Mahaffey Point
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 17 mi
This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Mahaffey Point at Hugo Lake is a large, grassy area in a forested expanse of southeast Oklahoma. This day use facility is perched along the banks of Hugo Lake, providing guests with plenty of recreational opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
There are always fish to be caught at Hugo Lake. From early sand bass and slab crappie to late season fall bass, anglers will always find opportunities. Hugo Lake also provides excellent catfishing during the summer. The lake area offers plenty of hunting opportunities, with over 25,000 acres of land available. Bow hunting is permitted in and around most of the park areas. Kiamichi Park features an archery practice range and a 3,000-acre Quality Deer Management Area. Wildlife around the lake includes waterfowl, bobwhite quail, dove, whitetail deer, mink, fox and beaver.
Facilities
Mahaffey Point on Hugo Lake includes 2 large pavilions, a shared playground, and easy lake access making this area perfect for large parties, youth trips or family functions. Please be aware there is no running water or electricity at this facility at this time.
Natural Features
Hugo Lake dam is located on the Kiamichi River, 18 river miles upstream from its confluence with the Red River. The dam, completed in 1974, provides flood control, water supply and fish and wildlife management for nearby communities. It also provides a recreational oasis for outdoor enthusiasts of all types.
Nearby Attractions
A number of historical attractions are located near Hugo Lake, including Native American cultural centers, Civil War headquarters, historic churches and schools. Visit the lake website for more information. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (580) 326-3345.
Charges & Cancellations
A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full detaions see Recreation1Stop Reservation Policy.
What the agency tells you
Questions about Mahaffey Point may be made to the Hugo Lake Project Office at (580) 326-3345.
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.
There is no running water or electricity at this facility at this time.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Hours of operation are from 6 a.m. to dusk.
Facilities
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Paddle Boating
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Wildlife viewing
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 4 records here and marks every one of them day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
“A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 records · the site map
All 4 records
| A | A1 | day use | 241 ftHugo Lake |
| B | B1 | day use | 493 ft |
| B | B2 | day use | 333 ftHugo Lake |
| B | B3 | day use | 155 ftHugo Lake |
The agency files 4 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.
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Virgil Point0.7 mi
Kiamichi Park3.2 mi
Rattan Landing11 mi
Little River Park17 mi
Sanders Cove17 mi
Pine Creek Cove17 miFrom Sawyer, OK, take Highway 147 north for nearly 4 miles, follow posted signs, and stay with the paved road to the facility.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sawyer, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 76°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 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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Mahaffey Point 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 →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyJosh BrecheenU.S. Representative · Oklahoma’s 2nd 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
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Mahaffey Point has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Josh Brecheen, I’m a constituent in Oklahoma’s 2nd district. Mahaffey Point, Oklahoma carries 4 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Mahaffey Point (Oklahoma) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Mahaffey Point has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Alan Armstrong, I’m a constituent in Oklahoma. Mahaffey Point, Oklahoma carries 4 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Mahaffey Point (Oklahoma) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Mahaffey Point has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear James Lankford, I’m a constituent in Oklahoma. Mahaffey Point, Oklahoma carries 4 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Mahaffey Point (Oklahoma) via campanac.com