Dub Patton Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:20 UTC
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 6358 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dub Patton Recreation Area sits along Arkabutla Lake and Dam in the hills of northwest Mississippi. The dam project is on the Coldwater River and offers some of the best sailing east of the Mississippi River. Keep reading
Recreation
Families come to Arkabutla Lake to enjoy the great outdoors by fishing, boating, swimming, hiking, and biking. Wildlife management areas around Arkabutla Lake boast a combined 30,000 acres of public hunting lands where whitetail deer, wild turkeys, quail and waterfowl roam. Several trails wind around the lake and throughout the nearby landscape. The Coldwater River Nature Trail System encompasses two hiking trails as well as an interpretive trail that helps educate hikers on the wildlife and ecosystem. The Swinging Bridge Nature Trail is also nearby, and includes a section of land that was part of the river prior to the dam being built. This trail is also an interpretive educational trail. Thousands of people each year visit Arkabutla Lake to go fishing. The lake is home to several species of native fish to Mississippi waters, such as largemouth bass, bream, catfish and crappie.
Facilities
This year-round campground offers 59 family sites and two group day-use shelters, all with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers and drinking water, creating a comfortable camping experience for guests.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the waterfront, among rolling hills forested with a shady mixture of oak, hickory, beech, sweet gum and birch trees.
Nearby Attractions
The Lost Indian Spring Disc Golf Course is just below the Arkabutla Dam near Pratt Road. The course has 18 holes and is free to the public. The Senatobia Wetlands project is just a 30-minute drive from the park. It provides visitors with educational displays and an area to observe wildlife and waterfowl.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation has been created, there will be a $10.00 fee to cancel and a $10.00 fee to change your site or dates. Cancellations made the day before, or up to the day after your arrival date will also be charged the first nights use fee. No-shows are charged a $20.00 fee plus the first nights use fee. If your reservation is for 1 night, and you have been charged the first nights use fee, there is no $10.00 service fee.
What the agency tells you
Visitors are expected to be aware of park general rules
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.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reminds all visitors that coast guard approved personal floatation device is required when conducting activities on or in the waters of Arkabutla Lake. These activities include but are not limited to swimming, waterskiing, riding on personal watercraft, kayaking, and other boating related activities. If vessel is under 16 feet in length a PFD is mandatory at all times. If vessel is over 16 feet in length, PFDs are only required while making way under main propulsion.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 63 · 9 tent-only
- Hookups
- 58 electric, 63 water
- Longest rig
- 54 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers and drinking water, creating a comfortable…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- Shower/Bath Type states a shower on 57 campsite record(s) that are not a cabin, of this campground's 63
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush toilets, showers and drinking water, creating a comfortable camping experience for…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Night sky · 59th darkest of 61 in MS
- Bortle 5
4 of 38 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:20 UTC
recreation.gov lists 58 of the 63 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $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.
“Once your reservation has been created, there will be a $10.00 fee to cancel and a $10.00 fee to change your site or dates. No-shows are charged a $20.00 fee plus the first nights use fee.” · this campground’s own no-show 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:20 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
63 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 23 mapped sitesAll 63 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 27 of the 63 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. 58 of the 63 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DUB PATTON AREA | 01 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 130 ft | 390 ft | 1,473 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 02 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 280 ft | 1,393 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 04 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 41 ft | 221 ft | 1,382 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 05 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 41 ft | 232 ft | 1,392 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 06 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 245 ft | 1,398 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 07 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 206 ft | 1,402 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 08 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 189 ft | 1,430 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 09 | tent only electric | 50 amp | 295 ft | 99 ft | 1,473 ft | $30 | ||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 10 | type not stated | 50 amp | 84 ft | 1,519 ft | ||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 11 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | 59 ft | 173 ft | 1,511 ft | $30 |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 12 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | yes | 52 ft | 175 ft | 1,522 ft | $30 |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 13 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 179 ft | 1,516 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 14 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 188 ft | 1,509 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 15 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 221 ft | 1,489 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 16 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 253 ft | 1,474 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 17 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 293 ft | 1,465 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 18 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 314 ft | 1,458 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 19 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 343 ft | 1,469 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 21 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 488 ft | 1,628 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 22 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 485 ft | 1,673 ft | $30 | |
| DUB PATTON AREA | 23 | type not stated | 44 ft | 50 amp | yes | 529 ft | 1,735 ft | ||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 24 | type not stated | 39 ft | 50 amp | 535 ft | 1,787 ft | |||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 25 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 26 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 27 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 28 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 29 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 30 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 31 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 32 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 33 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 34 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 35 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 36 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 37 | standard electric | 50 amp | 110 ft | 222 ft | 2,098 ft | $30 | ||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 38 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 39 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 40 | tent only electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 41 | tent only electric | 50 amp | 110 ft | 148 ft | 2,024 ft | $30 | ||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 42 | tent only electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 43 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 44 | type not stated | 50 amp | ||||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 45 | tent only electric | 50 amp | 100 ft | 234 ft | 2,243 ft | $30 | ||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 46 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 47 | standard electric | 50 amp | 100 ft | 172 ft | 2,168 ft | $30 | ||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 48 | tent only electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 49 | tent only electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 50 | tent only electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 51 | tent only electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 52 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 53 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 54 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 55 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 56 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 58 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 59 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 60 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 61 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 62 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 63 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 64 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 65 | standard electric | 50 amp | $30 | |||||
| DUB PATTON AREA | 66 | type not stated | 50 amp | 688 ft | 2,162 ft |
25 of 63 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Outlet Channel Day Use1.3 mi
South Abutment Pavilion1.9 mi
South Abutment Campground2.2 miKelly's Crossing Campground2.6 mi
Hernando Point Campground3.8 mi
Hernando Point Pavilion3.9 miFrom I-55 take the Coldwater, Mississippi, exit and proceed west on Scenic Route 304. Follow the signs to the camping area, which is located just north of the dam.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Eudora, MS
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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
Dub Patton Campground is in Mississippi’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Trent Kelly (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: D-. See every public-lands vote →