Wahoo Bay
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:28 UTC
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Wahoo Bay is a campground that provides an abundance of shade for rest and relaxation. Located just North of the Fort Gibson Dam, users can easily access the main body of the lake for a variety of water activities. As an added bonus, there are several stores and marinas nearby for supplies and equipment rentals. Boat and RV storage locations are within a few miles of the campground. Keep reading
Recreation
The nearly 20,000-acre lake offers excellent boating and swimming opportunities. Anglers enjoy fishing for black bass, white bass, crappie and several varieties of catfish and panfish. The lake's 225 miles of shoreline are home to thousands of acres of public hunting lands, where white-tailed deer, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, duck, geese, cottontail rabbit and squirrel roam. Wahoo Bay offers a variety of recreation activities including camping, boating and swimming. People can enjoy the quietness of the lake tucked away in the cove with amazing scenery. Wahoo Bay has 2 boat ramps in the park as well as a courtesy dock at the main boat ramp.
Facilities
Wahoo Bay is equipped with 20 campsites within the park. There are severel water hookups throughout the park where campers can fill up water tanks. There is also a vault toilet located by the boat ramp parking lot.
What the agency tells you
Park is closed to non campers from 10:00 p.m to 6:00 a.m
Day use passes are needed for non campers to use the boat ramp
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
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 26 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 15 of 20 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…can fill up water tanks. There is also a vault toilet located by the boat ramp parking lot.”
- Boat ramp
- 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, Beach, Coast
- Night sky · 87th darkest of 106 in OK
- Bortle 4
30 of 32 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:28 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
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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 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 15:28 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 20 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 20 of the 20 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 20 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| WB- East | 17 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 82 ftFort Gibson Lake | 1,042 ft | $14 | |
| WB- East | 18 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 117 ftFort Gibson Lake | 1,093 ft | $14 | |
| WB- East | 19 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 121 ftFort Gibson Lake | 1,161 ft | $14 | |
| WB- East | 20 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 57 ftFort Gibson Lake | 1,137 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 1 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 105 ft | 152 ftFort Gibson Lake | 1,282 ft | $14 |
| WB- West | 10 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 191 ftFort Gibson Lake | 522 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 11 | standard nonelectric | 168 ft | 249 ftFort Gibson Lake | 158 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 12 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 42 ftFort Gibson Lake | 119 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 13 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 33 ftFort Gibson Lake | 138 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 14 | standard nonelectric | 106 ft | 84 ftFort Gibson Lake | 152 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 15 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 63 ftFort Gibson Lake | 250 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 16 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 132 ftFort Gibson Lake | 288 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 2 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 89 ftFort Gibson Lake | 1,238 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 3 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 152 ftFort Gibson Lake | 1,184 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 4 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 149 ftFort Gibson Lake | 1,085 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 5 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 115 ftFort Gibson Lake | 1,089 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 6 | standard nonelectric | 144 ft | 52 ftFort Gibson Lake | 946 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 7 | standard nonelectric | 140 ft | 59 ftFort Gibson Lake | 684 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 8 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 95 ftFort Gibson Lake | 544 ft | $14 | |
| WB- West | 9 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 72 ftFort Gibson Lake | 447 ft | $14 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mallard Bay, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°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
Wahoo Bay 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 →