Bear Creek (AR)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 201 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bear Creek Campground on Lake Greeson has 19 non-electric campsites available for first-come, first-serve camping. The area has no electricity. Potable water is available for consumption at water hydrant located in the main loop of area near boat ramp parking lot. The Bear Creek Cycle Trail is a draw for off-road enthusiasts. Trail Access is available withing the campground at the designated ORV Loading/Unloading area. Bear Creek Campground is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Keep reading
Once on-site, payment for campsite(s) is done through scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app. Download the free Recreation.gov mobile on Android or iOS app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Scan and Pay Instructions are located in the bulletin board located on the front of the restroom building in main loop of area.
Recreation
Lake Greeson is recognized for its rich variety of game fish, including large mouth, small mouth, stripped, spotted, and white bass, as well as flathead and channel catfish, black and white crappie, walleye, and blue gill. The clear waters offer an excellent opportunity for many boating activities including water skiing, tubing, personal watercraft, or just cruising. Four marinas at the lake offer boaters' fuel, boat and other watercraft rentals, picnic and fishing supplies.
Natural Features
Lake Greeson is about 12 miles long with over 7,260 surface acres of water fed by the clear cool waters of the Little Missouri River. Loblolly pine, shortleaf pine, sweet gum and oak are the dominate tree species on upland areas of the lake, while bottomland hardwoods are common along rivers, creeks and streams that enter the lake. The public lands around Lake Greeson provide a variety of habitats for numerous species of wildlife, including white-tailed deer, wild turkey, geese, bald eagles, migratory waterfowl, and songbirds.
Nearby Attractions
The Bear Creek Cycle Trail is a draw for off-road enthusiasts. Trail Access Points are in nearby campgrounds at Daisy State Park, Kirby Landing Campground, and Bear Creek Campground. Crater of Diamonds State Park is within a 30-mile drive of the campground. It is the only diamond-producing site in the world open to the public.
What the agency tells you
Bear Creek Campground is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Once on-site, payment for campsite(s) is done through scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app. Download the free Recreation.gov mobile on Android or iOS app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service.
Off-road vehicles are prohibited from recreation areas unless loaded on a trailer or in a vehicle. Loading and unloading is allowed in designated areas only.
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Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…camping. The area has no electricity. Potable water is available for consumption at water hydrant…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 20 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites
All 20 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. 20 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 1 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 10 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 11 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 12 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 13 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 14 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 15 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 16 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 17 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 18 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 19 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 2 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 3 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 4 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 5 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 6 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 7 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 8 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bear Creek | Bear Creek 9 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kirby, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Bear Creek (AR) 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 →