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Taylor Ferry

ReservableBookable through October 31; an off-peak season follows November 1 to March 31.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:16 UTC
A night: $16–$24Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 9189 on recreation.gov

Photos · USACE 2018

50 ftLongest rig

600 ftElevation

362 ftWater · Fort Gibson Lake

2.2 miSE of Toppers, OK

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices

In the agency’s own words

Taylor Ferry South is a heavily wooded campground that provides an abundance of shade for rest and relaxation. Conveniently located off Highway 51, users can easily access the main body of the lake for a variety of water activities. As an added bonus, there are several stores and marinas nearby for supplies and equipment rentals. Boat and RV storage locations are within a mile of the campground. Keep reading

Recreation

The nearly 20,000-acre lake offers excellent boating and swimming opportunities. Anglers enjoy fishing for black bass, white bass, crappie and several varieties of catfish and panfish. The lake's 225 miles of shoreline are home to thousands of acres of public hunting lands, where white-tailed deer, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, duck, geese, cottontail rabbit and squirrel roam.

Facilities

This year-round campground offers 95 sites, 89 of which have electric hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, drinking water, showers, a dump station and boat ramp.

Natural Features

The area around Taylor Ferry South is primarly an oak-hickory forest; however, the entrance road is lines with pines. Most of the rocky shoreline within the campground has a gradual slope to the water's edge for easy access. A man made sandy swim beach with playground equipment is located across the highway from the campground.

Nearby Attractions

Historic Fort Gibson, established in 1824, served as an important military post on the western frontier for close to 70 years. Now a National Historical Landmark, the site is open to the public year round. Volunteers reenact the lifestyle of the late 1800s during various events held throughout the year. A reconstructed log stockade, and original barracks, hospital, bakehouse and other structures still stand today.

Charges & Cancellations

Cancellations made 48 hrs or more prior to the start of the reservation will incur the cancellation fee of $10. Cancellations made 24 hrs prior to the start of the reservation will incur a late cancellation fee ($10 + first nights camping fee)

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Park gates are locked from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Rule

Entrance booth hours are 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Rule

Boat ramps and picnic areas for day-use are located at Taylor Ferry North

Everything else this campground posts · 1

Rule

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 91
Hookups: 82 electric, 84 water
Longest rig: 50 ft
Paved pads: 86 of 91
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Pit Toilets; “…hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, drinking water, showers, a dump station and boat…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, drinking water, showers, a dump station and boat ramp.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…Amenities include flush and pit toilets, drinking water, showers, a dump station and boat ramp. Natural…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, Beach; Boating; Fishing; Hunting; Swimming
Night sky · 82nd darkest of 106 in OK: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

62 of 178 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:16 UTC

recreation.gov lists 89 of the 91 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

OpenBooked

Booking windowThrough October 31Bookable now through October 31, 2026, the end of the peak season. The off-peak season that follows runs November 1, 2026 through March 31, 2027; recreation.gov releases it on its own schedule, so check there before counting on those nights.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$16–$24plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$40–$56DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$16–$24

Main-Standard Nonelectric$16

Standard Nonelectric$16

Standard Electric$22

Standard Electric$24

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 1, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$24–$32

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$40–$56

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$24 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

“Cancellations made 48 hrs or more prior to the start of the reservation will incur the cancellation fee of $10. Cancellations made 24 hrs prior to the start of the reservation will incur a late cancellation fee ($10 + first nights camping fee)” · 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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

91 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 89 mapped sites

63 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

86%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most roomLoop MAIN 051 141 ftLoop MAIN 037 116 ftLoop NORT 006 103 ftLoop MAIN 049 101 ftLoop MAIN 087 95 ft

Least roomLoop NORT 008 36 ftLoop NORT 009 36 ftLoop NORT 021 39 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 91 sites

91 of 91 sites located

Standard7RV / electric82Type not stated2

027 028 029 030 031 032 033 035 036 037 040 041 042 043 044 046 047 048 049 050 051 053 054 055 057 058 059 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 087 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 001 002 004 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 89 of the 91 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.


