Alpine Ridge
1Heads up1 fire 29 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:15 UTC
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 4948 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Alpine Ridge Campground sits on the banks of DeGray Lake in the foothills of the Quachita Mountains. The lake attracts visitors far and wide for fishing tournaments, triathlons, water sports and more. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, water skiing, kayaking and other water sports are the biggest draw to the lake, and a boat ramp and sandy swimming beach are provided. The lake is also stocked with a variety of game fish, including plenty of hybrid striped bass, making it an ideal area for both boat and bank fishing.
Facilities
Alpine Ridge offers the most modern facilities in the area, with a convenient boat ramp, flush toilets, hot showers and electric hookups at every site. A swimming beach and playground are also available. To see USACE DeGray Lake Virtual Tour, click here.
Natural Features
Degray Lake is one of the region's five Diamond Lakes, known for their crystal clear waters. The lake flows from the Caddo River in western Arkansas and spans 13,500 surface acres. The first settlers around the lake were the Caddo Indians, whose remains have been traced back to 700 A.D. The early inhabitants were skilled in agriculture, and grew crops like beans, squash, maize and sunflowers.
Nearby Attractions
The DeGray Lake Resort State Park offers golf courses, tennis courts, horseback riding trails and more along the 207 miles of lake shoreline. The Ouachita National Forest and Hot Springs National Park are both located nearby.
What the agency tells you
Check-Out time is 1:00 pm and Check-In time is 3:00 pm.
During the Non-Peak season certain campsites and loops will be closed. Reservations longer than 14 days will require an approved extension. Extensions can be obtained from a ranger, or the information board located at the entrance of campground.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
If arriving more than 24 hours after the start of your reservation, call (870) 246-5501 or your reservation will be cancelled and a $20 no-show fee plus the cost of the first night's stay will be charged.
Sanitation, No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must be disposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands.
Quiet hours are between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am.
No off-road vehicles permitted.
Daily occupancy is required.
One tent and one RV or two tents are allowed per campsite.
All pets must be penned, caged or on a 6 foot leash at all times, No Exceptions!!!
Persons bringing animals onto project lands are responsible for the proper removal and disposal of any waste produced by these animals.
Fireworks prohibited in campgrounds.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Please refer to the link for rules and regulations. Rules and Regulations
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 49
- Hookups
- 48 electric, 49 water
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 49 of 49 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 49 of 49 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 94th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Army Corps says
- Yes
4 of 58 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:15 UTC
recreation.gov lists 48 of the 49 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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 16:15 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
49 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 48 mapped sitesAll 49 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 48 of the 49 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ALPINE RIDGE | 01 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 102 ft | 377 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 02 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 355 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 286 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 04 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 288 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 05 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 210 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 06 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 174 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 07 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 216 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 08 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 289 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 09 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 301 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 10 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 313 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 11 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 331 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 360 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 13 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 403 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 14 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 453 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 15 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 477 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 16 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 482 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 17 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 480 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 18 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 477 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 19 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 115 ft | 467 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 20 | type not stated | 45 ft | 50 amp | 389 ft | |||
| ALPINE RIDGE | 21 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 238 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 22 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 222 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 23 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 239 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 24 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 298 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 25 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 263 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 26 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 310 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 27 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 235 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 28 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 332 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 29 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 214 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 30 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 296 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 31 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 187 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 32 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 282 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 33 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 152 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 34 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 160 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 35 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 208 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 36 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 269 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 37 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 349 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 38 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 363 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 39 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 347 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 40 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 264 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 41 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 221 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 42 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 196 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 43 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 250 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 44 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 234 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 45 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 314 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 46 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 45 ft | 385 ft | $24 |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 47 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 475 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 48 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 421 ft | $24 | |
| ALPINE RIDGE | 49 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 125 ft | 432 ft | $24 |
25 of 49 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Arlie Moore1.6 mi
Caddo Drive2.3 mi
Edgewood2.5 mi
Oak Bower Group Use Area2.6 mi
Shouse Ford3.1 mi
Point Cedar4.5 miFrom Interstate 30, take exit 73 and merge onto State Highway 8 west for 19 miles. Turn right on Fendley Road and continue 8.5 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bismarck, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Alpine Ridge is in Arkansas’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Bruce Westerman (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 49 of 49 campsites here”