Thibaut Point
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:23 UTC
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 46All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Thibaut Point Park sits on the shores of Harry S. Truman Lake in the hills of western Missouri. Visitors enjoy fishing, hunting, swimming and boating. Click here for the Harry S. Truman Lake virtual tour. Keep reading
Recreation
Thibaut Point offers great opportunities to get out on the water. Boating and swimming are popular activities. The park is an excellent fishing location. Anglers find crappie, largemouth bass and blue and flathead catfish. Truman Lake is also a popular destination for tournament fishermen.
Facilities
This park offers family and group campsites with and without electric hookups. Two day-use group picnic shelters with lights and electric outlets are also available, making the area perfect for large parties or family functions. This campground offers 44 sites total. 39 of the sites are 50-amp with water, and 5 sites are primitive. Group camp A offers 19, 30-amp sites along with a centrally located pavilion for gathering. Group camp C is all primitive with plenty of flat areas for tents. It also has a pavilion for gathering and a large fire pit. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, playground, basketball goal, dump station, swimming beach, and a boat ramp.
Natural Features
Harry S Truman Reservoir lies among the rolling hills and rocky bluffs of the Ozark Plateau. Mature hardwoods of Oak and Hickory with cedar trees mixed in cover the area. 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
The 950 miles of shoreline around Truman Lake provide plentiful opportunities for fun in the outdoors. Many parks surround the lake, including Harry S. Truman State Park. The Harry S. Truman Visitor Center sits atop Kaysinger Bluff and provides a spectacular view of the dam and reservoir. Exhibits provide information about the rich history of the Osage River Valley from pre-civilization to modern day. Waterfowl, bald eagles and turkey vultures are commonly seen from the observation deck.
What the agency tells you
Day-use fees are required if using the beach or boat ramp
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
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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.
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
- 46 · 1 tent-only, 2 group
- Hookups
- 40 electric, 14 water
- Longest rig
- 68 ft
- Paved pads
- 5 of 46
- Accessible sites
- 7
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…fire pit. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, playground, basketball…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, playground, basketball goal, dump station, swimming beach, and a boat ramp.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, playground, basketball goal, dump station,…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fish Hatchery
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Night sky · 94th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
14 of 88 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.
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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 · 15
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 16:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
48 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 48 mapped sitesAll 48 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. 46 of the 48 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 nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 89 ft | 917 ft | $14 | |
| A | A02 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 70 ft | 843 ft | $14 | |
| A | A03 | standard electric | 68 ft | 30 amp | yes | 70 ft | 820 ft | $14 |
| A | A04 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 816 ft | $14 | |
| A | A05 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | 799 ft | $14 | |
| A | A06 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | 779 ft | $14 | |
| A | A07 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 736 ft | $14 | |
| A | A08 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 697 ft | $14 | |
| A | A09 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 651 ft | $14 | |
| A | A10 | standard electric | 63 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 617 ft | $14 | |
| A | A11 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 455 ft | $14 | |
| A | A12 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 384 ft | $14 | |
| A | A13 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 312 ft | $14 | |
| A | A14 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 264 ft | $14 | |
| A | A15 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 255 ft | $14 | |
| A | A16 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 262 ft | $14 | |
| A | A17 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 277 ft | $14 | |
| A | A18 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 105 ft | 337 ft | $14 | |
| A | A19 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | yes | 110 ft | 445 ft | $14 |
| A | A20 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 526 ft | $14 | |
| A | A21 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 540 ft | $14 | |
| A | A22 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 588 ft | $14 | |
| A | A23 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 646 ft | $14 | |
| A | A24 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 699 ft | $14 | |
| A | A25 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 777 ft | $14 | |
| A | A26 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 867 ft | $14 | |
| A | A27 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 899 ft | $14 | |
| A | A28 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 83 ft | 903 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A29 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 83 ft | 926 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A30 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 89 ft | 983 ft | $14 | ||
| A | GSA | group standard electric | 30 amp | yes | 303 ft | 746 ft | $200 | |
| B | B01 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 330 ft | $14 | |
| B | B02 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 340 ft | $14 | |
| B | B03 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 357 ft | $14 | |
| B | B04 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 384 ft | $14 | |
| B | B05 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 96 ft | 383 ft | $14 |
| B | B06 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 490 ft | $14 | |
| B | B07 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 543 ft | $14 | |
| B | B08 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 566 ft | $14 | |
| B | B09 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 562 ft | $14 | |
| B | B10 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 507 ft | $14 | |
| B | B11 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 473 ft | $14 | |
| B | B12 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 447 ft | $14 | |
| B | B13 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 424 ft | $14 | |
| B | B14 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 109 ft | 431 ft | $14 | |
| BRAM | DS2 | day use | 60 ft | 20 amp | yes | 643 ft | 332 ft | $40 |
| BROA | DS1 | day use | 60 ft | 30 amp | 1692 ft | 470 ft | $40 | |
| C | PRC | group tent only area nonelectric | yes | 643 ft | 373 ft | $100 |
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 48 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Bledsoe Ferry2.4 mi
Shawnee Bend2.9 mi
Long Shoal4.2 mi
Osage Bluff7.3 mi
Berry Bend9.1 mi
Bucksaw12 miFrom Highway 65, take Highway T west for 3 miles. Turn south on Georgetown Ave and follow for a mile, following 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 Warsaw, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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
Thibaut Point 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 →