Gums Crossing Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 26 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 14:12 UTC
- A night
- $16From, per site
- Sites
- 6All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Gums Crossing Campground is a small remote campground located on the Northeast side of Grenada Lake and just east of Coffeeville, MS. This campground is a favorite among fishermen with a boat ramp and Class A campsites. Keep reading
Facilities
This campground has 6 campsites, each with electric and water hookups. Additional ammenities include hot showers and a boat ramp. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (662) 226-1679.
What the agency tells you
Alternate route required to access Gums Crossing Campground due to the closure of Gums Crossing bridge. The campground cannot be accessed from Highway 330.
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.
Quiet hours are from 10:00pm until 6:00 am.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Pets must be on a leash.
No camping extensions will be granted at this time.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 6
- Hookups
- 6 electric, 6 water
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 6
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 6 of 6 campsite records, Shower/Bath Type states a shower on 6 campsite record(s) that are not a cabin, of this campground's 6
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
5 of 6 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:12 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $16 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 14:12 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
6 sites
All 6 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 6 of the 6 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Bryant Campground0.0 miOld Fort Campground0.0 mi
North Abutment4.6 mi
Dam Area Central4.7 mi
Eagle Point Campground4.7 mi
South Abutment B4.9 miThe agency publishes this point for 3 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Grenada, MS
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 77°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.
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
Gums Crossing Campground is in Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Bennie Thompson (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →