Osage Bluff
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:14 UTC
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 60All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Osage Bluff Park sits on the shores of Harry S. Truman Lake in the hills of western Missouri. Visitors enjoy fishing, hunting, swimming and boating. Click here for the Harry S. Truman Lake virtual tour. Keep reading
Recreation
Osage Bluff is an excellent fishing location. Truman Lake is also a popular destination for tournament fishermen. Osage Bluff Marina is located next to the park, offering convenient boat services for guests.
Facilities
This campground offers 25 sites with 50-amp and water, 7 sites with 50-amp, 24 sites with 30-amp, and 4 primitive sites. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities, dump station, playground, marina and boat ramp.
Natural Features
Harry S Truman Reservoir lies among the rolling hills and rocky bluffs of the Ozark Plateau. Mature hardwoods of Oak and Hickory with cedar trees mixed in cover the area. Wildlife such as whitetail deer, turkey, hawks, ospreys, eagles, and many different water birds can be found in and around the park. An abundance of fish such as crappie, bass, walleye, paddlefish, blue and channel catfish can also be found in Harry S Truman Reservoir. Approximately 8,800 acres of standing timber were left in the lake to provide quality aquatic habitat.
Nearby Attractions
The 950 miles of shoreline around Truman Lake provide plentiful opportunities for fun in the outdoors. Many parks surround the lake, including Harry S. Truman State Park. The Harry S. Truman Visitor Center sits atop Kaysinger Bluff and provides a spectacular view of the dam and reservoir. Exhibits provide information about the rich history of the Osage River Valley from pre-civilization to modern day. Waterfowl, bald eagles and turkey vultures are commonly seen from the observation deck. Osage Bluff Marina
What the agency tells you
Click here for more information about Truman Lake
Help stop the spread of the invasive zebra mussel by draining all water from equipment and discarding live bait before leaving the park
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Campers must have permit before camping. Available at park booth. *There is a limit of 1 wheeled camper and 2 tents or 3 tents per camp pad.* All equipment must fit on the site pad. Vehicles park in developed areas only. This park requires a 3 night minimum stay on holiday weekends and 2 night minimum stay on weekends.*
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 60
- Hookups
- 56 electric, 25 water
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Paved pads
- 3 of 60
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 55 of 56 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…sites. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities, dump…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities, dump station, playground, marina and boat ramp.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities, dump station, playground,…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Night sky · 76th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
50 of 120 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:14 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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $14 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 16:14 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
60 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 60 mapped sitesAll 60 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 60 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.
| OBLU | 01 | standard electric | 61 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 798 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 02 | standard electric | 63 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 814 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 03 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 754 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 04 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 708 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 05 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | yes | 80 ft | 543 ft | $14 |
| OBLU | 06 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 656 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 07 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 491 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 08 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 634 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 09 | standard electric | 66 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 628 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 10 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 596 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 11 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 487 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 12 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 512 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 13 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 615 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 14 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 603 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 15 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 559 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 16 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 508 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 17 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 437 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 18 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 310 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 19 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 219 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 20 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 126 ft | 96 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 21 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 48 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 22 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 169 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 24 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 248 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 25 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 238 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 26 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 329 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 27 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | yes | 41 ft | 494 ft | $14 |
| OBLU | 28 | standard electric | 39 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 455 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 29 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 46 ft | 415 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 30 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 450 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 31 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 378 ft | $14 |
| OBLU | 32 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 382 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 33 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 416 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 34 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 392 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 35 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 376 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 36 | standard electric | 69 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 341 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 37 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 273 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 39 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 156 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 41 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 174 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 42 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 213 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 45 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 296 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 46 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 175 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 48 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 205 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 49 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 232 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 50 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 311 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 51 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 214 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 53 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 298 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 54 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 207 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 55 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 283 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 56 | standard electric | 74 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 296 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 57 | standard electric | 67 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 324 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 58 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 213 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 59 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 371 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 60 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 73 ft | 360 ft | $14 | ||
| OBLU | 61 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 417 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 62 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 419 ft | $14 | ||
| OBLU | 63 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 466 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 64 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 84 ft | 509 ft | $14 | ||
| OBLU | 65 | standard electric | 59 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 598 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 66 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | yes | 84 ft | 591 ft | $14 | |
| OBLU | 68 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 682 ft | $14 |
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 60 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Bledsoe Ferry4.9 mi
Shawnee Bend5.0 mi
Berry Bend6.4 mi
Long Shoal7.2 mi
Thibaut Point7.3 mi
Bucksaw13 miFrom Highway 83, travel about a mile on Osage Bluff Road. Follow signs into park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for White Branch, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°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
Osage Bluff 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 →