Clear Creek - Ozark Lake (AR)
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 30 nights read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $16–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 38All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Beautiful campground on the Arkansas river providing excellent opportunities for recreation, boating, fishing, and waterfowl viewing. Keep reading
Recreation
This quaint park offers great opportunities for fishing and has an excellent day use area with multiple picnic areas.
Facilities
Clear Creek park includes 38 campsites many with electric and water, a picnic shelter, restroom, and a boat ramp.
Natural Features
Sitting off an inlet to the Arkansas River, a major interstate waterway, this park is an excellent entry to Frog bayou and other water areas.
Nearby Attractions
A short drive into the nearby city of Alma, Arkansas provides ample shopping opportunities.
What the agency tells you
NOTICE: Group shelters are open for reservations, but will be restricted to a 33 percent occupancy. Example: Group shelters rated for 100 people will be restricted to a total of 33 occupants. Please follow CDC guidelines for social distancing, sanitizing, and face covering for COVID-19. P NOTE: A special event application is required for any event including, but not limited to one or more of the following: 1. An entry, spectator, or participating fee is charged 2. If you have an anticipated attendance of 100 or more persons 3. An extraordinary impact on project resources is expected 4. Corps personnel provide additional patrols, surveillance, refuse collection, and/or crowd control 5. Event involves the use of concession tents and/or vendors 6. Event involves Bounce Houses/Bump N Jump Inflatables 7. Fishing Tournament8. Music FestivalIn addition to the special event application, you may be asked to submit the following information before approval can be granted: (1) proof of liability insurance; (2) event details & description; (3) schedule of events; (4) parking plans.PROHIBITED: Please note that livestock, exotic animals, explosives, loaded projectile firing devices, piatas, water balloons, and commercial activities are prohibited on project lands unless written permission has been received from the District Commander. If commercial tents are permitted for your special event, please note that driving tent stakes into concrete or asphalt on project lands is prohibited. For additional information regarding Special Event Applications & Permit Fees, please contact the Russellville Project Office at (479) 968-5008.
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.
Two tents or one RV and one tent per campsite
Everything else this campground posts · 1
• For Aquatic Facilities (Lake, Reservoir, or River Recreation): 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. • For Terrestrial Facilities (Trailheads or Campsites): 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. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec . • For Combined Aquatic and Terrestrial Facilities (Trailheads or Campsites with Lake, Reservoir, or River Recreation): 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
- 38 · 10 tent-only
- Hookups
- 28 electric, 3 water
- Longest rig
- 56 ft
- Paved pads
- 32 of 38
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Night sky · 144th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
16 of 64 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:22 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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, $16–$26 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 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
39 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 39 mapped sitesAll 39 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 39 of the 39 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 28 of the 39 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 | A1 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 157 ft | 275 ftFrog Bayou | 178 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A10 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 48 ft | 94 ftFrog Bayou | 345 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A11 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 92 ftFrog Bayou | 287 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A12 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 48 ft | 86 ftFrog Bayou | 229 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A13 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 48 ft | 86 ftFrog Bayou | 184 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A14 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 86 ftFrog Bayou | 129 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A15 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 89 ftFrog Bayou | 89 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A16 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 93 ftFrog Bayou | 55 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A17 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 96 ftFrog Bayou | 105 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A18 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 102 ftFrog Bayou | 187 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A19 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 89 ftFrog Bayou | 269 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A2 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 227 ftFrog Bayou | 327 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A20 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 83 ftFrog Bayou | 317 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A21 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 156 ftFrog Bayou | 282 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A22 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 173 ftFrog Bayou | 222 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A23 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 189 ftFrog Bayou | 154 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A24 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 206 ftFrog Bayou | 111 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A25 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 225 ftFrog Bayou | 84 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A26 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 243 ft | 631 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A27 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 217 ft | 686 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A28 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 171 ft | 290 ft | 790 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A3 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 232 ftFrog Bayou | 378 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A4 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 29 ft | 236 ftFrog Bayou | 458 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A5 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 29 ft | 228 ftFrog Bayou | 484 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A6 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 112 ftFrog Bayou | 501 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A7 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 33 ft | 112 ftFrog Bayou | 460 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A8 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 33 ft | 105 ftFrog Bayou | 428 ft | $22–$26 |
| A | A9 | rv electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 105 ftFrog Bayou | 389 ft | $22–$26 |
| B | B1 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 54 ft | 166 ftOzark Lake | 1,377 ft | ||
| B | B10 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 106 ft | 62 ftOzark Lake | 1,695 ft | ||
| B | B2 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 54 ft | 152 ftOzark Lake | 1,408 ft | ||
| B | B3 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 62 ft | 89 ftOzark Lake | 1,477 ft | ||
| B | B4 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 62 ft | 39 ftOzark Lake | 1,511 ft | ||
| B | B5 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 45 ftOzark Lake | 1,480 ft | ||
| B | B6 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 89 ftOzark Lake | 1,434 ft | ||
| B | B7 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 102 ft | 70 ftOzark Lake | 1,472 ft | ||
| B | B8 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 87 ft | 68 ftOzark Lake | 1,525 ft | ||
| B | B9 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 87 ft | 63 ftOzark Lake | 1,597 ft | ||
| GS1 | day use | 15 amp | 349 ft | 229 ftOzark Lake | 1,692 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.
25 of 39 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kibler, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°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 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
Clear Creek - Ozark Lake (AR) is in Arkansas’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Steve Womack (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: D-. See every public-lands vote →