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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · AR

Brady Mountain

ReservableOut of season; bookable March 1 through April 16.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $16–$30Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 7772 on recreation.gov

Photos · USACE Lake Ouachita

20 ftLongest rig

600 ftElevation

218 ftWater · Lake Ouachita

7.5 miNW of Piney, AR

39%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices

In the agency’s own words

Brady Mountain Campground delights visitors with its family-friendly facilities, fabulous views and idyllic placement on Arkansas's Lake Ouachita. The lake attracts visitors who come for the crystal clear waters and bountiful fishing opportunities. Click here for the Lake Ouachita Virtual Tour. Keep reading

Recreation

A unique way to explore the lake is to follow the Geo-Float Trail, coined as the first water-based interpretive trail included in the National Trails System. The self-guided boat tour leads visitors on a 16-mile trip to see incredible geologic features as it stretches from the Spillway Recreation Area to Brady Mountain Recreation Area. Hikers enjoy the scenic land-based nature trail accessible from the campground. Boating, fishing and scuba diving among the remains of the flooded mountain valley are also popular here.

Facilities

All 74 campsites have electric hookups. Other amenities include a dump station, fish cleaning station, hot showers, boat ramp, playground, and a swim beach.

Natural Features

Lake Ouachita sits in the heart of the Ouachita Mountains, just 10 miles west of Hot Springs National Park. The lake stems from the Ouachita River and boasts 692 miles of shoreline with 178 islands. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (501) 767-2101.

Nearby Attractions

Head to Hot Springs National Park and enjoy a traditional bath or modern spa experience with the natural spring water.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

No off-road vehicles allowed

Rule

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.

Rule

Check-Out time is 4pm and Check-In time is 6pm

Everything else this campground posts · 2

Rule

Camper Self-Check In Cards are located at the entrance of the campground. Please grab a card apon entry, fill it out and attach it to your campsite post. A ranger will verify the information written on the card later and check you in.

Rule

Campsites do not have water hookups. You will need to fill your water tank near the entrance at the dump station before proceeding to your campsite.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 77 · 17 tent-only
Hookups: 72 electric
Longest rig: 20 ft
Paved pads: 43 of 77
Accessible sites: 1
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Other amenities include a dump station, fish cleaning station, hot showers, boat ramp, playground, and a swim beach.”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Hot springs, Lake, River, Beach; Amphitheater; Biking; Birding; Boating; Canoeing; Fishing; Hiking; Hotel/Lodge/Resort Privately Owned; Jet Skiing; Kayaking; Motor Boat; Mountain biking; Picnicking; Sailing
Night sky · 122nd darkest of 158 in AR: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 72 of the 77 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.

Booking windowFrom March 1Out of season now. Bookable for March 1, 2027 through April 16, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record

A night$16–$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$40–$68DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 16

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$16–$30

Tent Only Electric$16

Standard Electric$22

Electricity, Water and Sewer Hookup$30

Group area, a night$50

The agency has already scheduled a change from Jan 1, 2027: $18 to $35 a night.

These are next season’s rates, Mar 1, 2027 to Apr 30, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$24–$38

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$40–$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$30 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

78 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 72 mapped sites

45 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop B 30 153 ftLoop A 66 129 ftLoop B 50 112 ftLoop A 22 103 ftLoop B 38 92 ft

Least roomLoop A 12 11 ftLoop A 14 11 ftLoop A 15 14 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 78 records

78 of 78 records located

Tent only17RV / electric55Type not stated5Day use1

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 PAV 1

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 72 of the 78 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.


