Orleans Trail
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:23 UTC
- A night
- $10–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6261 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Orleans Trail Campground is a shady campground located on Stockton Lake in the scenic Ozark Mountains of southwestern Missouri. The lake and surrounding landscape offer countless recreational opportunities along its nearly 300 miles of shoreline, providing visitors with many ways to explore one of the most sought-after natural areas in the state. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating is always a popular pastime at the lake. Sail boating is especially popular and the lake hosts several races each year. The facility provides a boat ramp for easy access to the water. The waters of Stockton Lake are home to several species of fish including small and largemouth bass, crappie, white bass, walleye, catfish and sunfish, making it an ideal area for anglers. Several trails wind around the lake shore and through the landscape. The Stockton Lake Equestrian Trail continues approximately 15 miles between Hawker Point and Orleans Trail Campgrounds.
Facilities
Orleans Trail Park offers 118 campsites, three shower houses, two dump stations, a boat ramp and a swimming beach. The campground is divided into north and south: non-electric sites, the showers and beach are in Orleans Trail North; and non-electric individual sites and the group camping area are in Orleans Trail South. An equestrian trailhead where horses can be kept is located in the south portion.
Natural Features
The land surrounding the lake contains hundreds of acres of native prairie grasses, rolling hills and thick forests that turn crimson in autumn. An abundance of wildlife lives both in and around the water, including wild turkey, great blue heron, deer and bald eagles. Visitors can learn about the lake's bald eagles by attending an annual eagle-watching event during the winter.
Nearby Attractions
The Orleans Trail Marina is located nearby with camping and full marina services available.
What the agency tells you
Campground check in time is 4:00 pm. Check out time is 4:00 PM.
Orleans Trail is a campground facility. Campground for overnight stays only - day use prohibited. Reservations are subject to cancellation and removal from the park without valid camping unit (ie: tent, rv, etc)
Customers may not call the park to make reservations
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Drinking water is available during the reservation season, Apr. 16 to Sept. 30
One RV and two tents or three tents per campsite.
$5 fee for boat ramp from Mar. 1 through Nov. 30
Park rangers and County Sheriffs Deputies routinely patrol this facility
Call the project office (417-276-3113) for more information
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.
Please make sure to check in at park attendent booth. Located at the entrance of C and D loop.
Shoulder Seasons run from (15 March-15 April) & (1 October-30 November) amenities are reduced
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 62 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 31 electric
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 75th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
103 of 120 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:23 UTC
recreation.gov lists 61 of the 62 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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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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$20 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 16:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
62 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 61 mapped sitesAll 62 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. 60 of the 62 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| NORT | A01 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 62 ft | 398 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A02 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 62 ft | 459 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A03 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 539 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A04 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 83 ft | 651 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A05 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 90 ft | 467 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A06 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 557 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A07 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 93 ft | 555 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A08 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 633 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A09 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 75 ft | 621 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A10 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 156 ft | 596 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 186 ft | 416 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 203 ft | 307 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A13 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 160 ft | 387 ft | $10 | ||
| NORT | A14 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 521 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A15 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 606 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A16 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 623 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A17 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 673 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A18 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 604 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A19 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 481 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A20 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 452 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A21 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 438 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A22 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 459 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A23 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 487 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A24 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 512 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | A25 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 584 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B01 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 216 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 227 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B03 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 271 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B04 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 261 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B05 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 267 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B06 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 244 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B07 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 232 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B08 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 234 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B09 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 204 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B10 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 244 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B11 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 176 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B12 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 270 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B13 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 160 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B14 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 284 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B15 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 181 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B16 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 301 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B17 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 148 ft | 308 ft | $20 | |
| NORT | B18 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | 136 ft | 331 ft | $20 |
| SOUT | C11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 168 ft | 191 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | C12 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 118 ft | 164 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | C13 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 118 ft | 75 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | C14 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 117 ft | 123 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | C15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 182 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | C16 | type not stated | 10 ft | 103 ft | ||||
| SOUT | C17 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 89 ft | 156 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | C19 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 74 ft | 128 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | C20 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 74 ft | 130 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | D26 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 316 ft | 158 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | D29 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 111 ft | under 10 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | D31 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 111 ft | 92 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | D33 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 126 ft | 213 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | D35 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 126 ft | 199 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | D37 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 73 ft | 40 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | D38 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 73 ft | 114 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | D39 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 77 ft | 119 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | D40 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 136 ft | 55 ft | $10 | ||
| SOUT | OT GROUP CAMP | group standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 2120 ft | 99 ft |
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 62 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Stockton Park (MO)1.8 mi
Crabtree Cove1.8 mi
Hawker Point3.7 mi
Masters (MO)6.7 mi
Cedar Ridge (MO)8.0 mi
Ruark Bluff West9.3 miFrom Stockton, Missouri, take State Highway 39 south approximately 1/2-mile to R.B. Road. Take a left and drive approximately 1/2-mile. Turn right on Blake Street, continue about 1/2-mile, and follow signs to the park area.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Stockton, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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
Orleans Trail is in Missouri’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Mark Alford (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →