Loggers Lake Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 10 of the next 10 nights read 16:46 UTC
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 1110 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located deep in the interior forests of Shannon County, Logger's Lake Campground is situated along the southeast shore of Logger's Lake. Constructed in 1942, this spring-fed lake is maintained as a fishery and is a destination for anglers looking for non-motorized boating and quiet bank fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Logger's Lake offers good fishing for large-mouth bass, sunfish and channel catfish. The Day Use area has a small swim beach, boat ramp, picnic tables, and grills.
Facilities
The campground area is located on the southeast lakeshore and all sites have a view of the lake, with only light vegetation in between. There are 14 sites with each site offering a table, fire ring, tent pad, and some offer lantern posts. Drinking water and vault toilets are centrally located. There are two boat ramps, and a barrier-free fishing pier. Group camping is available at Oak Knoll.
Natural Features
The campground is located on 22-acre, spring-fed Logger's Lake. A variety of colorful vegetation, clear creeks and springs provide a picturesque setting.
What the agency tells you
Boats are permitted with electric motors only.
No lifeguard on duty.
Several springs feed water into the lake basin, helping maintain a cool temperature.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Shaded sites are available.
Quiet hours are from 10:00 PM until 6:00 AM
Road leading into campground is gravel with rough patches. Speed should be kept to a minimum over rough road surfaces.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 10 of 11
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…offer lantern posts. Drinking water and vault toilets are centrally located. There are two boat ramps,…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…tent pad, and some offer lantern posts. Drinking water and vault toilets are centrally located. There are…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Other Recreation Concession Site
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 10th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 3
Full this Saturdayread 16:46 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
5 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:36 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 7 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 8 are free on Tue, Oct 20. read 16:46 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.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 5
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:36 UTC
- Round SpringOzark National Scenic Riverways · 10 mi · 97 of 124 site-nights open
- PulltiteOzark National Scenic Riverways · 12 mi · 42 of 112 site-nights open
- Two RiversOzark National Scenic Riverways · 13 mi · 32 of 44 site-nights open
- AkersOzark National Scenic Riverways · 17 mi · 8 of 8 site-nights open
- Alley SpringOzark National Scenic Riverways · 19 mi · 238 of 324 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 11 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 10 of the 11 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. 10 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 42 ftLoggers Lake | 340 ft | $15 | |
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 50 ftLoggers Lake | 300 ft | $15 | |
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 158 ft | 155 ftLoggers Lake | 108 ft | $15 | |
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 123 ftLoggers Lake | 279 ft | $15 | |
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 186 ftLoggers Lake | 258 ft | $15 | |
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 73 ft | 115 ftLoggers Lake | 337 ft | $15 |
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 103 ftLoggers Lake | 380 ft | $15 | |
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 101 ftLoggers Lake | 377 ft | $15 | |
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 74 ft | 100 ftLoggers Lake | 345 ft | $15 |
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 111 ft | 210 ftLoggers Lake | 238 ft | $15 | |
| LOGGERS LAKE CAMPGROUND | GS01 | type not stated | 40 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sinking Creek CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 9.6 mi
Round SpringOzark National Scenic Riverways · 10 mi
Jerktail CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 11 mi
PulltiteOzark National Scenic Riverways · 12 mi
Broadfoot CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 13 miFrom the junction of MO A Hwy and Hwy 72, go 1/4 mile west on A Hwy to Dent Co Rd 565 (Lincoln Ave). Go south on 565, 6 miles to FR 2193. Turn left on 2193 for 1 mile to Logger's Lake.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bunker, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°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
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Loggers Lake Campground is in Missouri’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Jason Smith (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 moneyJason SmithU.S. Representative · Missouri’s 8th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationEric SchmittU.S. Senator · Missouri
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJosh HawleyU.S. Senator · Missouri
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 Loggers Lake Campground, Missouri
Dear Jason Smith, I’m a constituent in Missouri’s 8th district. I tried to camp at Loggers Lake Campground, Missouri, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 10 of the 11 campsites the agency files at Loggers Lake 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 7 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Loggers Lake Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Loggers Lake Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest 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 Loggers Lake Campground (Missouri) 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 Loggers Lake Campground, Missouri
Dear Eric Schmitt, I’m a constituent in Missouri. I tried to camp at Loggers Lake Campground, Missouri, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 10 of the 11 campsites the agency files at Loggers Lake 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 7 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Loggers Lake Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Loggers Lake Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest 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 Loggers Lake Campground (Missouri) 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 Loggers Lake Campground, Missouri
Dear Josh Hawley, I’m a constituent in Missouri. I tried to camp at Loggers Lake Campground, Missouri, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 10 of the 11 campsites the agency files at Loggers Lake 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 7 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Loggers Lake Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Loggers Lake Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest 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 Loggers Lake Campground (Missouri) via campanac.com