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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · OK

Lakeside (OK)

ReservableBookable through November 30; an off-peak season follows December 1 to March 31.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:30 UTC
A night: $18–$28Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 139All of them booked ahead

Photos · Audrey White

90 ftLongest rig

630 ftElevation

658 ftWater · an unnamed lake

4.9 miNW of Colbert, OK

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices

In the agency’s own words

Lakeside 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 137 campsites, most of which have electrical and water hookups. A large, day-use group picnic shelter is available with hookups as well. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, and drinking water. Two dump stations, two boat ramps and two docks are located on-site.

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, turkey, 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.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Entrance gates are open from 6 a.m.-10 p.m.

Rule

During winter months, one frost-free hydrant is available within the campground to fill water tanks; individual water hookups are shut off annually after the end of November.

Rule

For more information on Lake Texoma, click here

Everything else this campground posts · 2

Rule

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.

Rule

Some sites in Lakeside will be closed during the off season, for boat launch pay at fee vault at the ramp. Park will be fully open starting April 1st.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 139 · 4 tent-only
Hookups: 135 electric, 139 water
Longest rig: 90 ft
Paved pads: 1 of 139
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Vault Toilets; “…well. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, and drinking water. Two dump stations,…”
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. Two dump stations, two boat ramps and two docks…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Store: Nearby
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Reservoir, Lake, Beach
Night sky · 88th darkest of 106 in OK: Bortle 4

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

96 of 274 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:30 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBooked

Booking windowThrough November 30Bookable now through November 30, 2026, the end of the peak season. The off-peak season that follows runs December 1, 2026 through March 31, 2027; recreation.gov releases it on its own schedule, so check there before counting on those nights.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$18–$28plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$44–$64DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$18–$28

Tent Only Nonelectric$18

Standard Electric$26

50-Standard Electric$28

Group area, a night$50

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 1, 2026 to Nov 30, 2026.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$26–$36

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$44–$64

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$28 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:30 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

140 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 139 mapped sites

59 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop LAKE S1 195 ftF18 160 ftA14 152 ftF12 127 ftE32 125 ft

Least roomD18 28 ftD19 28 ftF16 32 ft

2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 140 records

139 of 140 records located

Tent only4RV / electric134Day use1

A012 A02 A03 A04 A05 A06 A07 A08 A09 A10 A11 A12 A13 A14 A15 A16 A17 B01 B02 B03 B04 B05 B06 B07 B08 B09 B10 B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 B16 B17 B18 B19 B20 B21 B22 B23 D01 D02 D03 D04 D05 D06 D07 D08 D09 D10 D11 D12 D13 D14 D15 D16 D17 D18 D19 D20 D21 D22 D23 D24 D25 D26 D27 D28 D29 D30 D31 E01 E02 E03 E04 E05 E06 E07 E08 E09 E10 E11 E12 E13 E14 E15 E16 E17 E18 E19 E20 E21 E22 E23 E24 E25 E26 E27 E28 E29 E30 E31 E32 F01 F02 F03 F04 F05 F06 F07 F08 F09 F10 F11 F12 F13 F14 F15 F16 F17 F18 F19 F20 F21 F22 F23 F24 F25 F26 F27 F28 F29 F30 F31 F32 F33 F34 S1

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 139 of the 140 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	40 ft	30 amp		123 ft	$26–$28
A	A02	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	80 ft	201 ft	$26–$28
A	A03	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	78 ft	44 ft	$26–$28
A	A04	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	50 ft	122 ft	$26–$28
A	A05	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	50 ft	146 ft	$26–$28
A	A06	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	62 ft	128 ft	$26–$28
A	A07	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	84 ft	44 ft	$26–$28
A	A08	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	43 ft	219 ft	$26–$28
A	A09	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	43 ft	177 ft	$26–$28
A	A10	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	47 ft	136 ft	$26–$28
A	A11	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	47 ft	109 ft	$26–$28
A	A12	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	54 ft	85 ft	$26–$28
A	A13	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	54 ft	49 ft	$26–$28
A	A14	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	152 ft	71 ft	$26–$28
A	A15	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	99 ft	191 ft	$26–$28
A	A16	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	59 ft	268 ft	$26–$28
A	A17	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	59 ft	314 ft	$26–$28
A	A18	standard electric	40 ft	15 amp		123 ft	$26–$28
A	A19	standard electric	40 ft	15 amp			$26–$28
B	B01	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	83 ft	182 ft	$26–$28
B	B02	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	83 ft	158 ft	$26–$28
B	B03	standard electric	85 ft	50 amp	105 ft	165 ft	$26–$28
B	B04	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	61 ft	159 ft	$26–$28
B	B05	standard electric	75 ft	50 amp	61 ft	137 ft	$26–$28
B	B06	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	81 ft	144 ft	$26–$28
B	B07	standard electric	75 ft	50 amp	78 ft	157 ft	$26–$28
B	B08	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	78 ft	172 ft	$26–$28
B	B09	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	79 ft	144 ft	$26–$28
B	B10	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	59 ft	122 ft	$26–$28
B	B11	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	59 ft	89 ft	$26–$28
B	B12	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	44 ft	45 ft	$26–$28
B	B13	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	44 ft	20 ft	$26–$28
B	B14	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	66 ft	under 10 ft	$26–$28
B	B15	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	57 ft	18 ft	$26–$28
B	B16	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	48 ft	under 10 ft	$26–$28
B	B17	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	48 ft	10 ft	$26–$28
B	B18	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	87 ft	160 ft	$26–$28
B	B19	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	87 ft	179 ft	$26–$28
B	B20	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	97 ft	181 ft	$26–$28
B	B21	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	79 ft	156 ft	$26–$28
B	B22	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	79 ft	156 ft	$26–$28
B	B23	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	97 ft	162 ft	$26–$28
D	D01	tent only nonelectric	55 ft		71 ft	224 ft	$18
D	D02	tent only nonelectric	45 ft		70 ft	246 ft	$18
D	D03	tent only nonelectric	45 ft		51 ft	200 ft	$18
D	D04	tent only nonelectric	30 ft		51 ft	181 ft	$18
D	D05	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	87 ft	112 ft	$26–$28
D	D06	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	50 ft	192 ft	$26–$28
D	D07	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	62 ft	155 ft	$26–$28
D	D08	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	43 ft	216 ft	$26–$28
D	D09	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	51 ft	179 ft	$26–$28
D	D10	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	43 ft	248 ft	$26–$28
D	D11	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	51 ft	199 ft	$26–$28
D	D12	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	48 ft	269 ft	$26–$28
D	D13	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	40 ft	219 ft	$26–$28
D	D14	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	49 ft	293 ft	$26–$28
D	D15	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	40 ft	202 ft	$26–$28
D	D16	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	65 ft	254 ft	$26–$28
D	D17	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	81 ft	225 ft	$26–$28
D	D18	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp	28 ft	332 ft	$26–$28
D	D19	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	28 ft	359 ft	$26–$28
D	D20	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	49 ft	327 ft	$26–$28
D	D21	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	46 ft	306 ft	$26–$28
D	D22	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	45 ft	333 ft	$26–$28
D	D23	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	45 ft	332 ft	$26–$28
D	D24	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	56 ft	375 ft	$26–$28
D	D25	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	56 ft	385 ft	$26–$28
D	D26	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	64 ft	403 ft	$26–$28
D	D27	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	64 ft	421 ft	$26–$28
D	D28	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	73 ft	352 ft	$26–$28
D	D29	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	61 ft	441 ft	$26–$28
D	D30	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	61 ft	476 ft	$26–$28
D	D31	standard electric	75 ft	50 amp	107 ft	392 ft	$26–$28
E	E01	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	58 ft	136 ft	$26–$28
E	E02	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	58 ft	93 ft	$26–$28
E	E03	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	62 ft	83 ft	$26–$28
E	E04	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	62 ft	61 ft	$26–$28
E	E05	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	65 ft	19 ft	$26–$28
E	E06	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	54 ft	under 10 ft	$26–$28
E	E07	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	54 ft	under 10 ft	$26–$28
E	E08	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	65 ft	10 ft	$26–$28
E	E09	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	59 ft	40 ft	$26–$28
E	E10	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	58 ft	26 ft	$26–$28
E	E11	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	58 ft	14 ft	$26–$28
E	E12	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	46 ft	69 ft	$26–$28
E	E13	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	46 ft	64 ft	$26–$28
E	E14	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	54 ft	34 ft	$26–$28
E	E15	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	82 ft	42 ft	$26–$28
E	E16	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	82 ft	115 ft	$26–$28
E	E17	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	84 ft	113 ft	$26–$28
E	E18	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	54 ft	46 ft	$26–$28
E	E19	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	54 ft	19 ft	$26–$28
E	E20	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	68 ft	110 ft	$26–$28
E	E21	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	45 ft	114 ft	$26–$28
E	E22	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	64 ft	51 ft	$26–$28
E	E23	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	45 ft	123 ft	$26–$28
E	E24	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	45 ft	39 ft	$26–$28
E	E25	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	82 ft	117 ft	$26–$28
E	E26	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	45 ft	36 ft	$26–$28
E	E27	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	65 ft	51 ft	$26–$28
E	E28	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	76 ft	147 ft	$26–$28
E	E29	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	83 ft	63 ft	$26–$28
E	E30	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	86 ft	103 ft	$26–$28
E	E31	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	76 ft	202 ft	$26–$28
E	E32	standard electric	85 ft	50 amp	125 ft	278 ft	$26–$28
F	F01	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	39 ft	149 ft	$26–$28
F	F02	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	125 ft	271 ft	$26–$28
F	F03	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	39 ft	158 ft	$26–$28
F	F04	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	39 ft	163 ft	$26–$28
F	F05	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	43 ft	162 ft	$26–$28
F	F06	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	58 ft	118 ft	$26–$28
F	F07	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	112 ft	140 ft	$26–$28
F	F08	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	58 ft	65 ft	$26–$28
F	F09	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	64 ft	44 ft	$26–$28
F	F10	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	61 ft	31 ft	$26–$28
F	F11	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	61 ft	under 10 ft	$26–$28
F	F12	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	127 ft	248 ft	$26–$28
F	F13	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	97 ft	153 ft	$26–$28
F	F14	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	36 ft	251 ft	$26–$28
F	F15	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	35 ft	286 ft	$26–$28
F	F16	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	32 ft	320 ft	$26–$28
F	F17	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	32 ft	348 ft	$26–$28
F	F18	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	160 ft	518 ft	$26–$28
F	F19	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp	48 ft	391 ft	$26–$28
F	F20	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	42 ft	400 ft	$26–$28
F	F21	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	48 ft	344 ft	$26–$28
F	F22	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	42 ft	357 ft	$26–$28
F	F23	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	50 ft	310 ft	$26–$28
F	F24	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	40 ft	259 ft	$26–$28
F	F25	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	40 ft	220 ft	$26–$28
F	F26	standard electric	85 ft	30 amp	96 ft	169 ft	$26–$28
F	F27	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	96 ft	126 ft	$26–$28
F	F28	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	75 ft	60 ft	$26–$28
F	F29	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	67 ft	54 ft	$26–$28
F	F30	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	96 ft	167 ft	$26–$28
F	F31	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	58 ft	51 ft	$26–$28
F	F32	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	58 ft	66 ft	$26–$28
F	F33	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	68 ft	69 ft	$26–$28
F	F34	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	68 ft	43 ft	$26–$28
LAKE	S1	day use		30 amp	195 ft	287 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.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

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 140 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate33.94062, -96.55275

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone580-920-0176

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Platter Flats1.3 mi

Johnson Creek4.2 mi

Burns Run West5.6 mi

Burns Run East6.3 mi

Preston Bend6.9 mi

Damsite Texas8.4 mi

Getting there

From Durant, Oklahoma, travel 10 miles west on HWY 70 to Streetman Road. Turn south on Streetman Road and follow it 4 miles to the park entrance.

Physical address: 3991 Streetman Road, Mead, OK 73449

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today64°Mostly Sunny1% rain

Tonight45°Mostly Clear

Saturday65°Sunny

Saturday Night43°Clear

NWS forecast for Sand Point, OK

Source: National Weather Service, OUN forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

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.

100°32°20°

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.

Measured at: DURANT, OK (USC00342678), 11 miles away and 30 ft lower

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Lakeside (OK) 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 30 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 140 of the 139 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 139 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 1.1 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 106 rated federal campgrounds in Oklahoma · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Sand Point, OK, 1.2 mi SE (a census designated place). Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026