Cottonshed Park (AR)
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 35 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:43 UTC
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 44All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cottonshed Park is located off the beaten path, eight miles southwest of Mineral Springs and Tollette. It is a quiet, wooded area with access to some of the best fishing on Millwood Lake. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground is located on Millwood Lake with direct access to the Saline River. The area is made navigable by boat lanes which mark the river and other man made paths through the lake. Outside of these channels is submerged timber and aquatic vegetation that entice anglers and duck hunters to the area. Millwood Lake is home to over 300 species of birds including the American Bald Eagle and Great White Pelicans, many of which can be found in the Cottonshed area.
Facilities
The campground contains lake side campsites as well as those not located directly on the lake but with a lake view. Flush toilets, showers, and potable water are located throughout the campground. The facility also offers one centrally located sewage dump station. Campsites are equipped with picnic tables, grills, fire rings, 30/50 amp electricity, water hydrants and lantern poles.
Natural Features
The campground is located directly on Millwood Lake with lake views from most of the campsites. The surrounding landscape is flat, low land areas with dense timber.
Nearby Attractions
Old Washington Historic State Park is located 25 miles northeast of the park.
What the agency tells you
All fish remains must be disposed of outside of park.
Off-road vehicles including ARVs, UTVs, and golf carts are not allowed in the park.
All pets must be kept on a leash.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Alligators are present on Millwood Lake. Please exercise caution while recreating.
Life jackets save lives!
For more information, please call Cottonshed Park at (870) 287-7118 or the Millwood Lake Project Office at (870) 898-3343.
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
- 44
- Hookups
- 44 electric, 44 water
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…on the lake but with a lake view. Flush toilets, showers, and potable water are located throughout…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…a lake view. Flush toilets, showers, and potable water are located throughout the campground. The facility…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 77th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
56 of 88 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:43 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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 16:43 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
44 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 44 mapped sitesAll 44 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. 44 of the 44 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop 1 | 025 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 244 ft | $25 |
| Loop 1 | 026 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 26 ft | 242 ft | $25 |
| Loop 1 | 027 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 26 ft | 237 ft | $25 |
| Loop 1 | 028 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 188 ft | $25 |
| Loop 1 | 029 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 132 ft | $25 |
| Loop 1 | 030 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 116 ft | $25 |
| Loop 1 | 031 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 128 ft | $25 |
| Loop 1 | 032 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 152 ft | $25 |
| Loop 1 | 033 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 180 ft | $25 |
| Loop 1 | 034 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 117 ft | $25 |
| Loop 1 | 035 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 94 ft | $25 |
| Loop 2 | 037 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 158 ft | $25 |
| Loop 2 | 038 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 214 ft | $25 |
| Loop 2 | 039 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 119 ft | $25 |
| Loop 2 | 040 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 196 ft | $25 |
| Loop 2 | 041 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 122 ft | $25 |
| Loop 2 | 042 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 125 ft | $25 |
| Loop 2 | 043 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 193 ft | $25 |
| Loop 2 | 044 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 243 ft | $25 |
| Loop 2 | 045 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 251 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 001 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 113 ft | 70 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 002 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 176 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 003 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 42 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 004 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 162 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 005 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 24 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 006 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 139 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 007 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 22 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 008 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 133 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 009 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 32 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 010 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 124 ft | 150 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 011 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 116 ft | 42 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 012 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 146 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 013 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 15 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 014 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 164 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 015 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 23 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 016 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 186 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 017 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 76 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 018 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 215 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 019 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 94 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 020 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 306 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 021 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 269 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 022 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 210 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 023 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 135 ft | $25 |
| North Loop | 024 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 109 ft | $25 |
25 of 44 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Paraloma Park2.9 mi
Beard's Lake Park3.7 mi
Saratoga Park4.6 mi
White Cliffs Park6.0 mi
Beard's Bluff Park (AR)6.4 mi
Horseshoe Bend (Dierks Lake)25 miApproximately 5 miles south of Mineral Springs on Highway 355, turn right / west onto Bright Star Road travel approximately 3 miles, turn left / south onto Cottonshed Lane.
OR North on Hwy 355 approximately 5 miles, turn left / west onto Bright Star Road travel approximately 3 miles, turn left / south onto Cottonshed Lane.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tollette, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 32°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
Cottonshed Park (AR) 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 →