Henderson Park
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $22–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3629 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Henderson Park is surrounded by the clear waters of Norfork Lake. Spectacular lake views and plenty of secluded coves for water sports and breezy, open stretches for sailing, make Norfork Lake a popular area for recreationists. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking trails in the area lead nature observers and photographers to picturesque overlooks of the Ozarks. A wide array of fresh water game fish are found in the lake, which is fed by the North Fork River and its tributaries. Bass, walleye, crappie, bream and catfish all make their home here.
Facilities
The campground offers 36 campsites, all with electric hookups and water available for filling holding tanks. All campsites have a picnic table and campfire ring and grill. A marina and boat ramp are on hand for easy access to water sports.
Natural Features
Norfork Lake covers 22,000 acres with 550 miles of shoreline. Densely wooded hills and hollows surround the lake in the Ozark Mountains. The North Fork River feeds into the lake, and beyond the dam, extends on to connect with the White River.
Nearby Attractions
Including Henderson Park, there are 19 developed U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ parks lining the lake for plenty of water sport opportunities. The Robinson Point National Recreation Trail and the David's Trail offer beautiful hiking opportunities and are just a short drive away. Drive just over 10 miles to visit the town of Mountain Home, considered one of the best places to live for sportsmen.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee.
What the agency tells you
Off-highway vehicles are not permitted.
Livestock is not permitted in this park.
No loaded firearms are 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
- 36
- Hookups
- 29 electric, 9 water
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campsites, all with electric hookups and water available for filling holding tanks. All campsites have a…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hotel/Lodge/Resort Privately Owned
- Hunting
- Water sports
- Night sky · 101st darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 29 of the 36 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$24 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
36 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 29 mapped sitesAll 36 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. 29 of the 36 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| HENDERSON PARK | 01 | type not stated | 30 ft | 30 amp | 152 ft | ||
| HENDERSON PARK | 02 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 105 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 03 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 105 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 04 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 166 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 05 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 145 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 06 | type not stated | 20 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | ||
| HENDERSON PARK | 07 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 203 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 08 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 46 ft | 175 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 09 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 32 ft | 184 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 10 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 221 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 11 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 32 ft | 194 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 12 | type not stated | 20 ft | 30 amp | 114 ft | ||
| HENDERSON PARK | 13 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 262 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 14 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 226 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 15 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 270 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 35 ft | 83 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 17 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 34 ft | 107 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 18 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 34 ft | 118 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 19 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 290 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 20 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 242 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 21 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 158 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 22 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 220 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 23 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 293 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 24 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 330 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 27 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 407 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 28 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | 354 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 29 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | 324 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 30 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 309 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 31 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 244 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 32 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 176 ft | ||
| HENDERSON PARK | 33 | type not stated | 35 ft | 30 amp | 162 ft | ||
| HENDERSON PARK | 34 | type not stated | 30 ft | 30 amp | 154 ft | ||
| HENDERSON PARK | 35 | type not stated | 30 ft | 30 amp | 148 ft | ||
| HENDERSON PARK | 36 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 138 ft | 177 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 37 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 138 ft | 227 ft | $22–$24 |
| HENDERSON PARK | 38 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 304 ft | $22–$24 |
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 36 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Bidwell Point Park0.7 mi
Panther Bay Park1.1 mi
Robinson Point1.7 mi
Gamaliel3.1 mi
Cranfield Park5.3 mi
Dam - Quarry8.2 miFrom Mountain Home, Arkansas, travel east on US Highway 62/412 10 miles to the town of Henderson. Look for park signs for the park entrance on the left.
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
Henderson Park 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 →