Erbie Campground
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- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:41 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 3227 of them walk-up
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Erbie campground is situated along the Buffalo River under the towering a bluff. There are five group sites available, walk-in only, for 10 to 25 people. Additionally, there are 14 drive-in and 13 walk-in tent sites. All sites are available by reservation only. Keep reading
Recreation
Paddling conditions in the upper (westernmost) district of Buffalo National River are extremely dependent upon rainfall. On an average year, the upper river is only navigable by boat in the spring and early summer when consistent rainfall feeds into the watershed. Some sections on the upper end of the river are technical and should not be attempted by novices. For current paddling conditions, please check with an outfitter (visit our Guided Services web page ), call the Tyler Bend Visitor Center at 870-439-2502, or check the Buffalo National River Float Guide Dashboard Facilities Erbie has 5 group sites (maximum of 25 people per group site), 14 drive-in sites suitable for tents or RVs (maximum of 6 people per site), and 13 walk-in tent only sites (maximum of 6 people per site). All sites are available by reservations only. There are no electrical amenities or water hookups, but flush restrooms and water spigots are available from approximately March 15 through November 15 each year.
Natural Features
The Buffalo National River flows free over swift running rapids and quiet pools for its 135-mile (217 km) length. One of the few remaining rivers in the lower 48 states without dams, the Buffalo cuts its way through massive limestone bluffs traveling eastward through the Arkansas Ozarks and into the White River.
Nearby Attractions
There are numerous historic buildings near the Erbie Campground. The Buffalo River Trail runs through Erbie and offers great day hiking or overnight backcountry opportunities. Visit the park's Hiking Trails web page for more information.
What the agency tells you
Erbie Campground is accessed via gravel roads. Visitors will need to cross low-water creek slabs or ford the Buffalo River to reach the campground. These crossings are typically passable under normal conditions but can become impassable during periods of high water.
All sites at Erbie Campground are available by reservation only.
All campers must register at the registration station, located near the host site, upon arrival.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Drive-in sites 1 - 14 at Erbie are available to tent campers, RVs, trailers, pop-up campers, motorhomes, and campervans. These sites offer no hookups.
Water is turned off from approximately November 15th to March 14th each year.
The facility is available for free of charge for first-come, first-served camping outside of the reservation season, generally November 15th to March 15th every year.
Generators are only allowed to operate from 8:00 am - 8:00 pm.
Climbing and/or diving from the bluffs is dangerous and highly discouraged.
Do not swim alone during high water.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states.
All park trails are closed to pets with the exception of the Buffalo River Trail, only on the section of trail between Ponca and Steel Creek, the Villines Homestead Trail at Ponca, the Mill Creek Trail, the Tyler Bend Campground trails (Spring Hollow, Buck Ridge, and Rock Wall in the Middle District), and all three Buffalo Point Campground trails (Forest Trail, Overlook Trail, and Campground Trail in the Lower District). Visit the park's hiking page for more information and maps of these trails.
Please be aware that some special events held at the pavilions or anywhere in the park (such as weddings, press receptions, concerts, et al) require a Special Use Permit in addition to the pavilion reservation. To obtain a Special Use Permit or additional information, please contact the Commercial Services office at (870) 365-2724. For more information visit the Special Park Uses page on the park website.
Please be advised that providing business services within an NPS unit is prohibited per CFR 5.3 without a written Authorization or Permit approved by the Superintendent. This includes services such as RV or tent delivery & set-up, firewood sales and delivery, shuttle (transportation) services, and guided hikes, floats, etc. For a list of approved visitor services and to learn more about working with Buffalo National River, please visit the Doing Business with the Park page on the park website.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 32 · 13 walk-in, 5 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 42 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal · Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- Stay limit
- 30 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Tree cover
- 14%
- Night sky · 61st darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
6 of 62 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:41 UTC
recreation.gov lists 31 of the 32 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
OpenBooked
Every one of the 31 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 28 are free on Wed, Oct 21. read 15:41 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
These counts cover the 33 reservable sites only. This campground also has first-come sites, and recreation.gov publishes no availability for a site you can’t reserve.
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 rate for this season, $20 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 15:41 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
33 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 31 mapped sitesAll 33 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 33 of the 33 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. 31 of the 33 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.
| Drive-in | 1 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 113 ft | 621 ft | 292 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 10 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 108 ft | 759 ft | 299 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 11 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 96 ft | 837 ft | 139 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 12 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 89 ft | 825 ft | 175 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 13 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 89 ft | 749 ft | 240 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 14 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 102 ft | 787 ft | 282 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 15 - Host Site | host pad | 20 ft | 517 ft | 210 ft | ||
| Drive-in | 2 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 95 ft | 621 ft | 290 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 3 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 676 ft | 196 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 4 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 101 ft | 706 ft | 128 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 5 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 38 ft | 642 ft | 212 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 6 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 38 ft | 678 ft | 184 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 7 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 88 ft | 742 ft | 186 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 8 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 88 ft | 680 ft | 273 ft | $20 |
| Drive-in | 9 | type not stated | 32 ft | 627 ft | 380 ft | ||
| Group Site | Group Site 1 | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 141 ft | 276 ft | 207 ft | $50 |
| Group Site | Group Site 2 | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 141 ft | 190 ft | 252 ft | $50 |
| Group Site | Group Site 3 | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 52 ft | 284 ft | 245 ft | $50 |
| Group Site | Group Site 4 | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 52 ft | 331 ft | 236 ft | $50 |
| Group Site | Group Site 5 | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 107 ft | 387 ft | 129 ft | $50 |
| Walk-in | A | walk to | 20 ft | 61 ft | 408 ft | 452 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | B | walk to | 20 ft | 61 ft | 348 ft | 512 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | C | walk to | 20 ft | 69 ft | 297 ft | 545 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | D | walk to | 20 ft | 69 ft | 235 ft | 611 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | E | walk to | 20 ft | 71 ft | 278 ft | 554 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | F | walk to | 20 ft | 88 ft | 358 ft | 475 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | G | walk to | 20 ft | 95 ft | 296 ft | 543 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | H | walk to | 20 ft | 34 ft | 295 ft | 556 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | I | walk to | 20 ft | 34 ft | 295 ft | 564 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | J | walk to | 20 ft | 82 ft | 377 ft | 478 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | K | walk to | 20 ft | 64 ft | 478 ft | 383 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | L | walk to | 20 ft | 64 ft | 475 ft | 412 ft | $20 |
| Walk-in | M | walk to | 20 ft | 113 ft | 360 ft | 533 ft | $20 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Ozark CampgroundBuffalo National River · 3.2 mi
Kyles Landing CampgroundBuffalo National River · 3.8 mi
Steel Creek CampgroundBuffalo National River · 7.6 mi
Rush Campground11 mi
Carver Campground17 mi
WoolumBuffalo National River · 20 miThe Erbie Campground is located north of Jasper, Arkansas. Take Highway 7 north of Jasper for approximately 3 miles. Turn left onto County Road 79 and the Erbie Campground will be approximately 6 miles down a gravel road with one hairpin curve.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Jasper, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Erbie Campground 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 →