Udall Park
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14–$16Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 98 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Udall Park is for those looking for a more primitive campground conveniently located on the north end of Norfork Lake in Missouri. Keep reading
Recreation
Sailing the open waters makes for an exciting water activity. Scuba diving in the lake is common, attracting divers from neighboring U.S. states. For visitors interested in fishing, Norfork Lake is stocked annually, and it's not unheard of to catch striped bass over 40 pounds.
Facilities
The 9 campsites within the park provide a more primitive camping experience. Water hookups are included at several sites. Most sites have a view of the lake.
Natural Features
Norfork Lake stems from the North Fork River in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. It's about 25 miles east of Bull Shoals lake, and cuts through the Ozark Mountains. The Ozarks are made from a heavily eroded plateau, shaped and carved by hundreds of streams over thousands of years. The region attracts a wide array of plants and animals.
Nearby Attractions
Head south to see the Ozark National Forest and head west to see Bull Shoals Lake, a similar man-made lake that's larger in size and equally entertaining as Norfork. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (870) 425-2700.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
No livestock at this facility
No firearms allowed
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.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 72 ft
- Accessible sites
- 9
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Boating
- Swimming
- Night sky · 48th darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 8 of the 9 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$16 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.
“Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
9 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 8 mapped sitesAll 9 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. 8 of the 9 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.
| Udall Park | 1 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | yes | 55 ft | 267 ft | $14–$16 |
| Udall Park | 2 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | yes | 55 ft | 214 ft | $14–$16 |
| Udall Park | 3 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | yes | 46 ft | 107 ft | $14–$16 |
| Udall Park | 4 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 46 ft | 105 ft | $14–$16 |
| Udall Park | 5 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | yes | 166 ft | 132 ft | $14–$16 |
| Udall Park | 6 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | yes | 64 ft | 99 ft | $14–$16 |
| Udall Park | 7 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | yes | 64 ft | 83 ft | $14–$16 |
| Udall Park | 8 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | yes | 77 ft | 71 ft | $14–$16 |
| Udall Park | 9 | type not stated | 70 ft | yes | 118 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
Where it is
Gamaliel9.1 mi
Cranfield Park9.9 mi
Bidwell Point Park11 mi
Henderson Park12 mi
Panther Bay Park12 mi
Robinson Point13 miFrom Mountain Home, AR, travel 9 miles east on US 412/62, then 19 miles north on SR 101 to State Highway O in Bakersfield, MO. Follow Highway O for approximately 9 miles until you reach Udall Park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gamaliel, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 70°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
Udall Park is in Missouri’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Jason Smith (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →