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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · MO

Greenville Recreation Area

Reservable, and full this SaturdayEvery one of the 94 sites on offer is taken this Saturday, and the record lists no site held back for a walk-up. read 16:23 UTC

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Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 17 of the next 30 nights read 16:23 UTC
A night: $28–$48Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 10395 on recreation.gov

Photos · USACE

380 ftElevation

661 ftWater · Saint Francis River

12.8 miSE of Piedmont, MO

23%Tree cover

Bortle 4Night sky · 51st darkest of 118 in MO

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices

In the agency’s own words

Greenville Recreation Area is located on the northen end of Wappapello Lake Project, nestled on the banks of the St. Francis River. The spacious campground is built on the original site of the historical Old Greenville City, visitors have seemingly endless opportunities for fun. The Memory Lane trail winds along the historical foundations and streets offering a glimpse back in time. The Greenville Trail, a three mile hike or bike trail, connects the modern city of Greenville to the campground. The expansive grounds, multiple playgrounds, play courts and large event area provide opportunities for all ages and abilities. Click here to take a virtual tour of the facilities at Wappapello Lake! Keep reading

Recreation

Greenville boasts a one-mile historical trail to explore. A three-mile hike/bike trail is open year-round and a great choice for families. The lake is home to some of Missouri's most sought after game fish, including largemouth bass, crappie, bluegill, white bass and channel catfish. Hunting and trapping are popular activities around the lake, boasting 44,000 acres for public use. Special events are put on throughout the year but the annual Black Powder Rendezvous, Old Greenville Days and Halloween Boo Bash events are notable experiences in Greenville.

Facilities

The day use portion of the recreation area includes 14 picnic sites, a playground, basketball court, volleyball court, horseshoe pits, day use shelter, and boat ramp with courtesy dock. Facilities within the campground include showers, a playground, and 106 campsites with full hookups, consisting of electric, water, and sewer.

Natural Features

Wappapello Lake, fed by the St. Francis River, has a seemingly endless string of secluded coves hugged by a winding, wooded shoreline. The public recreation area spans 45,000 acres in the southeastern Ozark foothills. The St. Francis River provides multiple caves, gravel bars, and open stretchs of water surrounded by open woodlands and rocky bluffs. Contact Info Between 04/01/2026 and 11/02/2026 this location is staffed. Please call (573) 224-3884 to speak with local staff. From 11/03/2025 to 03/31/2026 this location is unstaffed. Please call (573) 778-5404 for general information.

Nearby Attractions

Explore one of the 9 trail systems along the Wappapello Lake. The nearby Ozark Trail is the only Horse friendly trail at the Lake. The Pine Ridge Nature trail, Shell Lake Archery Trail and Wappapllo Wildflower Trail and Greenhouse areas or lower St. Francis River are approximately 22 miles away. The Mingo Wildlife Refuge is approximately 31 miles from Old Greenville Recreation Area. The Lake Wappapello State Park is approximately 21 miles away, and the Sam A. Baker State park is 14 miles away from Old Greenville Recreation Area. The nearby 34 Bridge Recreation Area is an ideal place to swim or picnic along its large gravel bars.

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

What the agency tells you

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

Existing day use shelter reservations may be cancelled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers if the facility is closed due to flooding, elevated security threats, maintenance problems, etc. Reservations may also be cancelled when the reservation conflicts with large public special events that would negatively impact a private event at the shelter. For these reasons, customers should consider an alternate date or location in the event a closure is necessary. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Rule

This campground was completely renovated in 2019. Every site has been upgraded to full hook-up campsites, 50 amp electric, water and sewer. Each impact site was upgraded to concrete 16'X40' pads and include and accessible firering/grill, picnic table, and lantern post.

Everything else this campground posts · 4

Rule

All campers MUST register with gate attendant upon arrival to receive site and vehicle tags.

Rule

See Park Information Guide for additional rules and regulations.

Rule

Additional Campground Rules and Regulations: The following are prohibited from use in recreation areas and campgrounds at Wappapello Lake. 1. Any container filled with water for the intended use of "swimming, wading, lounging, or other playing in is prohibited. No kiddie pools, tubs filled with water, other containers, etc. 2. Sprinklers, and other water delivery devices with standard uses of playing in and/or frolicking in, as well as for providing water for the health of lawns are prohibited. 3. Use of government-provided water to "wash or clean" vehicles, campers, boats, or any other equipment is prohibited.

