Bellah Mine
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 18 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:02 UTC
- A night
- $23–$45Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bellah Mine Campground sits along the shores of DeQueen Lake in southwest Arkansas. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating and water sports top the list of recreational activities at the lake, and several boat ramps are provided for campers. Fishing is also a popular pastime, with large mouth bass, small mouth bass, spotted pass, black and white crappie, channel and flathead catfish and various species of sunfish available in abundance. The lake also has a WMA to allow hunting on the lands around the lake. Except for developed recreation areas and lands in the vicinity of the dam. Game species include bobwhite quail, mourning dove, turkey, fox squirrel, gray squirrel, cottontail rabbit and deer. De Queen Lake does have a designated hiking trail in Pine Ridge Park that is open to the public and hiking/biking activities are welcomed.
Facilities
Bellah Mine Campground offers 24 spacious campsites, along with one large reservable group picnic shelter. Campsites include modern amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water.
Natural Features
DeQueen Lake is part of a dam project located on the Rolling Fork River. The dam, completed in 1977, was built for flood control and water supply, and now provides a recreational oasis for thousands of campers each year. The lake boasts 32 miles of shoreline to its visitors, along with 8,700 acres of rolling green landscape.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby town of DeQueen, Arkansas, offers gas, grocery and medical services.
What the agency tells you
Check in with Gate House upon arrival and before you set up on site.
A maximum of 2 tents and 8 occupants per site.
Quiet hours are from 10 p.m. thru 6 a.m.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Check out time is by 5 p.m.
No ATV's/UTV's allowed
This Area has the possiblity of flooding throughout the year. You may want to check lake levels before traveling.
Please wear a life jacket when participating in water recreation activities.
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.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- 24 electric, 24 water
- Longest rig
- 120 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…Campsites include modern amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water. Natural Features…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Campsites include modern amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…like flush toilets, showers and drinking water. Natural Features DeQueen Lake is part of a dam…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Water sports
- Night sky · 26th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 3
10 of 46 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:02 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $23–$45 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 16:02 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
25 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 25 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. 24 of the 25 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BELLAH MINE | 01 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 135 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 02 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 159 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 03 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 171 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 04 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 165 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 05 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 139 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 06 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 109 ft | 107 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 07 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 88 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 08 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 97 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 09 | standard electric | 82 ft | 50 amp | 137 ft | 112 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 10 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 108 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 11 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 105 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 12 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 85 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 13 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 109 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 14 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 168 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 15 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 189 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 16 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 225 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 17 | standard electric | 86 ft | 50 amp | 128 ft | 207 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 18 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 125 ft | 211 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 19 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 243 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 20 | standard electric | 120 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 273 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 21 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 297 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 22 | standard electric | 78 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 367 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 23 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 350 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | 24 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 320 ft | 649 ft | $23–$45 | |
| BELLAH MINE | S01 | day use | 20 amp | yes | 101 ft | 141 ft | $30 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t 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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Oak Grove (AR)2.1 mi
Pine Ridge2.2 mi
Big Coon Creek11 mi
Little Coon Creek Park11 mi
Cossatot Reefs11 mi
Jefferson Ridge16 miFrom DeQueen, AR, take Highway 71 north for 7 miles. Turn west onto Bellah Mine Road and continue for 5 miles, following signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gillham, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°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
Bellah Mine 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 →