Hernando Point Pavilion
This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 28 of the next 30 nights read 15:23 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hernando Point Recreation Area sits along Arkabutla Lake and Dam in the hills of northwest Mississippi. Keep reading
Recreation
Families come to Arkabutla Lake to enjoy the great outdoors. 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 closest being the Area 51 trails at Hwy. 51 Landing which also provides Arkabutla's only current usable boat ramp. Hernando Point offers, camping, picnicking, fishing at a small, accessible pond in the area and several playgrounds.
Facilities
Hernando Point offers a year-round campground with 83 full hookup sites. The area also has one day-use pavilion, a small pond with fishing pier, multiple playgrounds, flush toilets, showers, and drinking water. The area's boat ramp is currently unusable due to lowered water levels in the lake.
Natural Features
The day use area is situated among rolling hills forested with a shady mixture of oak, hickory, beech, sweet gum and birch trees. The waterfront view has changed somewhat due to the lowered water level of Arkabutla Dam. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (662) 292-1992.
Nearby Attractions
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
Cancellations may be made up until the day before the day of reservation
What the agency tells you
Arkabutla Lake will be experiencing substantially lower water levels for an extended period of time. Long-term repairs to Arkbabutla Dam must be completed before water levels can return to normal. This affects boating access and water-based activities on the lake. Many boat ramps are currently closed with Hwy. 51 Landing being the only open ramp. Most day use and campground facilities remain open for public use. For more information, please contact the Arkabutla Lake Field Office at 662-562-6261 or 662-292-1992.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with fishing pier, multiple playgrounds, flush toilets, showers, and drinking water. The area's boat ramp…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The area also has one day-use pavilion, a small pond with fishing pier, multiple playgrounds, flush toilets, showers, and drinking water.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…playgrounds, flush toilets, showers, and drinking water. The area's boat ramp is currently unusable due to…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Something open on 26 of the next 28 bookable nightsread 15:23 UTC
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
OpenBookedNot reservable
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 26. read 15:23 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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What you actually pay
“Cancellations may be made up until the day before the day of reservation” · 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| Hernando Point - 766 | day use | 545 ft | 36 ft | $75 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hernando Point Campground0.1 miKelly's Crossing Campground1.3 mi
South Abutment Pavilion3.6 mi
South Abutment Campground3.8 mi
Dub Patton Campground3.9 mi
Outlet Channel Day Use4.0 miFrom 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 the area
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Arkabutla, MS
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.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Hernando Point Pavilion 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: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyTrent KellyU.S. Representative · Mississippi’s 1st district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationCindy Hyde-SmithU.S. Senator · Mississippi
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRoger F. WickerU.S. Senator · Mississippi
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Hernando Point Pavilion has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Trent Kelly, I’m a constituent in Mississippi’s 1st district. Hernando Point Pavilion, Mississippi carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Hernando Point Pavilion (Mississippi) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Hernando Point Pavilion has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Cindy Hyde-Smith, I’m a constituent in Mississippi. Hernando Point Pavilion, Mississippi carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Hernando Point Pavilion (Mississippi) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Hernando Point Pavilion has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Roger F. Wicker, I’m a constituent in Mississippi. Hernando Point Pavilion, Mississippi carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Hernando Point Pavilion (Mississippi) via campanac.com