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Located on beautiful Skiatook Lake in northeast Oklahoma, Tall Chief Cove is one of the most popular campgrounds in the region.
The campground has a variety of sites along the forested lakeshore, and visitors can enjoy boating, hiking, swimming, picnicking and fishing from the facility.
Families enjoy the convenience of this facility's swim beach, picnic areas, nature trail, playground and educational programs.
Sport fishing for largemouth bass, black and white crappie, channel catfish and several species of sunfish offers anglers many hours of enjoyment on the lake.
About 6,000 acres of public land in the lake area are open to hunters wishing to pursue whitetail, quail, rabbit and squirrel.
Tall Chief Cove offers 50 individual sites with electric hookups and one group picnic shelter for day use that can host up to 200 people. All guests with reservations can utilize our professional style volley ball court, basketball court, disc golf course, or horseshoe pits. The campground provides covered picnic tables, restrooms and showers.
Gentle rolling hills of blackjack and post oak trees intersperse with tall grass prairie around the glistening lake. The shoreline is accentuated by steep picturesque bluffs which offer views of the water.
From Tulsa, Oklahoma, take Highway 75 north to State Highway 20. Take the Skiatook exit, turn west on State Highway 20 and drive about 15 miles. Turn left on Lake Road and proceed about five miles to the campground.
No control or rules. Kids swimming and fishing from boat dock. Cars parked in front of boat trailers blocking boaters in. Do not use this ramp if trying to launch or trailer a boat!
I definitely liked the sandy beach (much better than the muddy one at twin points) and there are lots of picnic tables under trees which is nice, but it's not as nice as the osage or skiatook recreational area, though it is much larger. We did see a bald eagle fly overhead (this was a quiet Sunday afternoon in December), which was cool. Good spot but I know it gets very crowded in summer (still nice).
The lake is beautiful as always, unfortunately it's not at full pool.
