Oak Grove (AR)
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 18 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:06 UTC
- A night
- $23–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 36All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Oak Grove Campground sits along the shores of DeQueen Lake in southwest Arkansas. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating and water sports top the list of recreational actives at the lake, and several boat ramps are provided for campers. Fishing is also a popular pastime, with large mouth bass, small mouth bass, spotted pass, black and white crappie, channel and flathead catfish and various species of sunfish available in abundance. The lake has a WMA where hunting is allowed. Except for developed recreation areas and lands in the vicinity of the dam. Game species include bobwhite quail, mourning dove, turkey, fox squirrel, gray squirrel, cottontail rabbit and deer. You can find more information at the Arkansas Game and Fish website. De Queen Lake has one designated hiking/biking trail, the trail is a little over 3 miles inside Pine Ridge Park. The trail was built to IMBA standards.
Facilities
Oak Grove Campground offers 36 spacious campsites, along with one large reservable group picnic shelter. Campsites include modern amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water.
Natural Features
DeQueen Lake is part of a dam project located on the Rolling Fork River. The dam, completed in 1977, was built for flood control and water supply, and now provides a recreational oasis for thousands of campers each year. The lake boasts 32 miles of shoreline to its visitors, along with 8,700 acres of rolling green landscape.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby town of DeQueen, Arkansas, offers gas, grocery and medical services.
What the agency tells you
Check in with Gate House upon arrival and before you set up on site.
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.
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.
Bring extra water hose and electric cords for longer distances from campsites.
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
- 36
- Hookups
- 36 electric, 35 water
- Longest rig
- 122 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…Campsites include modern amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water. Natural Features…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Campsites include modern amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…like flush toilets, showers and drinking water. Natural Features DeQueen Lake is part of a dam…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Swimming
- Water access
- Night sky · 53rd darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
59 of 66 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:06 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $23–$25 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 16:06 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
38 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 38 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. 36 of the 38 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.
| OAK GROVE PARK | 01 | standard electric | 43 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 256 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 02 | standard electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 267 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 03 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 363 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 04 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 276 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 05 | standard electric | 43 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 367 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 06 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 276 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 07 | standard electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 383 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 08 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 285 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 09 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 370 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 10 | standard electric | 37 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 270 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 11 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 349 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 12 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 321 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 13 | standard electric | 41 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 233 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 14 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 303 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 15 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 301 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 16 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 305 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 17 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 227 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 18 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 301 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 19 | standard electric | 122 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 173 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 20 | standard electric | 121 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 262 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 21 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 166 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 22 | standard electric | 113 ft | 30 amp | 105 ft | 260 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 23 | standard electric | 51 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 241 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 24 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 342 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 25 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 380 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 26 | standard electric | 44 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | 459 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 27 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 446 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 28 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 434 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 29 | standard electric | 43 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 414 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 30 | standard electric | 112 ft | 30 amp | 106 ft | 314 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 31 | standard electric | 64 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 412 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 32 | standard electric | 64 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 410 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 33 | standard electric | 88 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 305 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 34 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 422 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 35 | standard electric | 95 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 332 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | 36 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 429 ft | $23–$25 |
| OAK GROVE PARK | PS1 | day use | 20 amp | 1928 ft | 2,008 ft | $30–$40 | |
| OAK GROVE PARK | PS2 | day use | 20 amp | 111 ft | 112 ft | $30–$40 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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 38 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pine Ridge1.2 mi
Bellah Mine2.1 mi
Cossatot Reefs12 mi
Big Coon Creek12 mi
Little Coon Creek Park12 mi
Jefferson Ridge16 miFrom DeQueen, AR, take Highway 71 north for 3 miles. Turn west onto DeQueen Lake Road and continue for 5.3 miles, following signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for De Queen, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°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.
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
Oak Grove (AR) 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 →