Iron Mountain
1Heads up1 fire 29 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:20 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 6968 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Iron Mountain Campground sits on the southern banks of DeGray Lake in the foothills of the Quachita Mountains. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, water skiing, kayaking and other water sports are the biggest draw to the lake, and a boat ramp and full service marina are provided. The lake is also stocked with a variety of game fish, including plenty of hybrid striped bass, making it an ideal area for both boat and bank fishing. Numerous hiking and horseback riding trails wind around the lake shore.
Facilities
Iron Mountain offers 69 RV and standard reservable campsites with electrical hookups. Other amenities include flush toilets, heated showers, a boat ramp, playground and full service marina. To see USACE DeGray Lake Virtual Tour, click here.
Natural Features
Degray Lake is one of the region's five Diamond Lakes, known for their crystal clear waters. The lake flows from the Caddo River in western Arkansas and spans 13,500 surface acres.
Nearby Attractions
The DeGray Lake Resort State Park offers golf courses, tennis courts, horseback riding trails and more along the 207 miles of lake shoreline. The Ouachita National Forest and Hot Springs National Park are both located nearby.
What the agency tells you
Check-Out time is 1:00 pm and Check-In time is 3:00 pm.
During the Non-Peak season certain campsites and loops will be closed. Reservations longer than 14 days will require an approved extension. Extensions can be obtained from a ranger, or the information board located at the entrance of campground.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
If arriving more than 24 hours after the start of your reservation, call (870) 246-5501 or your reservation will be cancelled and a $20 no-show fee plus the cost of the first night's stay will be charged.
Sanitation, No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must be disposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands.
Quiet hours are between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am.
Daily occupancy is required.
No off-road vehicles permitted.
One tent and one RV or two tents are allowed per campsite.
All pets must be penned, caged or on a 6 foot leash at all times, No Exceptions!!!
Persons bringing animals onto project lands are responsible for the proper removal and disposal of any waste produced by these animals.
Fireworks prohibited in campground
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.
Please refer to the link for rules and regulations. Rules and Regulations
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 69
- Hookups
- 68 electric, 1 water
- Longest rig
- 85 ft
- Paved pads
- 58 of 69
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…hookups. Other amenities include flush toilets, heated showers, a boat ramp, playground and full…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Other amenities include flush toilets, heated showers, a boat ramp, playground and full service marina.”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 113th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
6 of 60 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:20 UTC
recreation.gov lists 68 of the 69 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
OpenBooked
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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.
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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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:20 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
69 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 68 mapped sitesAll 69 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. 68 of the 69 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.
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 01 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 471 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 02 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 444 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 03 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 431 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 04 | standard electric | 77 ft | 50 amp | 109 ft | 437 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 05 | rv electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 461 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 06 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 505 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 07 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 566 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 08 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 605 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 09 | type not stated | 55 ft | 50 amp | 485 ft | ||
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 10 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 533 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 11 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 480 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 12 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 483 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 13 | rv electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 463 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 14 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 401 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 15 | rv electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 329 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 16 | rv electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 223 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 17 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 260 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 18 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 324 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 19 | rv electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 365 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 20 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 383 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 21 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 397 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 22 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 383 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 23 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 406 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 24 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 415 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 25 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 443 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 26 | rv electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 488 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 27 | rv electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 123 ft | 560 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 28 | rv electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 638 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 29 | rv electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 627 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 30 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 586 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 31 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 580 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 32 | rv electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 429 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 33 | rv electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 424 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 34 | rv electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 381 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 35 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 357 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 36 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 352 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 37 | rv electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 327 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 38 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 272 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 39 | rv electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 270 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 40 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 282 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 41 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 298 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 42 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 322 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 43 | rv electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 289 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 44 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 252 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 45 | rv electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 241 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 46 | rv electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 212 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 47 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 180 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 48 | rv electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 181 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 49 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 203 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 50 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 33 ft | 216 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 51 | rv electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 33 ft | 187 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 52 | rv electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 147 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 53 | rv electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 142 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 54 | rv electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 196 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 55 | rv electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 230 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 56 | rv electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 278 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 57 | rv electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 249 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 58 | rv electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 225 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 59 | rv electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 211 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 60 | rv electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 261 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 61 | rv electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 246 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 62 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 255 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 63 | rv electric | 27 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 299 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 64 | rv electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 314 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 65 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 332 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 66 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 386 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 67 | rv electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 452 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 68 | rv electric | 19 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 464 ft | $20 |
| IRON MOUNTAIN | 69 | rv electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 457 ft | $20 |
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 69 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Highway 7 Recreation Area1.2 mi
Lower Lake Recreation Area3.8 mi
Edgewood3.8 mi
Caddo Drive4.2 mi
Arlie Moore5.3 mi
Oak Bower Group Use Area6.0 miFrom Interstate 30, take exit 78 and merge onto State Highway 7 north for 2.5 miles. Turn left onto Skyline Drive and continue for another 2.5 miles. Turn right on Iron Mountain Road and proceed to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Caddo Valley, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Iron Mountain is in Arkansas’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Bruce Westerman (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →