Sarge Creek
1Heads up1 fire 35 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 16:34 UTC
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 52All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sarge Creek Campground is situated along the banks of Kaw Lake in north central Oklahoma. Most of the campsites here are shaded and visitors looking to camp with their horses or ride Kaw Lakes Five Fingers Equestrian Trail, will find Sarge Creek Campground to be very accommodating. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake and river are known for producing some of Oklahoma's largest catfish, as well as crappie, white bass and walleye, making it a popular destination for anglers. Hikers and horseback riders are attracted to the beautiful trails along the eastern shore. The Eagle View Hiking Trail is approximately 12 miles long and runs between Osage Cove and Burbank Landing. The Five Fingers Equestrian Trail extends from the Sarge Creek Cove Public Use Area to Burbank Landing. Hunters' skills are tested with excellent populations of whitetail deer, turkey, quail, rabbit and squirrel. During the fall waterfowl seasons Kaw Lake often attracts large numbers of migrating ducks and geese. During the winter visitors are likely to spot migrating bald eagles, as Kaw Lake has one of the biggest populations in the state.
Facilities
Sarge Creek Campground offers 53 campsites with modern amenities like electric hookups, drinking water and flush toilets, including one large group campsite that can accommodate up to 60 guests. A boat ramp provides easy access to the lake. Campsites 1-7 are available for equestrian camping, and horse pens are provided.
Natural Features
The lake covers 17,000 surface acres and has 168 miles of shoreline. Completed in 1976, the dam and lake help provide a recreational oasis for outdoor enthusiasts of all types.
Nearby Attractions
The area holds a number of historical sites, including several Native American settlements, archeological sites and the Pioneer Woman Museum.
What the agency tells you
Reserve your campsite through Recreation.gov
Sites 3-5 and site 29 are subject to flooding
Five Fingers Equestrian Trial is closed during Oklahoma's deer rifle and primitive firearms seasons
Everything else this campground posts · 2
One tent and one RV or two tents per campsite
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
- 52 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 52 electric, 52 water
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 52
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 44 of 52 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…electric hookups, drinking water and flush toilets, including one large group campsite that can…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…modern amenities like electric hookups, drinking water and flush toilets, including one large group…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 23rd darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
60 of 104 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:34 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
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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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $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 16:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 52 mapped sitesAll 52 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 52 of the 52 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. 52 of the 52 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SCRC | 001 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 110 ft | 788 ft | 1,053 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 002 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 723 ft | 1,131 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 003 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 630 ft | 1,172 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 004 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 592 ft | 1,261 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 005 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 543 ft | 1,439 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 006 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 498 ft | 1,527 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 007 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 483 ft | 1,760 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 008 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 573 ft | 1,796 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 009 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 655 ft | 1,787 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 010 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 734 ft | 1,740 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 011 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 689 ft | 1,640 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 012 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 777 ft | 1,666 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 013 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 723 ft | 1,568 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 014 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 844 ft | 1,516 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 015 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 787 ft | 1,455 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 016 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 908 ft | 1,431 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 017 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 830 ft | 1,397 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 018 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 962 ft | 1,366 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 019 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 894 ft | 1,320 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 020 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 1,006 ft | 1,314 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 021 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 944 ft | 1,239 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 036 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 373 ft | 623 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 037 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 305 ft | 640 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 038 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 251 ft | 621 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 039 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 234 ft | 602 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 040 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 104 ft | 183 ft | 620 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 041 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 124 ft | 144 ft | 538 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 042 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 111 ft | 262 ft | 414 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 043 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 283 ft | 469 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 044 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 356 ft | 353 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 045 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 338 ft | 442 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 046 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 417 ft | 324 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 047 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 394 ft | 417 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 048 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 456 ft | 317 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 049 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 520 ft | 302 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 050 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 480 ft | 396 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | 051 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 415 ft | 475 ft | $26 |
| SCRC | GS1 | group standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 530 ft | 922 ft | 723 ft | $125 |
| SEAS | 022 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 705 ft | 235 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 023 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 704 ft | 218 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 024 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 642 ft | 159 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 025 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 558 ft | 116 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 026 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 462 ft | 108 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 027 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 367 ft | 151 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 028 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 275 ft | 219 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 029 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 194 ft | 294 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 030 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 120 ft | 240 ft | 343 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 031 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 268 ft | 400 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 032 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 283 ft | 443 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 033 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 369 ft | 390 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 034 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 415 ft | 275 ft | $26 |
| SEAS | 035 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 451 ft | 186 ft | $26 |
25 of 52 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Washunga Bay2.7 mi
Osage Cove6.2 mi
Coon Creek (OK)6.5 mi
Bear Creek Cove7.6 mi
Sandy Park8.0 mi
McFadden Cove8.3 miFrom Kaw City, Oklahoma, travel nearly 3 miles east on Highway 11, then follow signs to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kaw City, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 47°F, day 72°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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
Sarge Creek is in Oklahoma’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Frank Lucas (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →