Little Pines Recreation Area
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Little Pines Recreation Area, west of Waldron offers a full service modern campground with electricity, water, trailer dump station, paved roads, a pavilion, hiking trails, a day use area with a swimming beach and boat docks. The recreation area is located on the banks of Lake Hinkle, a 1,000 plus-acre lake, managed by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, with bountiful fishing opportunities for bass, crappie, bream, sunfish, and catfish. Also within the facility is a boat ramp, fishing dock, toilet facilities and ample parking. Keep reading
Overview: The Little Pines Campground is located along the shoreline of Lake Hinkle, an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission managed lake. The campground offers nine (9) campsites with water and electric services provided at the sites. All campsites are first-come, first-serve campsites and the length of stay is limited to a 14-day period. The Little Pines Day Use Site offer picnic tables with BBQ grills, covered pavilion and a swimming site for swimmers. Little Pines Campground is located 13 miles west of Waldron, Arkansas.
Facilities
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($25), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Little Pines CampgroundOuachita National Forest · 0.1 mi
Shady Lake Campground18 miCedar Lake Recreation AreaWinding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area · 25 mi
Cedar Lake (Oklahoma)Indian Nations National Scenic And Wildlife Area · 25 mi
Winding Stair Campground (OK)Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area · 26 miJack Creek Recreation AreaOuachita National Forest · 27 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Waldron, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°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
Little Pines Recreation Area 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 →