Little Coon Creek Park
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 30 nights read 16:54 UTC
- A night
- $23From, per site
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Little Coon Creek Campground is located on Gillham Lake in southwestern Arkansas on the Cossatot River. The rugged terrain around the lake creates stunning views and provides for many opportunities for boating, fishing, hunting, and swimming. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors enjoy the lake for its vast boating opportunities, and a boat ramp is provided for easy water access. Anglers will find smallmouth, largemouth, and spotted bass, saugeye, crappie, channel and flathead catfish and various species of sunfish in the river. Hunting is allowed north of Little Coon Creek Park and on the eastern shore of the lake. Check with the Arkansas Game and Fish for Season Dates and Regulations. Lake maps are also available from any Park Attendant at the lake.
Facilities
Little Coon Creek provides 10 campsites and a group picnic shelter; each site has water and 50-amp electric hookups available. Additional amenities include hot showers with restrooms, a boat ramp with a handicap accessible fishing pier, a playground and a dump station nearby.
Natural Features
Gillham Lake spans 1,370 surface acres and boasts 36 miles of shoreline. The Dam was completed in 1975 and stems from the Cossatot River, which has been designated as a National Wild and Scenic River.
Nearby Attractions
The Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area and the Queen Wilhelmina State Park are both within driving distance just north of Gillham Lake. Both of these attractions offer great scenery, hiking, and interpretive programs that are fun for all ages.
What the agency tells you
Campers must register with the Big Coon Creek Park Attendant before staying.
A maximum of 2 Tents and 8 Occupants per site.
Quiet hours are from 10 p.m. thru 6 a.m.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Check out time is by 5 p.m.
No ATV's/UTV's allowed.
This Area has the possiblity of flooding throughout the year. You may want to check lake levels before traveling.
Beware of sudden changes in water level below the dam; if warning horn sounds twice, water will rise, if it sounds once, water will lower
Please wear a life jacket when participating in water recreation activities.
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
- 10
- Hookups
- 10 electric, 10 water
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Additional amenities include hot showers with restrooms, a boat ramp with a handicap accessible fishing pier, a playground and a dump station nearby.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Night sky · 8th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 3
19 of 22 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:54 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBookedClosedNot reservable
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 rate for this season, $23 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 16:54 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 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. 10 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Group Shelter | GS1 | day use | 20 amp | 1307 ft | 177 ft | $30 | |
| Little Coon | 001 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 150 ft | 1,175 ft | $23 |
| Little Coon | 002 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 147 ft | 1,038 ft | $23 |
| Little Coon | 003 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 892 ft | $23 |
| Little Coon | 004 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 772 ft | $23 |
| Little Coon | 005 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 664 ft | $23 |
| Little Coon | 006 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 117 ft | 562 ft | $23 |
| Little Coon | 007 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 113 ft | 511 ft | $23 |
| Little Coon | 008 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 113 ft | 620 ft | $23 |
| Little Coon | 009 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 118 ft | 769 ft | $23 |
| Little Coon | 010 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 118 ft | 887 ft | $23 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Big Coon Creek0.7 mi
Cossatot Reefs2.0 mi
Jefferson Ridge9.1 mi
Blue Ridge Park9.5 mi
Horseshoe Bend (Dierks Lake)11 mi
Bellah Mine11 miFrom US-59/71 at Grannis, Arkansas, turn east onto County Rd 3/Frachiseur Rd and stay on this road for 5 miles and then follow the signs on into the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Grannis, AR
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.
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
Little Coon Creek Park 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 →