Cherokee Campground (AR)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $18–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3230 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cherokee Park is located on Greers Ferry Lake in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of north-central Arkansas. The environment provides the ideal location for family camping, fishing, boating and hiking. Keep reading
Recreation
Greers Ferry Lake is an outdoor enthusiasts' dream, with boating, sailing, water skiing, swimming, scuba diving and fishing opportunities. Hikers enjoy the area's three National Nature Trails and one multi-purpose fitness trail.
Facilities
This campground offers 30 sites, 16 of which have electrical hookups. Additional amenities include vault toilets, a dump station, and boat ramp.
Natural Features
A dense mix of red cedar, black gum, red oak, elm, pecan and sweet gum trees forest the area, providing shade in the summer months and beautiful fall colors in autumn. Wildlife is plentiful around Greers Ferry Lake. Visitors commonly see white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, rabbits, squirrels and a wide variety of birds. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (501) 362-2416.
Nearby Attractions
With over 30,000 acres of water surface, the lake serves as a playground for all kinds of water sports. Eighteen parks around the shoreline provide modern campgrounds, boat ramps, swim areas and marinas. The William Carl Garner Visitor Center is just west of the dam, with exhibits, a children's touch table, and a replica of the world record 40 lb. 4 oz. brown trout caught in the Little Red River downstream of the center.
What the agency tells you
One wheeled camping unit and two tents or four tents are allowed per site. Maximum of 8 occupants per site.
ATV's, golf carts or off-road vehicles are prohibited.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
For more information on Greers Ferry Lake, click HERE .
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
- 32
- Hookups
- 16 electric
- Longest rig
- 64 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…hookups. Additional amenities include vault toilets, a dump station, and boat ramp. Natural Features A…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Hiking
- Night sky · 116th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 30 of the 32 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.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$24 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
32 sites
All 32 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. 30 of the 32 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | A01 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| A | A01 | type not stated | |||
| A | A02 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| A | A03 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| A | A04 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| A | A05 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| A | A06 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| A | A07 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| B | B01 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| B | B02 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| B | B03 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| B | B04 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| B | B05 | standard electric | 64 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| B | B06 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| B | B07 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| B | B08 | standard nonelectric | $18 | ||
| B | B09 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| B | B10 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| B | B11 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| B | B12 | standard electric | 51 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| B | B13 | standard electric | 34 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| B | B14 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| B | B15 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| C | C01 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| C | C01 | type not stated | 30 amp | ||
| C | C02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| C | C03 | standard electric | 37 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| C | C04 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| C | C05 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| C | C06 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| C | C07 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
| C | C08 | standard electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | $24 |
25 of 32 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cove Creek (AR)0.0 mi
Mill Creek (AR)0.0 mi
Shiloh1.4 mi
Narrows (AR)2.2 mi
Devils Fork3.3 mi
Hill Creek4.9 miFrom Drasco, AR, take SR-92 west 7.2 miles to Brownsville Road. Travel Brownsville Road 2.9 miles, then turn on Cherokee Park Road. Follow signs to the campground.
The agency publishes this point for 3 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Greers Ferry, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Cherokee Campground (AR) is in Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, J. French Hill (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →