Notrebes Bend Park
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 33 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $19From, per site
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
This small, quiet campground contains 30 campsites and sits on the Arkansas River just below Wilbur D. Mills Dam. It is also along the Mississippi Flyway, the route millions of migratory birds take to get to and from the Gulf of Mexico. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing the tailwaters of Wilbur D. Mills Dam attracts anglers with an abundance of largemouth bass, crappie, bream and catfish, with catfish being a priority to many fishers. Boating, hunting, hiking and birding are also popular pastimes in this area.
Facilities
Notrebes Bend Campground offers 30 campsites with 50 amp electric hookups, drinking water and campfire rings. Twenty-four sites may be reserved. There is a comfort station located in the Campgound offering restrooms and hot showers for park users. There is also a boat ramp for visitors seeking access to the Arkansas River below Wilbur D. Mills Dam.
Natural Features
Notrebes Bend Campground is located on the Arkansas River just below Wilbur D. Mills Dam. The Arkansas River below Wilbur D. Mills meanders for 26 miles before it meets the Mississppi River. Just upriver of the Dam is Pool 2; which includes the Arkansas Post Canal which stretches east to connect with the White River, Merrisach Lake and Coal Pile Lake, a state designated waterfowl rest area.
Nearby Attractions
The Arkansas Post National Memorial marks the spot for the first European village built west of the Mississippi River in 1686. The Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge is also nearby, offering excellent fishing, hunting, and wildlife viewing.
What the agency tells you
Campground is currently closed.
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.
No Swimming, Wading or Diving is in effect in the Arkansas River.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Water levels may rise or fall rapidly due to the close proximity below Wilbur D. Mills Dam. Boaters should exercise caution and maintain a proper lookout for changing river conditions.
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
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
- 30
- Hookups
- 30 electric, 30 water
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “There is a comfort station located in the Campgound offering restrooms and hot showers for park users.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campsites with 50 amp electric hookups, drinking water and campfire rings. Twenty-four sites may be…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Birding
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Night sky · 39th 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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $19 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
30 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 30 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. 30 of the 30 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.
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B01 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 415 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B02 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 428 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B03 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 442 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B04 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 497 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B05 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 526 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B06 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 476 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B07 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 439 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B08 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 574 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B09 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 593 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B10 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 607 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B11 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 645 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 619 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B13 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 589 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | B14 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 555 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C01 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 587 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C02 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 657 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C03 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 688 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C04 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 781 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C05 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 141 ft | 891 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C06 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 781 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C07 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 127 ft | 901 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C08 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 774 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C09 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 792 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C10 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 114 ft | 911 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C11 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 798 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 123 ft | 839 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C13 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 123 ft | 721 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C14 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 785 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C15 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 693 ft | $19 |
| NOTREBES BEND PARK | C16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 613 ft | $19 |
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 30 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Wilbur D. Mills0.6 mi
Pendleton Bend3.0 mi
Merrisach Lake3.8 mi
Rising Star28 miSte Marie Park41 mi
Tar Camp56 miFrom DeWitt Arkansas, take US-165 south for 8.1 miles. Exit onto State Route 44 east and continue south for 5.3 miles to Tichnor. Take Tichnor Blacktop Road for 10 miles, cross the Arkansas Post Canal Bridge, and turn right onto Wilbur D. Mills Road. Continue for 6.5 miles and enter park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Watson, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Notrebes Bend Park 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 →