Viola
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $16–$28Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 51All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Viola sits along the Kings River Arm of Table Rock Lake in the Missouri countryside. Boaters and water sports enthusiasts are particularly drawn to Viola for its easy access to the clear blue waters of Table Rock Lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Whether on water or land, Viola Campground offers visitors countless recreational activities. Picnicking, swimming, scuba diving, boating, fishing, hiking and wildlife viewing are all popular pastimes at the park. Kings River Marina, located in the Viola Recreation Area offers everything from fuel to equipment rentals, to boat storage for visitors. Fishing licenses can also be purchased at the marina and anglers can go from there to try their hand at the excellent bass fishing the lake provides. Adjacent to the Marina, a playground, boat ramp and designated swimming area, each provide endless avenues for outdoors entertainment.
Facilities
Viola Campground offers 56 reservable campsites. Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a comfortable camping experience.
Natural Features
Table Rock Lake is a beautiful body of water surrounded by a forest of oak and hickory trees. Its waters wind down through the valleys and hollows of the Ozark Mountains, from Branson, Missouri to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. More than five million visitors per year take advantage of this recreational oasis. Originally built for flood control, the Table Rock Dam has created a lake that boasts 779 miles of shoreline for the public to enjoy.
Nearby Attractions
The Dewey Short Visitors Center is located at the south end of Table Rock Dam. It offers three educational films focused on the history of the dam, the story of Lewis and Clark and the history of eagles and their endangerment in the state of Missouri. The visitor center also contains exhibits about the natural history of the area. Viola Campground is about 36 miles from Branson, Missouri, which offers grocery stores, gas and additional tourist attractions.
What the agency tells you
Staffed booth hours are between the hours of 8:00 a.m-10:00 a.m. and from 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., seven days a week. Camphost and or Rangers will issue campground hangtags after valid check-in. Please check-out on departure. If Camphost is not present, please drop pink tag off at the drop box.
All checkout times are at 3:00 p.m. All RV's, vehicles, and supplies still on site after 3:00 p.m. may be subjected to impoundment our towed at the owners expense.
All discounted passes (Golden Age, Senior Lifetime, Senior Annual, Access) must be physically present upon arrival. Fraudulent use of a Golden Age or Golden Access Passport (Printouts, photos etc.) is prohibited and will not be discounted.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Failure to pay day use fees, and or properly display applicable receipt, permit or pass is prohibited. All daily guests must pay a day-use fee and have day-use receipt properly displayed. Day passes and USACE annual passes may be purchased at the kiosk next to the booth.
All personal equipment (boats, trailers, personal supplies etc. ) must be stored at reserved campsites. No equipment shall be stored in boat ramp/day-use parking for overnight storage.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
One tent and one RV, or two tents are allowed per campsite.
No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must be disposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands.
Shower tents, changing tents, and latrines are prohibited.
Pets must be penned, caged, or on a leash under six feet in length at all times.
Please be advised that providing business services within a USACE campground is prohibited per Title 327.18(a) The engaging in or solicitation of business on project lands or waters without the express written permission of the District Commander is prohibited. This includes services such as RV or tent delivery & set-up, firewood sales and delivery.
Please review the Title 36 brochure for complete rules and regulations. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-36/chapter-III/part-327
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 51 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- 37 electric, 32 water
- Longest rig
- 84 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a comfortable camping experience.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campsites. Amenities like hot showers, drinking water, a dump station and electric hookups create a…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 104th darkest of 118 in MO
- 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$28 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
51 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 51 mapped sitesAll 51 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. 51 of the 51 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| VIOL | 01 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 30 ft | 104 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 02 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 30 ft | 92 ft | $16 | |
| VIOL | 03 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 44 ft | 106 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 04 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 44 ft | 96 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 05 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 118 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 55 ft | 127 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 07 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 55 ft | 157 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 08 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 44 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 09 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 46 ft | 81 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 17 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 137 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 18 | standard electric | 24 ft | 30 amp | 20 ft | 124 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 19 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 20 ft | 113 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 20 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 34 ft | 152 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 21 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 34 ft | 179 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 22 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 211 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 23 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 218 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 24 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 258 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 25 | standard electric | 84 ft | 50/30 amp | 37 ft | 345 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 26 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 37 ft | 382 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 27 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 406 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 28 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 309 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 29 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 265 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 30 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 357 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 31 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 314 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 32 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 143 ft | 220 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 33 | standard electric | 22 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 367 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 34 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 320 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 35 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 310 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 36 | standard electric | 27 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 238 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 37 | standard electric | 28 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 217 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 38 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 195 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 39 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 148 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 40 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 107 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 41 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 122 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 42 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 125 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 43 | standard electric | 24 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 55 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 44 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 106 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 45 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 44 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 46 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 47 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 47 | standard electric | 27 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 112 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 48 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 113 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 49 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 54 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 50 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 128 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 51 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 64 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 52 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 76 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 53 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 161 ft | $23–$25 |
| VIOL | 54 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 70 ft | 237 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 55 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 42 ft | 208 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 56 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 21 ft | 234 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 57 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 21 ft | 213 ft | $16–$28 | |
| VIOL | 58 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 42 ft | 167 ft | $16–$28 |
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 51 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Campbell Point3.4 mi
BIG M4.6 mi
Baxter5.2 mi
Eagle Rock7.9 mi
Mill Creek (Missouri)8.8 mi
Aunts Creek11 miFrom Shell Knob, Missouri, take Highway 39 south for 7 miles and turn west to campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Shell Knob, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°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
Viola is in Missouri’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Eric Burlison (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →