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The Buffalo National River has 14 designated campgrounds.
Most available on first-come basis. Group sites may be reserved.
Campgrounds at a glance are:
Lost Valley - 15 sites with picnic tables, drinking water, fire grates, flush toilets and pay phone nearby, 2 handicapped accessible sites
Steel Creek, 26 sites with picnic tables, fire grates, drinking water and vault toilets, horse camp
Erbie - 14 drive in sites, 16 walk in sites, 10 group sites, all with picnic tables, drinking water, fire grates and vault toilets, handicapped access, horse camp
Ozark - 35 sites with picnic tables, drinking water, fire grates and flush toilets, plus a free pavilion that can be reserved for groups
Hasty - 2 campsites with picnic tables and vault toilets
Carver - 8 sites with picnic tables, drinking water, fire grates and vault toilets
Mt. Hersey - open, fire grates and vault toilets
Woolum - open, fire grates and vault toilets, horseback riders may camp overnight
Tyler Bend - 28 drive in sites, 10 walk in sites, 5 group sites, picnic tables, drinking water, fire grates and flush toilets, pavilion for groups rents at $50, individual campsites are $10 per night, group sites are $20, handicapped access
Maumee South and Highway 14 - open, vault toilets. Picnic tables at Highway 14.
Buffalo Point, 83 drive in sites, 20 walk in sites, 5 group sites, picnic tables, drinking water, fire grates and flush toilets, pavilion rents for $50, drive in sites are $15, walk in sites are $10 and group sites $20. Drive in sites have water and electricity.
Rush - open, 3 handicapped accessible sites, drinking water, fire grates, vault toilets.
The Ozark National Forest has 13 designated campsites
Two horse camps
Sorghum Hollow, near Delaware, with 15 sites
Moccasin Gap, near Dover, with 16 sites
Three sites have RV waste disposal facilities
Cove Lake at Paris, Lake Wedington near Fayetteville
Blanchard Springs at Fifty Six
The other campgrounds are:
Spring Lake -13 sites, near Belleville
Long Pool - 20 sites, near Dover
Gunner Pool - 27 sites, near Fifty Six
Horsehead Lake, 10 sites near Harmony
Shores Lake, 22 sites, near Mulberry
Redding, 24 sites near Ozark
Fairview, 11 sites near Pelsor
Richland Creek, 11 sites near Pelsor
Campgrounds have picnic tables, vault toilets and fire grates.