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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · MS

Hernando Point Campground

ReservableBookable through April 16; tomorrow opens April 17.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:19 UTC
A night: $30From, per site
Sites: 81All of them booked ahead

Photos · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

100 ftLongest rig

240 ftElevation

563 ftWater · Arkabutla Lake

5.1 miSW of Hernando, MS

15%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices

In the agency’s own words

Hernando Point Recreation Area sits along Arkabutla Lake and Dam in the hills of northwest Mississippi. The dam project is on the Coldwater River and offers some of the best sailing east of the Mississippi River. Keep reading

Recreation

Families come to Arkabutla Lake to enjoy the great outdoors by fishing, boating, swimming, hiking and biking. Wildlife management areas around Arkabutla Lake boast a combined 30,000 acres of public hunting lands where whitetail deer, wild turkeys, quail and waterfowl roam. Several trails wind around the lake and throughout the nearby landscape. The Coldwater River Nature Trail System encompasses two hiking trails as well as an interpretive trail that helps educate hikers on the wildlife and ecosystem. The Swinging Bridge Nature Trail is also nearby, and includes a section of land that was part of the river prior to the dam being built. This trail is also an interpretive educational trail. Thousands of people each year visit Arkabutla Lake to go fishing. The lake is home to several species of native fish to Mississippi waters, such as largemouth bass, bream, catfish and crappie.

Facilities

This year-round campground offers 83 family sites and one group day-use shelter, all with electric hookups. Amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water provide a comfortable camping experience for guests.

Natural Features

The campground is situated on the waterfront, among rolling hills forested with a shady mixture of oak, hickory, beech, sweet gum and birch trees.

Nearby Attractions

The Lost Indian Spring Disc Golf Course is just below the Arkabutla Dam near Pratt Road. The course has 18 holes and is free to the public. The Senatobia Wetlands project is just a 30-minute drive from the park. It provides visitors with educational displays and an area to observe wildlife and waterfowl.

Charges & Cancellations

Once your reservation has been crated, there will be a $10.00 fee to cancel and a $10.00 fee to change your site or dates. Cancellations made the day before, or up to the day after your arrival date will also be charged the first nighs use fee. No-shows are charged a $20.0.0 fee plus the first nights use fee. If your reservation is for 1 night, and you have been charged the first nights use fee, there is no $10.00 service fee.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Visitors are expected to be aware of park general rules

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

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reminds all visitors that coast guard approved personal floatation device is required when conducting activities on or in the waters of Arkabutla Lake. These activities include but are not limited to swimming, waterskiing, riding on personal watercraft, kayaking, and other boating related activities. If vessel is under 16 feet in length a PFD is mandatory at all times. If vessel is over 16 feet in length, PFDs are only required while making way under main propulsion.

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 81
Hookups: 81 electric, 81 water
Longest rig: 100 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: 22
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: 62 of 77 sites

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

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…with electric hookups. Amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water provide a comfortable…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; Shower/Bath Type states a shower on 79 campsite record(s) that are not a cabin, of this campground's 81
Drinking water: Yes; “…like flush toilets, showers and drinking water provide a comfortable camping experience for…”
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: read from the agency description and counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River; Biking; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Hunting
Night sky · 56th darkest of 61 in MS: 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

3 of 152 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:19 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBooked

Booking window6 months outBookable now through April 16, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$68DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

Watch for a cancellation

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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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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$30

Standard Electric$30

Standard Electric, Water, Sewer$30

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.

Night$20

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$38

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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

“Once your reservation has been crated, there will be a $10.00 fee to cancel and a $10.00 fee to change your site or dates. No-shows are charged a $20.0.0 fee plus the first nights use fee.” · this campground’s own no-show 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

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

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · 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 16:19 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

81 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 79 mapped sites

87 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most room24 203 ft50 154 ft06 133 ft58 121 ft11 119 ft

Least room59 5 ft61 5 ft01 48 ft

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

All 81 sites

79 of 81 sites located

RV / electric79

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 81 82 83

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 79 of the 81 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. 81 of the 81 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


HERNANDO POINT	01	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		47 ft	188 ft	580 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	02	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		47 ft	164 ft	572 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	03	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		48 ft	148 ft	565 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	04	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	yes	85 ft	235 ft	470 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	05	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	yes	48 ft	151 ft	552 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	06	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		133 ft	188 ft	467 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	07	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		92 ft	217 ft	370 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	08	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		92 ft	235 ft	329 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	09	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		64 ft	315 ft	251 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	10	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		64 ft	379 ft	189 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	11	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		119 ft	458 ft	274 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	12	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		101 ft	485 ft	373 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	13	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		77 ft	347 ft	383 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	14	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	yes	69 ft	390 ft	452 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	15	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp		64 ft	271 ft	439 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	16	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	69 ft	321 ft	494 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	17	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		64 ft	211 ft	499 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	18	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		62 ft	169 ft	566 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	19	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		62 ft	149 ft	616 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	20	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	yes	63 ft	247 ft	549 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	21	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		63 ft	233 ft	602 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	22	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		103 ft	228 ft	603 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	23	standard electric	100 ft	50 amp	yes	103 ft	191 ft	494 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	24	standard electric	41 ft	50 amp		203 ft	261 ft	468 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	25	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		87 ft	316 ft	372 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	26	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	yes	79 ft	147 ft	567 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	27	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	yes	87 ft	269 ft	445 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	28	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp		79 ft	155 ft	577 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	29	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp		89 ft	162 ft	601 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	30	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp		64 ft	253 ft	495 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	31	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		90 ft	192 ft	624 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	32	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		64 ft	250 ft	525 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	33	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp		118 ft	200 ft	605 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	34	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		73 ft	276 ft	536 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	35	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		108 ft	210 ft	503 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	36	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp		108 ft	303 ft	493 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	37	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		79 ft	257 ft	406 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	38	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp					$30
HERNANDO POINT	39	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		79 ft	320 ft	336 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	40	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		105 ft	377 ft	311 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	41	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		85 ft	419 ft	249 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	42	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		105 ft	451 ft	211 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	43	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp		85 ft	484 ft	197 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	44	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		90 ft	387 ft	276 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	45	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		78 ft	346 ft	247 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	46	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		80 ft	352 ft	375 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	47	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		88 ft	274 ft	360 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	48	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		80 ft	349 ft	453 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	49	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	yes	96 ft	252 ft	464 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	50	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		154 ft	197 ft	632 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	51	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		96 ft	157 ft	525 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	52	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	118 ft	107 ft	641 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	53	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		88 ft	186 ft	434 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	54	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	81 ft	90 ft	520 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	55	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		78 ft	268 ft	305 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	56	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		81 ft	122 ft	469 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	57	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	yes	110 ft	403 ft	50 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	58	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		121 ft	271 ft	274 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	59	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	yes	5 ft	347 ft	156 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	60	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		88 ft	293 ft	154 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	61	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		5 ft	346 ft	161 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	62	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		76 ft	271 ft	202 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	63	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		94 ft	284 ft	267 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	64	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	yes	77 ft	425 ft	241 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	65	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		93 ft	486 ft	288 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	66	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	yes	91 ft	551 ft	329 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	67	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	yes	89 ft	611 ft	253 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	68	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		97 ft	623 ft	393 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	69	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	yes	89 ft	675 ft	319 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	70	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	yes	93 ft	738 ft	436 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	71	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		93 ft	735 ft	485 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	72	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		80 ft	698 ft	432 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	73	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	yes	80 ft	774 ft	422 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	74	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		92 ft	631 ft	328 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	75	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	yes	92 ft	712 ft	308 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	76	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		77 ft	486 ft	203 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	77	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	yes	97 ft	554 ft	188 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	80	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp					$30
HERNANDO POINT	81	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	yes	89 ft	574 ft	102 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	82	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		106 ft	576 ft	150 ft	$30
HERNANDO POINT	83	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		89 ft	485 ft	191 ft	$30

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 81 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

Coordinate34.73361, -90.06889

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone662-562-6261

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Hernando Point Pavilion0.1 mi Kelly's Crossing Campground1.2 mi

South Abutment Pavilion3.5 mi

South Abutment Campground3.7 mi

Dub Patton Campground3.8 mi

Outlet Channel Day Use3.9 mi

Getting there

From I-55, take the Hernando, Mississippi exit and turn west. Continue to to HWY 51 and turn south. Turn west on Wheeler Road and follow signs into 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

Tonight51°Partly Cloudy

Saturday63°Sunny

Saturday Night45°Clear

Sunday68°Sunny

NWS forecast for Arkabutla, MS

Source: National Weather Service, MEG forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 50°F, day 74°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: HERNANDO, MS (USC00223975), 6 miles away and 140 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

Hernando Point Campground is in Mississippi’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Trent Kelly (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: D-. See every public-lands vote →

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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 30 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 and November 2026. It names 81 of the 81 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 14, 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 79 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: 1.7 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 61 rated federal campgrounds in Mississippi · 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: Arkabutla, MS, 2.2 mi NE (a census designated place). 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