Beaver Dam Campground (Kisatchie National Forest, LA)
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:29 UTC
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 28All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Beaver Dam Campground is situated on the shores of Upper Caney Lake in the Caney Lakes Recreation Complex. The campground is located in a beautiful setting among woods, lakes and hills. Swimming, boating, fishing and water skiing are the top activities. Sugar Cane National Recreation Trail passes right next to the campground and offers varied terrain for hikers and bikers. The Sugar Cane trail was named for the crop that was once cultivated here, in addition to cotton. Keep reading
Recreation
Bass, crappie, catfish, bluegill and sandbass can be caught in the lakes. The Sugar Cane Trail spans 5.7 miles and the Lost Man Loop spans 2 miles. Both are open to hiking and mountain biking.
Facilities
Campsites come with electric and water hookups. The group picnic area accommodates up to 200 guests while each campsite fits up to eight campers. A sanitary dump station, drinking water and flush toilets are provided.
Natural Features
Beaver Dam sits at an elevation of 160 feet along the north shores of the 125-acre Upper Caney Lake. The group picnic area is near Lower Caney Lake, spanning 250 acres. Kisatchie National Forest, the only national forest in Louisiana, spans 604,000 acres and mostly consists of bayous with bald cypress groves and old growth pine.
Nearby Attractions
The city of Minden has restaurants, shopping and golfing.
What the agency tells you
For more information on Kisatchie National Forest, click here
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Camp host on-site.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
No golf carts allowed.
Campsite can accomodiate slideouts.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 28
- Hookups
- 22 electric, 28 water
- Longest rig
- 114 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 28
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…dump station, drinking water and flush toilets are provided. Natural Features Beaver Dam sits at…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…eight campers. A sanitary dump station, drinking water and flush toilets are provided. Natural Features…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 18th darkest of 22 in LA
- Bortle 4
39 of 56 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:29 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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 16:29 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
30 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 27 mapped sitesAll 30 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 22 of the 30 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 001 | standard nonelectric | 104 ft | yes | 125 ft | 222 ft | ||
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 002 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | yes | 118 ft | 247 ftUpper Caney Lake | ||
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 004 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | yes | 147 ft | 168 ftUpper Caney Lake | ||
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 005 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | yes | 149 ft | 302 ftUpper Caney Lake | ||
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 006 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | yes | 147 ft | 167 ftUpper Caney Lake | ||
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 007 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | yes | 139 ft | 143 ftUpper Caney Lake | ||
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 008 | standard electric | 104 ft | 50 amp | yes | 69 ft | 241 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 009 | standard electric | 89 ft | 50 amp | yes | 150 ft | 122 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 010 | standard electric | 102 ft | 50 amp | yes | 112 ft | 265 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 011 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | yes | 154 ft | 86 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 012 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | yes | 127 ft | 157 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 013 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | yes | 127 ft | 100 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 014 | standard electric | 114 ft | 50 amp | yes | 69 ft | 275 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 015 | standard electric | 87 ft | 50 amp | yes | 82 ft | 164 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 016 | standard electric | 106 ft | 50 amp | yes | 82 ft | 109 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 017 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 99 ft | 115 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 018 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | yes | 170 ft | 228 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 019 | standard electric | 96 ft | 50 amp | yes | 114 ft | 196 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 020 | standard electric | 109 ft | 50 amp | yes | 95 ft | 210 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 021 | standard electric | 107 ft | 50 amp | yes | 95 ft | 241 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 022 | standard electric | 84 ft | 50 amp | yes | 150 ft | 339 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 023 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | yes | 150 ft | 480 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 024 | standard electric | 78 ft | 50 amp | yes | 128 ft | 478 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 025 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | yes | 128 ft | 551 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 026 | standard electric | 88 ft | 50 amp | yes | 135 ft | 469 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 027 | standard electric | 97 ft | 50 amp | yes | 173 ft | 444 ft | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 028 | standard electric | 98 ft | 50 amp | yes | 118 ft | 361 ftUpper Caney Lake | $25 |
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | 029 | standard electric | 98 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | yes | $25 | ||
| BEAVER DAM CAMPGROUND LOOP | HOST 003 | host pad | 84 ft | 50 amp | yes | $25 | ||
| Day Use | Group Use Area | day use | 450 ft | $50 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it files as day use and 1 it names a host pad. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 30 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
South Abutment East12 mi
Tom Merrill Recreation Area12 mi
Wenks Landing16 miSouth Shore Campground and Day Use AreaKisatchie National Forest · 36 miNorth Shore Primitive Campground and Day Use AreaKisatchie National Forest · 37 miCloud Crossing Recreation AreaKisatchie National Forest · 47 miFrom Minden, take Louisiana 159 north to Caney Lake Road (Webster Parish Road 111) . Turn left on Caney lake Road, continue 2 miles to recreation area entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Minden, LA
Typical weather
Typical October night 53°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°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 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
Beaver Dam Campground (Kisatchie National Forest, LA) is in Louisiana’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Mike Johnson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →