Delta National Forest - Camping
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:31 UTC
- A night
- $7From, per site
- Sites
- 56All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Delta National Forest glimmers like a great, green jewel surrounded by lazy rivers and spreading agricultural fields. The Delta is a large, contiguous block of bottomland hardwood forest, seasonally flooded timber, and small sloughs draining into the Big and Little Sunflower Rivers in the Yazoo Basin of the Mississippi River. It is the only entirely bottomland hardwood ecosystem in the National Forest System. Keep reading
Recreation
Enjoy camping, wildlife viewing, hiking, ATV riding, horseback riding, bird and butterfly watching, canoeing, kayaking, hunting, and fishing all within the Delta National Forest.
Facilities
Facilities are spread throughout the Forest. There are four restroom facilities located along FS Roads 715, 717, 720, and 707. All sites are primitive and potable water is available at the Delta Ranger District work center on FSR 703.
Natural Features
The Delta National Forest lies in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley and is surrounded by bayous, rivers, and lakes. The terrain is relatively flat, with majestic Bald Cypress trees and other hardwoods.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby attractions within an hour's drive includes Highway 61, the Mississippi Blues Trail; the Mississippi Mound Trail; Jim Henson Muppet Museum; Vicksburg Military Park; Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge Complex and Holt Collier National Wildlife Refuge; B. B. King Museum; and a host of cultural experiences. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (662) 873-6256.
What the agency tells you
Campers must have a reservation before camping. Receipt must be on-site. Caution, bears and other wildlife may be present. Keep food stored properly. Per Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, no alcohol is allowed on Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). ATVs are not allowed off of the trailer at campsites. ATVs are allowed on designated trails only, with a daily or annual permit. Permits can be obtained at fee stations on the Forest or at the Delta Ranger District office.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 56
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and 707. All sites are primitive and potable water is available at the Delta Ranger District work…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Ranger programs
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · darkest of 61 in MS
- Bortle 3
24 of 56 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 15:31 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, $7 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 15:31 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
56 sites
All 56 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. 56 of the 56 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BLUE LAKE RECREATION AREA CAMPSITES | 079A | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| BLUE LAKE RECREATION AREA CAMPSITES | 079B | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| BLUE LAKE RECREATION AREA CAMPSITES | 079C | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| DOWLING BAYOU RESERVOIR CAMPSITES | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| DOWLING BAYOU RESERVOIR CAMPSITES | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| DOWLING BAYOU RESERVOIR CAMPSITES | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| DOWLING BAYOU RESERVOIR CAMPSITES | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| DUMMYLINE ROAD CAMPSITES | 047 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| DUMMYLINE ROAD CAMPSITES | 066 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| DUMMYLINE ROAD CAMPSITES | 067 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| DUMMYLINE ROAD CAMPSITES | 068 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| DUMMYLINE ROAD CAMPSITES | 069 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 703 CAMPSITES | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 703 CAMPSITES | 018A | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 703 CAMPSITES | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 703 CAMPSITES | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 703 CAMPSITES | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 707 CAMPSITES | 035 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 707 CAMPSITES | 040 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 707 CAMPSITES | 041 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 707 CAMPSITES | 042 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 707 CAMPSITES | 043 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 707 CAMPSITES | 043A | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 707 CAMPSITES | 044 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 707 CAMPSITES | 045 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 707 CAMPSITES | 045A | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 710 CAMPSITES | 071 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 715 CAMPSITES | 021 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 715 CAMPSITES | 022 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 715 CAMPSITES | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 715 CAMPSITES | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 715 CAMPSITES | 027 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 715 CAMPSITES | 028 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 715 CAMPSITES | 075 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 715 CAMPSITES | 076 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 715 CAMPSITES | 077 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 715 CAMPSITES | 077A | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 720 CAMPSITES | 052 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 720 CAMPSITES | 053 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 720 CAMPSITES | 055a | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 720 CAMPSITES | 056 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 720 CAMPSITES | 057A | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 720 CAMPSITES | 062 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 720 CAMPSITES | 063 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 720 CAMPSITES | 064 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 721 CAMPSITES | 050 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 721 CAMPSITES | 060 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| FOREST SERVICE ROAD 721 CAMPSITES | 061 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| GREEN ASH GREENTREE RESERVOIR CAMPSITES | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| GREEN ASH GREENTREE RESERVOIR CAMPSITES | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| GREEN ASH GREENTREE RESERVOIR CAMPSITES | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| GREEN ASH GREENTREE RESERVOIR CAMPSITES | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| GREEN ASH GREENTREE RESERVOIR CAMPSITES | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| HWY. 16 CAMPSITE | 074 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| LITTLE SUNFLOWER RIVER RECREATION AREA CAMPSITES | 080A | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $7 |
| LITTLE SUNFLOWER RIVER RECREATION AREA CAMPSITES | 080B | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | $7 |
25 of 56 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rocky Springs Campground, Milepost 54.8Natchez Trace Parkway · 47 mi
Sterlington Recreation Area76 miShockaloe Trail Bc 1Bienville National Forest · 76 mi
Wilbur D. Mills89 mi
Notrebes Bend Park90 miFrom Jackson, MS- take I-20 towards Vicksburg; exit 5A towards Rolling Fork (US 61N); turn right on Hwy. 16 and travel for approximately 7 miles; turn right on the Delta National Forest.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cary, MS
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Delta National Forest - Camping is in Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Bennie Thompson (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →