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Wildfire
Nevada 311 fire · 29 mi away · 1 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026
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
$20From, per site
Sites
7271 on recreation.gov
Photos · USACE
58 ftLongest rig
410 ftElevation
85 ftWater · De Gray Lake
8.8 miNW of Arkadelphia, AR
88%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices

In the agency’s own words

Caddo Drive Campground sits along the pristine shores of Degray Lake in the foothills of the Quachita Mountains. The area offers stunning scenery and panoramic views, and Caddo was awarded one of Americas Top 25 Scenic Views. Keep reading

Recreation

DeGray Lake hosts thousands of professional fishing tournaments, triathlons and it is one of the most popular swimming destinations in the region. The area is also ideal for boating and jet skiing.

Facilities

Caddo Drive offers a mix of RV, standard and tent-only campsites, each with electric hookups. Other amenities include flush toilets, heated showers, a boat ramp and swimming beach. To see USACE DeGray Lake Virtual Tour, click here.

Natural Features

The campground is situated on a tree-covered ridge that joins a bluff. Degray Lake encompasses 13,500 water acres, with 207 miles of shoreline and an average depth of 47 feet.

Nearby Attractions

The DeGray Lake State Resort Park lies on the northern shores of the lake, and kayaking tours, golf, tennis courts and a horseback riding trail are available.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Check-Out time is 1:00 pm and Check-In time is 3:00 pm.

Rule

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.

Rule

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
Rule

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.

Rule

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.

Rule

Quiet hours are between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am.

Rule

No off-road vehicles permitted.

Rule

Daily occupancy is required.

Rule

One tent and one RV or two tents are allowed per campsite.

Rule

All pets must be penned, caged or on a 6 foot leash at all times, No Exceptions!!!

Rule

Persons bringing animals onto project lands are responsible for the proper removal and disposal of any waste produced by these animals.

Rule

Fireworks prohibited in campground

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

Please refer to the link for rules and regulations. Rules and Regulations

Read them on the agency’s own page →
Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
72 · 27 tent-only
Hookups
71 electric
Longest rig
58 ft
Paved pads
All
Accessible sites
None listed
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets
“…hookups. Other amenities include flush toilets, heated showers, a boat ramp and swimming beach. To…”
Showers
Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
“Other amenities include flush toilets, heated showers, a boat ramp and swimming beach.”
Dump station
Yes
recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp
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
Lake, Beach
Boating
Fishing
Swimming
Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 108th 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 71 of the 72 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. Today at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov
Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record
A night$20plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$48DerivedFriday 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.

We’ll write once, when the season that starts Mon, Mar 1 2027 is open for booking.

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 · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night$20
RV Electric$20
Standard Electric$20
Tent Only Electric$20
The agency has already scheduled a change from May 1, 2027: $22 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$28
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$48

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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

72 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 71 mapped sites
67 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Most room15 106 ft02 97 ft27 92 ft08 91 ft22 88 ft
Least room28 36 ft29 36 ft70 36 ft
Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 72 sites

72 of 72 sites located
Tent only27RV / electric44Type not stated1
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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. 71 of the 72 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

CADDO DRIVE01tent only electric15 amp73 ft491 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE02tent only electric15 amp97 ft437 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE03tent only electric15 amp37 ft421 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE04tent only electric15 amp37 ft402 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE05tent only electric15 amp49 ft369 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE06tent only electric15 amp49 ft378 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE07tent only electric15 amp75 ft405 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE08tent only electric15 amp91 ft372 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE09tent only electric15 amp67 ft358 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE10tent only electric15 amp67 ft382 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE11tent only electric15 amp62 ft399 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE12tent only electric15 amp62 ft457 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE13tent only electric15 amp68 ft525 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE14tent only electric15 amp78 ft585 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE15tent only electric15 amp106 ft634 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE16tent only electric15 amp86 ft499 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE17tent only electric15 amp71 ft524 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE18tent only electric15 amp71 ft560 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE19tent only electric15 amp65 ft556 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE20tent only electric15 amp65 ft494 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE21tent only electric15 amp84 ft527 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE22tent only electric15 amp88 ft529 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE23tent only electric15 amp81 ft505 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE24tent only electric15 amp66 ft585 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE25tent only electric15 amp66 ft648 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE26tent only electric15 amp81 ft686 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE27tent only electric15 amp92 ft609 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE28standard electric29 ft50 amp36 ft701 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE29rv electric27 ft50 amp36 ft700 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE30rv electric31 ft50 amp40 ft692 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE31standard electric27 ft50 amp49 ft675 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE32standard electric28 ft50 amp64 ft662 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE33standard electric24 ft50 amp54 ft638 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE34rv electric23 ft50 amp54 ft610 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE35standard electric33 ft50 amp75 ft550 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE36rv electric26 ft50 amp65 ft508 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE37rv electric27 ft50 amp67 ft481 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE38rv electric25 ft50 amp71 ft473 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE39rv electric25 ft50 amp76 ft482 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE40standard electric27 ft50 amp73 ft479 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE41standard electric26 ft50 amp73 ft455 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE42standard electric25 ft50 amp76 ft425 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE43rv electric27 ft50 amp81 ft397 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE44standard electric23 ft50 amp68 ft397 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE45standard electric29 ft50 amp60 ft397 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE46standard electric26 ft50 amp56 ft401 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE47standard electric26 ft50 amp47 ft396 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE48standard electric28 ft50 amp47 ft411 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE49rv electric38 ft50 amp55 ft412 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE50standard electric29 ft50 amp55 ft371 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE51standard electric29 ft50 amp78 ft300 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE52standard electric19 ft50 amp81 ft295 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE53standard electric22 ft50 amp65 ft318 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE54standard electric58 ft50 amp65 ft357 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE55rv electric53 ft50 amp69 ft394 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE56rv electric24 ft50 amp58 ft414 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE57standard electric49 ft50 amp47 ft439 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE58rv electric38 ft50 amp47 ft443 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE59standard electric43 ft50 amp68 ft445 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE60standard electric47 ft50 amp81 ft468 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE61standard electric24 ft50 amp76 ft488 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE62standard electric25 ft50 amp73 ft543 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE63standard electric25 ft50 amp67 ft545 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE64standard electric23 ft50 amp65 ft541 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE65rv electric24 ft50 amp75 ft549 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE66standard electric25 ft50 amp67 ft553 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE67standard electric26 ft50 amp67 ft575 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE68standard electric29 ft50 amp69 ft600 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE69type not stated42 ft50 amp618 ft
CADDO DRIVE70rv electric39 ft50 amp36 ft633 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE71rv electric45 ft50 amp36 ft641 ft$20
CADDO DRIVE72standard electric48 ft50 amp43 ft652 ft$20
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 72 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
Coordinate34.26111, -93.18750
The phone870-246-5501
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near hereEdgewood0.4 miArlie Moore1.2 miOak Bower Group Use Area2.1 miAlpine Ridge2.3 miIron Mountain4.2 miHighway 7 Recreation Area4.8 mi
Getting there

From Interstate 30 take exit 78. Merge onto State Highway 7 north for 6 miles. Turn left onto Edgewood Road and continue 3 miles to Caddo Drive.

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
Saturday66°Sunny
Saturday Night41°Clear
Sunday69°Sunny

NWS forecast for Bismarck, AR

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

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.

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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: HOT SPRINGS ASOS, AR (USW00003962), 8 miles away and 125 ft higher
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

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Bruce Westerman, official portrait

Caddo Drive 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 71 of the 72 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
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: 0.55 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: Bismarck, AR, 3.1 mi S (a census designated place). 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