Dam Area
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:23 UTC
- A night
- $16–$22Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dam Area Campground is located on a hill above Narrows Dam. Narrows Dam is the only all-concrete dam in the Vicksburg District. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Greeson is recongized for its rich variety of game fish, including large mouth, small mouth, stripped, spotted, and white bass, as well as flathead and channel catfish, black crappie, walleye and blue gill. The clear waters offer an excellent opportunity for many boating activities including water skiing, tubing, personal water craft, or cruising the lake. Trout Fishing is a popular attraction for this campground. Access to the clear cold waters of the Littler Missouri River generated below Narrows Dam is available at the Riverside Day Use Area just a few miles from the campground off of AR-19N. Trout stocking for the river below the dam is provided by the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission. The marina located within the campground offers boat and other water craft rentals, picnic and fishing supplies.
Facilities
Dam Area Campground has 24 campsites. Sites 1 - 18 are electrical sites. Sites 6 - 11 have 20 amp and 30 amp electric service with water hookup. Site 17 has 20 and 30 amp electric hookup, water and sewer hookup. Non-electric sites are 19 - 24. Each site provides a picnic table, ground grill, pedestal grill, and lantern post. Other amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, swim beach, boat ramp, marina, and dump station.
Natural Features
Lake Greeson is about 12 miles long with over 7,260 surface acres of water fed by the clear cool waters of the Little Missouri River. Loblolly pine, shortleaf pine, sweet gum and oak are the dominate tree species on upland areas of the lake, while bottomland hardwoods are common along rivers, creeks, and streams that enter the lake. The public lands around Lake Greeson provide a variety of habitats for numerous species of wildlife, including white-tailed deer, wild turkey, geese, bald eagles, migratory waterfowl, and songbirds.
Nearby Attractions
Crater of Diamonds State Park is within 15 miles of the campground. It is the only diamond producing site in the world open to the public. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (870) 285-2151.
What the agency tells you
Campers must have a reservation confirmation number before setting up on a campsite. All transactions must be made through recreation.gov or by calling 877-444-6777.
Check-Out time is 4:00 pm and Check-In time is 6:00 pm
If arriving more than 24 hours after the start of your reservation, call (870) 285-2151 or your reservation will be cancelled and a $20 No-Show fee plus the cost of the first night’s stay will be charged.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Dumping of “Gray” Water is prohibited. Dump Station is available for proper disposal of waste liquid generated during authorized recreational activities.
Sanitation: All garbage, trash, litter should be deposited in receptacles (trash cans) for that purpose DAILY. Do not place in fire ring or in large trash bags hanging from lantern post, trees, etc. Trash is picked up daily.
All campers/day users are required to keep their site free of trash and litter during occupancy and remove all personal equipment and clean their site upon departure.
Pets must be caged, penned, or kept on a 6-foot leash. PETS MUST NOT BE LEFT UNATTENDED. All animal waste must be properly disposed of. Pets are prohibited in sanitary facilities, playgrounds, and swimming beaches.
Quite hours are between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am.
During the Peak Season (1 May to Labor Day) 14-day Maximum Length of Stay (NO EXTENSIONS WILL BE GRANTED).
Please refer to this link for a complete list of rules and regulation. Rules and Regulations
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- 18 electric, 18 water, 2 sewer
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 24 of 24 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 24 of 24 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 24 of 24 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 21st darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 3
25 of 36 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:23 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$22 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 15:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 24 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. 24 of the 24 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.
| Loop 1 | 01 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 571 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 02 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 20 ft | 632 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 03 | standard electric | 41 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 704 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 04 | standard electric | 59 ft | 30 amp | 35 ft | 840 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 05 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 904 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 06 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 1,068 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 07 | standard electric | 31 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 1,076 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 08 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 34 ft | 1,106 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 09 | standard electric | 51 ft | 30 amp | 34 ft | 1,102 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 10 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 32 ft | 1,084 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 11 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 108 ft | 1,065 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 32 ft | 1,053 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 13 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 1,075 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 14 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 1,049 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 15 | standard electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | 35 ft | 863 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 16 | standard electric | 43 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 736 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 17 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 20 ft | 638 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 1 | 18 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 520 ft | $18–$22 |
| Loop 2 | 19 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 70 ft | 407 ft | $16 | |
| Loop 2 | 20 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 44 ft | 408 ft | $16 | |
| Loop 2 | 21 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 75 ft | 419 ft | $16 | |
| Loop 2 | 22 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 352 ft | $16 | |
| Loop 2 | 23 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 55 ft | 336 ft | $16 | |
| Loop 2 | 24 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 44 ft | 368 ft | $16 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Parker Creek2.0 mi
Cowhide Cove3.0 mi
Kirby Landing5.6 mi
Bear Creek (AR)6.4 mi
Self Creek6.6 mi
Arrowhead Point8.4 miFrom the town of Murfreesboro driving norhtwest toward AR-26W/AR-27 S, take a slight right onto N Washington Ave. Turn left onto W 13th ST. At the 4-way Stop turn right onto AR-19N/Maple Ave. Continue to follow AR-19N approximately 6 miles and then turn right onto Dynamite Hill RD.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kirby, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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
Dam Area 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 →