A	01	type not stated	20 ft	50/30/20 amp			105 ft
A	02	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		49 ft	57 ft	$22–$30
A	03	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		44 ft	67 ft	$22–$30
A	04	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		49 ft	97 ft	$22–$30
A	05	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		32 ft	76 ft	$22–$30
A	06	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		32 ft	103 ft	$22–$30
A	07	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		40 ft	143 ft	$22–$30
A	08	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		52 ft	104 ft	$22–$30
A	09	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		34 ft	149 ft	$22–$30
A	10	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		28 ft	125 ft	$22–$30
A	11	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		28 ft	152 ft	$22–$30
A	12	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		11 ft	161 ft	$22–$30
A	13	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		32 ft	128 ft	$22–$30
A	14	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		11 ft	156 ft	$22–$30
A	15	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		14 ft	183 ft	$22–$30
A	16	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		14 ft	193 ft	$22–$30
A	17	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		30 ft	155 ft	$16
A	18	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		30 ft	127 ft	$16
A	19	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		32 ft	98 ft	$16
A	20	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		38 ft	120 ft	$16
A	21	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		38 ft	153 ft	$16
A	22	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		103 ft	106 ft	$22–$30
A	23	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		88 ft	115 ft	$22–$30
A	24	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		88 ft	115 ft	$22–$30
A	25	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp			145 ft
A	26	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp			149 ft
A	27	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp			112 ft
A	66	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		129 ft	186 ft	$22–$30
A	67	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		34 ft	233 ft	$22–$30
A	68	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		34 ft	224 ft	$22–$30
A	69	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		48 ft	253 ft	$22–$30
A	70	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		52 ft	253 ft	$22–$30
A	71	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		37 ft	301 ft	$22–$30
A	72	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		37 ft	270 ft	$22–$30
A	73	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		20 ft	234 ft	$22–$30
A	74	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		20 ft	243 ft	$22–$30
A	75	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		29 ft	213 ft	$22–$30
A	76	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		43 ft	194 ft	$22–$30
A	77	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		51 ft	173 ft	$22–$30
B	28	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		69 ft	124 ft	$16
B	29	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		69 ft	121 ft	$16
B	30	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		153 ft	89 ft	$16
B	31	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		70 ft	78 ft	$16
B	32	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		70 ft	81 ft	$16
B	33	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		81 ft	76 ft	$16
B	34	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		31 ft	88 ft	$16
B	35	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		31 ft	107 ft	$16
B	36	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		33 ft	135 ft	$22–$30
B	37	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		33 ft	152 ft	$22–$30
B	38	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		91 ft	131 ft	$22–$30
B	39	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		64 ft	70 ft	$22–$30
B	40	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		29 ft	93 ft	$22–$30
B	41	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		29 ft	97 ft	$22–$30
B	42	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		57 ft	122 ft	$22–$30
B	43	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		57 ft	119 ft	$22–$30
B	44	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		83 ft	117 ft	$22–$30
B	45	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		53 ft	100 ft	$22–$30
B	46	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		53 ft	144 ft	$22–$30
B	47	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		79 ft	123 ft	$22–$30
B	48	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		79 ft	107 ft	$22–$30
B	49	type not stated	20 ft	50/30/20 amp			213 ft
B	50	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		112 ft	136 ft	$22–$30
B	51	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		35 ft	108 ft	$16
B	52	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		35 ft	104 ft	$16
B	53	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		57 ft	120 ft	$16
B	54	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp		57 ft	121 ft	$16
B	55	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		47 ft	134 ft	$22–$30
B	56	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		47 ft	130 ft	$22–$30
B	57	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		37 ft	246 ft	$22–$30
B	58	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		31 ft	274 ft	$22–$30
B	59	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	yes	31 ft	283 ft	$22–$30
B	60	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		64 ft	217 ft	$22–$30
B	61	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		64 ft	154 ft	$22–$30
B	62	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		60 ft	127 ft	$22–$30
B	63	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		60 ft	178 ft	$22–$30
B	64	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		46 ft	207 ft	$22–$30
B	65	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		46 ft	221 ft	$22–$30
BRADY MOUNTAIN	PAV 1	day use	20 ft	15 amp	yes		84 ft

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.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 78 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate34.58227, -93.26544

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone501-760-1146

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Spillway (Lake Ouachita)3.0 mi

Avery4.2 mi

Stephens Park4.4 mi

Crystal Springs (AR)5.8 mi

Charlton Recreation AreaOuachita National Forest · 8.0 mi Camp ClearforkOuachita National Forest · 8.8 mi

Getting there

From Hot Springs, AR: Take US 270 west approximately 10 miles to Brady Mountain Access Road. Turn right and follow access road 6 miles north to the park.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight45°Mostly Clear

Saturday65°Sunny

Saturday Night43°Clear

Sunday68°Sunny

NWS forecast for Mountain Pine, AR

Source: National Weather Service, LZK forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 48°F, day 73°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.

100°32°20°

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.

Measured at: BLAKELY MTN DAM, AR (USC00030764), 4 miles away and 174 ft lower

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless

Bear Mountain1,910 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

Little Blakely3,342 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

Brady Mountain 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 72 of the 77 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 78 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.62 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 158 rated federal campgrounds in Arkansas · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Mountain Pine, AR, 4.7 mi W. Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026