Rule

Attention All Recreation Users: If you would like to hold an event or wedding at any of the project’s day use shelters, boat ramps, or any recreation area please call or visit the USACE Wappapello Lake project office to obtain the special use or event permit REQUIRED. These permits are required if you are hosting: a large gathering greater than 50 people, fishing tournaments, 5k’s, weddings, use of a bounce house/water slide of any kind, ETC. Please note that if events are held that require, but do not possess a special use or special event permit may be subject to a WRITTEN CITATION. Per Title 36 CFR 327.21(a) If you are planning on hosting an event and it does not fall under these specific criteria, please contacting with the USACE Wappapello Lake Project Office at 1(573) 222-7500 or messaging us on our Facebook page.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 103
Hookups: 94 electric, 99 water, 6 sewer
Paved pads: 98 of 103
Accessible sites: 7
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: 70 of 89 sites

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

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 104 campsite records
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; SHOWERS on 99 of 104 campsite records
Drinking water: Yes; DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 1 of 104 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 1 of 104 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 104 campsite records
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

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

Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Beach; Biking; Fishing; Historic site

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

Full this Saturdayread 16:23 UTC

How full the weekend is nationally.

3 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:17 UTC. See them

OpenBookedClosed

Every one of the 94 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 30 are free on Tue, Oct 20. read 16:23 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t

Booking windowThrough November 2Bookable now through November 2, 2026, the end of this reservable season, and again for April 7, 2027 through April 17, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 18, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record

A night$28–$48plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$64–$104DerivedFriday 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

Watch for a cancellation

Watch this campground

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Where there’s room this weekend Book on recreation.gov ↗

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$28–$48

Full Hook-up$28

Full Hook up - Buddy Sites$48

Group area, a night$50

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 1, 2026 to Nov 2, 2026.

Site Type: Full Service (50 Amp, Water, Sewer) $28.00

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$36–$56

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$64–$104

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $28–$48 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 · Sep 10, 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

Open within 30 miles this weekend · 3

Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:17 UTC

Redman Creek Recreation AreaWappapello Lake · 15 mi · 25 of 204 site-nights open
River Road ParkClearwater Lake · 17 mi · 59 of 214 site-nights open
Piedmont ParkClearwater Lake · 18 mi · 47 of 140 site-nights open

Open this weekend: recreation.gov availability · derived by CAMPANAC: site-nights the agency offered this weekend that nobody has taken, within the radius, closures removed by the closure rule · Oct 16, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

104 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 95 mapped sites

82 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop GDAY S10 473 ftLoop FIRS 024 143 ftLoop BACK 102 129 ftLoop FIRS 001 129 ftLoop FIRS 002 129 ft

Least roomLoop BACK 085 62 ftLoop BACK 087 62 ftLoop BACK 091 67 ft

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

All 104 records

104 of 104 records located

RV / electric94Type not stated9Day use1

080 081 082 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 83/84 93/94 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 107 108 109 110 111 S10 026 027 028 029 030 031 034 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 051 054 055 056 057 058 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 078 079 32/33 35/36 49/50 52/53 59/60 76/77

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. 93 of the 104 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.


BACK	080	standard electric	50 amp		70 ft	270 ft	$28–$48
BACK	081	standard electric	50 amp		70 ft	204 ft	$28–$48
BACK	082	standard electric	50 amp		75 ft	276 ft	$28–$48
BACK	085	standard electric	50 amp		62 ft	223 ft	$28–$48
BACK	086	standard electric	50 amp		79 ft	212 ft	$28–$48
BACK	087	standard electric	50 amp		62 ft	175 ft	$28–$48
BACK	088	standard electric	50 amp		76 ft	235 ft	$28–$48
BACK	089	standard electric	50 amp		85 ft	126 ft	$28–$48
BACK	090	standard electric	50 amp		76 ft	228 ft	$28–$48
BACK	091	standard electric	50 amp		67 ft	108 ft	$28–$48
BACK	092	type not stated	50 amp			213 ft
BACK	095	standard electric	50 amp		67 ft	109 ft	$28–$48
BACK	096	standard electric	50 amp		86 ft	182 ft	$28–$48
BACK	097	standard electric	50 amp		105 ft	60 ft	$28–$48
BACK	098	standard electric	50 amp		75 ft	163 ft	$28–$48
BACK	099	standard electric	50 amp		75 ft	166 ft	$28–$48
BACK	100	standard electric	50 amp		80 ft	183 ft	$28–$48
BACK	101	standard electric	50 amp	yes	101 ft	177 ft	$28–$48
BACK	102	standard electric	50 amp		129 ft	105 ft	$28–$48
BACK	103	standard electric	50 amp		85 ft	199 ft	$28–$48
BACK	104	standard electric	50 amp		80 ft	284 ft	$28–$48
BACK	105	standard electric	50 amp		76 ft	239 ft	$28–$48
BACK	106	standard electric	50 amp		80 ft	354 ft	$28–$48
BACK	83/84	standard electric	50 amp		73 ft	186 ft	$28–$48
BACK	93/94	standard electric	50 amp		86 ft	214 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	001	standard electric	50 amp		129 ft	315 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	002	standard electric	50 amp		129 ft	206 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	003	standard electric	50 amp		120 ft	49 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	004	standard electric	50 amp		87 ft	95 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	005	standard electric	50 amp		87 ft	182 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	006	standard electric	50 amp		94 ft	186 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	007	standard electric	50 amp		115 ft	73 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	008	standard electric	50 amp		86 ft	155 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	009	standard electric	50 amp		86 ft	71 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	010	standard electric	50 amp		82 ft	92 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	011	standard electric	50 amp		86 ft	172 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	012	standard electric	50 amp		82 ft	141 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	013	standard electric	50 amp	yes	94 ft	276 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	014	standard electric	50 amp		104 ft	301 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	015	standard electric	50 amp	yes	89 ft	276 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	016	standard electric	50 amp		89 ft	257 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	017	standard electric	50 amp		120 ft	214 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	018	standard electric	50 amp		102 ft	213 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	019	standard electric	50 amp		101 ft	269 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	020	standard electric	50 amp		118 ft	313 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	021	standard electric	50 amp		68 ft	351 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	022	standard electric	50 amp		68 ft	364 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	023	standard electric	50 amp		104 ft	397 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	024	standard electric	50 amp		144 ft	409 ft	$28–$48
FIRS	025	type not stated	50 amp			402 ft
GCAM	107	standard electric	50 amp		76 ft	282 ft	$28–$48
GCAM	108	type not stated	50 amp			82 ft
GCAM	109	type not stated	50 amp			91 ft
GCAM	110	type not stated	50 amp			90 ft
GCAM	111	type not stated				62 ft
GDAY	S10	day use	15 amp	yes	473 ft	569 ft	$50
MIDD	026	standard electric	50 amp		71 ft	351 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	027	standard electric	50 amp		75 ft	445 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	028	standard electric	50 amp		91 ft	442 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	029	standard electric	50 amp		75 ft	519 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	030	standard electric	50 amp		100 ft	542 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	031	standard electric	50 amp	yes	79 ft	622 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	034	standard electric	50 amp		79 ft	663 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	037	standard electric	50 amp		78 ft	483 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	038	standard electric	50 amp		67 ft	560 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	039	standard electric	50 amp		82 ft	430 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	040	standard electric	50 amp		67 ft	514 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	041	standard electric	50 amp		93 ft	381 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	042	standard electric	50 amp		78 ft	481 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	043	type not stated	50 amp			348 ft
MIDD	044	standard electric	50 amp		78 ft	458 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	045	standard electric	50 amp	yes	94 ft	250 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	046	type not stated	50 amp			370 ft
MIDD	047	rv electric	50 amp		77 ft	308 ft
MIDD	048	standard electric	50 amp		77 ft	239 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	051	type not stated	50 amp			231 ft
MIDD	054	standard electric	50 amp		106 ft	279 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	055	standard electric	50 amp		85 ft	363 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	056	standard electric	50 amp		92 ft	384 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	057	standard electric	50 amp		92 ft	321 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	058	standard electric	50 amp		91 ft	243 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	061	standard electric	50 amp		77 ft	103 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	062	standard electric	50 amp		71 ft	118 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	063	standard electric	50 amp		72 ft	223 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	064	standard electric	50 amp		72 ft	226 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	065	standard electric	50 amp		71 ft	137 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	066	standard electric	50 amp		90 ft	160 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	067	standard electric	50 amp	yes	81 ft	178 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	068	standard electric	50 amp		92 ft	281 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	069	standard electric	50 amp		81 ft	190 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	070	standard electric	50 amp		92 ft	285 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	071	standard electric	50 amp		83 ft	200 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	072	standard electric	50 amp		77 ft	282 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	073	standard electric	50 amp		83 ft	181 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	074	standard electric	50 amp	yes	77 ft	274 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	075	standard electric	50 amp		67 ft	162 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	078	standard electric	50 amp		101 ft	247 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	079	standard electric	50 amp		71 ft	281 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	32/33	standard electric	50 amp		74 ft	622 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	35/36	standard electric	50 amp		78 ft	555 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	49/50	standard electric	50 amp		98 ft	149 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	52/53	standard electric	50 amp		85 ft	298 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	59/60	standard electric	50 amp		91 ft	153 ft	$28–$48
MIDD	76/77	standard electric	50 amp		67 ft	144 ft	$28–$48

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.

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 · Sep 11, 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 104 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

Coordinate37.10037, -90.45583

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone573-224-3884

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Snow Creek Campground10 mi Markham Springs Recreation AreaMark Twain National Forest · 12 mi

Fuchs HouseMark Twain National Forest · 12 mi

Markham Springs12 mi

Peoples Creek15 mi

Eagle Point Recreation Area15 mi

Getting there

The physical address of the park is located a mile south of Greenville, MO. From St. Louis, take I-55 south to Highway 67 south to Greenville. From here, continue south about 1 mile and look for signs.

From Poplar Bluff take Highway 67 north about 29 miles and look for signs.

If utilizing Apple or Google Maps, key in "Greenville Recreation Area". Select the location that is located in Greenville, MO. This will take you directly to the entrance of the campground to check in.

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

Today62°Sunny

Tonight31°Clear then Areas Of Frost

Sunday66°Widespread Frost then Sunny

Sunday Night34°Clear

NWS forecast for Greenville, MO

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 45°F, day 70°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°10°

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: CLEARWATER DAM, MO (USC00231674), 18 miles away and 280 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

who answers for it · a letter you can send

Who answers for this land

Greenville Recreation Area is in Missouri’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Jason Smith (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

Who can change it · 3

Write to somebody who can change it

Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.

The member who votes the moneyJason SmithU.S. Representative · Missouri’s 8th district
Open their contact form ↗Their record →
Your senator, on the same appropriationEric SchmittU.S. Senator · Missouri
Open their contact form ↗
Your senator, on the same appropriationJosh HawleyU.S. Senator · Missouri
Open their contact form ↗

Read the draft, or change the wording

For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.

To Jason Smith

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Greenville Recreation Area, Missouri

Dear Jason Smith,

I’m a constituent in Missouri’s 8th district. I tried to camp at Greenville Recreation Area, Missouri, and couldn’t.

recreation.gov lists 95 of the 103 campsites the agency files at Greenville Recreation Area, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 94 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Greenville Recreation Area keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Greenville Recreation Area. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

Sent about Greenville Recreation Area (Missouri) via campanac.com

To Eric Schmitt

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Greenville Recreation Area, Missouri

Dear Eric Schmitt,

I’m a constituent in Missouri. I tried to camp at Greenville Recreation Area, Missouri, and couldn’t.

recreation.gov lists 95 of the 103 campsites the agency files at Greenville Recreation Area, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 94 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Greenville Recreation Area keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Greenville Recreation Area. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

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To Josh Hawley

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Greenville Recreation Area, Missouri

Dear Josh Hawley,

I’m a constituent in Missouri. I tried to camp at Greenville Recreation Area, Missouri, and couldn’t.

recreation.gov lists 95 of the 103 campsites the agency files at Greenville Recreation Area, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 94 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Greenville Recreation Area keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Greenville Recreation Area. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

Sent about Greenville Recreation Area (Missouri) via campanac.com

How we know this · 4

Contacts: Contact forms from @unitedstates/congress-legislators · Sep 9, 2026

The figures in these drafts: Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress (CRS Report RS20643) · Updated December 4, 2025 · “The ship’s final procurement cost was $13,316.5 million (i.e., about $13.3 billion) in then-year dollars.”

The figures in these drafts: Salary Table 2026-GS, Incorporating the 1% General Schedule Increase, Effective January 2026 (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) · Effective January 2026 · “Grade 5, Step 1: $34,799 (annual rate, before locality pay).”

The figures in these drafts: Update to Civilian Position Full Fringe Benefit Cost Factor, Federal Pay Raise Assumptions, and Inflation Factors used in OMB Circular No. A-76 (OMB Memorandum M-08-13) · March 11, 2008 · “the civilian position full fringe benefit cost factor needs to be adjusted downward, from 36.45 percent to 36.25 percent”

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 17 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

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 95 of the 103 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 104 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: 0.28 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 118 rated federal campgrounds in Missouri · 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 place of any size: Greenville, MO, 1.4 mi SSW. Straight line.

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