MAIN	027	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	61 ft	160 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	028	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp	73 ft	206 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	029	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp	49 ft	276 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	030	standard electric	28 ft	30 amp	54 ft	262 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	031	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp	55 ft	335 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	032	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	55 ft	353 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	033	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	86 ft	225 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	035	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	69 ft	296 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	036	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	89 ft	266 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	037	standard nonelectric	45 ft		116 ft	138 ft	$16
MAIN	040	standard electric	28 ft	30 amp	92 ft	125 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	041	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	90 ft	186 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	042	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	90 ft	96 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	043	standard electric	32 ft	30 amp	63 ft	139 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	044	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	63 ft	122 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	046	standard electric	27 ft	30 amp	52 ft	133 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	047	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	52 ft	185 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	048	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	74 ft	194 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	049	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	101 ft	140 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	050	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	87 ft	250 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	051	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	141 ft	219 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	053	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	93 ft	123 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	054	standard electric	38 ft	30 amp	74 ft	209 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	055	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	70 ft	207 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	057	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp	56 ft	266 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	058	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	74 ft	283 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	059	standard electric	20 ft	30 amp	87 ft	303 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	061	standard electric	38 ft	30 amp	73 ft	394 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	062	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	49 ft	324 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	063	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	63 ft	263 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	064	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	52 ft	391 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	065	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	52 ft	406 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	066	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	71 ft	291 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	067	standard electric	26 ft	30 amp	73 ft	241 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	068	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	61 ft	216 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	069	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	71 ft	489 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	070	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	57 ft	505 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	071	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	57 ft	509 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	072	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	57 ft	493 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	073	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	66 ft	503 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	074	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	60 ft	509 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	075	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	64 ft	482 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	076	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	64 ft	447 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	077	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	64 ft	431 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	078	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	60 ft	487 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	079	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	58 ft	461 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	080	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	75 ft	424 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	081	standard electric	25 ft	30 amp	58 ft	438 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	082	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp	79 ft	403 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	083	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	79 ft	400 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	084	type not stated	40 ft	50 amp		386 ft
MAIN	085	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	56 ft	255 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	087	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	95 ft	260 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	089	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	70 ft	178 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	090	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	70 ft	212 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	091	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp	79 ft	168 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	092	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	61 ft	201 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	093	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	76 ft	252 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	094	standard electric	26 ft	50 amp	92 ft	288 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	095	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	61 ft	191 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	096	standard electric	20 ft	30 amp	52 ft	214 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	097	standard electric	36 ft	30 amp	52 ft	243 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	098	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	55 ft	237 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	099	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	55 ft	247 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	100	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	46 ft	260 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	101	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	40 ft	238 ft	$22–$24
MAIN	102	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	40 ft	204 ft	$22–$24
NORT	001	standard nonelectric	15 ft		71 ft	210 ft	$16
NORT	002	standard nonelectric	15 ft		68 ft	197 ft	$16
NORT	004	standard nonelectric	30 ft		68 ft	132 ft	$16
NORT	006	standard nonelectric	25 ft		103 ft	125 ft	$16
NORT	007	standard nonelectric	15 ft		86 ft	168 ft	$16
NORT	008	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	36 ft	342 ft	$22–$24
NORT	009	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	36 ft	373 ft	$22–$24
NORT	010	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	73 ft	324 ft	$22–$24
NORT	011	standard electric	28 ft	30 amp	73 ft	370 ft	$22–$24
NORT	012	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	44 ft	451 ft	$22–$24
NORT	013	standard nonelectric			44 ft	485 ft	$16
NORT	014	type not stated	45 ft	30 amp		495 ft
NORT	015	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	49 ft	338 ft	$22–$24
NORT	016	standard electric	32 ft	30 amp	53 ft	273 ft	$22–$24
NORT	017	standard electric	32 ft	30 amp	53 ft	273 ft	$22–$24
NORT	018	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	49 ft	329 ft	$22–$24
NORT	019	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	57 ft	281 ft	$22–$24
NORT	020	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	53 ft	227 ft	$22–$24
NORT	021	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	39 ft	222 ft	$22–$24
NORT	022	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	39 ft	225 ft	$22–$24
NORT	023	standard electric	28 ft	30 amp	57 ft	306 ft	$22–$24
NORT	024	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	58 ft	213 ft	$22–$24
NORT	025	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	58 ft	243 ft	$22–$24
NORT	026	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp	88 ft	191 ft	$22–$24

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

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 91 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate35.93449, -95.28430

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone918-485-4792 OR 918-682-4314

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Wahoo Bay3.4 mi

Wildwood (OK)4.3 mi

Dam Site (Fort Gibson Lake)5.4 mi

Rocky Point (Ft Gibson)7.4 mi

Flat Rock Creek8.0 mi

Blue Bill Point8.1 mi

Getting there

Address for GPS: Taylor Ferry South Campground, 33814 E. 746 Rd., Wagoner, OK 74467

From Wagoner, Oklahoma, travel 5 miles east on Highway 51. Turn right on South 330 Road and travel south for approximatly 1/4 mile. Turn left on East 746 Road and travel less than 1 mile to the entrance gate and check in station.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight42°Clear

Saturday63°Sunny

Saturday Night41°Clear

Sunday68°Sunny

NWS forecast for Taylor Ferry, OK

Source: National Weather Service, TSA forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 49°F, day 74°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.

100°32°20°

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.

Measured at: MUSKOGEE, OK (USC00346130), 11 miles away and 82 ft lower

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Taylor Ferry 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 30 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 89 of the 91 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 91 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 1 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 106 rated federal campgrounds in Oklahoma · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: inside Taylor Ferry, OK (a census designated place). Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026