Paddy Creek Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $15From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This campground is near the Paddy Creek Wilderenss Area. It is just a short drive or walk from the Paddy Creek Recreation Area's picnic and day use site. At the day-use site, there is a trailhead to enter into the Paddy Creek Wilderness Area. The campground is usually open from April 1 through December 1 each year. This area is perfectly located one hour southwest of Rolla and only an hour drive from Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, Paddy Creek Campground is nestled in a hollow along Paddy Creek, a major tributary to Big Piney River, just a few miles away. Keep reading
Paddy Creek flows year-round and is a crystal clear, wading creek with a few swimming holes. This is one of the most scenic areas on the Mark Twain National Forest. Paddy Creek Trail offers several spectacular scenic overlooks. Located adjacent to the east boundary of the Paddy Creek Wilderness, which offers hiking and dispersed camping opportunities.
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($15), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Lane Spring Recreation AreaMark Twain National Forest · 20 mi
Cedar Grove CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 25 miDee Murray CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 26 mi
AkersOzark National Scenic Riverways · 28 miAkers Group CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 29 mi
PulltiteOzark National Scenic Riverways · 34 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Licking, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 69°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 21°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Paddy Creek Campground is in Missouri’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Jason Smith (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →