Pulltite
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- Reservations Required for All CampgroundsInformation naming this campground · open
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 5856 on recreation.gov
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
In the rolling, forested landscapes around Pulltite, two of America's most beautiful spring-fed rivers combine to make up the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. As the first national park area to protect a wild river system, visitors have plenty of scenic water activities to enjoy as well as hiking, horseback riding and wildlife viewing. Keep reading
Recreation
The Current River flows past the campground, offering excellent canoeing, tubing, swimming and fishing. Over 130 miles of waterways exist within the park. Canoe and kayak rentals and outfitters can be found nearby. The historic Pulltite Cabin is across the river from the campground. The only way to see the cabin is by boat or by wading across the river. The cabin is next to scenic Pulltite Spring, for which the campground is named. Several miles of hiking and horseback riding trails crisscross the region, include the Alley Overlook Trail, Chubb Hollow Trail, Ozark Trail, Cave Spring Trail and Big Springs Trail.
Facilities
This year-round campground has flush toilets and showers facilities available April 15 through October 15. The main shower house/restroom at the front of the campground will be open year round. Picnic tables, fire rings, and grills are provided. Roads and parking spurs are paved. Ranger-led campfire programs are offered in the campground amphitheater during summer months.
Natural Features
The Ozark National Scenic Riverways is known for its caves, springs, sinkholes and losing streams, and features over 300 identified caves within its boundaries. They range in size from a rock overhang to almost seven miles of identified passages. Eight caves, including an open sinkhole, have been designated as outstanding natural features. The Ozark forest is mostly White oak and Shortleaf pine, Missouri's only native pine species. Along the rivers, Sycamore, Cottonwood, River birch and maples are common. Redbud and Dogwoods are also abundant, putting on a spectacular show during most spring months.
Nearby Attractions
Scenic Round Spring Cave is nearby, with ranger-guided tours offered daily during summer months. Historic and picturesque Alley Mill and Alley Spring are also nearby. The mill is open daily in the summer and rangers offer tours upon request. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (573) 323-4236.
What the agency tells you
If you arrive and another party is occupying your reserved campsite, please call Arrowhead Dispatch at 1-844-460-3604 for a Law Enforcement officer to be dispersed to your location for removal of the unauthorized party.
No hook-ups available at this campground
2 Tents or 1 RV and 1 Tent per site only on Standard Family sites
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Modern restrooms are open from April 15-Oct. 1; outside this time, visitors will be provided with an alternative, which may be a short distance from their campsite
No glass bottled beverages allowed in tubes or non-motorized vessels
All reservations and reservation changes MUST be completed through recreation.gov or by calling 877-444-6777.
For more information about the park, please call (573) 323-4236 between 8am and 4:30pm weekdays or e-mail OZAR_Campground_Operations@nps.gov
Free standing Hammocks only. NO hammocks tied to trees.
Water systems shut off Oct. 15-April 14. (Water off means most bathrooms and faucets in campgrounds will be closed and facilities winterized, including picnic pavilions. The exception are the heated shower houses/flush restrooms at Round Spring, Big Spring and Alley Spring campgrounds.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 58 · 3 tent-only, 3 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 44 of 58
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The main shower house/restroom at the front of the campground will be open year round.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Ranger programs
- Other Recreation Concession Site
- Visitor center
- Night sky · 7th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 3
42 of 112 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:46 UTC
recreation.gov lists 56 of the 58 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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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, $20 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 16:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
58 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 56 mapped sitesAll 58 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 58 of the 58 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 56 of the 58 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Pulltite Group Sites | G01 | group tent only area nonelectric | 558 ft | 237 ft | 35 ft | $140 | ||
| Pulltite Group Sites | G02 | group tent only area nonelectric | 293 ft | 262 ft | 1,020 ft | $140 | ||
| Pulltite Group Sites | G03 | group tent only area nonelectric | 293 ft | 400 ft | 1,028 ft | $140 | ||
| Sites 1-15 | 001 | type not stated | 60 ft | 243 ft | 117 ft | |||
| Sites 1-15 | 002 | type not stated | 45 ft | 40 ft | 318 ft | |||
| Sites 1-15 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 57 ft | 97 ft | 291 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 25 ft | 364 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 56 ft | 82 ft | 342 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 60 ft | 35 ft | 422 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 51 ft | 97 ft | 381 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 47 ft | 45 ft | 461 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 21 ft | 111 ft | 414 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 47 ft | 62 ft | 493 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 21 ft | 110 ft | 432 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 53 ft | 66 ft | 542 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 129 ft | 497 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 100 ft | 97 ft | 491 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 1-15 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 38 ft | 192 ft | 435 ft | $20 |
| Sites 16-30 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 38 ft | 197 ft | 409 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 43 ft | 204 ft | 380 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 38 ft | 194 ft | 344 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 019 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 38 ft | 191 ft | 327 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 020 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 60 ft | 195 ft | 301 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 021 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 58 ft | 120 ft | 376 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 022 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 40 ft | 114 ft | 380 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 023 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 67 ft | 213 ft | 281 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 024 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 40 ft | 112 ft | 386 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 025 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 49 ft | 216 ft | 284 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 026 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 60 ft | 111 ft | 400 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 027 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 49 ft | 194 ft | 318 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 028 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 60 ft | 99 ft | 422 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 029 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 67 ft | 192 ft | 337 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 16-30 | 030 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 60 ft | 177 ft | 373 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 031 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 60 ft | 178 ft | 398 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 032 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 66 ft | 115 ft | 463 ft | $20 |
| Sites 31-55 | 033 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 60 ft | 174 ft | 429 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 034 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 57 ft | 106 ft | 506 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 035 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 59 ft | 169 ft | 463 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 036 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 57 ft | 98 ft | 539 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 037 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 59 ft | 163 ft | 501 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 038 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 71 ft | 98 ft | 578 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 039 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 59 ft | 170 ft | 539 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 040 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 60 ft | 106 ft | 626 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 041 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 59 ft | 192 ft | 558 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 042 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 60 ft | 139 ft | 634 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 043 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 60 ft | 220 ft | 575 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 044 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | 157 ft | 672 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 045 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 88 ft | 188 ft | 705 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 046 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 88 ft | 118 ft | 748 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 047 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 84 ft | 161 ft | 799 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 048 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 84 ft | 82 ft | 843 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 049 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 105 ft | 199 ft | 811 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 050 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 94 ft | 815 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 051 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 83 ft | 146 ft | 690 ft | $20 |
| Sites 31-55 | 052 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 71 ft | 76 ft | 744 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 053 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 85 ft | 190 ft | 619 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 054 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 83 ft | 70 ft | 658 ft | $20 | |
| Sites 31-55 | 055 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 132 ft | 114 ft | 526 ft | $20 |
25 of 58 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sinking Creek CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 4.3 miAkers Group CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 5.2 mi
Round SpringOzark National Scenic Riverways · 5.4 mi
AkersOzark National Scenic Riverways · 5.8 miDee Murray CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 9.1 mi
Cedar Grove CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 9.2 miPulltite Campground is located at the end of EE Highway. From Salem, Missouri, take Highway 19 south for 32 miles and turn right onto EE.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Eminence, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°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
Pulltite 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 →