Indian Creek Campground (AR)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $22–$38Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 33All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Indian Creek Campground sits along the vast shores of Beaver Lake in the Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas, offering spacious and sunny campsites with an abundance of recreational activities. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing opportunities are plentiful near Indian Creek Campground. Beaver Lake has more than 28,000 surface acres of water, and anglers can try their luck at catching large and small-mouth bass, crappie, bream, white bass, stripers, and channel or spoon-bill catfish. Just below the dam, the chilly waters of the upper White River provide a perfect habitat for pole-bending rainbow and record-size German brown trout. Several trails snake throughout the Ozark Mountains, offering peaceful hiking, biking and wildlife viewing opportunities for visitors. Hunters will find plentiful game in the hardwood and evergreen forests of northwest Arkansas. While Beaver Lake is conveniently located near several population centers, within a short driving distance, hunters can find remote areas filled with upland game such as deer, rabbits and squirrels. Many other sports and activities await campers, including boating, swimming, picnicking, scuba diving, water skiing, spelunking and sightseeing.
Facilities
Indian Creek Campground has large campsites with plenty of shade and room for activities, just steps from the lake shore. Fire rings, picnic areas, drinking water and flush toilets all make for a comfortable outdoors getaway.
Natural Features
Towering limestone bluffs, natural caves and a variety of trees and flowering shrubs surround Indian Creek Campground, making it an ideal retreat for outdoor enthusiasts. Beaver Lake and Dam, completed in 1966, was constructed in the White River Basin and boasts 449 miles of beautiful shoreline at the top of the conservation pool. Although the dam was originally built for flood control, hydroelectric power and public water supply, it has also created a popular recreational oasis.
Nearby Attractions
Several marinas are located around the lake, offering groceries, fuel, boat rentals and storage, fishing guides and camping supplies. Click here for more information.
What the agency tells you
Please check in with camp host upon arrival. Check-in is at 4:00 p.m. the afternoon of your reservation. Check out time is 1:00 p.m.
Campsites can accommodate one RV and one tent, or three tents.
No parking in the grass.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must deposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands. Shower tents and bathroom tents, commonly referred to as changing tents, are not allowed.
There is a $5 area use fee per vehicle for non-campers. Failure to pay day use fees, and or properly display applicable receipt, permit or pass is prohibited.
No off-road vehicles or golf carts are permitted.
All pets must be physically restrained in pens, cages, or on a 6-foot leash at all times. No Exceptions! Pets may not be left at campsites unattended. Persons bringing animals onto project lands are responsible for the proper removal and disposal of any waste produced by these animals.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project such as Beaver Lake for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
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
- 33
- Hookups
- 33 electric
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…rings, picnic areas, drinking water and flush toilets all make for a comfortable outdoors getaway.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…lake shore. Fire rings, picnic areas, drinking water and flush toilets all make for a comfortable…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Night sky · 141st darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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–$38 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.
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
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
33 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 33 mapped sitesAll 33 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. 33 of the 33 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard electric | 5 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 249 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard electric | 8 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 207 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard electric | 19 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 153 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard electric | 3 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 86 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 128 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard electric | 23 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 69 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 119 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard electric | 3 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 85 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 55 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 47 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 67 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard electric | 7 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 60 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 108 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 134 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard electric | 21 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 82 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard electric | 24 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 47 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 54 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard electric | 23 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 53 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 41 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard electric | 11 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 42 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard electric | 13 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 67 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 24 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard electric | 4 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 87 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard electric | 13 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 81 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 190 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard electric | 7 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 243 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard electric | 17 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 189 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard electric | 18 ft | 30 amp | 128 ft | 149 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard electric | 9 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 177 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 246 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 283 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard electric | 11 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 262 ft | $22–$38 |
| INDIAN CREEK CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard electric | 5 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 255 ft | $22–$38 |
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 33 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lost Bridge North0.6 mi
Lost Bridge South1.7 mi
Dam Site Lake Campground1.8 mi
Starkey Campground2.1 mi
Dam Site River (Beaver Lake)2.4 mi
Rocky Branch Campground6.3 miFrom Eureka Springs, Arkansas, take Highway 62 West and travel 15.3 miles. Turn left on Indian Creek Road and follow to the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lost Bridge Village, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 24°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
Who answers for this land
Indian Creek Campground (AR) is in Arkansas’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Steve Womack (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: D-. See every public-lands vote →