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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · AR

Denby Point

1Heads up1 fire 48 mi away

Wildfire

Nevada 311 fire · 48 mi away · 1 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026

Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026

ReservableOut of season; bookable March 1 through April 16.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $14–$30Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 8267 on recreation.gov

Photos · USACE Lake Ouachita

20 ftLongest rig

630 ftElevation

1,428 ftWater · Lake Ouachita

7.1 miE of Mount Ida, AR

81%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices

In the agency’s own words

Groups and families of all sizes come to camp at Denby Point for its scenic views, year-round fishing and convenient boating facilities. The campground promises to entertain jet skiers, boaters, hikers and birders alike. Click here for the Lake Ouachita Virtual Tour. Keep reading

Recreation

World-class striper fishing brings crowds of anglers year-round, and incredibly clear waters attract scuba divers, hoping to explore the flooded forests and mountain valleys below the lake's surface. Hikers take pleasure in the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail (LOViT), which lines the southern end of the lake.

Facilities

The campground consists of 67 sites including 58 with electric and water hookups. The two group campsites also have electric hookups. Other amenities include a dump station, fish cleaning station, hot showers, boat ramp and a swim beach.

Natural Features

Lake Ouachita sits in the heart of the Ouachita Mountains, just 28 miles west of Hot Springs National Park. The lake stems from the Ouachita River and boasts 692 miles of shoreline and over 40,000 surface acres. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (501) 767-2101.

Nearby Attractions

Explore Ouachita National Forest's 1.8 million acres, surrounding Lake Ouachita and extending across central Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

No off-road vehicles allowed in park

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

Check-Out time is 4pm and Check-In time is 6pm

Everything else this campground posts · 1

Rule

Camper Self-Check In Cards are located at the entrance of the campground. Please grab a card apon entry, fill it out and attach it to your campsite post. A ranger will verify the information written on the card later and check you in.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 82 · 9 tent-only, 2 group
Hookups: 64 electric, 73 water, 1 sewer
Longest rig: 20 ft
Paved pads: 59 of 82
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Other amenities include a dump station, fish cleaning station, hot showers, boat ramp and a swim beach.”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

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

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Hot springs, Lake, River, Beach; Boating; Canoeing; Kayaking
Night sky · 66th 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

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 67 of the 82 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowFrom March 1Out of season now. Bookable for March 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$14–$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$36–$68DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

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

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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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 · 17

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$14–$30

Tent Only Nonelectric$14

Group Camp - Individual Site Rental$18

Standard Electric$24

Electricity, Water, Sewer Hookup$30

Group areas, a night$60–$65

The agency has already scheduled a change from Jan 1, 2027: $16 to $35 a night.

These are next season’s rates, Mar 1, 2027 to Apr 30, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

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$22–$38

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$36–$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$30 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

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 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

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

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

82 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 67 mapped sites

79 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomA 411 ftB 411 ftLoop D 67 188 ftLoop B 25 142 ftLoop C 45 132 ft

Least roomLoop B 27 29 ftLoop B 28 29 ftLoop B 32 33 ft

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

All 82 sites

82 of 82 sites located

Tent only9RV / electric56Group2Type not stated15

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 A A-1 A-2 A-3 A-4 A-5 A-6 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 B B-1 B-2 B-3 B-4 B-5 B-6 B-7 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 35 36 37 38 39 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67

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. 61 of the 82 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.


A	01	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	99 ft	157 ft	$18–$30
A	02	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	131 ft	163 ft	$18–$30
A	03	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	96 ft	129 ft	$18–$30
A	04	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	68 ft	116 ft	$18–$30
A	05	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	36 ft	119 ft	$18–$30
A	06	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	36 ft	85 ft	$18–$30
A	07	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp	52 ft	78 ft
A	08	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp	52 ft	84 ft
A	09	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	80 ft	86 ft	$18–$30
A	10	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	54 ft	151 ft	$18–$30
A	11	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	54 ft	200 ft	$18–$30
A	12	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp	63 ft	181 ft
A	13	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp	63 ft	143 ft
A	14	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp	47 ft	83 ft
A	15	tent only electric	20 ft	30/20 amp	47 ft	120 ft
A	A	group standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	411 ft	477 ft	$60–$65
A	A-1	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		410 ft
A	A-2	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		444 ft
A	A-3	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		536 ft
A	A-4	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		543 ft
A	A-5	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		508 ft
A	A-6	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		447 ft
B	16	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	79 ft	417 ft	$18–$30
B	17	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	79 ft	420 ft	$18–$30
B	18	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	66 ft	343 ft	$18–$30
B	19	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	66 ft	296 ft	$18–$30
B	20	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	68 ft	325 ft	$18–$30
B	21	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	114 ft	220 ft	$18–$30
B	22	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	112 ft	185 ft	$18–$30
B	23	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	90 ft	196 ft	$18–$30
B	24	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	90 ft	270 ft	$18–$30
B	25	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	142 ft	242 ft	$18–$30
B	26	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	66 ft	261 ft	$18–$30
B	27	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	29 ft	187 ft	$18–$30
B	28	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	29 ft	207 ft	$18–$30
B	29	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	76 ft	119 ft	$18–$30
B	30	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	101 ft	101 ft	$18–$30
B	31	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	105 ft	120 ft	$18–$30
B	32	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	33 ft	128 ft	$18–$30
B	33	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	33 ft	161 ft	$18–$30
B	34	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	86 ft	206 ft	$18–$30
B	B	group standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	411 ft	538 ft	$60–$65
B	B-1	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		448 ft
B	B-2	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		557 ft
B	B-3	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		620 ft
B	B-4	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		605 ft
B	B-5	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		544 ft
B	B-6	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		460 ft
B	B-7	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp		418 ft
C	40	tent only nonelectric	20 ft		126 ft	152 ft	$14
C	41	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	88 ft	162 ft	$18–$30
C	42	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	88 ft	188 ft	$18–$30
C	43	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	89 ft	202 ft	$18–$30
C	44	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	102 ft	208 ft	$18–$30
C	45	tent only nonelectric	20 ft		132 ft	36 ft	$14
C	46	tent only nonelectric	20 ft		112 ft	168 ft	$14
C	47	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	76 ft	202 ft	$18–$30
C	48	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	59 ft	277 ft	$18–$30
C	49	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	59 ft	336 ft	$18–$30
D	35	type not stated	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		622 ft
D	36	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	79 ft	575 ft	$18–$30
D	37	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	79 ft	598 ft	$18–$30
D	38	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	79 ft	521 ft	$18–$30
D	39	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	79 ft	540 ft	$18–$30
D	50	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	51 ft	337 ft	$18–$30
D	51	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	51 ft	383 ft	$18–$30
D	52	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	81 ft	357 ft	$18–$30
D	53	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	81 ft	373 ft	$18–$30
D	54	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	48 ft	305 ft	$18–$30
D	55	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	48 ft	263 ft	$18–$30
D	56	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	95 ft	236 ft	$18–$30
D	57	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	88 ft	305 ft	$18–$30
D	58	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	83 ft	344 ft	$18–$30
D	59	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	83 ft	394 ft	$18–$30
D	60	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	94 ft	438 ft	$18–$30
D	61	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	90 ft	554 ft	$18–$30
D	62	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	90 ft	531 ft	$18–$30
D	63	type not stated	20 ft	50/30/20 amp		604 ft
D	64	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	55 ft	686 ft	$18–$30
D	65	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	89 ft	625 ft	$18–$30
D	66	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	55 ft	730 ft	$18–$30
D	67	standard electric	20 ft	50/30/20 amp	188 ft	629 ft	$18–$30

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 · Oct 1, 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 82 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

Coordinate34.54560, -93.48996

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone870-867-4475

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Tompkins Bend2.0 mi

Joplin3.4 mi

Little Fir6.1 mi Camp ClearforkOuachita National Forest · 6.1 mi Highway 27 Campground6.2 mi

Charlton Recreation AreaOuachita National Forest · 6.5 mi

Getting there

From Hot Springs, Arkansas, take US 270 west about 26.5 miles to Ouachita Shores Parkway. Turn right and follow access road one mile north to park.

From Mount Ida, Arkansas, take US 270 east approximately 9.5 miles to Ouachita Shores Parkway. Turn left on access road one mile to park.

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

Tonight42°Mostly Clear

Saturday67°Sunny

Saturday Night38°Clear

Sunday70°Sunny

NWS forecast for Mount Ida, AR

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 49°F, day 75°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°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: MOUNT IDA ASOS, AR (USW00053921), 5 miles away and 72 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

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless

Bear Mountain1,910 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

Denby Point 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 →

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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: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 67 of the 82 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 11, 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 82 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: 0.34 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