Gamaliel
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 15 nights read 15:58 UTC
- A night
- $22–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 63All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Gamaliel Campground is conveniently located on the Bennetts Bayou area of Norfork Lake. Most sites are shaded beneath tall trees, while others come equipped with canopies to shade the picnic tables. Norfork Lake boasts plenty of secluded coves for water sports and breezy, open stretches for sailing. There are 19 well-maintained Army Corps of Engineers parks along the lake for bountiful water sport opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Explore the mile-long nature trail that loops from the campground. Sailing the open waters makes for an exciting water activity. Scuba diving in the lake is common, attracting divers from neighboring U.S. states. For visitors interested in fishing, Norfork Lake is stocked annually, and it's not unheard of to catch striped bass over 40 pounds.
Facilities
The 64 campsites have electric hookups and drinking water. A boat ramp, playground, swim beach and marina are also on-site. Most campsites do not have a view of the lake.
Natural Features
Norfork Lake stems from the North Fork River in northern Arkansas. It's about 25 miles east of Bull Shoals lake, and cuts through the Ozark Mountains. The Ozarks are made from a heavily eroded plateau, shaped and carved by hundreds of streams over thousands of years. The region attracts a wide array of plants and animals.
Nearby Attractions
Head south to see the Ozark National Forest and head west to see Bull Shoals Lake, a similar man-made lake that's larger in size and equally entertaining as Norfork.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
No livestock at this facility
No firearms allowed
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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
- 63
- Hookups
- 63 electric, 58 water
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…64 campsites have electric hookups and drinking water. A boat ramp, playground, swim beach and marina are…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Swimming
- Night sky · 84th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
80 of 128 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:58 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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.
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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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$26 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.
“Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee.” · this campground’s own 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 15:58 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
64 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 64 mapped sitesAll 64 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 63 of the 64 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GAMALIEL | 01 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 324 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 02 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 267 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 03 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 419 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 04 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 229 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 05 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 332 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 06 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 303 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 07 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 201 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 08 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 107 ft | 257 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 09 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 151 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 10 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 110 ft | 252 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 11 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 862 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 12 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 867 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 13 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 802 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 14 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 119 ft | 743 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 15 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 542 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 16 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 362 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 17 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 315 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 18 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 483 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 19 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 605 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 20 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 449 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 21 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 686 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 22 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 572 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 23 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 801 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 24 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 673 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 25 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 889 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 26 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 772 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 27 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 131 ft | 1,001 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 28 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 860 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 30 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 417 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 31 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 382 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 32 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 477 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 33 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 111 ft | 389 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 34 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 110 ft | 499 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 35 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 118 ft | 1,134 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 36 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | yes | 103 ft | 1,151 ft | $22–$26 |
| GAMALIEL | 37 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 157 ft | 1,252 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 38 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 122 ft | 1,235 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 39 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 133 ft | 1,138 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 40 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 123 ft | 1,219 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 41 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 1,052 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 42 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 108 ft | 1,161 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 43 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 1,022 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 44 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 108 ft | 1,139 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 45 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 120 ft | 916 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 46 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 816 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 47 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 760 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 48 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 582 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 49 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 564 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 50 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 122 ft | 650 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 51 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 132 ft | 818 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 52 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 788 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 53 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 781 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 54 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 695 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 55 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 824 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 56 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 112 ft | 665 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 57 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 704 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 58 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 914 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 59 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 797 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 60 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 1,002 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 61 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 900 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 62 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 77 ft | 1,034 ft | $22–$26 |
| GAMALIEL | 63 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 985 ft | $22–$26 | |
| GAMALIEL | 64 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 103 ft | 1,063 ft | $22–$26 |
| GAMALIEL | GS-1 | day use | 30/20 amp | 425 ft | 207 ft | $50 |
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.
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 64 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Bidwell Point Park2.6 mi
Henderson Park3.1 mi
Panther Bay Park3.8 mi
Robinson Point4.8 mi
Cranfield Park5.6 mi
Udall Park9.1 miFrom Mountain Home, AR, travel 9 miles east on US 412/62, then 5 miles north on SR 101, then 3 miles southeast on CR 42. Follow signs into campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Henderson, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°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
Gamaliel is in Arkansas’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Rick Crawford (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →