The Point Campground (Chickasaw)
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $20–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 16All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Point Campground is a family-friendly campground located on Lake of the Arbuckles. Popular recreational activities include boating, swimming, fishing, bicycling, and birding. Due to its relaxed atmosphere, The Point Campground is a great outdoor destination for visitors of all ages and backgrounds. Keep reading
Recreation
Bring your boats and jet skis to enjoy the lake or pack your fishing rods to catch some of the state's finest bass, catfish, and crappie. Boating is a popular summer activity, but birding and bicycling are also great ways to explore this area of the park to take in scenic views of Lake of the Arbuckles. The boat ramp and day use picnic areas are conveniently located less than a mile from the campgrounds.
Facilities
Campgrounds in the Upper and Lower Loops have a mixture of electric and non-electric campsites. Water hookups are available at the electric sites. There are no sewer hookups, but a dump station is conveniently located less than a mile from the campgrounds. Upper Loop restrooms are pit toilets. Lower Loop restrooms have flush toilets, sinks, and showers. There are no firewood vendors in the park. Visitors can gather dead and downed wood in the campgrounds or drive to the nearby town of Sulphur to purchase firewood.
Natural Features
Set in the rolling Arbuckle Mountains, The Point Campground is is part of the Crosstimbers region, where the western plains meet the eastern forests. This area of the park offers abundant opportunities for wildlife viewing and recreational enjoyment.
Nearby Attractions
Try Little Niagara, a favorite freshwater swimming hole. The Travertine Nature Center is a wonderful resource to view nature exhibits, meet live animals on display and listen to rangers' presentations. If visitors are in need of supplies, groceries or boat rentals, head to the neighboring city of Sulphur.
Charges & Cancellations
Refunds will not be given due to inclement weather. Please read the official cancellation rules and policies of recreation.gov thoroughly before booking your campsite.
What the agency tells you
Check out time is noon CST, check in time is 2:30 PM CST. Guests may check in early if the previous visitor has already left and the campsite has been cleaned.
Recreational and medical marijuana are not permitted in Chickasaw National Recreation Area at any time.
In case of emergency, call 911. If you have a non-emergency after hours and no Camp Host is available, the local dispatch number is 580-622-3918.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 16 · 2 tent-only, 2 walk-in
- Hookups
- 12 electric, 12 water
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 10 of 11 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 1 of 16 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 60 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Motor Boat
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Paddle Boating
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Water access
- Water sports
- Night sky · 69th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
Fully booked this Friday and Saturday, all 32 site-nights takenread 16:42 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
Every one of the 16 sites on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 13 are free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:42 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
These counts cover the 16 reservable sites only. This campground also has first-come sites, and recreation.gov publishes no availability for a site you can’t reserve.
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
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 rates for this season, $20–$30 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.
“Refunds will not be given due to inclement weather. Please read the official cancellation rules and policies of recreation.gov thoroughly before booking your campsite.” · 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:42 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
16 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 16 mapped sitesAll 16 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 16 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.
| Upper Camp Area | 041 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 206 ft | 413 ft | $30 |
| Upper Camp Area | 042 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 463 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 043 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 341 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 044 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 422 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 045 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 451 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 046 | walk to | 56 ft | 368 ft | $20 | |||
| Upper Camp Area | 047 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 458 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 048 | walk to | 56 ft | 369 ft | $20 | |||
| Upper Camp Area | 049 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 456 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 050 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 501 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 051 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 396 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 052 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 467 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 053 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 398 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 054 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 114 ft | 253 ft | $30 | |
| Upper Camp Area | 055 | tent only nonelectric | 24 ft | 90 ft | 363 ft | |||
| Upper Camp Area | 056 | tent only nonelectric | 24 ft | 90 ft | 371 ft |
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
Buckhorn PavilionChickasaw National Recreation Area · 1.7 miGuy Sandy CampgroundChickasaw National Recreation Area · 1.9 miBuckhorn Campground Loop DChickasaw National Recreation Area · 2.3 miBuckhorn Campground Loop CChickasaw National Recreation Area · 2.3 mi
Buckhorn Campground (Chickasaw)Chickasaw National Recreation Area · 2.8 miBuckhorn Campground Loop BChickasaw National Recreation Area · 2.8 miFrom I-35, take Exit 55 and drive towards the city of Davis, OK. Once in Davis, go east on Highway 7 until you reach the stoplight at Cooper Memorial Road in Sulphur. Turn right on Cooper Memorial Road and drive approximately 8 miles to reach The Point Campground Road. Watch for signage.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sulphur, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 75°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
The Point Campground (Chickasaw) is in Oklahoma’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Tom Cole (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →