Dam Site Lake Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 14 nights read 16:42 UTC
- A night
- $22–$29Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4745 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dam Site Lake Campground sits along the vast shores of Beaver Lake in the Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas, offering spacious and sunny campsites and an abundance of recreational activities. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing opportunities are plentiful near Dam Site Lake Campground. Beaver Lake has more than 28,000 surface acres of water, and anglers can try their luck at catching large and small-mouth bass, crappie, bream, white bass, stripers, and channel or spoon-bill catfish. Just below the dam, the cold waters of the upper White River provide a perfect habitat for pole-bending rainbow and record-sized German brown trout. Several trails snake throughout the Ozark Mountains, offering peaceful hiking, biking and wildlife viewing opportunities for visitors. Hunters will find game plentiful in northwest Arkansas. A mixture of hardwood and evergreen forest provides a good home to many different species of wildlife. While Beaver Lake is conveniently located near several population centers, within a short driving distance, hunters can find remote areas filled with upland game animals such as deer, rabbits and squirrels. Many other sports and activities await campers, including boating, swimming, picnicking, scuba diving, water skiing, spelunking and sightseeing.
Facilities
Dam Site Lake Campground has large campsites with plenty of shade and room for activities, and is steps away from the lake shore. Fire rings, picnic areas, drinking water and flush toilets all make for a comfortable camping getaway.
Natural Features
Towering limestone bluffs, natural caves and a variety of trees and flowering shrubs surround Dam Site Lake Campground, making it an ideal retreat for outdoor enthusiasts. Beaver Lake and Dam, completed in 1966, was constructed in the White River Basin and boasts 449 miles of beautiful shoreline at the top of the conservation pool. Although the dam was originally built for flood control, hydroelectric power and public water supply, it has also created a popular recreational oasis for the area.
Nearby Attractions
Several marinas are located around the lake, offering groceries, fuel, boat rentals and storage, fishing guides and camping supplies. Click here for more information.
What the agency tells you
Please check in with camp host upon arrival. Check-in is at 4:00 p.m. the afternoon of your reservation. Check out time is 1:00 p.m.
Campsites can accommodate one RV and one tent, or three tents.
No parking in the grass.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must deposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands. Shower tents and bathroom tents, commonly referred to as changing tents, are not allowed.
There is a $5 area use fee per vehicle for non-campers. Failure to pay day use fees, and or properly display applicable receipt, permit or pass is prohibited.
No off-road vehicles or golf carts are permitted.
All pets must be physically restrained in pens, cages, or on a 6-foot leash at all times. No Exceptions! Pets may not be left at campsites unattended. Persons bringing animals onto project lands are responsible for the proper removal and disposal of any waste produced by these animals.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project such as Beaver Lake for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
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.
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
- 47
- Hookups
- 44 electric, 31 water
- Longest rig
- 82 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…rings, picnic areas, drinking water and flush toilets all make for a comfortable camping getaway. Natural…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 14 of 48 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Night sky · 134th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
2 of 90 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:42 UTC
recreation.gov lists 45 of the 47 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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, $22–$29 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 16:42 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
48 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 45 mapped sitesAll 48 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 29 of the 48 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. 44 of the 48 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard electric | 17 ft | 30 amp | 153 ft | 65 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard electric | 18 ft | 50 amp | 137 ft | 57 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard electric | 82 ft | 30 amp | 137 ft | 77 ft | 3,275 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard electric | 37 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 114 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard electric | 2 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 63 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard electric | 16 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 61 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard electric | 2 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 52 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard electric | 50/50 amp | 82 ft | 38 ft | $22–$29 | |||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50/50 amp | 82 ft | 10 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard electric | 18 ft | 50/50 amp | 105 ft | 34 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard electric | 7 ft | 50 amp | 105 ft | 88 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 24 ft | 2,834 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard electric | 15 ft | 50/50 amp | 58 ft | 32 ft | 2,792 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/50 amp | 61 ft | 62 ft | 2,701 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard electric | 9 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 22 ft | 2,642 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard electric | 7 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 19 ft | 2,618 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 35 ft | 2,645 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard electric | 9 ft | 50/50 amp | 154 ft | 95 ft | 2,780 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard electric | 9 ft | 50/50 amp | 90 ft | 70 ft | 2,737 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard electric | 7 ft | 50/50 amp | 90 ft | 45 ft | 2,666 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard electric | 50/50 amp | 100 ft | 29 ft | 2,710 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50/50 amp | 100 ft | 41 ft | 2,775 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard electric | 14 ft | 50/50 amp | 121 ft | 67 ft | 2,853 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50/50 amp | 154 ft | 90 ft | 2,932 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 33 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 84 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard electric | 2 ft | 50 amp | 36 ft | 131 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard electric | 50 amp | 36 ft | 95 ft | $22–$29 | |||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 52 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 031 | type not stated | 31 ft | 50 amp | 14 ft | ||||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 118 ft | 40 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 109 ft | 3,240 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 57 ft | $22–$29 | ||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 035 | type not stated | 16 ft | 50 amp | under 10 ft | ||||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 036 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 123 ft | 11 ft | 3,250 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 037 | standard electric | 15 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 66 ft | 3,126 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 038 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 14 ft | 3,152 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 039 | type not stated | 38 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 3,124 ft | |||
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 040 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 138 ft | under 10 ft | 3,064 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 041 | standard electric | 8 ft | 50/50 amp | 98 ft | 252 ft | 2,922 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 042 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50/50 amp | 98 ft | 180 ft | 2,984 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 043 | standard electric | 22 ft | 50/50 amp | 108 ft | 284 ft | 3,023 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 044 | standard electric | 15 ft | 50/50 amp | 108 ft | 206 ft | 3,130 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 045 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50/50 amp | 113 ft | 181 ft | 3,064 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 046 | standard electric | 15 ft | 50/50 amp | 98 ft | 287 ft | 2,927 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 047 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50 amp | 105 ft | 114 ft | 2,746 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | 048 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50 amp | 113 ft | 123 ft | 2,778 ft | $22–$29 | |
| DAM SITE LAKE CAMPGROUND | Group Shelter 1 | day use | yes | 2989 ft | 27 ft | 2,912 ft | $75 |
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 48 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Dam Site River (Beaver Lake)0.5 mi
Indian Creek Campground (AR)1.8 mi
Lost Bridge North2.2 mi
Starkey Campground2.4 mi
Lost Bridge South3.1 mi
Rocky Branch Campground7.4 miFrom Eureka Springs, Arkansas, take Highway 62 West and travel nearly 4 miles. Turn left on Highway 187 and continue for about 6 miles. Turn left at Park entrance and continue to the site, located before the dam.
From Rogers, Arkansas, take Highway 62 East for nearly 24 miles. Turn right on Highway 187 and travel 3 miles, crossing the dam. The park entrance is the first right after the dam.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lost Bridge Village, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 24°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 Site Lake Campground 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 →