Mill Creek (Missouri)
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 14:51 UTC
- A night
- $25–$38Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 67All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mill Creek is a spacious and sunny campground on the White River Arm of Table Rock Lake in the Missouri countryside. Many campsites within this park are located adjacent to the waters edge, with the remaining campsites only a short walk from the water with some of the best views on the lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Whether on water or land, Mill Creek Campground offers visitors countless recreational activities. Picnicking, swimming, scuba diving, boating, fishing, hunting, hiking and wildlife viewing are all popular pastimes at the park. While the lake boasts an abundance of crappie, catfish, and bluegill, Table Rock is most famous for bass, and is acclaimed as one of the best bass fishing lakes in this hemisphere. Table Rock Lakeshore Trail, about 2 miles long, runs from the Dewey Short Visitor Center to the Table Rock State Park Marina. During the spring hikers will see dogwood, serviceberry and redbud trees in bloom as well as many wildflower species. During the autumn months, visitors are treated to nature's colorful fall foliage. The trail also offers beautiful views of Table Rock Lake. Other hiking and mountain biking opportunities are available at the Mark Twain National Forest, parts of which are easily accessible from the campground. Click here for more information. A boat ramp, swimming beach, basketball court and volleyball court are provided. The campground is surrounded by water on three sides, providing visitors with convenient access to the lake.
Facilities
Mill Creek Campground offers 67 reservable campsites, along with one large reservable group picnic shelter. Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a comfortable camping experience. A beach, boat ramp, playground, basketball and volleyball court make the campground perfect for family trips.
Natural Features
Table Rock Lake is a beautiful body of water surrounded by a forest of oak and hickory trees. Its waters wind down through the valleys and hollows of the Ozark Mountains, from Branson, Missouri to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. More than five million visitors per year take advantage of this recreational oasis. Originally built for flood control, the Table Rock Dam has created a lake that boasts 779 miles of shoreline for the public to enjoy.
Nearby Attractions
The Dewey Short Visitors Center is located at the south end of Table Rock Dam. It offers three educational films focused on the history of the dam, the story of Lewis and Clark and the history of eagles and their endangerment in the state of Missouri. The visitor center also contains exhibits about the natural history of the area. Mill Creek Campground is about 18 miles from Branson, Missouri, which offers grocery stores, gas and additional tourist attractions.
What the agency tells you
Staffed booth hours are between the hours of 8:00 a.m-10:00 a.m. and from 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., seven days a week. Camphost and or Rangers will issue campground hangtags after valid check-in. Please check-out on departure. If Camphost is not present, please drop pink tag off at the drop box.
All checkout times are at 3:00 p.m. All RV's, vehicles, and supplies still on site after 3:00 p.m. may be subjected to impoundment our towed at the owners expense.
All discounted passes (Golden Age, Senior Lifetime, Senior Annual, Access) must be physically present upon arrival. Fraudulent use of a Golden Age or Golden Access Passport (Printouts, photos etc.) is prohibited and will not be discounted.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Failure to pay day use fees, and or properly display applicable receipt, permit or pass is prohibited. All daily guests must pay a day-use fee and have day-use receipt properly displayed. Day passes and USACE annual passes may be purchased at the kiosk next to the booth.
All personal equipment (boats, trailers, personal supplies etc. ) must be stored at reserved campsites. No equipment shall be stored in boat ramp/day-use parking for overnight storage.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
One tent and one RV, or two tents are allowed per campsite.
No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must be disposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands.
Shower tents, changing tents, and latrines are prohibited.
Pets must be penned, caged, or on a leash under six feet in length at all times.
Please be advised that providing business services within a USACE campground is prohibited per Title 327.18(a) The engaging in or solicitation of business on project lands or waters without the express written permission of the District Commander is prohibited. This includes services such as RV or tent delivery & set-up, firewood sales and delivery.
Please review the Title 36 brochure for complete rules and regulations. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-36/chapter-III/part-327
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 67
- Hookups
- 67 electric, 67 water
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 63 of 64 sites
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a comfortable camping experience.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…shelter. Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Diving
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Paddle Boating
- Picnicking
- Ranger Station
- Scuba Diving
- Snorkeling
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Tubing
- Night sky · 112th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
1 of 68 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:51 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$38 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 14:51 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
68 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 68 mapped sitesAll 68 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 68 of the 68 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. 67 of the 68 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MILL CREEK | 01 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 223 ft | 302 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 02 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 293 ft | 216 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 03 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 238 ft | 240 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 04 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 314 ft | 162 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 05 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 251 ft | 218 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 06 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 329 ft | 140 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 07 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 264 ft | 211 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 08 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 339 ft | 144 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 09 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 288 ft | 165 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 10 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 263 ft | 246 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 11 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 201 ft | 317 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 167 ft | 319 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 13 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 130 ft | 386 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 14 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 101 ft | 408 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 15 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 110 ft | 375 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 16 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 129 ft | 330 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 17 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 130 ft | 282 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 18 | standard electric | 24 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 203 ft | 273 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 19 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 146 ft | 196 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 20 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 184 ft | 144 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 21 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 199 ft | 416 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 22 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 189 ft | 320 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 23 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 150 ft | 303 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 24 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 128 ft | 287 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 25 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 137 ft | 225 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 26 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 214 ft | 150 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 27 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 124 ft | 173 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 28 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 155 ft | 135 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 29 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 198 ft | 81 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 30 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 216 ft | 69 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 31 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 208 ft | 83 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 32 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 83 ft | 128 ft | 226 ft | $25–$38 |
| MILL CREEK | 33 | standard electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 33 ft | 145 ft | 317 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 34 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 33 ft | 157 ft | 346 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 35 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 150 ft | 423 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 36 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 141 ft | 559 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 37 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 158 ft | 616 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 38 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 146 ft | 703 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 39 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 133 ft | 763 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 40 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 149 ft | 869 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 41 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 136 ft | 958 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 42 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 102 ft | 126 ft | 1,049 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 43 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 96 ft | 1,148 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 44 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 45 ft | 1,169 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 45 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 27 ft | 1,126 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 46 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 83 ft | 1,001 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 47 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 109 ft | 863 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 48 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 122 ft | 746 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 49 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 103 ft | 632 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 50 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 92 ft | 529 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 51 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 90 ft | 453 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 52 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 102 ft | 339 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 53 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 130 ft | 266 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 54 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 141 ft | 124 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 55 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 145 ft | 81 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 56 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 140 ft | 135 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 57 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 120 ft | 164 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 58 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 126 ft | 153 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 59 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 139 ft | 260 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 60 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 41 ft | 133 ft | 327 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 61 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 41 ft | 137 ft | 365 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 62 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 130 ft | 414 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 63 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 124 ft | 507 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 64 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 119 ft | 574 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 65 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 143 ft | 495 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 66 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 141 ft | 455 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | 67 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 145 ft | 419 ft | $25–$38 | |
| MILL CREEK | Group Shelter (Pavilion) | day use | 204 ft | 298 ft | 336 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.
25 of 68 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Baxter3.8 mi
Aunts Creek5.6 mi
Indian Point5.8 mi
Campbell Point6.1 mi
Old Highway 867.2 mi
Moonshine Beach Rec. Area7.4 miFrom Branson, Missouri, travel west on Highway 76, then take Highway 13 south for 12 miles. Turn west onto Highway RB and follow signs to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Coney Island, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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
Who answers for this land
Mill Creek (Missouri) is in Missouri’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Eric Burlison (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →