCRE | 55 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 95 ft | 392 ft | $24–$44 |
| JCRE | S1 | day use | 30 amp | 143 ft | 175 ft | $50 |
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.
25 of 55 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lakeside (OK)4.2 mi
Platter Flats5.5 mi
Caney Creek9.2 mi
Preston Bend9.4 mi
Burns Run West9.4 mi
Burns Run East10 miFrom Durant, OK, travel 11 miles west on Highway 70. Exit off Highway 70 to the north and the park entrance is 300 yards ahead. Physical address: 215 Johnson Creek Road, Mead, OK 73449.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sand Point, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Johnson Creek 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 →