Sparrowfoot
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:34 UTC
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 83All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sparrowfoot Campground is situated on the Grand River Arm of the Harry S. Truman Lake in the hills of western Missouri. Visitors enjoy fishing, hunting and boating. Keep reading
Recreation
Sparrowfoot is an excellent fishing location. Truman Lake is also a popular destination for tournament fishermen.
Facilities
This campground offers 83 sites-- 56 of those have 50-amp and water, and 27 sites are 30-amp. Two day-use group picnic shelters are also available, making the area perfect for large parties or family functions. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities, playground, a dump station and boat ramp.
Natural Features
A mosaic of hardwood forests and grasslands covers the area's rolling hills. Rocky bluffs extend into the lake. Wildlife such as whitetail deer, turkey, hawks, ospreys, eagles, and many different water birds can be found in and around the park. An abundance of fish such as crappie, bass, walleye, paddlefish, blue and channel catfish can also be found in Harry S Truman Reservoir. Approximately 8,800 acres of standing timber were left in the lake to provide quality aquatic habitat.
Nearby Attractions
Katy Trail State Park, the nation's longest rails-to-trails project, is nearby. This unique park stretches from Clinton to Machens, with dozens of trailheads in between. Biking and hiking are allowed on the entire length of the trail, and horses are allowed from Clinton to Sedalia.
What the agency tells you
Click here for more information about Truman Lake
Help stop the spread of the invasive zebra mussel by draining all water from equipment and discarding live bait before leaving the park.
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 · 1
Campers must have permit before camping. Available at park booth. *There is a limit of 1 wheeled camper and 2 tents or 3 tents per camp pad.* All equipment must fit on the site pad. Vehicles park in developed areas only. This park requires a 3 night minimum stay on holiday weekends and 2 night minimum stay on weekends.*
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 83
- Hookups
- 83 electric, 56 water
- Longest rig
- 91 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…functions. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities,…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities, playground, a dump station and boat ramp.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities, playground, a dump station and…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Night sky · 91st darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
82 of 166 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
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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
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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, $14 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
85 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 85 mapped sitesAll 85 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. 83 of the 85 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | A01 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 826 ft | $14 | |
| A | A02 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 784 ft | $14 | |
| A | A03 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 684 ft | $14 | |
| A | A04 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 734 ft | $14 | |
| A | A06 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 640 ft | $14 | |
| A | A07 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 629 ft | $14 | |
| A | A08 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 574 ft | $14 | |
| A | A09 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 488 ft | $14 | |
| A | A10 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 567 ft | $14 | |
| A | A11 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 496 ft | $14 | |
| A | A13 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 430 ft | $14 | |
| A | A14 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 367 ft | $14 | |
| A | A15 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 293 ft | $14 | |
| A | A16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 226 ft | $14 | |
| A | A17 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 190 ft | $14 | |
| A | A18 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 172 ft | $14 | |
| A | A19 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 185 ft | $14 | |
| A | A20 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 141 ft | $14 | |
| A | A21 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 132 ft | $14 | |
| A | A22 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 227 ft | $14 | |
| A | A24 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 190 ft | $14 | |
| A | A26 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 295 ft | $14 | |
| A | A27 | standard electric | 91 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 344 ft | $14 | |
| A | A28 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 367 ft | $14 | |
| A | A29 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 417 ft | $14 | |
| A | A30 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 428 ft | $14 | |
| A | A31 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 503 ft | $14 | |
| A | A32 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 584 ft | $14 | |
| A | A33 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 628 ft | $14 | |
| A | A34 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 642 ft | $14 | |
| A | A35 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 688 ft | $14 | |
| A | A36 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 723 ft | $14 | |
| A | A37 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 826 ft | $14 | |
| A | A38 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | yes | 75 ft | 798 ft | $14 |
| A | A39 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 745 ft | $14 | |
| A | A40 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 729 ft | $14 | |
| A | A41 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 663 ft | $14 | |
| A | A42 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 652 ft | $14 | |
| A | A43 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 597 ft | $14 | |
| A | A44 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 571 ft | $14 | |
| A | A45 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 526 ft | $14 | |
| A | A47 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 490 ft | $14 | |
| A | A49 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 420 ft | $14 | |
| A | A50 | standard electric | 88 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 463 ft | $14 | |
| A | A52 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 364 ft | $14 | |
| A | A54 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 405 ft | $14 | |
| A | A55 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 487 ft | $14 | |
| A | A56 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 528 ft | $14 | |
| A | A57 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 555 ft | $14 | |
| A | A58 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 604 ft | $14 | |
| A | A59 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 651 ft | $14 | |
| A | A60 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 717 ft | $14 | |
| A | A61 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 773 ft | $14 | |
| A | A62 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 777 ft | $14 | |
| A | A63 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 851 ft | $14 | |
| A | A64 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 855 ft | $14 | |
| B | B01 | standard electric | 64 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 624 ft | $14 | |
| B | B02 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 513 ft | $14 | |
| B | B03 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 571 ft | $14 | |
| B | B04 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 475 ft | $14 | |
| B | B05 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 556 ft | $14 | |
| B | B06 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 463 ft | $14 | |
| B | B07 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 531 ft | $14 | |
| B | B08 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 447 ft | $14 | |
| B | B09 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 519 ft | $14 | |
| B | B10 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 432 ft | $14 | |
| B | B11 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 459 ft | $14 | |
| B | B12 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 381 ft | $14 | |
| B | B14 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 322 ft | $14 | |
| B | B15 | standard electric | 59 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 427 ft | $14 | |
| B | B17 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 357 ft | $14 | |
| B | B18 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 474 ft | $14 | |
| B | B19 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 396 ft | $14 | |
| B | B39 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 548 ft | $14 | |
| B | B40 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 534 ft | $14 | |
| B | B41 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | yes | 81 ft | 598 ft | $14 |
| B | B42 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 598 ft | $14 | |
| B | B43 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 686 ft | $14 | |
| B | B44 | standard electric | 59 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 732 ft | $14 | |
| B | B45 | standard electric | 59 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 647 ft | $14 | |
| B | B46 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 668 ft | $14 | |
| B | B47 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 756 ft | $14 | |
| B | B48 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 712 ft | $14 | |
| DUSE | 01 | day use | 60 ft | yes | 268 ft | 303 ft | $30 | |
| DUSE | 02 | day use | 60 ft | yes | 268 ft | 256 ft | $30 |
The agency files 2 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 85 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Bucksaw7.0 mi
Berry Bend14 mi
Long Shoal14 mi
Shawnee Bend17 mi
Thibaut Point18 mi
Bledsoe Ferry18 miFrom Highway 13, travel about a mile east on SE 450 Road and follow signs into the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Deepwater, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 69°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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
Sparrowfoot is in Missouri’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Mark Alford (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →