Snake Creek
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 16:23 UTC
- A night
- $23–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 109All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Snake Creek Park is one of the most popular campgrounds on Tenkiller Ferry Lake. With modern facilities, convenient access to boating, and plenty of opportunities to view wildlife, it's no wonder campers come here year after year. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, fishing, water skiing, hiking, and swimming are some of the activities enjoyed by visitors. Prevailing winds and secluded coves create an ideal environment for sailing. Scuba divers enjoy the lake's clear waters and high visibility. Fishing is good for black bass, white bass, striped bass, crappie and catfish. The trout stream below the dam is one of only two year-round trout fisheries in Oklahoma, and is regularly stocked with rainbow trout. Hunting is also permitted in parts of the lake area, in accordance with federal and state laws.
Facilities
All campsites are equipped with electrical hookups, and the group shelters also have electricity. The park has flush toilets, hot showers, water hydrants, a swim beach, playground, dump station and boat ramps. A marina with concessions is adjacent to the campground. Of the ten marinas with concessions located on the lake, most offer boat and jet-ski rentals, and several have floating restaurants.
Natural Features
Tenkiller Ferry Lake is often referred to as "Oklahoma's clear water paradise." The 12,500 acre lake is sourced by the Illinois River and the Baron Fork, which are both designated as Oklahoma Scenic Rivers. It is nestled in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in the northeastern part of the state. This area, known as Green Country, is surrounded by dense oak-hickory forests, tall bluffs, and rolling hills. The lake has 130 miles of shoreline with plenty of wildlife such as deer and turkey. It serves as one of the flyways of migratory birds, including bald eagles, common loons, and white pelicans.
Nearby Attractions
Visit the Tenkiller State Park for its nature center and scuba diving park, the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge near Vian, or the historic city of Tahlequah - the capital of the Cherokee Nation. The scenic upper Illinois River near Tahlequah is great for canoeing and rafting, and the lower Illinois near Gore offers prime trout fishing.
What the agency tells you
Check-out time: 3:00 pm. Check-in time: 6:00 pm.
Quiet hours: 10:00 pm - 6:00 am. Entrance gate will be closed during this time.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Pets must remain restrained on a leash or penned at alll times. Pets are NOT allowed on swim beaches or in bathrooms.
Limit 3 tents, or 1 wheeled camper and 2 tents per camp pad.
Group shelters are for day use only.
Grey water and sewage must be properly disposed of in the provided dump station receptacle. Disposal of any water or waste on the ground is prohibited.
Fireworks are prohibited.
Fishing and hunting are regulated by federal and state laws.
Campers must occupy the campsite at least once during each 24 hour period. Abandoned personal property may be subject to impoundment after 24 hours.
Camping is limited to 14 consecutive days within any 30 day period. This applies to all members of the camping party and the camping unit.
Fires must be contained within the fire ring or grill provided. These are NOT trash receptacles, please leave them free of food and litter upon departure.
Campers shall keep their sites free of trash and litter during the period of occupancy and shall remove all personal equipment and clean their sites upon departure. Trash must be placed in the provided dumpsters.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 109
- Hookups
- 109 electric, 5 water, 4 sewer
- Paved pads
- 16 of 109
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…also have electricity. The park has flush toilets, hot showers, water hydrants, a swim beach,…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The park has flush toilets, hot showers, water hydrants, a swim beach, playground, dump station and boat ramps.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…The park has flush toilets, hot showers, water hydrants, a swim beach, playground, dump station and boat…”
- 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
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Swimming
192 of 224 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:23 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $23–$25 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 16:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
112 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 112 mapped sitesAll 112 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. 109 of the 112 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| 0512 | 032 | standard electric | 30 amp | 69 ft | 280 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 033 | standard electric | 30 amp | 63 ft | 233 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 035 | standard electric | 30 amp | 52 ft | 271 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 036 | standard electric | 30 amp | 52 ft | 219 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 037 | standard electric | 30 amp | 61 ft | 205 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 038 | standard electric | 30 amp | 68 ft | 155 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 039 | standard electric | 30 amp | 82 ft | 168 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 040 | standard electric | 30 amp | 65 ft | 210 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 041 | standard electric | 30 amp | 65 ft | 237 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 042 | standard electric | 30 amp | 82 ft | 290 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 043 | standard electric | 30 amp | 82 ft | 319 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 044 | standard electric | 30 amp | 69 ft | 326 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 045 | standard electric | 50 amp | 101 ft | 424 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 046 | standard electric | 50 amp | 82 ft | 363 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 047 | standard electric | 50 amp | 57 ft | 288 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 048 | standard electric | 50 amp | 52 ft | 258 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 049 | standard electric | 50 amp | 46 ft | 217 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 050 | standard electric | 50 amp | 46 ft | 181 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 051 | standard electric | 50 amp | 59 ft | 226 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 052 | standard electric | 50 amp | 59 ft | 284 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 053 | standard electric | 30 amp | 65 ft | 442 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 054 | standard electric | 30 amp | 65 ft | 394 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 055 | standard electric | 30 amp | 72 ft | 324 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 056 | standard electric | 30 amp | 68 ft | 365 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 057 | standard electric | 30 amp | 49 ft | 298 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 058 | standard electric | 30 amp | 47 ft | 249 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 059 | standard electric | 30 amp | 48 ft | 191 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 060 | standard electric | 30 amp | 48 ft | 148 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 061 | standard electric | 30 amp | 80 ft | 133 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 062 | standard electric | 30 amp | 55 ft | 218 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 063 | standard electric | 30 amp | 47 ft | 262 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 076 | standard electric | 30 amp | yes | 44 ft | 448 ft | $23–$25 |
| 0512 | 079 | standard electric | 30 amp | 75 ft | 237 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 080 | standard electric | 30 amp | 77 ft | 226 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 081 | standard electric | 30 amp | 67 ft | 227 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 082 | standard electric | 30 amp | 54 ft | 257 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 083 | standard electric | 30 amp | 54 ft | 298 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 084 | standard electric | 30 amp | 75 ft | 302 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 085 | standard electric | 30 amp | 57 ft | 316 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 086 | standard electric | 30 amp | 47 ft | 336 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 087 | standard electric | 30 amp | 47 ft | 375 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 088 | standard electric | 30 amp | 59 ft | 406 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 089 | standard electric | 30 amp | 78 ft | 380 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 090 | standard electric | 30 amp | 80 ft | 307 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 091 | standard electric | 30 amp | 99 ft | 286 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 092 | standard electric | 30 amp | 77 ft | 321 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 093 | standard electric | 30 amp | 77 ft | 347 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 094 | standard electric | 30 amp | 72 ft | 386 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 095 | standard electric | 30 amp | 72 ft | 400 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 096 | standard electric | 30 amp | 63 ft | 329 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 097 | standard electric | 30 amp | 63 ft | 278 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 098 | standard electric | 30 amp | 79 ft | 238 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 099 | standard electric | 30 amp | 46 ft | 268 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 100 | standard electric | 30 amp | 46 ft | 269 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 101 | standard electric | 30 amp | 50 ft | 288 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 102 | standard electric | 30 amp | 50 ft | 276 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 103 | standard electric | 30 amp | 74 ft | 303 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 104 | standard electric | 30 amp | 49 ft | 230 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 105 | standard electric | 30 amp | 49 ft | 207 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 106 | standard electric | 30 amp | 53 ft | 213 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 107 | standard electric | 30 amp | 53 ft | 195 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 108 | standard electric | 30 amp | 66 ft | 159 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | 109 | standard electric | 30 amp | 66 ft | 158 ft | $23–$25 | |
| 0512 | S001 | day use | 30 amp | yes | 70 ft | 482 ft | $50 |
| 0512 | S002 | day use | yes | 57 ft | 353 ft | $10 | |
| 0512 | S003 | day use | 30 amp | yes | 82 ft | 188 ft | $50 |
| SCRE | 001 | standard electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 390 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 002 | standard electric | 30 amp | 40 ft | 367 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 003 | standard electric | 30 amp | 40 ft | 402 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 004 | standard electric | 30 amp | 47 ft | 382 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 005 | standard electric | 30 amp | 47 ft | 335 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 006 | standard electric | 30 amp | 44 ft | 376 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 007 | standard electric | 50 amp | 44 ft | 366 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 008 | standard electric | 50 amp | 55 ft | 338 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 009 | standard electric | 50 amp | 62 ft | 305 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 010 | standard electric | 50 amp | 52 ft | 258 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 011 | standard electric | 50 amp | 52 ft | 230 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 012 | standard electric | 30 amp | 63 ft | 330 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 013 | standard electric | 30 amp | 51 ft | 290 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 014 | standard electric | 30 amp | 51 ft | 263 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 015 | standard electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 249 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 016 | standard electric | 30 amp | 62 ft | 264 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 017 | standard electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 242 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 018 | standard electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 255 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 019 | standard electric | 30 amp | 73 ft | 172 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 020 | standard electric | 30 amp | 73 ft | 134 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 021 | standard electric | 30 amp | 80 ft | 119 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 022 | standard electric | 30 amp | 46 ft | 115 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 023 | standard electric | 30 amp | 46 ft | 125 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 024 | standard electric | 30 amp | 48 ft | 141 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 025 | standard electric | 30 amp | 47 ft | 166 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 026 | standard electric | 30 amp | 47 ft | 200 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 027 | standard electric | 30 amp | 38 ft | 226 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 028 | standard electric | 30 amp | 38 ft | 188 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 029 | standard electric | 30 amp | 49 ft | 126 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 030 | standard electric | 30 amp | 49 ft | 79 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 031 | standard electric | 30 amp | 49 ft | 52 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 034 | standard electric | 30 amp | 63 ft | 226 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 064 | standard electric | 30 amp | 70 ft | 420 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 065 | standard electric | 30 amp | 44 ft | 329 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 066 | standard electric | 30 amp | 44 ft | 342 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 067 | standard electric | 30 amp | 65 ft | 384 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 068 | standard electric | 30 amp | 58 ft | 319 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 069 | standard electric | 30 amp | 58 ft | 270 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 070 | standard electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 229 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 071 | standard electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 144 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 072 | standard electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 199 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 073 | standard electric | 30 amp | 68 ft | 218 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 074 | standard electric | 30 amp | 66 ft | 287 ft | $23–$25 | |
| SCRE | 075 | standard electric | 30 amp | yes | 44 ft | 420 ft | $23–$25 |
| SCRE | 077 | standard electric | 30 amp | yes | 44 ft | 482 ft | $23–$25 |
| SCRE | 078 | standard electric | 30 amp | yes | 64 ft | 514 ft | $23–$25 |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is 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 112 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Chicken Creek2.4 mi
Cookson Bend4.1 mi
Strayhorn Landing5.2 mi
Pettit Bay7.4 mi
Elk Creek Landing8.2 mi
Dam Site (Fort Gibson Lake)21 miFrom Gore, OK, go 15 miles northeast on Highway 100, then turn left and go 1/2 mile west on paved access road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Evening Shade, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 73°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 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
Snake Creek 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 →