Sunset Bay
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 33 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 16 of the next 30 nights read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 14All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sunset Bay Park is located adjacent to Heyburn Dam. This area is popular for primitive camping and day use. Amenities include a boat ramp, courtesy dock, and vault restroom. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, kayaking, fishing, and swimming are all popular activities at Sunset Bay. Popular fish species include crappie, bass, and catfish.
Facilities
The park has 14 campsites, a boat ramp, courtesy dock, and a vault restroom. Water hydrants are available throughout the park.
Natural Features
Sunset Bay lies in a picturesque setting of grasslands and gently sloping, sandstone hills covered with oak trees and scattered with hickory, ash, elm and cottonwood. In the spring, flowering wild plum and redbud trees add color to the soft, green landscape. It is a great place to watch the sunset. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (918) 247-6391.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can explore the various parks of Heyburn Lake including Heyburn Park, Overlook, and Sheppard Point. Keystone Lake lies about 25 miles to the north and Tulsa is less than 30 miles northeast. Sapulpa Historic Route 66
What the agency tells you
Watch for drift and debris in the lake.
Check out Time 1:00 PM Check in Time 3:00 PM Quiet Hours: 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM Camping is permitted in designated campsites only. Each campsite is limited to 1 wheeled camping unit and 2 tent, or 3 tents. Camping is limited to 14 days within any 30 day period. Campers must occupy the campsite at least once during each 24 hour period. 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. Ground fires are restricted to metal fire rings. These are NOT trash receptacles, please leave them free of food and litter upon departure. All vehicles should have two wheels on pavement at all times; boat trailers are permitted on the grass. Please park extra vehicles in parking lots, not on empty camping pads.
America the Beautiful/Golden Age/Golden Access passes are limited to one campsite per pass. Pass holder must be present or discount may be terminated.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 14 · 14 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…include a boat ramp, courtesy dock, and vault restroom. Recreation Boating, kayaking, fishing, and…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…courtesy dock, and a vault restroom. Water hydrants are available throughout the park. Natural Features…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Coast
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Crawfishing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Mountain biking
- Picnicking
- Stargazing
- Water access
- Night sky · 97th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
27 of 28 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:22 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBookedClosed
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 rate for this season, $15 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 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 14 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. 14 of the 14 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.
| 1 | tent only nonelectric | 174 ft | 89 ft | $15 | |
| 10 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | $15 | |
| 11 | tent only nonelectric | 37 ft | 102 ft | $15 | |
| 12 | tent only nonelectric | 50 ft | 86 ft | $15 | |
| 13 | tent only nonelectric | 49 ft | 106 ft | $15 | |
| 14 | tent only nonelectric | 174 ft | 75 ft | $15 | |
| 2 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 120 ft | 50 ft | $15 |
| 3 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 91 ft | $15 | |
| 4 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 46 ft | 78 ft | $15 |
| 5 | tent only nonelectric | 35 ft | 61 ft | 60 ft | $15 |
| 6 | tent only nonelectric | 35 ft | 62 ft | 60 ft | $15 |
| 7 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 50 ft | 36 ft | $15 |
| 8 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 37 ft | 75 ft | $15 |
| 9 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | $15 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Heyburn Park1.0 mi
Sheppard Point1.3 mi
Brush Creek Public Use Area14 mi
Appalachia Bay Recreation Area16 mi
Washington Irving South17 mi
Walnut Creek21 miFrom Bristow, go 9 miles east and turn left on to 257th West Ave. Follow the paved road about 2 miles to the campground.
From Sapulpa, take State Highway 66 west to Kellyville, turn west on to 151st South Ave and go about 3.5 miles to the 4 way intersection. Turn right and stay on the paved road for about 1 miles until you reach the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kellyville, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 47°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°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
Sunset Bay 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 →