Osage Cove
1Heads up1 fire 37 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 14 nights read 16:21 UTC
- A night
- $26–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 95All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Osage Cove is a large campground situated along the banks of Kaw Lake in north central Oklahoma. Most of the campsites here are shaded and some of the area's best hiking and fishing is available on the grounds. Keep reading
Recreation
Osage Cove provides ideal conditions for anglers, offering excellent bank fishing as well as a designated fishing dock and boat ramp area below the dam in the Arkansas River. The lake and river are known for producing some of Oklahoma's largest catfish, as well as crappie, white bass and walleye, making it a popular destination for anglers. Hikers and horseback riders are attracted to the beautiful trails along the eastern shore. The Eagle View Hiking Trail is approximately 12 miles long and runs between Osage Cove and Burbank Landing. The Five Fingers Equestrian Trail extends from Burbank Landing to the Sarge Creek Cove Public Use Area. Hunters' skills are tested with excellent populations of whitetail deer, turkey, quail, rabbit and squirrel. During the fall waterfowl seasons Kaw Lake often attracts large numbers of migrating ducks and geese. During the winter visitors are likely to spot migrating bald eagles, as Kaw Lake has one of the biggest populations in the state.
Facilities
Osage Cove Campground offers 97 campsites with modern amenities like electric hookups, drinking water and flush toilets, including three large group campsites that can accommodate up to 50 guests each. A boat ramp provides easy access to the lake.
Natural Features
The lake covers 17,000 surface acres and has 168 miles of shoreline. Completed in 1976, the dam and lake help provide a recreational oasis for outdoor enthusiasts of all types. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (580) 762-9408.
Nearby Attractions
The area holds a number of historical sites, including several Native American settlements, archeological sites and the Pioneer Woman Museum.
What the agency tells you
Reserve your campsite through Recreation.gov
The Eagle View hiking trail is closed during Oklahoma's deer rifle and primitive firearms seasons
One tent and one RV or two tents per campsite
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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.
Water hookup is available, but not at every site/ Communal water hookups
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 95 · 2 group
- Hookups
- 95 electric, 24 water
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 3 of 95
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Pit Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 95 of 95 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 95 of 95 campsite records / ACCESSIBLE PIT TOILETS on 95 of 95 campsite records
- Showers
- Accessible Showers
- ACCESSIBLE SHOWERS on 95 of 95 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 95 of 95 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 95 of 95 campsite records
- 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, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 44th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
111 of 188 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:21 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $26–$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 16:21 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
95 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 95 mapped sitesAll 95 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. 95 of the 95 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CLOO | ga3 | group standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 233 ft | 665 ft | $125 |
| MLOO | ga1 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 233 ft | 756 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 41 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 104 ft | 155 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 42 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 122 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 43 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 135 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 44 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 146 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 45 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 122 ft | 140 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 46 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 84 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 47 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 77 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 48 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 92 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 49 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 93 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 50 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 134 ft | 213 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 51 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 113 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 52 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 119 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 53 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 81 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 54 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 82 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 55 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 152 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 56 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 146 ft | 303 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 57 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 130 ft | 434 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 58 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 129 ft | 290 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 59 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 129 ft | 407 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 60 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 144 ft | 294 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 61 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 273 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 62 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 99 ft | 378 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 63 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 270 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 64 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 99 ft | 379 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 65 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 348 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 66 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 288 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 67 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 271 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 68 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 280 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 69 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 139 ft | 272 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 70 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 142 ft | 243 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 71 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 134 ft | 198 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 72 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 127 ft | 264 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 73 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 126 ft | 335 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 74 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 260 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 75 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 222 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 76 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 216 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 77 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 136 ft | 153 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 78 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 136 ft | 75 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 79 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 142 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 80 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 59 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 81 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 155 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 82 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 63 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 83 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 167 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 84 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 112 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 85 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 110 ft | 118 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 86 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 110 ft | 91 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 87 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 130 ft | 64 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 88 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 130 ft | 106 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 89 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 130 ft | 135 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 90 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 145 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 91 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 122 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 92 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 121 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 93 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 130 ft | 247 ft | $26–$30 |
| OCOV | 94 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 253 ft | 398 ft | $26–$30 |
| QLOO | ga2 | group standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 485 ft | 209 ft | $125 |
| SEA1 | 1 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 555 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 10 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 311 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 11 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 251 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 12 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 260 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 13 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 218 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 14 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 192 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 17 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 141 ft | 148 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 18 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 108 ft | 256 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 19 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 107 ft | 152 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 2 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 466 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 20 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 115 ft | 244 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 21 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 107 ft | 125 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 22 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 115 ft | 237 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 23 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 115 ft | 125 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 24 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 169 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 25 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 142 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 26 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 116 ft | 249 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 27 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 127 ft | 257 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 28 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 135 ft | 250 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 29 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 135 ft | 376 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 3 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 118 ft | 309 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 30 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 121 ft | 489 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 31 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 121 ft | 384 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 32 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 120 ft | 509 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 33 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 123 ft | 373 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 34 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 509 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 35 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 482 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 36 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 116 ft | 361 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 37 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 469 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 38 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 99 ft | 551 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 39 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 115 ft | 695 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 4 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 118 ft | 470 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 40 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 115 ft | 805 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 5 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 484 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 6 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 469 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 7 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 120 ft | 360 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 8 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 105 ft | 472 ft | $26–$30 |
| SEA1 | 9 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 367 ft | $26–$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 95 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sandy Park1.8 mi
McFadden Cove2.2 mi
Coon Creek (OK)5.1 mi
Washunga Bay6.2 mi
Sarge Creek6.2 mi
Bear Creek Cove8.8 miFrom Ponca City, Oklahoma, travel 9 miles east on Lake Road across Kaw Dam. Turn east on County Road and travel 2 miles to the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kaw City, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 25°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 Cove is in Oklahoma’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Frank Lucas (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →