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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · AR

Cranfield Park

ReservableBookable through October 30, and from April 1 through April 16.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 14 nights read 15:59 UTC
A night: $16–$26Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 69All of them booked ahead

Photos · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

60 ftLongest rig

570 ftElevation

157 ftWater · Norfork Lake

2.9 miNE of Mountain Home, AR

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices

In the agency’s own words

Cranfield Park is surrounded by the clear waters of Norfork Lake. It's the closest campground to the city of Mountain Home and offers plenty of pleasing views of the lake from its well-shaded river island sites. Norfork Lake boasts plenty of secluded coves for water sports and breezy, open stretches for sailing. Including Cranfield, there are 19 developed U.S. Army Corps of Engineers parks lining the lake for plenty of water sport opportunities. Keep reading

Recreation

Hiking trails in the area lead nature observers and photographers to picturesque overlooks of the Ozarks. A .75-mile nature trail is accessible from the campground. A wide array of fresh water game fish are found in the lake, which is fed by the North Fork River and its tributaries. Bass, walleye, crappie, bream and catfish all make their home here.

Facilities

A marina and boat ramp are on hand for easy access to water sports. The 69 campsites have electric hookups, two playgrounds and an amphitheater, among other modern conveniences. Two day-use group shelters are available for reservation.

Natural Features

Norfork Lake covers 22,000 acres with 550 miles of shoreline. Densely wooded hills and hollows surround the lake in the Ozark Mountains. The North Fork River feeds into the lake, and beyond the dam, extends on to connect with the White River.

Nearby Attractions

The Robinson Point National Recreation Trail is a beautiful hike especially during the fall months, for views of the Ozark Mountains' changing colors through the seasons. Drive just over five miles to visit the town of Mountain Home, considered one of the best places to live for sportsmen.

Charges & Cancellations

Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Off-road vehicles are not permitted

Rule

No livestock at this facility

Rule

No firearms allowed

Everything else this campground posts · 2

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

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 69 · 3 tent-only
Hookups: 66 electric, 59 water
Longest rig: 60 ft
Paved pads: 67 of 69
Accessible sites: 2
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets · Pit Toilets; FLUSH TOILETS on 7 of 71 campsite records, FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 15 of 71 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 3 of 71 campsite records / VAULT TOILETS on 9 of 71 campsite records / PIT TOILETS on 13 of 71 campsite records
Showers: Accessible Showers · Seasonal Showers; ACCESSIBLE SHOWERS on 3 of 71 campsite records / SHOWERS (SEASONAL) on 15 of 71 campsite records
Drinking water: Yes; WATER SPIGOT on 9 of 71 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 6 of 71 campsite records
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Beach; Boating; Swimming
Night sky · 126th 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

57 of 142 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:59 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBooked

Booking windowThrough October 30Bookable now through October 30, 2026, the end of this reservable season, and again for April 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$16–$26plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$40–$60DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Tell me when the season opens

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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.

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 · 16

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$16–$26

Tent Only Nonelectric$16

30 Amp W/O Water$22

30 Amp W/ Water$24

50 Amp W/ Water$26

Group area, a night$50

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 1, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026.

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$24–$34

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$40–$60

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.

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

“Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee.” · this campground’s own terms

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 · 6

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 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

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · 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

recreation.gov availability, read 15:59 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

71 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 71 mapped sites

71 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomCF 1 234 ftCF-2 178 ft13 123 ft02 116 ft57 113 ft

Least room26 42 ft27 42 ft30 44 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 71 records

71 of 71 records located

Tent only3RV / electric66Day use2

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 CF 1 CF-2

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. 69 of the 71 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.


CRANFIELD PARK	01	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp		102 ft	309 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	02	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp		116 ft	458 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	03	standard electric	39 ft	30 amp		102 ft	406 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	04	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		87 ft	441 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	05	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp		87 ft	445 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	06	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp		97 ft	343 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	07	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp		97 ft	326 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	08	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		100 ft	480 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	09	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		90 ft	504 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	10	standard electric	33 ft	50 amp		90 ft	497 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	11	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		71 ft	469 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	12	standard electric	39 ft	50 amp		71 ft	421 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	13	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		123 ft	504 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	14	standard electric	39 ft	50 amp		108 ft	454 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	15	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		104 ft	346 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	16	standard electric	33 ft	50 amp		45 ft	371 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	17	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		75 ft	385 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	18	standard electric	27 ft	50 amp		71 ft	436 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	19	standard electric	33 ft	50 amp		54 ft	464 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	20	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		45 ft	376 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	21	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		49 ft	487 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	22	standard electric	39 ft	50 amp		49 ft	481 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	23	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		71 ft	428 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	24	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		60 ft	462 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	25	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		60 ft	417 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	26	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		42 ft	373 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	27	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		42 ft	359 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	28	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		84 ft	472 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	29	standard electric	39 ft	50 amp		47 ft	348 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	30	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		44 ft	357 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	31	standard electric	39 ft	50 amp		59 ft	445 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	32	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		44 ft	342 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	33	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		44 ft	337 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	34	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		56 ft	440 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	35	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		44 ft	324 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	36	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		60 ft	335 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	37	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		60 ft	373 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	38	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		56 ft	442 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	39	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		54 ft	410 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	40	standard electric	39 ft	50 amp		73 ft	479 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	41	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		54 ft	398 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	42	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		85 ft	474 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	43	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		82 ft	401 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	44	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		78 ft	366 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	45	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		82 ft	313 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	46	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		78 ft	288 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	47	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		65 ft	271 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	48	standard electric	39 ft	50 amp		65 ft	254 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	49	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		64 ft	204 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	50	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		45 ft	141 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	51	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		80 ft	272 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	52	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		45 ft	121 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	53	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		102 ft	151 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	54	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		80 ft	273 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	55	tent only nonelectric				61 ft	140 ft	$16
CRANFIELD PARK	56	tent only nonelectric				61 ft	120 ft	$16
CRANFIELD PARK	57	tent only nonelectric				113 ft	130 ft	$16
CRANFIELD PARK	58	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		76 ft	408 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	59	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		76 ft	457 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	60	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		63 ft	311 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	61	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		63 ft	298 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	62	standard electric	39 ft	30 amp		70 ft	470 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	63	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		58 ft	401 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	64	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		51 ft	348 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	65	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		71 ft	408 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	66	standard electric	27 ft	30 amp		51 ft	320 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	67	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		66 ft	291 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	68	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp	yes	74 ft	308 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	69	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	yes	71 ft	364 ft	$22–$26
CRANFIELD PARK	CF 1	day use		30 amp	yes	234 ft	340 ft	$50
CRANFIELD PARK	CF-2	day use		30 amp	yes	178 ft	179 ft	$50

The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

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 · Sep 11, 2026

OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.

25 of 71 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

Coordinate36.40472, -92.32083

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone870-492-4191

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Panther Bay Park4.6 mi

Bidwell Point Park4.8 mi

Henderson Park5.3 mi

Gamaliel5.6 mi

Robinson Point5.8 mi

Udall Park9.9 mi

Getting there

From Mountain Home, AR, travel 5 miles east on US 412/62, turn left onto Cranfield Road (CR 34) for 3 miles to the park entrance. Follow signs into the campground.

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

Overnight43°Partly Cloudy

Saturday62°Sunny

Saturday Night39°Clear

Sunday67°Sunny

NWS forecast for Mountain Home, AR

Source: National Weather Service, LZK forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 48°F, day 71°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

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: MTN HOME 1 NNW, AR (USC00035036), 6 miles away and 230 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

Cranfield Park is in Arkansas’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Rick Crawford (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: recreation.gov is offering sites on 14 of the next 14 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 71 of the 69 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 14, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 71 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 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: 0.65 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 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