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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · MO

Wheatland Park

ReservableOut of season; bookable April 16 through April 16.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $16–$26Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 7862 on recreation.gov

Photographs of individual campsites · Mitch Jackson

45 ftLongest rig

880 ftElevation

327 ftWater · Pomme de Terre Lake

11.6 miNE of Humansville, MO

33%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices

In the agency’s own words

Wheatland Park sits along the sparkling shores of Pomme de Terre Lake, known as the "gem of the Ozarks," for its deep, clear waters. The phrase "Pomme de Terre" is French for potato or "apple of the earth." Most likely, the river was named by early French trappers and fur traders, who discovered plants resembling potatoes on the riverbanks. Keep reading

Recreation

Pomme de Terre Lake is popular among water skiers and anglers. A number of coves on the lake provide seclusion for ideal fishing conditions, regardless of power boating on other areas of the lake. Largemouth bass, crappie and white bass are common catches, but it is the stocked muskie fishing that is particularly popular as muskie are rare to the region.

Facilities

Wheatland Park has 35 campsites with electric and water hookups and 6 sites with electric hookups only. The accessible group picnic shelter fits up to 75 guests and has electricity. Additional amenities include two shower houses, a boat ramp, courtesy dock, playground and a swim beach.

Natural Features

Pomme de Terre Lake is located in the rugged, tree-topped hills of the west-central Missouri Ozarks. The lake is long and winding with 7,790 surface acres and 113 miles of shoreline.

Nearby Attractions

An excellent golf course and one of the country's best dirt race tracks are near Wheatland Park.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

There is no limited Camping Season this Fall/Winter in Wheatland Park. During the off-season, there is a limited camping season that only has electricity available. $10 per night, Dates: March 15 - April 15, October 1 - November 30.

Rule

All reservations must be made through the Recreation.gov website or app. Search for Recreation.gov on the Apple Store or Play Store to download the app for free. Reservations can also be made by calling the Recreation.gov reservation line at (877) 444-6777.

Rule

All campers must check in at the Park Attendant Booth during booth hours when arriving. Booth hours are posted on the booth and are subject to change.

Everything else this campground posts · 9

Rule

America the Beautiful Passes must be verified when camping. A physical or digital pass must be presented with identification upon checking in. Failure to do so may result in the removal of your pass from a reservation.

Rule

Campsites 18, 25, 28, 29, 31, and 82 have two pedestals. The second pedestal acts as another campsite, can only be used if the campground is full, and must be purchased separately. This can be done at the Park Attendant Booth during booth hours.

Rule

There is no first-come-first-serve window. All reservations can be made from the current day up to six months in advance. Campers are still limited to camping 14 consecutive days at a campground.

Rule

Reservation tags will no longer be posted. With current day reservations available, it is the camper’s responsibility to check if a campsite has been reserved.

Rule

Current “first-come-first-served” campsites have become “by reservation." These campsites are now reservable online or over the phone through Recreation.gov.

Rule

Cash and checks will no longer be accepted. Recreation.gov and their reservation line will take credit and debit cards.

Rule

Additional fees will be charged for additional camping units

Rule

Please wear a lifejacket when participating in water activities

Rule

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 78
Hookups: 61 electric, 41 water
Longest rig: 45 ft
Paved pads: 20 of 78
Accessible sites: 1
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Additional amenities include two shower houses, a boat ramp, courtesy dock, playground and a swim beach.”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 28 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Beach; Swimming
Night sky · 79th darkest of 118 in MO: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 62 of the 78 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.

Booking windowFrom April 16Out of season now. Bookable for April 16, 2027 through April 16, 2027. Today at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay28 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record

A night$16–$26plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$40–$60DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 16

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$16–$26

Nonelectric (PREMIUM)$16

Tent Only Nonelectric (BASIC)$16

Electric (BASIC)$24

Electric & Water$26

Group areas, a night$20–$30

These are next season’s rates, Apr 16, 2027 to Sep 30, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$24–$34

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$40–$60

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$26 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

79 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 62 mapped sites

56 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop WPAR S1 135 ftLoop WPAR 38 99 ftLoop WPAR 52 90 ftLoop WPAR 13 87 ftLoop WPAR 15 86 ft

Least roomLoop WPAR 71 28 ftLoop WPAR 72 28 ftLoop WPAR 73 31 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 79 records

79 of 79 records located

RV / electric61Type not stated17Day use1

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 33 35 37 38 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 S1

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 79 of the 79 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. 61 of the 79 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.


WPAR	01	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		65 ft	638 ft	1,583 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	02	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	yes	78 ft	690 ft	1,592 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	03	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		55 ft	569 ft	1,630 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	04	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		55 ft	515 ft	1,666 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	05	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		76 ft	449 ft	1,697 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	06	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		74 ft	364 ft	1,774 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	07	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		59 ft	323 ft	1,774 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	08	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		74 ft	400 ft	1,712 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	09	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		52 ft	236 ft	1,808 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	10	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		40 ft	283 ft	1,793 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	11	type not stated	35 ft	50 amp			195 ft	1,850 ft
WPAR	12	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		40 ft	247 ft	1,833 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	13	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		87 ft	128 ft	1,916 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	14	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		49 ft	199 ft	1,881 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	15	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		86 ft	112 ft	1,929 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	16	type not stated	35 ft	50 amp			178 ft	1,864 ft
WPAR	17	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		55 ft	235 ft	1,807 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	18	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		52 ft	205 ft	1,834 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	19	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		53 ft	281 ft	1,759 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	20	type not stated	28 ft				under 10 ft	2,052 ft
WPAR	21	type not stated	25 ft				64 ft	2,037 ft
WPAR	22	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		59 ft	109 ft	1,981 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	23	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		86 ft	68 ft	1,979 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	24	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		67 ft	153 ft	1,894 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	25	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		38 ft	220 ft	1,828 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	26	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		38 ft	228 ft	1,792 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	27	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		50 ft	144 ft	1,932 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	28	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		36 ft	169 ft	1,857 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	29	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		36 ft	134 ft	1,837 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	30	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		50 ft	98 ft	1,916 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	31	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		46 ft	91 ft	1,805 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	33	type not stated	45 ft	30 amp			130 ft	1,771 ft
WPAR	35	type not stated	45 ft	30 amp			166 ft	1,760 ft
WPAR	37	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		53 ft	292 ft	1,708 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	38	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		99 ft	397 ft	1,525 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	44	type not stated	40 ft	30 amp			571 ft	1,343 ft
WPAR	45	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		70 ft	744 ft	1,295 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	46	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		62 ft	709 ft	1,364 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	47	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		86 ft	812 ft	1,342 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	48	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		47 ft	734 ft	1,406 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	49	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		62 ft	638 ft	1,354 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	50	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		63 ft	582 ft	1,403 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	51	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		62 ft	646 ft	1,409 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	52	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		90 ft	492 ft	1,464 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	53	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		56 ft	570 ft	1,484 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	54	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		60 ft	484 ft	1,624 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	55	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		56 ft	549 ft	1,537 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	56	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		60 ft	534 ft	1,596 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	57	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		64 ft	602 ft	1,506 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	58	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		61 ft	592 ft	1,563 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	59	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		64 ft	656 ft	1,476 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	60	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		61 ft	645 ft	1,536 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	61	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		47 ft	715 ft	1,445 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	62	type not stated					626 ft	771 ft
WPAR	63	type not stated					553 ft	820 ft
WPAR	64	type not stated					517 ft	896 ft
WPAR	65	type not stated					544 ft	980 ft
WPAR	66	type not stated					587 ft	1,065 ft
WPAR	67	type not stated					570 ft	1,154 ft
WPAR	68	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		71 ft	324 ft	1,605 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	69	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		45 ft	317 ft	1,677 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	70	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		42 ft	332 ft	1,719 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	71	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		28 ft	332 ft	1,761 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	72	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		28 ft	319 ft	1,789 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	73	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		31 ft	297 ft	1,819 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	74	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		40 ft	265 ft	1,854 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	75	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		43 ft	220 ft	1,898 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	76	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		43 ft	192 ft	1,939 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	77	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		44 ft	157 ft	1,981 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	78	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		38 ft	120 ft	2,022 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	79	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		38 ft	98 ft	2,061 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	80	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		62 ft	197 ft	2,008 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	81	standard electric	25 ft	30 amp		62 ft	213 ft	1,950 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	82	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		76 ft	235 ft	1,877 ft	$24–$26
WPAR	83	type not stated	35 ft	30 amp			230 ft	1,806 ft
WPAR	84	type not stated					208 ft	1,155 ft
WPAR	85	type not stated					270 ft	1,059 ft
WPAR	86	type not stated					285 ft	983 ft
WPAR	S1	day use		15 amp	yes	135 ft	175 ft	1,804 ft	$20–$30

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.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 79 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate37.87556, -93.37444

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone(417) 282-5267

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near hereAdministration (Pomme de Terre)2.8 mi Lightfoot Shelter2.8 mi Nemo Landing Shelters2.8 mi Outlet Park Shelters2.8 mi Overlook Park Shelters2.8 mi Wheatland Shelters2.8 mi

Getting there

From Springfield, MO, take Highway 13 North to Bolivar, MO, then travel on Highway 83 northeast past Elkton, MO to Highway 254. Follow Highway 254 E to The Triangle and take CR205 South. Follow signs to park.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight38°Mostly Clear

Saturday62°Sunny

Saturday Night40°Clear

Sunday69°Sunny

NWS forecast for Wheatland, MO

Source: National Weather Service, SGF forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 45°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.

100°32°10°

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.

Measured at: BOLIVAR 1 NE, MO (USC00230789), 18 miles away and 107 ft higher

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Wheatland Park is in Missouri’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Mark Alford (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 62 of the 78 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 79 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.41 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 118 rated federal campgrounds in Missouri · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Wheatland, MO, 3.8 mi SSE. Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026