Pine Creek Cove
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 2 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 23 of the next 30 nights read 16:22 UTC
- A night
- $16–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4241 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pine Creek Cove is located on the western shore of Pine Creek Lake near the main dam. Visitors enjoy boating, fishing, swimming and birding. Keep reading
Recreation
The beach attracts swimmers, sunbathers and sandcastle builders. Boating and picnicking are also popular. The park's location near the dam is convenient for reaching prime fishing spots.
Facilities
Pine Creek Cove's 41 campsites have electric and water hookups. A group camping shelter with electric hookups is also available. Additional amenities include flush toilets, showers, a dump station and boat ramp.
Natural Features
Pine Creek Lake, fed by the Little River, boasts 3,750 acres with 74 miles of shoreline. The lake is in southeastern Oklahoma at the edge of the Ouachita Mountains.
Nearby Attractions
Beavers Bend and Raymond Gary State Parks are within driving distance. Also, the historic ruins of Fort Towson, a confederate command post that was built in 1824, are interesting as well.
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 it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 42 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 40 electric, 40 water, 1 sewer
- Longest rig
- 64 ft
- Paved pads
- 23 of 42
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…available. Additional amenities include flush toilets, showers, a dump station and boat ramp. Natural…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Additional amenities include flush toilets, showers, a dump station and boat ramp.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Water access
- Night sky · 15th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
48 of 80 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:22 UTC
recreation.gov lists 41 of the 42 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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$26 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 16:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
42 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 41 mapped sitesAll 42 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. 41 of the 42 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.
| LROA | L01 | standard electric | 15 amp | 109 ft | 175 ft | $20–$26 | |
| LROA | L02 | standard nonelectric | 142 ft | 170 ft | $16 | ||
| LROA | L03 | standard electric | 15 amp | 42 ft | 158 ft | $20–$26 | |
| LROA | L04 | standard electric | 15 amp | 42 ft | 142 ft | $20–$26 | |
| LROA | L05 | standard electric | 15 amp | 69 ft | 143 ft | $20–$26 | |
| LROA | L06 | standard electric | 15 amp | 72 ft | 124 ft | $20–$26 | |
| LROA | L07 | standard electric | 15 amp | 111 ft | 186 ft | $20–$26 | |
| LROA | L08 | standard electric | 15 amp | 111 ft | 241 ft | $20–$26 | |
| LROA | L09 | standard electric | 15 amp | 57 ft | 282 ft | $20–$26 | |
| LROA | L10 | standard electric | 15 amp | 57 ft | 241 ft | $20–$26 | |
| LROA | L11 | standard electric | 15 amp | 98 ft | 252 ft | $20–$26 | |
| MROA | M01 | type not stated | 50 amp | 442 ft | |||
| MROA | M02 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 159 ft | $20–$26 |
| MROA | M03 | standard electric | 50 amp | 95 ft | 208 ft | $20–$26 | |
| MROA | M04 | standard electric | 50 amp | 113 ft | 315 ft | $20–$26 | |
| MROA | M05 | standard electric | 15 amp | 148 ft | 176 ft | $20–$26 | |
| MROA | M06 | standard electric | 15 amp | 75 ft | 115 ft | $20–$26 | |
| MROA | M07 | standard electric | 15 amp | 75 ft | 92 ft | $20–$26 | |
| MROA | M08 | standard electric | 15 amp | 58 ft | 84 ft | $20–$26 | |
| MROA | M09 | standard electric | 15 amp | 58 ft | 92 ft | $20–$26 | |
| MROA | M10 | standard electric | 15 amp | 48 ft | 102 ft | $20–$26 | |
| MROA | M11 | standard electric | 15 amp | 48 ft | 93 ft | $20–$26 | |
| MROA | M12 | standard electric | 15 amp | 58 ft | 118 ft | $20–$26 | |
| NROA | N01 | standard electric | 15 amp | 49 ft | 262 ft | $20–$26 | |
| NROA | N02 | standard electric | 15 amp | 49 ft | 280 ft | $20–$26 | |
| NROA | N03 | standard electric | 15 amp | 82 ft | 321 ft | $20–$26 | |
| NROA | N04 | standard electric | 15 amp | 82 ft | 346 ft | $20–$26 | |
| NROA | N05 | standard electric | 15 amp | 102 ft | 409 ft | $20–$26 | |
| NROA | N06 | standard electric | 15 amp | 103 ft | 429 ft | $20–$26 | |
| NROA | N07 | standard electric | 15 amp | 82 ft | 456 ft | $20–$26 | |
| NROA | N08 | standard electric | 15 amp | 82 ft | 468 ft | $20–$26 | |
| OROA | F65 | group standard electric | 15 amp | 593 ft | 217 ft | $100 | |
| OROA | O01 | standard electric | 50 amp | 130 ft | 115 ft | $20–$26 | |
| OROA | O02 | standard electric | 50 amp | 91 ft | 172 ft | $20–$26 | |
| OROA | O03 | standard electric | 50 amp | 91 ft | 181 ft | $20–$26 | |
| OROA | O04 | standard electric | 50 amp | 65 ft | 137 ft | $20–$26 | |
| OROA | O05 | standard electric | 50 amp | 65 ft | 112 ft | $20–$26 | |
| OROA | O06 | standard electric | 50 amp | 68 ft | 117 ft | $20–$26 | |
| OROA | O07 | standard electric | 50 amp | 74 ft | 131 ft | $20–$26 | |
| OROA | O08 | standard electric | 50 amp | 72 ft | 136 ft | $20–$26 | |
| OROA | O09 | standard electric | 50 amp | 72 ft | 118 ft | $20–$26 | |
| OROA | O10 | standard electric | 50 amp | 100 ft | 133 ft | $20–$26 |
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 42 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Little River Park4.5 mi
Lost Rapids4.8 mi
Turkey Creek7.6 mi
Virgil Point17 mi
Mahaffey Point17 mi
Kiamichi Park20 miFrom Valliant, OK, travel Pine Creek Road 7 miles north to the access road. Follow signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wright City, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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 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
Pine Creek Cove is in Oklahoma’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Josh Brecheen (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →