Highway 125 Park Bull Shoals
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 15:59 UTC
- A night
- $24–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 37All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Enjoy the beautiful scenery overlooking Bull Shoals Lake, known in the area as a water sports paradise. The park is a departure point for the Peel Ferry, which connects Highway 125 from Arkansas to Missouri. Peel Ferry is Arkansas' last remaining free ferry. It runs year-round and saves drivers a 50-mile journey around the lake. Keep reading
Recreation
The surplus of water activities keep visitors entertained for many days of vacation. Hiking and birding are also rewarding pastimes here.
Facilities
The 39 campsites are equipped with electric hookups, drinking water and showers. The site has a designated swimming area and marina. Groups of up to 50 can reserve the group picnic shelter, which is beside the playground.
Natural Features
Blue Shoals Lake spans more than 71,000 acres across the northern edge of Arkansas and the southern edge of Missouri. The lake was created in 1951 with the completion of the massive concrete dam, Blue Shoals Dam. The lake is surrounded by dense forest along the rolling foothills of the Arkansas Ozarks.
Nearby Attractions
Visit the Bull Shoals-White River State Park and explore its two hiking trails: the Big Bluff Trail and the Lakeside Trail. Consider a ferry ride to explore scenic drives on the Missouri side of the lake.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
No livestock at this facility
No firearms 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
- 37
- Hookups
- 37 electric, 37 water
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- 36 of 37
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 6 of 38 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 20 of 38 campsite records
- Showers
- Accessible Showers · Seasonal Showers
- ACCESSIBLE SHOWERS on 15 of 38 campsite records / SHOWERS (SEASONAL) on 6 of 38 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 6 of 38 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 6 of 38 campsite records
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Boating
- Swimming
- Night sky · 68th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
16 of 76 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:59 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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.
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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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$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.
“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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:59 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
38 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 38 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 37 of the 38 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.
| ALOO | A01 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 40 ft | 222 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A02 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 40 ft | 216 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A03 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 226 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A04 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 220 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A05 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 221 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A06 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 212 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A09 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 286 ft | $24–$26 |
| ALOO | A11 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 288 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B01 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 185 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B02 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 182 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B03 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 313 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B04 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 291 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B05 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 322 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B06 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 286 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B07 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 292 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B08 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 300 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B09 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 328 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B10 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 269 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B11 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 296 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B12 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 295 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B13 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 330 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B14 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 363 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B15 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 415 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B16 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 441 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B17 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 440 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B18 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 413 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B19 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 381 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B20 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 342 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B22 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 381 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B23 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 375 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B24 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 131 ft | 342 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B25 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 439 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B26 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 353 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B27 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 283 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B28 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 271 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B29 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 267 ft | $24–$26 |
| BLOO | B30 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 235 ft | $24–$26 |
| HIGHWAY 125 | GS1 | day use | 30 amp | 295 ft | 290 ft | $50 |
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.
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 38 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Buck Creek (MO)1.3 mi
Lead Hill8.4 miOakland Park8.7 mi
Theodosia Park8.8 mi
Tucker Hollow Park13 mi
Lakeview Park15 miFrom Yellville, AR. take SR 14 for 14 miles northwest to SR 125, go north on SR 125 for 13 miles. Follow signs into campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Diamond City, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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
Highway 125 Park Bull Shoals 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 →