River Run Park
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 32All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
River Run Park is conveniently located just below Powersite Dam allowing quick lake access for fishing or recreational watersports. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking, birding, all types of water sports, and in-season hunting are featured attractions. Spring and fall are the best seasons for fishing, but spotted bass, crappie and similar fish can be sought throughout the year.
Facilities
River Run park contains 32 campsites with electric and water hookups. Flush toilets, showers, and a playground are also available.
Natural Features
The campground in in south-central Missouri just below the Powersite Dam on Bull Shoals Lake. Nearby, sturdy, green hardwoods and cedar glades encompass the rocky bluffs and unique rock formations of the mountains.
Nearby Attractions
Visit the Jones Point State Wildlife Management Area for promising wildlife spotting and birding. The lively tourist town of Branson is just minutes away. Here, visitors can shop, dine and find live music. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (870) 425-2700.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
No livestock at this facility
No firearms allowed
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.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 32
- Hookups
- 32 electric, 32 water
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 32
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with electric and water hookups. Flush toilets, showers, and a playground are also available.…”
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Boating
- Swimming
- Night sky · 113th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$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.
“Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
32 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 32 mapped sitesAll 32 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. 32 of the 32 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.
| River Run Park | 1 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 99 ft | 280 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 10 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 94 ft | 545 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 11 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 78 ft | 162 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 12 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 78 ft | 169 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 13 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 43 ft | 38 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 14 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 43 ft | 37 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 15 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 86 ft | 176 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 16 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 86 ft | 180 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 17 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 52 ft | 40 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 18 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 52 ft | 40 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 19 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 130 ft | 168 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 2 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 103 ft | 360 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 20 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 37 ft | 27 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 21 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 37 ft | 26 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 22 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 29 ft | 19 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 23 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 29 ft | 12 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 29 ft | under 10 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 25 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 29 ft | under 10 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 26 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 121 ft | 16 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 27 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 121 ft | 18 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 28 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 135 ft | 38 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 29 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 94 ft | 171 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 3 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 97 ft | 375 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 30 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 94 ft | 186 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 31 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 130 ft | 263 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 32 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 130 ft | 292 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 4 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 97 ft | 451 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 5 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 96 ft | 471 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 6 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 97 ft | 542 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 7 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 96 ft | 491 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 8 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 94 ft | 567 ft | $24–$26 |
| River Run Park | 9 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 99 ft | 469 ft | $24–$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 32 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Beaver Creek (MO)4.2 mi
Moonshine Beach Rec. Area13 mi
Bar-K Wrangler CampMark Twain National Forest · 13 mi
Indian Point14 mi
Old Highway 8615 mi
Cobb RidgeMark Twain National Forest · 15 miFrom Mountain Home, AR, travel north on State Route 5 for 24 miles to US 160. Follow 160 west for 45 miles to Forsyth, MO. Take a left on Hyw 76 W and the park entrance will be approximately one mile ahead on your right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Forsyth, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 24°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
River Run Park is in Missouri’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Eric Burlison (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →