Wichita Ridge Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 14:29 UTC
- A night
- $14–$18Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 27All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Wichita Ridge Campground lies along the scenic shore of Waurika Lake in the Great Plains Region of southern Oklahoma. The area offers many recreation activities, including fishing, boating and hunting. Waurika Lake encompasses 10,100 acres of water and about 12,000 acres of land, which provide ample space for visitors to enjoy the outdoors. It is about six miles northwest of the city of Waurika and lies in portions of Jefferson, Cotton and Stephens Counties. Keep reading
Recreation
Waurika Lake provides excellent opportunities for fishing and hunting. Anglers seek out blue, channel and flathead catfish, largemouth bass, white bass, hybrid striper, crappie, walleye and sunfish. Approximately 6,040 acres of land around the lake are managed for game. Sought-after species include white-tailed deer, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, wood duck, mallard, pintail, teal, canvas back, cottontail rabbits and wild turkey. Boating and skiing enthusiasts play on the large areas of open water and along the the scenic shoreline. There are four large embayments and a number of smaller coves that make boating on the lake a pleasure.
Facilities
Wichita Ridge Campground is a smaller facility with several campsites and a large day use pavilion. Several campsites (18-27) are equipped with electric and water hookups. Boaters and anglers have the convenience of an accessible boat ramp and dock, and families can enjoy the open space and day use areas.
Natural Features
The large shade trees, gently sloping shoreline and expansive lakefront views of the horizon invite the visitor to relax and take in the scenery. Grassland prairies, farms and sparce timber surround the lake area. Wildlife such as white-tail deer, ducks, rabbits and wild turkey graze the landscape
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27
- Hookups
- 10 electric, 11 water
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Picnicking
16 of 23 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:29 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$18 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 14:29 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
28 records
All 28 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 27 of the 28 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| WR | 1 | standard electric | 30 amp | $18 |
| WR | 10 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 11 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 12 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 13 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 14 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 15 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 16 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 17 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 18 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 19 | standard electric | 30 amp | $18 |
| WR | 2 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 20 | standard electric | 30 amp | $18 |
| WR | 21 | standard electric | 30 amp | $18 |
| WR | 22 | standard electric | 30 amp | $18 |
| WR | 23 | standard electric | 30 amp | $18 |
| WR | 24 | standard electric | 30 amp | $18 |
| WR | 25 | standard electric | 30 amp | $18 |
| WR | 26 | standard electric | 30 amp | $18 |
| WR | 27 | standard electric | 30 amp | $18 |
| WR | 3 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 4 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 5 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 6 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 7 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 8 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | 9 | standard nonelectric | $14 | |
| WR | Wichita Ridge Group Shelter | day use | 30 amp |
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.
25 of 28 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Kiowa Park I1.7 mi
Chisholm Trail Ridge3.5 mi
Doris CampgroundWichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge · 44 mi
Fawn Creek Youth CampgroundWichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge · 47 miGuy Sandy CampgroundChickasaw National Recreation Area · 60 miThe agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Comanche, OK
Typical weather
Typical October night 53°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°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
Wichita Ridge Campground is in Oklahoma’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Tom Cole (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →