Chickasaw Hill
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:03 UTC
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 53All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Chickasaw Hill is a quiet, family-oriented campground situated along the banks of Enid Lake in the forests of northern Mississippi. View a virtual tour of Enid Lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Enid Lake has been recognized as one of America's Top 10 Fishing Spots, with white crappie, bass and catfish available in abundance. The lake is the home of the world record white crappie, which weighed an impressive 5 pounds, 3 ounces. Fishing tournaments are held annually at the lake. Hiking trails wind along the lakeshore and throughout the surrounding landscape, offering hiking, biking and horseback riding opportunities. Boating is a popular pastime on the lake, and boat ramps are provided at the campground.
Facilities
Chickasaw Hill Campground offers 53 campsites, and modern amenities like full hookups and flush toilets are provided. A playground and interpretive trail offer additional recreation opportunities. Picnic areas and shelters, complete with grills and tables, make the area perfect for parties or family trips.
Natural Features
Enid Lake is part of a dam project on the Yocona River. The dam creates almost 16,000 acres of water for millions of annual visitors to enjoy. An additional 44,000 acres of thick, green forests surrounding the lake offer countless recreational opportunities for campers, equestrians, hikers and more.
Nearby Attractions
Memphis, Tennessee, located about an hour away, offers plenty of famous tourist attractions.
What the agency tells you
No livestock permitted
A large picnic shelter may be reserved for $50/day
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 · 5
Must have reservation before camping.
America Beautiful Senior and Access card holder has to be present when card is used.
No Pets in buildings.
No ATV's allowed
There is a beach and boat ramp fee of $5.00 per vehicle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 53 · 7 tent-only
- Hookups
- 53 electric, 46 water, 45 sewer
- Longest rig
- 104 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…modern amenities like full hookups and flush toilets are provided. A playground and interpretive trail…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 54 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 1 of 54 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 54 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 19th darkest of 61 in MS
- Bortle 4
37 of 51 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 15:03 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
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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 rate for this season, $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.
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 15:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
54 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 53 mapped sitesAll 54 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. 53 of the 54 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 01 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 1,191 ft | $30 |
| A | 02 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 1,100 ft | $30 |
| A | 03 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 1,038 ft | $30 |
| A | 04 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 1,034 ft | $30 |
| A | 05 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 973 ft | $30 |
| A | 06 | standard electric | 89 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 869 ft | $30 |
| A | 07 | standard electric | 104 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 803 ft | $30 |
| A | 08 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 821 ft | $30 |
| A | 09 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 718 ft | $30 |
| A | 10 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 574 ft | $30 |
| A | 11 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 586 ft | $30 |
| A | 12 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 604 ft | $30 |
| A | 13 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 673 ft | $30 |
| A | 14 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 750 ft | $30 |
| A | 15 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 690 ft | $30 |
| A | 16 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 638 ft | $30 |
| A | 17 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 544 ft | $30 |
| A | 18 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 464 ft | $30 |
| A | 19 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 394 ft | $30 |
| A | 20 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 325 ft | $30 |
| A | 21 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 329 ft | $30 |
| A | 22 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 403 ft | $30 |
| A | 23 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 478 ft | $30 |
| A | 24 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 805 ft | $30 |
| A | 25 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 848 ft | $30 |
| A | 26 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 902 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 27 | standard electric | 63 ft | 90 ft | 1,603 ft | $30 | |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 28 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 1,505 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 29 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 1,432 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 30 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 1,303 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 31 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 1,213 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 32 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 1,157 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 33 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 838 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 34 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 845 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 35 | standard electric | 83 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 818 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 36 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | 129 ft | 709 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 37 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 745 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 38 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 790 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 39 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 844 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 40 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 897 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 41 | tent only electric | 50 amp | 106 ft | 1,064 ft | $30 | |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 42 | tent only electric | 50 amp | 127 ft | 1,191 ft | $30 | |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 43 | tent only electric | 50 amp | 130 ft | 1,303 ft | $30 | |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 44 | tent only electric | 50 amp | 91 ft | 1,190 ft | $30 | |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 45 | tent only electric | 50 amp | 91 ft | 1,099 ft | $30 | |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 46 | tent only electric | 50 amp | 106 ft | 969 ft | $30 | |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 47 | tent only electric | 50 amp | 162 ft | 972 ft | $30 | |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 48 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 113 ft | 1,292 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 49 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 1,462 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 50 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 1,515 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 51 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 1,656 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 52 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 1,721 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | 53 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 1,755 ft | $30 |
| CHICKASAW HILL | Picnic Shelter (660) | day use |
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.
25 of 54 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Plum Point Campground1.9 mi
Long Branch Campground2.9 mi
Ford's Well3.1 mi
Water Valley Landing3.6 mi
Wallace Creek4.0 mi
Persimmon Hill(Enid Lake)4.1 miFrom I-55, take exit 233 and head east on CR 36/Enid Dam Road. At the Enid Lake Field Office turn north onto Chapel Hill Road and continue for 3 miles. Turn east on Pope Water Valley Road, and after 7 miles turn south on Chickasaw Road and continue 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 Oakland, MS
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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
Chickasaw Hill is in Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Bennie Thompson (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →