Turkey Creek
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 5 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 16 of the next 30 nights read 16:16 UTC
- A night
- $16–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Turkey Creek Park is a small campground on the western shores of Pine Creek Lake where the Little River flows into the lake. Campers come for peace and quiet, wildlife viewing, boating and fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors enjoy fishing, boating and picnicking. Common fish include crappie, white bass, largemouth bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish and various types of sunfish.
Facilities
Turkey Creek offers 30 reservable campsites, eight of which have electric hookups. The picnic shelter is for day-use only. Amenities include a playground, boat ramp and flush toilets.
Natural Features
Pine Creek Lake lies in the southeast corner of Oklahoma at the edge of the Ouachita Mountains. The lake spans 3,750 acres with 74 miles of shoreline. The lake is surrounded by hardwood/pine forests.
Nearby Attractions
Beavers Bend and Raymond Gary State Parks are within driving distance. Also, the historic ruins of Fort Towson, a confederate command post that was built in 1824, are interesting as well.
What the agency tells you
Visitors are expected to be aware of general park rules
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30
- Hookups
- 8 electric, 8 water
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…include a playground, boat ramp and flush toilets. Natural Features Pine Creek Lake lies in the…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Night sky · 6th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 3
56 of 62 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:16 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$20 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 16:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
31 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 31 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. 30 of the 31 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| TCRE | 01 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 616 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 02 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 623 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 03 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 631 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 04 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 651 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 05 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 694 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 06 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 717 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 07 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 748 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 08 | standard electric | 30 amp | 46 ft | 492 ft | $20 | |
| TCRE | 09 | standard electric | 30 amp | 65 ft | 490 ft | $20 | |
| TCRE | 10 | standard electric | 30 amp | 46 ft | 448 ft | $20 | |
| TCRE | 11 | standard electric | 30 amp | 43 ft | 418 ft | $20 | |
| TCRE | 12 | standard electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 359 ft | $20 | |
| TCRE | 13 | standard electric | 30 amp | 43 ft | 382 ft | $20 | |
| TCRE | 14 | standard electric | 30 amp | 53 ft | 313 ft | $20 | |
| TCRE | 15 | standard electric | 30 amp | 53 ft | 265 ft | $20 | |
| TCRE | 16 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 140 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 17 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 95 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 18 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 107 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 19 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 163 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 20 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 61 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 21 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 70 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 22 | standard nonelectric | 228 ft | 178 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 23 | standard nonelectric | 123 ft | 156 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 24 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 127 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 25 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 97 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 26 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 73 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 27 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 52 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 28 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 76 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 29 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 126 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | 30 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 169 ft | $16 | ||
| TCRE | D40 | day use | 51 ft | 724 ft | $50 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t 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 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lost Rapids2.9 mi
Little River Park3.3 mi
Pine Creek Cove7.6 mi
Mahaffey Point18 mi
Virgil Point18 mi
Rattan Landing20 miFrom Broken Bow, OK, travel Highway 3 west for 28 miles to the entrance sign. Follow access road north 5 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wright City, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 47°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°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
Turkey Creek 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 →