Little Fir
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 29All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Little Fir is a small quiet campground located along the western shores of Lake Ouachita. Little fir is a popular destination for many anglers who desire a quiet atmosphere while still being close to prime fishing habitat. Click here for the Lake Ouachita Virtual Tour. Keep reading
Recreation
World-class striper fishing brings crowds of anglers year-round, and incredibly clear waters attract scuba divers, hoping to explore the flooded forests and mountain valleys below the lake's surface. Hikers take pleasure in the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail (LOViT), which lines the southern end of the lake.
Facilities
The campground has 29 sites with water and 50 amp hookups. Other amenities include shower house, dump station, and boat ramp Natural Features Lake Ouachita is fed from the cool waters of the Ouachita River in central Arkansas. Surrounded by the Ouachita Mountains and National Forest, it's crystal waters span over 40,000 acres and extend for 30 miles, making it the largest lake completely in the state of Arkansas. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (501) 767-2101.
Nearby Attractions
Explore Ouachita National Forest's 1.8 million acres, surrounding Lake Ouachita and extending across central Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma.
What the agency tells you
Important Camping Policy Update Effective March 1, 2027, each campsite will be limited to one sleeping unit requiring 30-amp or 50-amp electrical service. Multiple sleeping units requiring 30-amp or 50-amp electrical hookups on the same site will no longer be permitted. This change is necessary to prevent overloading the electrical transformers serving this area and to ensure safe, reliable power for all campers. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
No off-road vehicles allowed in park
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Check-Out time is 4pm and Check-In time is 6pm
Camper Self-Check In Cards are located at the entrance of the campground. Please grab a card apon entry, fill it out and attach it to your campsite post. A ranger will verify the information written on the card later and check you in.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 29
- Hookups
- 29 electric, 29 water
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Other amenities include shower house, dump station, and boat ramp”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Night sky · 50th 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 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
29 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 29 mapped sitesAll 29 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. 29 of the 29 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.
| A | 1 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 50 ft | 252 ft | $20 |
| A | 10 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 76 ft | 78 ft | $20 |
| A | 11 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 44 ft | 79 ft | $20 |
| A | 12 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 44 ft | 61 ft | $20 |
| A | 13 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 58 ft | 84 ft | $20 |
| A | 14 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 58 ft | 137 ft | $20 |
| A | 15 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 68 ft | 114 ft | $20 |
| A | 16 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 71 ft | 87 ft | $20 |
| A | 17 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 78 ft | 165 ft | $20 |
| A | 2 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 50 ft | 277 ft | $20 |
| A | 3 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 32 ft | 216 ft | $20 |
| A | 4 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 32 ft | 184 ft | $20 |
| A | 5 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 84 ft | 104 ft | $20 |
| A | 6 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 101 ft | 82 ft | $20 |
| A | 7 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 46 ft | 116 ft | $20 |
| A | 8 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 46 ft | 71 ft | $20 |
| A | 9 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 71 ft | 74 ft | $20 |
| B | 18 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 42 ft | 221 ft | $20 |
| B | 19 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 94 ft | 206 ft | $20 |
| B | 20 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 109 ft | 84 ft | $20 |
| B | 21 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 68 ft | 91 ft | $20 |
| B | 22 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 68 ft | 100 ft | $20 |
| B | 23 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 70 ft | 68 ft | $20 |
| B | 24 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 39 ft | 129 ft | $20 |
| B | 25 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 39 ft | 160 ft | $20 |
| B | 26 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 62 ft | 76 ft | $20 |
| B | 27 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 62 ft | 133 ft | $20 |
| B | 28 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 121 ft | 94 ft | $20 |
| B | 29 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/20 amp | 42 ft | 258 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 29 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Joplin4.2 miHighway 27 Campground4.3 mi
Tompkins Bend4.4 mi
Denby Point6.1 mi
Crystal Springs (AR)9.0 mi
Charlton Recreation AreaOuachita National Forest · 9.4 miFrom Mount Ida, AR: Take US 270 west to AR-27 North. Continue on AR-27 North for 4.8 miles and
then turn right onto state hwy 188 for 8 miles. The Little Fir Campground entrance will be on your
right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Crystal Springs, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Little Fir 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 →