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Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area
Drive-up · Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife · OK · 34.34977, -96.60071
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Oklahoma Public Fishing & Hunting Area (ODWC) — 3341 acres. Primitive camping is offered free of camping fees at 16 designated sites, but ODWC land access requires an Oklahoma hunting or fishing license OR a Wildlife Conservation Passport (a paid annual permit for non-anglers). 16-day stay limit (21 days in any 30). Confirm current rules with ODWC before you go.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 831 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting AreaNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area · Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife · OK
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- +Urgent care9 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- FFuel9 mi
- RxPharmacy9 mi
- MMechanic9 mi
- EVEV fast charger9 mi
- @Mail13 mi
- ShShower23 mi
- WWater24 mi
- DDump24 mi
- LLaundry25 mi
- OOutfitter25 mi
- HHardware25 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 24-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 9 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife
Elevation
831 ft
Ground slope
8.9% · noticeable
State
OK
Coordinates
34.34977, -96.60071
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area · Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife · OK (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePecan Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelHandi SHop · ~9.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~24.1 mi
- GroceriesDollar General Market · ~8.9 mi
- PharmacyGene Lafitte Pharmacy · ~9.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicTishomingo Health Clinic · ~8.7 mi
- HardwareDunn Lumber · ~25.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area · Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife · OK — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger9.1 mi straight-line SW — Tishomingo Chevrolet (at a car dealership) · IN_CHARGE · CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 8am-5pm M-F, 8am-12pm Sat · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 18 within 50 · 171 within 100 · 420 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)27.9 mi — (Francis Energy) - Durant, OK - Tesla Supercharger, Durant
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO27.7 mi — City of Durant - Evergreen, Durant
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)24.5 mi — West Bay Casino and Resort, Kingston, OK (at an other entertainment) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.60 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 461316 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area · Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife · OK — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomCXT Vault Toilet Veterans Lake Picnic · ~3.9 mi S · NPS
- RestroomCXT Vault Toilet Veterans Lake Pavilion · ~3.9 mi S · NPS
- RestroomCXT Vault Toilet Veterans Lake E Trailhead · ~3.9 mi S · NPS
- RestroomCXT Vault Toilet Veterans Lake Dam Trailhead · ~3.9 mi S · NPS
Coming out here — Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area · Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife · OK
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pecan Creek as a perennial stream, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 8.9% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (3 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
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Other camps near Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Blue River PFHA primitive camp #1~1.6 mi
- Blue River PFHA primitive camp #2~1.9 mi
- Area 6 (Blue River PFHA)~1.9 mi
- Blue River PFHA primitive camp #4~2.0 mi
Who holds the land at Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area, manager on record: a state fish and wildlife agency. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area
Stay limit
16 nights (16-day stay limit (21 days in any 30))
Permit
OK license/Conservation Passport required -- this area is NOT fee-free
Source
Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife (public fishing areas)
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Location/acreage: ODWC Public_WMA_Boundaries FeatureServer (WMATYPE PFA/PFHA), WGS84 centroid. Camping: ODWC PublicWILMA camping layer, 16 on-site point(s). Access needs OK license/Conservation Passport (not fee-free). Pilot ingest 2026-07-19 13:12:50.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Blue River Public Fishing & Hunting Area
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