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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · AR

Jefferson Ridge

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 33 mi

Wildfire

South White Wolf fire · 33 mi away · 128 acres · 75% contained · updated Oct 16, 2026

Wildfire

Nevada 311 fire · 49 mi away · 1 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026

Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026

ReservableBookable through April 16; today 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 15:59 UTC
A night: $10–$45Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 85All of them booked ahead

Photos · USACE

124 ftLongest rig

600 ftElevation

907 ftWater · an unnamed lake

12.5 miNE of De Queen, AR

42%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices

In the agency’s own words

Jefferson Ridge Campground is located on Dierks Lake in southwestern Arkansas. Rugged ridges bordering the lake create stunning views, and visitors enjoy boating, fishing, swimming, and hunting. Keep reading

Recreation

The 1360-acre lake offers excellent boating, canoeing, kayaking, and swimming opportunities. Dierks Lake is known for its excellent bass and crappie fishing. Hunters will find nearly 600 acres of public hunting lands in the upper reaches of the project. Game species include white-tail deer, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, grey and fox squirrel, cottontail rabbit, and a variety of waterfowl. A playground, two swimming beaches and two boat ramps provide additional recreation opportunities.

Facilities

This year-round campground offers 85 family sites and two day-use group picnic shelters. All sites include full electric and water hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and dump stations.

Natural Features

Sitting in the Ouachita Mountain Region of Arkansas, Dierks Lake is fed by the Saline River.

Nearby Attractions

Crater of Diamonds State Park, Little Missouri Falls, and Cossatot River State Park are popular recreational areas located in close proximity to Dierks Lake.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Dierks Lake Project Office: 870-286-2346 Arkansas Game and Fish: 501-223-6459 Howard County Sheriff’s Office: 870-845-2626 Sevier County Sheriff’s Office: 870-642-2125

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 85 · 3 tent-only
Hookups: 84 electric, 85 water
Longest rig: 124 ft
Paved pads: 65 of 85
Accessible sites: 3
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: 69 of 85 sites

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

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…and water hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and dump stations.…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and dump stations.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and dump stations. Natural Features Sitting in the…”
Dump station: Yes
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 28 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Beach; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Hunting; Swimming; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 10th darkest of 158 in AR: Bortle 3

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

118 of 170 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

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

Max stay28 nightsthe facility record

A night$10–$45plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$28–$98DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

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

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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Every line of the receipt · 16

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$10–$45

Tent Site$10

Jefferson Ridge -Standard Electric$23

Standard Electric$25

Buddy Site$45

Group area, a night$25

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

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$18–$53

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$28–$98

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$45 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

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

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

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 15:59 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

87 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 86 mapped sites

123 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most room055 224 ft077 213 ft078 213 ft074 207 ft081 206 ft

Least room013 63 ft014 63 ft027 70 ft

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

All 87 records

87 of 87 records located

Tent only3RV / electric81Type not stated1Day use2

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 84 of the 87 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


1	001	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		166 ft	712 ft	$23–$45
1	002	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		105 ft	547 ft	$23–$45
1	003	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		105 ft	443 ft	$23–$45
1	004	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		138 ft	305 ft	$23–$45
1	005	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		140 ft	186 ft	$23–$45
1	006	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		116 ft	203 ft	$23–$45
1	007	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		116 ft	208 ft	$23–$45
1	008	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		129 ft	197 ft	$23–$45
1	009	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		129 ft	179 ft	$23–$45
1	010	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		86 ft	147 ft	$23–$45
1	011	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		86 ft	119 ft	$23–$45
1	012	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		71 ft	59 ft	$23–$45
1	013	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		63 ft	21 ft	$23–$45
1	014	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		63 ft	38 ft	$23–$45
1	015	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		88 ft	372 ft	$23–$45
1	016	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		71 ft	423 ft	$23–$45
1	017- Tent Site	tent only electric		50 amp		71 ft	443 ft	$10
1	018- Tent Site	tent only electric		50 amp		74 ft	480 ft	$10
1	019- Tent Site	tent only electric		50 amp		74 ft	519 ft	$10
1	020	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		167 ft	375 ft	$23–$45
1	021 Buddy Site	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		129 ft	167 ft	$23–$45
1	021B	type not stated	65 ft	50 amp			170 ft
1	022	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		102 ft	344 ft	$23–$45
1	023	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		109 ft	385 ft	$23–$45
1	024	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		121 ft	454 ft	$23–$45
1	Group Pavilion 1- Day Use	day use		15 amp		170 ft	233 ft	$25
1	Group Pavilion 2- Day Use	day use		15 amp		176 ft	199 ft	$25
2	025	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		110 ft	463 ft	$23–$45
2	026	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		106 ft	293 ft	$23–$45
2	027	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		70 ft	210 ft	$23–$45
2	028	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		70 ft	155 ft	$23–$45
2	029	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	yes	101 ft	154 ft	$23–$45
2	030	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		94 ft	190 ft	$23–$45
2	031	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		94 ft	198 ft	$23–$45
2	032	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		113 ft	157 ft	$23–$45
2	033	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		113 ft	129 ft	$23–$45
2	034	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		98 ft	197 ft	$23–$45
2	035	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		134 ft	175 ft	$23–$45
2	036	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		145 ft	95 ft	$23–$45
2	037	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		119 ft	207 ft	$23–$45
2	038	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		119 ft	325 ft	$23–$45
2	039	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		90 ft	453 ft	$23–$45
2	040	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		90 ft	394 ft	$23–$45
2	041	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		104 ft	297 ft	$23–$45
2	042	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		116 ft	284 ft	$23–$45
2	043	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	125 ft	316 ft	$23–$45
2	044	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		131 ft	307 ft	$23–$45
2	045	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		135 ft	268 ft	$23–$45
2	046	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		98 ft	283 ft	$23–$45
2	047	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		113 ft	262 ft	$23–$45
2	048	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	yes	99 ft	214 ft	$23–$45
2	049	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		99 ft	204 ft	$23–$45
2	050	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		79 ft	322 ft	$23–$45
2	051	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		79 ft	398 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	052	standard electric	124 ft	50 amp		183 ft	404 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	053	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		160 ft	427 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	054	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		160 ft	373 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	055	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		224 ft	390 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	056	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		172 ft	348 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	057	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		147 ft	352 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	058	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		147 ft	337 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	059	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		173 ft	233 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	060	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		148 ft	261 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	061	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		148 ft	268 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	062	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		155 ft	261 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	063	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		155 ft	257 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	064	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		174 ft	231 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	065	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		132 ft	225 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	066	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		132 ft	231 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	067	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		111 ft	196 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	068	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		111 ft	215 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	069	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		190 ft	223 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	070	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		160 ft	236 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	071	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		183 ft	583 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	072	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		197 ft	611 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	073	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		198 ft	593 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	074	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		207 ft	387 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	075	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		192 ft	262 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	076	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		192 ft	189 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	077	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		213 ft	173 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	078	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		213 ft	178 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	079	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		196 ft	187 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	080	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		196 ft	199 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	081	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		206 ft	197 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	082	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		150 ft	151 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	083	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		105 ft	131 ft	$23–$45
JEFFERSON RIDGE	084	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		105 ft	124 ft	$23–$45

The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

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

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 87 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

Coordinate34.14823, -94.12667

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone870-286-3214

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Horseshoe Bend (Dierks Lake)2.2 mi

Blue Ridge Park3.7 mi

Cossatot Reefs7.2 mi

Big Coon Creek8.4 mi

Little Coon Creek Park9.1 mi

Oak Grove (AR)16 mi

Getting there

From Dierks, Arkansas, travel 5 miles west on US-70, then 5 miles north on Green Chapel Road. 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

Today70°Sunny

Tonight43°Mostly Clear

Sunday71°Sunny

Sunday Night44°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Dierks, AR

Source: National Weather Service, SHV forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 50°F, day 76°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: DEQUEEN, AR (USC00031948), 15 miles away and 193 ft lower

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

Jefferson Ridge 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

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, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 86 of the 85 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 11, 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 87 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: 0.19 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 158 rated federal campgrounds in Arkansas · 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: Dierks, AR, 5.7 mi WNW. 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