U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · OK

Moneka North Campground

ReservableBookable through October 31, and from March 1 through April 17.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 30 nights read 14:29 UTC
A night
$12–$18Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
38All of them booked ahead
Drawn from the record · 950 ft · 0% tree cover · Waurika Lake within reach · Bortle 4 sky
950 ftElevation
under 10 ftWater · Waurika Lake
2.1 miSW of Comanche, OK
n/aTree cover · water-masked cell
Bortle 4Night sky · 28th darkest of 106 in OK

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Moneka North Campground is located south of the Waurika Lake Dam, located within the Great Plains Region of southern Oklahoma. Beaver Creek Trailhead is located on the south end of the campground. The area offers many recreation activities, including fishing, boating and hunting. Waurika Lake encompasses 10,100 acres of water and about 12,000 acres of land, which provide ample space for visitors to enjoy the outdoors. It is about six miles northwest of the city of Waurika and lies in portions of Jefferson, Cotton and Stephens Counties. Keep reading

Recreation

Waurika Lake provides excellent opportunities for fishing and hunting. Anglers seek out channel and flathead catfish, largemouth bass, white bass, hybrid striper, crappie, walleye and sunfish. Approximately 6,040 acres of land around the lake are managed for game. Sought-after species include white-tailed deer, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, wood duck, mallard, pintail, teal, canvas back, cottontail rabbits and wild turkey. Boating and skiing enthusiasts play on the large areas of open water and along the the scenic shoreline. There are four large embayments and a number of smaller coves that make boating on the lake a pleasure.

Facilities

Moneka North Campground is a smaller facility with few sites equipped with electric and accessible water hookups. Visitors will enjoy the different types of wildlife, nature trails, and natural sounds located within this area.

Natural Features

The large shade trees and vast wildlife invite the visitor to relax and take in the scenery. Grassland prairies, farms and forests surround the lake area. Wildlife such as white-tail deer, ducks, rabbits and wild turkey graze the landscape.

Tents and rigs

Sites
38
Hookups
7 electric
Accessible sites
None listed
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek, Beach
Fishing
Hiking
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Something open on 15 of the next 15 bookable nightsread 14:29 UTC

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

OpenBookedClosed

Booking windowThrough October 31Bookable now through October 31, 2026, the end of this reservable season, and again for March 1, 2027 through April 17, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 18, 2027.recreation.gov
A night$12–$18plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$32–$44DerivedFriday 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
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Mon, Mar 1 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

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

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What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night, per site$12–$18
Standard Nonelectric$12
Standard Electric$18
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Mar 1, 2026 to Oct 31, 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$20–$26
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$32–$44

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $12–$18 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

recreation.gov availability, read 14:29 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

38 sites

All 38 sites

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. 38 of the 38 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

MN1standard nonelectric$12
MN10standard nonelectric$12
MN11standard nonelectric$12
MN12standard nonelectric$12
MN13standard nonelectric$12
MN14standard nonelectric$12
MN15standard nonelectric$12
MN16standard nonelectric$12
MN17standard nonelectric$12
MN18standard nonelectric$12
MN19standard electric$18
MN2standard nonelectric$12
MN20standard electric$18
MN21standard nonelectric$12
MN22standard electric$18
MN23standard nonelectric$12
MN24standard nonelectric$12
MN25standard electric$18
MN26standard electric$18
MN27standard electric$18
MN28standard electric$18
MN29standard nonelectric$12
MN3standard nonelectric$12
MN30standard nonelectric$12
MN31standard nonelectric$12
MN32standard nonelectric$12
MN33standard nonelectric$12
MN34standard nonelectric$12
MN35standard nonelectric$12
MN36standard nonelectric$12
MN37standard nonelectric$12
MN38standard nonelectric$12
MN4standard nonelectric$12
MN5standard nonelectric$12
MN6standard nonelectric$12
MN7standard nonelectric$12
MN8standard nonelectric$12
MN9standard nonelectric$12

25 of 38 listed

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today62°Sunny
Tonight40°Clear
Sunday67°Sunny
Sunday Night45°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Comanche, OK

Typical weather

Typical October night 53°F, day 77°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

110°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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: WAURIKA, OK (USC00349395), 9 miles away and 38 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Tom Cole, official portrait

Moneka North Campground is in Oklahoma’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Tom Cole (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 15 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.
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.