Lead Hill
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 16 nights read 16:03 UTC
- A night
- $24–$54Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 62All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lead Hill Campground is a splendid, sizable campground with plenty of waterfront sites along the shores of Bull Shoals Lake. The lake, renowned as a haven for water sports enthusiasts, boasts nearly 1,000 miles of shoreline along the Arkansas and Missouri border. Keep reading
Recreation
Year-round fishing tournaments keep fishermen active as they seek out 12-pound bass. The lake also attracts birders, naturalists, hikers, scuba divers and those who come for all types of motorboat sports.
Facilities
Most of the 75 campsites have canopies over picnic tables for cooling shade, and each one is equipped with electric hookups. The campground also has two group campsites, a playground, designated swim area and a marina.
Natural Features
Lead Hill is on the Arkansas side of Bull Shoals, which stretches across the border of Arkansas and Missouri. Bull Shoals Lake, formed by a dam built in 1951, stems from the White River in the Ozark Mountains, and eventually flows into the Mississippi.
Nearby Attractions
Cruise around the lake to see the many public parks operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. These parks cover additional swim areas, 11 marinas and several hundred miles of undeveloped land and coves.
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
- 62
- Hookups
- 62 electric, 60 water
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 32 of 33 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 63 campsite records, FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 61 of 63 campsite records
- Showers
- Seasonal Showers
- SHOWERS (SEASONAL) on 60 of 63 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 60 of 63 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 62 of 63 campsite records
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Swimming
- Night sky · 86th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
52 of 124 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:03 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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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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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$54 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 16:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
63 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 62 mapped sitesAll 63 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. 62 of the 63 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ALOO | A01 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 423 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A02 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 366 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A03 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 349 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A04 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 329 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A05 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 387 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A06 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 393 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A07/A08 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 368 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A09/A10 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 390 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A11/A12 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 433 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A14 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 270 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A15 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 412 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A16 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | yes | 91 ft | 435 ft | $24–$54 |
| ALOO | A17 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 491 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A18 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 552 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A19 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 475 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A20 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 438 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A21 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 368 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A22 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 250 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A23 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 243 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ALOO | A24 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 224 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B01 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 324 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B02/B03/B04 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 401 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B05 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 247 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B06 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 202 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B07 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 159 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B08 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 130 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B09 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 108 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B10 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 100 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B11 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 108 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B12 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 111 ft | 110 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B13 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 115 ft | 78 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B14 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 141 ft | 67 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B15 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 135 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B16 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 135 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B17 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 159 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B18 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 201 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B19 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 241 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B20 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 237 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B21 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 227 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B22 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 246 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B23 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 139 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B24 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 166 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B25 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 96 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B26 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 78 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B27 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 189 ft | $24–$54 | |
| BLOO | B28 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 104 ft | 185 ft | $24–$54 | |
| CLOO | GS1 | day use | 30 amp | 201 ft | ||||
| ELOO | E01 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 221 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E02 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 188 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E03/E04 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 194 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E05 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 179 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E06/E07 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 199 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E08 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 196 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E09/E10/E11 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 177 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E12 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 159 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E13/E14 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 222 ft | 152 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E15/E16 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 135 ft | 107 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E17 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 97 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E18 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 149 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E19 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 192 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E20 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 240 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E21 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 337 ft | $24–$54 | |
| ELOO | E22 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 296 ft | $24–$54 |
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 63 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Tucker Hollow Park4.7 mi
Buck Creek (MO)7.1 mi
Highway 125 Park Bull Shoals8.4 mi
Beaver Creek (MO)13 mi
Theodosia Park16 miOakland Park17 miFrom Lead Hill, AR, travel 4 mi. on SR 7 N and 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
Lead Hill 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 →