Rock Creek Group Camp (Chickasaw)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 501 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Rock Creek Group Site is a family-friendly primitive campsite located in a large grassy area across from the Camp Host site. Group parking is available in the gravel lot to the right of the campsite. It is a short walk or drive away from Veteran's Lake and roughly a 10-minute drive to Little Niagara and Travertine Nature Center. Note: While the group site is reservable, all other individual campsites at Rock Creek are available on a first-come first-serve basis. Payment for individual sites can be made at the fee machine located at the entrance to the campground. Keep reading
Recreation
Swimming opportunities are plentiful with nearby streams and springs. A short drive to Veteran's Lake allows access to more swimming, picnic areas, a fishing dock, and a hiking trail that wraps around the lake.
Facilities
Rock Creek Group Site is a non-electric tent-only campsite. Rock Creek es un camping exclusivo para tiendas de campaña, sin electricidad. Two restroom buildings are located in the campground. Both restrooms have flush toilets and sinks. No showers are available at this campground. El camping cuenta con dos baños. Ambos cuentan con inodoros y lavabos con cisterna. No hay duchas disponibles.
Natural Features
Mature oak and hickory forests cover this historic part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area. This area of the park is abundant with cold spring-fed waterfalls and beautiful geologic formations. Bosques maduros de robles y nogales cubren esta parte histórica del Área Recreativa Nacional Chickasaw. Esta zona del parque abunda en cascadas de aguas frías de manantiales y hermosas formaciones geológicas.
Nearby Attractions
Visit the impressive 184-acre Chickasaw Cultural Center to learn about the history of the Chickasaw tribe. Enjoy historical exhibits, interactive displays, and traditional dances.
Charges & Cancellations
Refunds will not be given due to inclement weather. Please read the official Recreation.gov cancellation rules and policies above before booking your campsite.
What the agency tells you
Checkout time is noon CST and check in time is 2:30 PM. CST.
Rock Creek Group Camp has spotty cell coverage and no electric hookups. Please plan accordingly.
If no Camp Host is available but you still require a Ranger for non-emergencies, call Murray County dispatch at 580-622-3918.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Frequent weather changes occur. Be prepared for severe heat, wind, rain and possible tornadoes.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 50 · 1 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- 2 of 50
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…in the campground. Both restrooms have flush toilets and sinks. No showers are available at this…”
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “No showers are available at this campground.”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 30 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Hiking
- Paddle Boating
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Water access
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 50 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
“Refunds will not be given due to inclement weather. Please read the official Recreation.gov cancellation rules and policies above before booking your campsite.” · 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
50 sites · the site map
All 50 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 50 of the 50 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. 1 of the 50 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.
| Rock Creek | 11 | type not stated | 185 ftRock Creek | 78 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 12 | type not stated | 284 ftRock Creek | 90 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 13 | type not stated | 399 ftRock Creek | 175 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 14 | type not stated | 143 ftRock Creek | 133 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 15 | type not stated | 95 ftRock Creek | 157 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 16 | type not stated | 126 ftRock Creek | 119 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 17 | type not stated | 77 ftRock Creek | 161 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 18 | type not stated | 152 ftRock Creek | 123 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 19 | type not stated | 125 ftRock Creek | 140 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 20 | type not stated | 237 ftRock Creek | 144 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 21 | type not stated | 263 ftRock Creek | 202 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 22 | type not stated | 301 ftRock Creek | 143 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 23 | type not stated | 368 ftRock Creek | 152 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 24 | type not stated | 430 ftRock Creek | 217 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 25 | type not stated | 115 ftRock Creek | 164 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 26 | type not stated | 57 ftRock Creek | 233 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 27 | type not stated | 106 ftRock Creek | 259 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 28 | type not stated | 84 ftRock Creek | 304 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 29 | type not stated | 146 ftRock Creek | 281 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 30 | type not stated | 141 ftRock Creek | 294 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 31 | type not stated | 217 ftRock Creek | 215 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 32 | type not stated | 272 ftRock Creek | 152 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 33 | type not stated | 317 ftRock Creek | 203 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 34 | type not stated | 307 ftRock Creek | 232 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 35 | type not stated | 379 ftRock Creek | 298 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 36 | type not stated | 400 ftRock Creek | 295 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 37 | type not stated | 386 ftRock Creek | 298 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 38 | type not stated | 395 ftRock Creek | 202 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 39 | type not stated | 104 ftRock Creek | 328 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 40 | type not stated | 112 ftRock Creek | 241 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 41 | type not stated | 125 ftRock Creek | 174 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 42 | type not stated | 214 ftRock Creek | 90 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 43 | type not stated | 198 ftRock Creek | 106 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 44 | type not stated | 289 ftRock Creek | 35 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 45 | type not stated | 364 ftRock Creek | 68 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 46 | type not stated | 379 ftRock Creek | 82 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 47 | type not stated | 473 ftRock Creek | 196 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 48 | type not stated | 447 ftRock Creek | 318 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 49 | type not stated | 117 ftRock Creek | 199 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 50 | type not stated | 151 ftRock Creek | 172 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 51 | type not stated | 209 ftRock Creek | 235 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 52 | type not stated | 174 ftRock Creek | 211 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 53 | type not stated | 223 ftRock Creek | 269 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 54 | type not stated | 256 ftRock Creek | 250 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 55 | type not stated | 344 ftRock Creek | 304 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 56 | type not stated | 333 ftRock Creek | 273 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 57 | type not stated | 450 ftRock Creek | 222 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 58 | type not stated | 428 ftRock Creek | 233 ft | |
| Rock Creek | 59 | type not stated | 84 ftRock Creek | 304 ft | |
| Rock Creek Group Site | 107 | group tent only area nonelectric | 252 ftRock Creek | 337 ft | $50 |
25 of 50 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Central Group Camp (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 0.0 mi
Cold Springs Campground (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 0.0 mi
Rock Creek CampgroundChickasaw National Recreation Area · 1.2 mi
Veterans Lake PavilionChickasaw National Recreation Area · 1.3 mi
The Point Campground (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 4.3 miBuckhorn Campground Loop CChickasaw National Recreation Area · 5.2 miFrom I-35, take Exit 55 and drive toward Davis. Once in Davis, go east on Highway 7 to the Chickasaw National Recreation Area. For Rock Creek Campground, Veterans Lake, and Veteran's Lake Pavilion, drive approximately 7 miles (11.2 km) east of Davis to the traffic light on 12th street in the city of Sulphur. Turn right on 12th Street for approximately .6 miles (1 km). Turn right at the stop sign. Rock Creek Campground will be less than 1/2 a mile down the road to the right. Look for the large wooden sign with the campground name.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sulphur, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°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
Rock Creek Group Camp (Chickasaw) is in Oklahoma’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Tom Cole (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →