Twin Cove Point
1Heads up1 fire 12 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Twin Cove Point is a day-use area located at Birch Lake in Osage County, Oklahoma. Cradled in valleys surrounded by rolling, forested hills, the lake is a perfect setting for nature lovers and other outdoor enthusiasts. The lake is small yet scenic and offers several excellent outdoor recreational opportunities for year-round enjoyment, such as fishing, boating, swimming, horseback riding and picnicking. Keep reading
Recreation
Birch Lake is popular for fishing and hunting, as well as family fun and relaxation. Fish species available for the angler include largemouth bass, walleye, spotted bass, smallmouth bass, hybrid striped bass, black and white crappie, channel and flathead catfish and sunfish. Principal game species for hunting enthusiasts include bobwhite quail, mourning dove, fox squirrel, gray squirrel, cottontail rabbit and whitetail deer.
Facilities
This day-use area offers three group picnic shelters that can accommodate up to 30 people. With a boat ramp, courtesy dock, playground, as well as a swim beach, Twin Cove Point has something for everyone. There are 11 primitive campsites which are not available for advanced reservations but available during the parks normal operating season and there are also 40 picnic sites available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Natural Features
Twin Cove Point is a diverse multipurpose area, and most sites have a mix of sun and shade. The 1,137-acre lake is part of Birch Creek, a tributary of Bird Creek. The shoreline ranges from gentle to steep slopes with numerous rock outcrops. The hilltops and upper slopes are generously forested with small hardwood trees, primarily post oak, blackjack, other oaks, hickory, hackberry and elm. Numerous species of grasses and wildflowers bloom in spring and fall. Forests, tallgrass prairie and shrub ecosystems surround the lake area. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (918) 396-3170.
What the agency tells you
The day use area is open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. The boat ramp and primitive campsites are open at any time.
Beach Rules: alcohol, pets, and glass containers are not permitted on the swim beach.
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
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 18 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 10
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Night sky · 66th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
13 records · the site map
All 13 records
| TWIN COVE POINT | 10 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | ||
| TWIN COVE POINT | 11 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | ||
| TWIN COVE POINT | 12 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | ||
| TWIN COVE POINT | 3 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | ||
| TWIN COVE POINT | 4 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | ||
| TWIN COVE POINT | 5 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | ||
| TWIN COVE POINT | 6 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | ||
| TWIN COVE POINT | 7 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | ||
| TWIN COVE POINT | 8 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | ||
| TWIN COVE POINT | 9 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | ||
| TWIN COVE POINT | GS1 | day use | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | $10–$25 | |
| TWIN COVE POINT | GS2 | day use | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | $10–$25 | |
| TWIN COVE POINT | GS3 | day use | 18 ft | 30 amp | yes | 349 ft | $25 |
The agency files 3 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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Birch Cove0.3 mi
Twin Points11 mi
Tall Chief Cove15 mi
Walnut Creek21 mi
Washington Irving South24 mi
Appalachia Bay Recreation Area25 miFrom Highway 11 in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, take a left onto West Chestnut Avenue and go 0.2 miles. Take a left on South Eighth Street and go 1.5 miles south. Take a right into the Twin Cove Point facility.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Barnsdall, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 25°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
Twin Cove Point 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 →