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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · AR

Heber Springs

ReservableBookable through October 30, and from March 15 through April 17.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 30 nights read 16:03 UTC
A night: $18–$26Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 132116 on recreation.gov

Photos · USACE

99 ftLongest rig

490 ftElevation

222 ftWater · Greers Ferry Lake

0.2 miW of Heber Springs, AR

79%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices

In the agency’s own words

Heber Springs Park is located on Greers Ferry Lake in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of north-central Arkansas. The environment provides the ideal location for family camping, fishing, boating and hiking. Keep reading

Recreation

Greers Ferry Lake is an outdoor enthusiasts' dream, with boating, sailing, water skiing, swimming, scuba diving, and fishing opportunities. Hikers enjoy the area's three National Nature Trails and one multi-purpose, fitness trail. The William Carl Garner Visitor Center is just west of the dam, with exhibits, a children's touch table, and a replica of the world record 40 lb. 4 oz. brown trout caught in the Little Red River downstream of the center.

Facilities

This campground offers 114 sites, 95 of which have electrical hookups. Additional amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, a dump station, playground and a boat ramp.

Natural Features

Greers Ferry Lake is known for it's deep, clean waters. The visibility is so clear, scuba diving is a popular pastime. A dense mix of red cedar, black gum, red oak, elm, pecan and sweet gum trees forest the area, providing shade in the summer months and beautiful fall color in autumn. Wildlife is plentiful around Greers Ferry Lake. Visitors commonly see white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, rabbits, squirrels and a wide variety of birds. Contact Info For local information, please call (501) 250-0485 or call (501) 362-2416 for general information.

Nearby Attractions

With over 30,000 acres of water surface, the lake serves as a playground for all kinds of water sports. Eighteen parks around the shoreline provide modern campgrounds, boat ramps, swim areas and marinas.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Attendant is on duty during peak season.

Rule

One wheeled camping unit and two tents or four tents are allowed per site. Maximum of 8 occupants per site.

Rule

ATV's, golf carts or off-road vehicles are prohibited.

Everything else this campground posts · 3

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

For more information on Greers Ferry Lake, click HERE .

Rule

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 132
Hookups: 95 electric, 23 water
Longest rig: 99 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Toilets: Vault Toilets; “…Additional amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, a dump station, playground and a boat…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Additional amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, a dump station, playground and a boat ramp.”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Camp host: On site; recreation.gov lists “Host”
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

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

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Beach; Boating; Swimming
Night sky · 130th darkest of 158 in AR: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 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 · Sep 8, 2026

94 of 204 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:03 UTC

recreation.gov lists 116 of the 132 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

OpenBookedClosed

Booking windowThrough October 30Bookable now through October 30, 2026, the end of this reservable season, and again for March 15, 2027 through April 17, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 18, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$18–$26plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$44–$60DerivedFriday 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

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

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

Every line of the receipt · 16

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$18–$26

Standard Nonelectric$18

30/20 Amp Electric$22

50 Amp Electric$24

30/20 Amp and Water$26

Group area, a night$50

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Mar 15, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026.

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$26–$34

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$44–$60

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$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.

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

recreation.gov availability, read 16:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

134 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 116 mapped sites

87 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

95%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most roomA19 160 ftA16 147 ftB03 145 ftA01 142 ftA18 141 ft

Least roomD26 50 ftD29 50 ftB07 51 ft

2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.

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

All 134 records

134 of 134 records located

Standard19RV / electric95Type not stated18Day use2

A01 A02 A03 A04 A05 A06 A07 A08 A09 A10 A11 A12 A13 A14 A15 A16 A17 A18 A19 A20 A21 A22 A23 B01 B01 B02 B02 B02A B03 B03A B04 B04A B05 B05A B06 B06A B07 B07A B08 B09A C01 C02 C03 C04 C05 C06 D01 D02 D03 D04 D05 D06 D07 D08 D09 D10 D11 D12 D13 D14 D15 D16 D17 D18 D19 D20 D21 D22 D23 D24 D25 D26 D27 D28 D29 D30 D31 D32 D33 D34 D35 D36 D37 D38 D39 D40 D41 D42 D43 D43 D44 D45 D46 D47 D48 D48 D49 D50 D51 D52 D53 D54 D55 D56 D57 D58 D59 E01 E02 E03 E04 E05 E06 E07 E08 E09 E10 E11 E12 F01 F02 F03 F04 F05 F06 F07 F08 F09 F10 F11 F12 F13 Heber Springs Shelter AM2

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 5 of the 134 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. 114 of the 134 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.


A	A01	standard electric	59 ft	30 amp	142 ft	821 ft		$22–$26
A	A02	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	89 ft	962 ft		$22–$26
A	A03	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	93 ft	986 ft		$22–$26
A	A04	standard electric	58 ft	30 amp	93 ft	1,075 ft		$22–$26
A	A05	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	90 ft	1,066 ft		$22–$26
A	A06	standard electric	44 ft	30 amp	92 ft	1,155 ft		$22–$26
A	A07	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	90 ft	1,088 ft		$22–$26
A	A08	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	85 ft	998 ft		$22–$26
A	A09	standard electric	44 ft	30 amp	80 ft	976 ft		$22–$26
A	A10	standard electric	37 ft	30 amp	65 ft	907 ft		$22–$26
A	A11	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	65 ft	843 ft		$22–$26
A	A12	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	80 ft	907 ft		$22–$26
A	A13	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	138 ft	698 ft		$22–$26
A	A14	standard electric	39 ft	30 amp	78 ft	755 ft		$22–$26
A	A15	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	98 ft	570 ft		$22–$26
A	A16	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	147 ft	648 ft		$22–$26
A	A17	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	135 ft	505 ft		$22–$26
A	A18	standard electric	57 ft	30 amp	141 ft	541 ft		$22–$26
A	A19	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	160 ft	556 ft		$22–$26
A	A20	standard electric	44 ft	30 amp	78 ft	718 ft		$22–$26
A	A21	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	121 ft	679 ft		$22–$26
A	A22	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	83 ft	768 ft		$22–$26
A	A23	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp	85 ft	830 ft		$22–$26
B	B01	type not stated	26 ft			165 ft
B	B01	type not stated	25 ft			189 ft
B	B02	type not stated	25 ft			167 ft
B	B02	standard nonelectric	21 ft		136 ft	129 ft		$18
B	B02A	type not stated	25 ft			170 ft
B	B03	standard nonelectric	30 ft		145 ft	253 ft		$18
B	B03A	type not stated	25 ft			151 ft
B	B04	standard nonelectric	40 ft		102 ft	92 ft		$18
B	B04A	type not stated	25 ft			119 ft
B	B05	standard nonelectric	45 ft		102 ft	83 ft		$18
B	B05A	type not stated	30 ft			274 ft
B	B06	standard nonelectric	53 ft		77 ft	223 ft		$18
B	B06A	type not stated	41 ft			45 ft
B	B07	standard nonelectric	70 ft		51 ft	234 ft		$18
B	B07A	type not stated	37 ft			153 ft
B	B08	standard nonelectric	43 ft		51 ft	255 ft		$18
B	B09A	type not stated	31 ft			250 ft
C	C01	type not stated	75 ft			372 ft
C	C02	type not stated	44 ft			309 ft
C	C03	type not stated	33 ft			290 ft
C	C04	type not stated	55 ft			325 ft
C	C05	type not stated	63 ft			374 ft
C	C06	type not stated	40 ft			407 ft
D	D01	standard electric	79 ft	50 amp	126 ft	401 ft		$22–$26
D	D02	standard electric	84 ft	50 amp	132 ft	206 ft		$22–$26
D	D03	standard electric	86 ft	50 amp	114 ft	263 ft		$22–$26
D	D04	standard electric	94 ft	50 amp	126 ft	369 ft		$22–$26
D	D05	standard electric	72 ft	50 amp	100 ft	312 ft		$22–$26
D	D06	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	101 ft	201 ft		$22–$26
D	D07	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	100 ft	312 ft		$22–$26
D	D08	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp	101 ft	195 ft		$22–$26
D	D09	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp	87 ft	193 ft		$22–$26
D	D10	standard electric	93 ft	50 amp	126 ft	351 ft		$22–$26
D	D11	standard electric	97 ft	50 amp	79 ft	338 ft		$22–$26
D	D12	standard electric	99 ft	50 amp	87 ft	208 ft		$22–$26
D	D13	standard electric	72 ft	50 amp	71 ft	324 ft		$22–$26
D	D14	standard electric	83 ft	50 amp	84 ft	165 ft		$22–$26
D	D15	standard electric	93 ft	50 amp	63 ft	319 ft		$22–$26
D	D16	standard electric	72 ft	50 amp	84 ft	162 ft		$22–$26
D	D17	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp	115 ft	135 ft		$22–$26
D	D18	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp	63 ft	307 ft		$22–$26
D	D19	standard electric	74 ft	50 amp	94 ft	158 ft		$22–$26
D	D20	standard electric	41 ft	50 amp	94 ft	110 ft		$22–$26
D	D21	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	71 ft	274 ft		$22–$26
D	D22	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	66 ft	86 ft		$22–$26
D	D23	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	66 ft	84 ft		$22–$26
D	D24	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	79 ft	236 ft		$22–$26
D	D25	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp	67 ft	91 ft		$22–$26
D	D26	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	50 ft	113 ft		$22–$26
D	D27	standard electric	82 ft	50 amp	83 ft	212 ft		$22–$26
D	D28	standard electric	73 ft	50 amp	83 ft	219 ft		$22–$26
D	D29	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	50 ft	124 ft		$22–$26
D	D30	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp	64 ft	106 ft		$22–$26
D	D31	standard electric	74 ft	50 amp	112 ft	235 ft		$22–$26
D	D32	standard electric	69 ft	50 amp	74 ft	110 ft		$22–$26
D	D33	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp	60 ft	110 ft		$22–$26
D	D34	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp	60 ft	130 ft		$22–$26
D	D35	standard electric	81 ft	50 amp	61 ft	171 ft		$22–$26
D	D36	standard electric	39 ft	50 amp	127 ft	235 ft		$22–$26
D	D37	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	61 ft	179 ft		$22–$26
D	D38	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp	66 ft	223 ft		$22–$26
D	D39	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	107 ft	238 ft		$22–$26
D	D40	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	69 ft	324 ft		$22–$26
D	D41	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	98 ft	401 ft		$22–$26
D	D42	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	69 ft	332 ft		$22–$26
D	D43	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	63 ft	422 ft		$22–$26
D	D43	type not stated	53 ft	30 amp		311 ft
D	D44	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	83 ft	336 ft		$22–$26
D	D45	standard electric	37 ft	30 amp	63 ft	463 ft		$22–$26
D	D46	standard electric	36 ft	30 amp	81 ft	479 ft		$22–$26
D	D47	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp	92 ft	495 ft		$22–$26
D	D48	type not stated	38 ft	30 amp		478 ft
D	D48	standard electric	59 ft	30 amp	76 ft	268 ft		$22–$26
D	D49	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp	70 ft	192 ft		$22–$26
D	D50	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	83 ft	356 ft		$22–$26
D	D51	standard electric	49 ft	30 amp	70 ft	134 ft		$22–$26
D	D52	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp	112 ft	225 ft		$22–$26
D	D53	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp	103 ft	168 ft		$22–$26
D	D54	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	103 ft	82 ft		$22–$26
D	D55	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	103 ft	159 ft		$22–$26
D	D56	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp	86 ft	218 ft		$22–$26
D	D57	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp	86 ft	210 ft		$22–$26
D	D58	standard electric	37 ft	50 amp	89 ft	215 ft		$22–$26
D	D59	standard electric	69 ft	50 amp	73 ft	246 ft		$22–$26
E	E01	standard nonelectric	43 ft		93 ft	780 ft		$18
E	E02	standard nonelectric	43 ft		96 ft	913 ft		$18
E	E03	standard nonelectric	32 ft		93 ft	790 ft		$18
E	E04	standard nonelectric	38 ft		78 ft	940 ft		$18
E	E05	standard nonelectric	43 ft		73 ft	842 ft		$18
E	E06	standard nonelectric	37 ft		78 ft	984 ft		$18
E	E07	standard nonelectric	47 ft		73 ft	896 ft		$18
E	E08	standard nonelectric	43 ft		74 ft	964 ft		$18
E	E09	standard nonelectric	38 ft		90 ft	1,044 ft		$18
E	E10	standard nonelectric	33 ft		83 ft	1,056 ft		$18
E	E11	standard nonelectric	36 ft		109 ft	1,132 ft		$18
E	E12	standard nonelectric	48 ft		115 ft	1,156 ft		$18
F	F01	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp	76 ft	314 ft		$22–$26
F	F02	standard electric	32 ft	30 amp	101 ft	378 ft		$22–$26
F	F03	standard electric	39 ft	30 amp	103 ft	435 ft		$22–$26
F	F04	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp	76 ft	344 ft		$22–$26
F	F05	standard electric	44 ft	30 amp	110 ft	453 ft		$22–$26
F	F06	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	110 ft	400 ft		$22–$26
F	F07	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp	108 ft	546 ft	3,273 ft	$22–$26
F	F08	standard electric	37 ft	30 amp	108 ft	601 ft	3,214 ft	$22–$26
F	F09	standard electric	58 ft	30 amp	132 ft	493 ft		$22–$26
F	F10	standard electric	37 ft	30 amp	117 ft	587 ft	3,200 ft	$22–$26
F	F11	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	109 ft	424 ft		$22–$26
F	F12	standard electric	39 ft	30 amp	87 ft	501 ft	3,201 ft	$22–$26
F	F13	standard electric	34 ft	30 amp	87 ft	421 ft	3,245 ft	$22–$26
Heber Springs	Heber Springs Shelter AM	day use		30 amp		502 ft		$50
Heber Springs	Heber Springs Shelter PM	day use		30 amp		502 ft		$50

The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is 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

25 of 134 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

Coordinate35.50389, -92.06639

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone501-250-0485

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Old Highway 253.3 mi

John F Kennedy4.0 mi

Dam Site(Greers Ferry)4.1 mi Dam Site Campground4.4 mi

Shiloh5.0 mi

Cherokee Campground (AR)6.4 mi

Getting there

From Heber Springs, AR, travel 2 miles west on SR-110, then .5 miles north on the paved access road. Follow signs to campground.

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

Tonight45°Clear

Sunday68°Sunny

Sunday Night48°Clear

NWS forecast for Heber Springs, AR

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 49°F, day 73°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°20°

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: GREERS FERRY DAM, AR (USC00032978), 4 miles away and 37 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

Who answers for this land

Heber Springs is in Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, J. French Hill (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

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 14 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 116 of the 132 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 134 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: 0.81 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 158 rated federal campgrounds in Arkansas · 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 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