Oak Grove (MS)
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 8377 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Welcome to Sardis Lake! Oak Grove Campground is the largest campground on the lake and offers convenient access to the most popular recreation spots on the upper and lower lakes! Keep reading
Recreation
Oak Grove is situated in the heart of the most popular recreation areas at Sardis Lake. The lower lake recreation areas provide picnicking, swim beaches, basketball and volleyball courts, hiking, and nearby boat access to both the upper and lower lakes. Sardis Lake is a nationally recognized crappie fishery, and is popular for boating, sailing, and many other water sports.
Facilities
Oak Grove offers 81 campsites with 50 amp electric, water, and sewer hookups. There are three restroom/shower buildings located in the campground as well as a playground and a boat dock with convenient access to the lower lake.
Natural Features
As you look out from the top of Sardis Dam you can view miles of water surrounded by beautiful forests. Sardis Lake’s total area covers 98,000 acres of land and water in the rolling hills of North Mississippi. The dam was finished in 1940 as part of a comprehensive flood control plan and controls the waters of the Little Tallahatchie River. The lower lake was created by excavating soil for the creation of the nearly 3-mile long Sardis Dam.
Nearby Attractions
Oak Grove is located approximately 10 miles from I-55 and the towns of Sardis and Batesville. Oxford and the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) are a 30 minute drive.
What the agency tells you
- Visitors are expected to be aware of general park rules. - Don’t Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information. - Not all campsites are the same length or width in this campground. Please check site descriptions prior to booking a site to make sure it will accomodate your camper/RV.
Campers will be limited to a stay of no more than 14 days in any 30 day period at a single USACE Vicksburg District campground. At the end of their 14-day stay, campers and camping unit must leave the campground but will be allowed to relocate to a different USACE campground at the same lake.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 83
- Hookups
- 77 electric, 83 water, 83 sewer
- Paved pads
- 55 of 83
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
44 of 150 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:22 UTC
recreation.gov lists 77 of the 83 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
83 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 77 mapped sitesAll 83 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 77 of the 83 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| 1 | rv electric | 50 amp | 75 ft | 335 ft | $30 |
| 10 | rv electric | 50 amp | 68 ft | 176 ft | $30 |
| 11 | rv electric | 50 amp | 80 ft | 150 ft | $30 |
| 12 | rv electric | 50 amp | 84 ft | 35 ft | $30 |
| 13 | rv electric | 50 amp | 64 ft | 117 ft | $30 |
| 14 | rv electric | 50 amp | 64 ft | 181 ft | $30 |
| 15 | rv electric | 50 amp | 65 ft | 373 ft | $30 |
| 16 | rv electric | 50 amp | 65 ft | 435 ft | $30 |
| 17 | rv electric | 50 amp | 82 ft | 381 ft | $30 |
| 18 | rv electric | 50 amp | 62 ft | 416 ft | $30 |
| 19 | rv electric | 50 amp | 56 ft | 307 ft | $30 |
| 2 | rv electric | 50 amp | 93 ft | 369 ft | $30 |
| 20 | rv electric | 50 amp | 56 ft | 297 ft | $30 |
| 21 | rv electric | 50 amp | 62 ft | 413 ft | $30 |
| 22 | rv electric | 50 amp | 49 ft | 292 ft | $30 |
| 23 | rv electric | 50 amp | 159 ft | 417 ft | $30 |
| 24 | rv electric | 50 amp | 49 ft | 243 ft | $30 |
| 25 | rv electric | 50 amp | 88 ft | 244 ft | $30 |
| 26 | rv electric | 50 amp | 75 ft | 171 ft | $30 |
| 27 | rv electric | 50 amp | 88 ft | 183 ft | $30 |
| 28 | rv electric | 50 amp | 81 ft | 77 ft | $30 |
| 29 | type not stated | 50 amp | 63 ft | ||
| 3 | rv electric | 50 amp | 63 ft | 462 ft | $30 |
| 30 | rv electric | 50 amp | 73 ft | 147 ft | $30 |
| 31 | rv electric | 50 amp | 73 ft | 217 ft | $30 |
| 32 | rv electric | 50 amp | 112 ft | 228 ft | $30 |
| 33 | rv electric | 50 amp | 104 ft | 215 ft | $30 |
| 34 | rv electric | 50 amp | 133 ft | 136 ft | $30 |
| 35 | rv electric | 50 amp | 107 ft | 290 ft | $30 |
| 36 | rv electric | 50 amp | 94 ft | 209 ft | $30 |
| 37 | rv electric | 50 amp | 100 ft | 76 ft | $30 |
| 38 | rv electric | 50 amp | 94 ft | 83 ft | $30 |
| 39 | rv electric | 50 amp | 42 ft | 32 ft | $30 |
| 4 | rv electric | 50 amp | 129 ft | 415 ft | $30 |
| 40 | type not stated | 50 amp | 123 ft | ||
| 41 | rv electric | 50 amp | 42 ft | 64 ft | $30 |
| 42 | rv electric | 50 amp | 91 ft | 208 ft | $30 |
| 43 | rv electric | 50 amp | 94 ft | 140 ft | $30 |
| 44 | rv electric | 50 amp | 33 ft | 248 ft | $30 |
| 45 | rv electric | 50 amp | 33 ft | 279 ft | $30 |
| 46 | rv electric | 50 amp | 68 ft | 322 ft | $30 |
| 47 | rv electric | 50 amp | 59 ft | 243 ft | $30 |
| 48 | rv electric | 50 amp | 54 ft | 256 ft | $30 |
| 49 | rv electric | 50 amp | 77 ft | 384 ft | $30 |
| 5 | rv electric | 50 amp | 63 ft | 509 ft | $30 |
| 50 | rv electric | 50 amp | 54 ft | 203 ft | $30 |
| 51 | rv electric | 50 amp | 58 ft | 339 ft | $30 |
| 52 | rv electric | 50 amp | 87 ft | 494 ft | $30 |
| 53 | rv electric | 50 amp | 75 ft | 410 ft | $30 |
| 54 | rv electric | 50 amp | 91 ft | 399 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 55 | rv electric | 50 amp | 89 ft | 447 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 56 | rv electric | 50 amp | 111 ft | 339 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 57 | rv electric | 50 amp | 76 ft | 252 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 58 | rv electric | 50 amp | 76 ft | 238 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 59 | rv electric | 50 amp | 63 ft | 121 ft | $30 |
| 6 | rv electric | 50 amp | 60 ft | 451 ft | $30 |
| 60 | rv electric | 50 amp | 63 ft | 67 ft | $30 |
| 61 | type not stated | 50 amp | 82 ft | ||
| 62 | rv electric | 50 amp | 70 ft | 185 ft | $30 |
| 63 | rv electric | 50 amp | 194 ft | 101 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 64 | type not stated | 50 amp | 109 ftLower Lake | ||
| 65 | rv electric | 50 amp | 63 ft | 96 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 66 | rv electric | 50 amp | 63 ft | 158 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 67 | rv electric | 50 amp | 90 ft | 100 ft | $30 |
| 68 | rv electric | 50 amp | 90 ft | 10 ft | $30 |
| 69 | rv electric | 50 amp | 116 ft | 116 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 7 | rv electric | 50 amp | 58 ft | 394 ft | $30 |
| 70 | rv electric | 50 amp | 127 ft | 132 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 71 | rv electric | 50 amp | 84 ft | 146 ft | $30 |
| 72 | rv electric | 50 amp | 78 ft | 103 ft | $30 |
| 73 | rv electric | 50 amp | 61 ft | 234 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 74 | rv electric | 50 amp | 57 ft | 222 ft | $30 |
| 75 | rv electric | 50 amp | 78 ft | 58 ft | $30 |
| 76 | rv electric | 50 amp | 57 ft | 167 ft | $30 |
| 77 | rv electric | 50 amp | 134 ft | 107 ft | $30 |
| 78 | rv electric | 50 amp | 69 ft | 115 ft | $30 |
| 79 | rv electric | 50 amp | 57 ft | 181 ft | $30 |
| 8 | rv electric | 50 amp | 74 ft | 287 ft | $30 |
| 80 | rv electric | 50 amp | 57 ft | 249 ft | $30 |
| 81 | type not stated | 50 amp | 247 ftLower Lake | ||
| 82 | rv electric | 50 amp | 67 ft | 247 ftLower Lake | $30 |
| 83 | type not stated | 50 amp | |||
| 9 | rv electric | 50 amp | 68 ft | 207 ft | $30 |
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 83 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sardis, MS
Typical weather
Typical October night 54°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Who answers for this land
Oak Grove (MS) is in Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Bennie Thompson (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →