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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · MS

North Abutment

1Heads up1 fire 23 mi away

Wildfire

Carroll - Co Rd 128 fire · 23 mi away · 125 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 13, 2026

Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 13, 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 16:36 UTC
A night: $30From, per site
Sites: 86All of them booked ahead

Photos · Grenada Lake Ranger

70 ftLongest rig

240 ftElevation

748 ftWater · an unnamed stream

1.1 miNE of Grenada, MS

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices

In the agency’s own words

North Abutment Campground is located on the north end of Grenada Dam on Grenada Lake. The campground is an excellent destination for boating and fishing. The region is steeped in history, with an array of civil war landmarks. In summer, Grenada Lake is home to the annual Thunder on Water Safe Boating Festival. Featured events include concerts, a youth fishing rodeo, tractor pull and fireworks display. Keep reading

Recreation

In addition to general lake activities like boating, fishing, picnicking and sailing, the region boasts a sports complex, baseball fields, an 18-hole golf course and a fitness trail.

Facilities

This modern campground is equipped with 88 RV site pads, each with a parking apron and 50 amp electric and water hookups and campsites #2-88 are equipped with sewer hookups. All sites are reservable thru recreation.gov. The lake is accessible via nearby boat ramps, found just outside of the campground. The campground also has an amphitheater in Phase 1.

Natural Features

The campground is on the north shore of Grenada Lake. Several campsites face the water May through August, but the water level is dropped for water storage in winter, making the shoreline as far as a mile from the campground. Within the campground there is a small 17 acre lake that has a swimming beach and is stocked with Bream, Largemouth Bass, and Catfish for the campers to enjoy catching. Grenada Lake is on the Yalobusha and Skuna Rivers in Mississippi. The man-made lake has about 148 miles of shoreline and holds 35,820 acres of water.

Nearby Attractions

Visit the Haserway Wetland Demonstration Area, a 100-acre reservoir of bottomland hardwood trees, five moist soil management areas, two millet ponds and a 1.5-mile interpretive trail. The campground is just five miles from the city of Grenada. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (662) 226-1679.

Charges & Cancellations

Cancellations are subject to additional fees. $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancel

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

During winter months the water level in the reservoir is dropped more than 20 feet, to provide a storage area for spring rains and prevent flooding

Rule

Fishing license can be purchased on Highway 8, near the campground

Rule

There is a required boat ramp fee

Everything else this campground posts · 4

Rule

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.

Rule

Quiet hours are from 10:00pm until 6:00 am.

Rule

Pets must be on a leash.

Rule

No camping extensions will be granted at this time.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 86
Hookups: 85 electric, 86 water, 61 sewer
Longest rig: 70 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: 1
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Boat ramp: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

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

Around the campground

On the water: Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Historic site; Hunting; Swimming; Water sports
Night sky · 27th darkest of 61 in MS: Bortle 4

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

56 of 170 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:36 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 stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$68DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

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

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night$30

RV Electric$30

Group area, a night$50

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

A $10.00 non-refundable online reservation fee may be charged for some facilities.

Payment in full will be charged to your credit car upon completion of the reservation.

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$38

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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

“$10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.” · 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

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

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · 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 16:36 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

89 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 55 mapped sites

103 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most room79 257 ft88 252 ft62 208 ft66 201 ft67 201 ft

Least room42 55 ft43 55 ft44 57 ft

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

All 89 records

56 of 89 records located

RV / electric55Type not stated1

06 09 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 33 39 40 41 42 43 44 48 49 50 51 52 53 56 57 58 62 66 67 68 69 71 72 75 76 77 78 79 80 85 86 87 88

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. 85 of the 89 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.


NORTH ABUTMENT	01 HOST SITE	host pad	42 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	02	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	03	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	04	rv electric	42 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	05	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	06	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp		187 ft	550 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	07	rv electric	42 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	08	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	09	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp		60 ft	715 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	10	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp		60 ft	736 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	11	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp		80 ft	774 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	12	rv electric	34 ft	50 amp		80 ft	847 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	13	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	14	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp		112 ft	761 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	15	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp		146 ft	627 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	16	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp		146 ft	645 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	17	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp		146 ft	524 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	18	rv electric	32 ft	50 amp		152 ft	442 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	19	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp		187 ft	557 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	20	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp		187 ft	392 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	21	rv electric	42 ft	50 amp		98 ft	433 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	22	rv electric	32 ft	50 amp		84 ft	517 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	23	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp		84 ft	501 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	24	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp		75 ft	331 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	25	rv electric	38 ft	50 amp		127 ft	314 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	26	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp		75 ft	282 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	27	rv electric	42 ft	50 amp		183 ft	207 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	28	rv electric	42 ft	50 amp		89 ft	429 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	29	rv electric	38 ft	50 amp		89 ft	492 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	30	rv electric	42 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	31	rv electric	32 ft	50 amp		151 ft	676 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	32	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp		148 ft	730 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	33	rv electric	42 ft	50 amp		148 ft	815 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	34	rv electric	30 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	35	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	36	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	37	rv electric	48 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	38	rv electric	48 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	39	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		123 ft	530 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	40	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp		63 ft	748 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	41	rv electric	48 ft	50 amp		92 ft	679 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	42	rv electric	46 ft	50 amp		56 ft	773 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	43	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp		56 ft	795 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	44	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp		57 ft	827 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	45	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes			$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	46	rv electric	46 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	47	rv electric	60 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	48	rv electric	52 ft	50 amp		82 ft	669 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	49	rv electric	54 ft	50 amp		82 ft	595 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	50	rv electric	54 ft	50 amp		100 ft	558 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	51	type not stated	44 ft	50 amp			685 ft
NORTH ABUTMENT	52	rv electric	34 ft	50 amp		89 ft	546 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	53	rv electric	44 ft	50 amp		89 ft	457 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	54	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	55	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	56	rv electric	36 ft	50 amp		186 ft	373 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	57	rv electric	52 ft	50 amp		80 ft	265 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	58	rv electric	40 ft	50 amp		80 ft	186 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	59	rv electric	42 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	60	rv electric	38 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	61	rv electric	48 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	62	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		208 ft	151 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	63 HOST SITE	host pad	50 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	64	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	65	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	66	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		201 ft	168 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	67	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		201 ft	186 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	68	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp		132 ft	48 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	69	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		132 ft	162 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	70	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	71	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		97 ft	247 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	72	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		97 ft	276 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	73	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	74	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	75	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		140 ft	147 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	76	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp		103 ft	286 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	77	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		112 ft	312 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	78	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp		159 ft	140 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	79	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		256 ft	248 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	80	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp		196 ft	40 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	81	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	82	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	83	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	84	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp				$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	85	rv electric	50 ft	50 amp		96 ft	33 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	86	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		96 ft	115 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	87	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		138 ft	38 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	88	rv electric	70 ft	50 amp		252 ft	214 ft	$30
NORTH ABUTMENT	Pavilion 500	day use		50 amp	yes

The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it files as day use and 2 it names a host pad. 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 89 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

Coordinate33.84694, -89.77444

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone662-226-5911

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Dam Area Central1.0 mi

South Abutment B2.6 mi

South Abutment A2.8 mi

Eagle Point Campground3.2 mi

Grenada Landing3.3 mi

Bryant Campground4.6 mi

Getting there

From I-55, take the Grenada exit on highway 8 east through the City of Grenada for approximately three miles then turn left on Scenic Loop 333. Follow Scenic Loop 333 across the dam and take the second road to the right at the North end of the Dam.

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

Overnight48°Mostly Clear

Saturday68°Sunny

Saturday Night43°Clear

Sunday72°Sunny

NWS forecast for Grenada, MS

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 50°F, day 77°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.

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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: GRENADA, MS (USC00223645), 6 miles away and at about the same elevation

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

North Abutment is in Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Bennie Thompson (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. 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 87 of the 86 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 56 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: 0.78 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 61 rated federal campgrounds in Mississippi · 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 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