About
Okatibbee Park, located northeast of Meridian, MS, is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recreational area offering diverse outdoor activities around Okatibbee Creek Lake. Visitors can enjoy boating, fishing, camping (RV and tent sites), picnicking, hiking trails, and lake swimming. The park provides amenities such as boat ramps, playgrounds, and developed campgrounds for a comprehensive outdoor experience.
Information regarding specific pool temperatures is not available. Swimming at Okatibbee Park is typically in designated areas of Okatibbee Creek Lake, where water temperatures are subject to natural environmental fluctuations.
What are people saying (AI review summary)? The park elicits mixed reviews. While many older facilities, including swimming beaches, a water park, and certain picnic areas, are noted as closed, neglected, or in disrepair with aged infrastructure, and some campsites have issues like inconvenient sewer connections or crumbling pads, there are significant positives. Reviewers frequently praise the park for being quiet and peaceful, with beautiful woods. Staff, including rangers, are often described as nice, informative, caring, and great, with regular patrols. Some restrooms were found to be clean and fully functional. The grounds are generally perceived as well-kept, and it's considered a good spot for activities like grilling. There is a strict 10 pm lockdown rule, and one reviewer reported a personal issue with a manager.
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Good for Children
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Accessible Entrance
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Listing Reviews
April 29th, 2025Chris Phillips
Many of the campsites have the sewer connection placed near the middle so that your RV will be right over it thus making it more difficult to connect. Many of the pads are tiny and crumbling. The rv park as a whole appears to have been neglected for decades.
March 16th, 2021Tomekia Porter
Fun time grilling out for a picnic by the lake. Wasn’t too crowded for a Sunday. Bathrooms were a little less desirable but at least they were open to use! Took the boat out. Water was low in a lot of places.
April 23rd, 2025Jonathan Thomas
Well I've been going to this campground for years and there is one guy that is the manager there who don't like me for some reason and expresses it freely so he has the power to say I'm not allowed in there anymore because he said
May 9th, 2018Forest Pines
Camped for one night here recently and enjoyed it. I knew this place well and was out there all the time 20 years ago. Lots of changes and stuff being shut down.....no different from most other public parks with old infrastructure.....never enough money to keep things up. No more water park, primitive camping loop closed, camper's swimming beach/bathroom closed and grown up, the other swimming beach closed and grown up.....no more swimming beaches on the lake. The last picnic shelter on the point is closed and the whole point is closed to even walking! That was the coolest land mass in the park IMO. There is apparently a strict 10 pm lockdown time where you aren't supposed to enter/leave the park. The rangers were very nice and informative and could be seen patrolling the park regularly while we were there. The bathroom nearest our site was fully functional and very clean! Much appreciated! Was very quiet and peaceful which was nice. My tent got sprayed by a cat while I was gone and was almost unbearable to sleep in. All in all, it's a pretty good place to camp and the woods are beautiful there. Grounds appear to be well kept and the staff seems to care about the place. I'd go back again
January 17th, 2021Stephanie Dale
A very quite clean park. Staff is great!
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Opening Hours
| Sunday | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
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| Monday | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Tuesday | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Thursday | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Friday | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Saturday | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
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