Platter Flats
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:16 UTC
- A night
- $16–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 65All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Platter Flats Campground is located on Lake Texoma in Oklahoma's Cross Timbers Region. The lake is said to be the "Playground of the Southwest," where outdoor activities like fishing, boating, hiking and hunting abound. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Texoma is a large reservoir with an excellent fishery and many access points. Boating, swimming, water skiing, hunting, birding and relaxing on the sandy beaches are the typical pursuits of most visitors. The lake is known as the "Striper Capital of the World," one of the few reservoirs in the nation where striped bass reproduce naturally. Other popular species include largemouth and smallmouth bass, white bass, hybrid striped bass, white crappie, black crappie, channel catfish and blue catfish. Also available is the scenic Cross Timbers hiking trail, a very popular trail that winds for 14 miles above the lake on rocky ledges and through blackjack woodland. Forty miles of equestrian trails surround the lake as well.
Facilities
This campground offers 26 family campsites with electrical/water hookups, 35 equestrian sites with hookups, and 3 equestrian tent sites without hookups. A day-use group picnic shelter with electricity is available. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water. A dump station, boat ramp and dock are located on-site.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the eastern side of Lake Texoma. Post and blackjack oaks forest the rolling hills of the region. Deer, turkeys, bobcats, hawks, waterfowl and songbirds are abundant around the lake.
Nearby Attractions
The lake features two wildlife refuges, two state parks and 23 commercial concession areas dedicated to the enjoyment of over six million visitors annually.
What the agency tells you
Entrance gates are open from 6 a.m.-10 p.m.
Sites A1-A38 are available for equestrian camping, but a horse is not required to camp on these sites
During winter months, one frost-free hydrant is available within the campground to fill water tanks; individual water hookups are shut off annually after November
Everything else this campground posts · 3
For more information on Lake Texoma, click here
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.
Some sites in Platter will be closed during the off season, pay boat launch fee at vault located at the front of the park. Park will be fully open starting April 1st.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 65 · 38 equestrian
- Hookups
- 62 electric, 64 water
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 65
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 26 of 65 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water. A dump station, boat…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water. A dump station, boat ramp and dock are located…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Beach
- Night sky · 90th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
49 of 130 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:16 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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 · 17
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 16:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
66 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 66 mapped sitesAll 66 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 65 of the 66 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | A01 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 194 ft | 414 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A02 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 237 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A03 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 285 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A04 | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 338 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A05 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 377 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A06 | equestrian electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 487 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A07 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 466 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A08 | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 492 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A09 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 456 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A10 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 552 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A11 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 474 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A12 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 575 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A13 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 105 ft | 588 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A14 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 385 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A15 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 370 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A16 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 474 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A17 | equestrian electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 408 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A18 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 442 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A19 | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 491 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A20 | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 552 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A21 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 507 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A22 | equestrian electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 614 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A23 | equestrian nonelectric | 60 ft | 254 ft | 79 ft | $16 | |
| A | A24 | equestrian nonelectric | 60 ft | 115 ft | 114 ft | $16 | |
| A | A25 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 115 ft | 149 ft | $16 | |
| A | A26 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 378 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A27 | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 287 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A28 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 118 ft | 31 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A29 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 129 ft | 98 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A30 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 118 ft | 148 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A31 | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 136 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A32 | equestrian electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 229 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A33 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 181 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A34 | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 286 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A35 | equestrian electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 169 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A36 | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 148 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A37 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 271 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A38 | equestrian electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 151 ft | $24–$26 |
| A | A39 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 216 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B01 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 245 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B02 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 205 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B03 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 107 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B04 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 101 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B05 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 147 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B06 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 175 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B07 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 261 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B08 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 250 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B09 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 249 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B10 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 250 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B11 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 248 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 203 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B13 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 175 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B14 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 129 ft | 119 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B15 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 121 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B16 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 183 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B17 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 190 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B18 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 269 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B19 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 64 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B20 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 106 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B21 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 174 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B22 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 158 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B23 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 184 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B24 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 204 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B25 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 228 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | B26 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 261 ft | $24–$26 |
| B | S1 | day use | 30 amp | 231 ft | 321 ft | $50 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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 66 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lakeside (OK)1.3 mi
Burns Run West4.4 mi
Burns Run East5.1 mi
Johnson Creek5.5 mi
Preston Bend6.5 mi
Damsite Texas7.2 miFrom Colbert, Oklahoma, travel 5 miles north on US 75, turn west 5 miles to Platter Flats, OK, then follow signs to the campground. Physical address: 867 Trail Ride Road, Platter, OK 74753.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Platter, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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
Platter Flats 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 →