Old Highway 25
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 16 nights read 15:58 UTC
- A night
- $18–$28Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 11898 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Old Highway 25 Park is located on Greers Ferry Lake in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of north-central Arkansas. The environment provides the ideal location for family camping, fishing, boating and hiking. Keep reading
Recreation
Greers Ferry Lake is an outdoor enthusiasts' dream, with boating, sailing, water skiing, swimming, scuba diving and fishing opportunities. Hikers enjoy the area's three National Nature Trails and one multi-purpose fitness trail. The William Carl Garner Visitor Center is just west of the dam, with exhibits, a children's touch table, and a replica of the world record 40 lb. 4 oz. brown trout caught in the Little Red River downstream of the center.
Facilities
This campground offers 116 sites, 80 of which have electric hookups. One large non-electric group campsite is available as well. Additional amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, a dump station, picnic shelter, swimming beach and a boat ramp.
Natural Features
A dense mix of red cedar, black gum, red oak, elm, pecan and sweet gum trees forest the area, providing shade in the summer months and beautiful fall colors in autumn. Wildlife is plentiful around Greers Ferry Lake. Visitors commonly see white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, rabbits, squirrels and a wide variety of birds. Contact Info For local information, please call (501) 250-0483 or call (501) 362-2416 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
The Greers Ferry National Fish Hatchery, in Heber Springs, located below the dam, offers free tours. Built in 1965, the hatchery produces about one million rainbow trout a year for restocking the Little Red and other Arkansas streams.
What the agency tells you
Attendant is on duty during peak season.
One wheeled camping unit and two tents or four tents are allowed per site. Maximum of 8 occupants per site.
ATV's, golf carts or off-road vehicles are prohibited.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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.
For more information on Greers Ferry Lake, click HERE .
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
- 118 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 80 electric, 9 water
- Longest rig
- 89 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Additional amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, a dump station, picnic shelter, swimming…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Additional amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, a dump station, picnic shelter, swimming beach and a boat ramp.”
- 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, Creek, Beach
- Swimming
- Night sky · 128th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
50 of 190 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:58 UTC
recreation.gov lists 98 of the 118 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$28 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 15:58 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
120 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 96 mapped sitesAll 120 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 30 of the 120 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 96 of the 120 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | A01 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 134 ft | 741 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A02 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 596 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A03 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 111 ft | 648 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A04 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 542 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A05 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 476 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A06 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 465 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A07 | standard electric | 84 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 571 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A08 | standard electric | 77 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 703 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A09 | standard electric | 85 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 727 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A10 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 101 ft | 822 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A11 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 108 ft | 901 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A12 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 112 ft | 799 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A13 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 108 ft | 906 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A14 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 94 ft | 702 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A15 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 132 ft | 823 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A16 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 103 ft | 702 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A17 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 92 ft | 599 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A18 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 94 ft | 608 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A19 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 92 ft | 523 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A20 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 92 ft | 502 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A21 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 90 ft | 410 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A22 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 99 ft | 424 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A23 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 90 ft | 320 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A24 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 87 ft | 338 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A25 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 221 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A26 | standard electric | 51 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 135 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A27 | standard electric | 67 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 256 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A28 | standard electric | 89 ft | 30 amp | 137 ft | 110 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A29 | standard electric | 51 ft | 30 amp | 123 ft | 236 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A30 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 131 ft | 62 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A31 | standard electric | 76 ft | 30 amp | 136 ft | 193 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A32 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 75 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A33 | standard electric | 64 ft | 30 amp | 136 ft | 218 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A34 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 120 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A35 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 146 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A36 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 115 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A37 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 237 ft | $22–$28 | |
| A | A38 | standard electric | 61 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 214 ft | $22–$28 | |
| B | B01 | type not stated | 73 ft | 296 ft | ||||
| B | B02 | type not stated | 65 ft | 297 ft | ||||
| B | B03 | type not stated | 70 ft | 200 ft | ||||
| B | B04 | type not stated | 70 ft | 100 ft | ||||
| B | B05 | type not stated | 45 ft | 225 ft | ||||
| B | B06 | type not stated | 65 ft | 13 ft | ||||
| B | B07 | type not stated | 80 ft | 113 ft | ||||
| B | B08 | type not stated | 70 ft | 34 ft | ||||
| B | B09 | type not stated | 55 ft | 140 ft | ||||
| B | B10 | type not stated | 55 ft | 69 ft | ||||
| B | B11 | type not stated | 60 ft | 174 ft | ||||
| B | B12 | type not stated | 60 ft | 116 ft | ||||
| B | B13 | type not stated | 50 ft | 207 ft | ||||
| B | B14 | type not stated | 60 ft | 144 ft | ||||
| B | B15 | type not stated | 70 ft | 208 ft | ||||
| B | B16 | type not stated | 63 ft | 235 ft | ||||
| C | C01 | type not stated | 23 ft | 50 ft | ||||
| C | C02 | type not stated | 19 ft | 63 ft | ||||
| C | C03 | type not stated | 25 ft | 46 ft | ||||
| C | C04 | type not stated | 17 ft | under 10 ft | ||||
| C | C05 | type not stated | 15 ft | under 10 ft | ||||
| D | D01 | standard electric | 22 ft | 30 amp | 111 ft | 301 ft | $22–$28 | |
| D | D02 | standard electric | 69 ft | 30 amp | 111 ft | 254 ft | $22–$28 | |
| D | D03 | standard electric | 72 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 191 ft | $22–$28 | |
| D | D04 | standard electric | 43 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 181 ft | 3,267 ft | $22–$28 |
| D | D05 | standard electric | 44 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 193 ft | 3,196 ft | $22–$28 |
| D | D06 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 208 ft | 3,114 ft | $22–$28 |
| D | D07 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 245 ft | 3,019 ft | $22–$28 |
| D | D08 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 257 ft | 2,974 ft | $22–$28 |
| D | D09 | standard electric | 59 ft | 30 amp | 105 ft | 223 ft | 2,881 ft | $22–$28 |
| D | D10 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 304 ft | 3,144 ft | $22–$28 |
| E | E01 | standard electric | 88 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 356 ft | 3,170 ft | $22–$28 |
| E | E02 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 267 ft | 3,073 ft | $22–$28 |
| E | E03 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 273 ft | 3,152 ft | $22–$28 |
| E | E04 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 253 ft | 3,047 ft | $22–$28 |
| E | E05 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 229 ft | 3,131 ft | $22–$28 |
| E | E06 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 262 ft | 3,021 ft | $22–$28 |
| E | E07 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 135 ft | 202 ft | 3,138 ft | $22–$28 |
| E | E08 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 135 ft | 178 ft | 3,018 ft | $22–$28 |
| E | E09 | standard electric | 87 ft | 50 amp | 193 ft | 124 ft | 3,055 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F01 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 298 ft | 3,096 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F02 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 210 ft | 3,001 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F03 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 139 ft | 2,922 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F04 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 92 ft | 2,838 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F04A | type not stated | 25 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 2,789 ft | ||
| F | F05 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 116 ft | 2,767 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F06 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 149 ft | 2,754 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F07 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 188 ft | 2,765 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F08 | standard electric | 39 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 120 ft | 2,802 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F09 | standard electric | 41 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 74 ft | 2,590 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F10 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 128 ft | 2,738 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F11 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 62 ft | 2,670 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F12 | standard electric | 39 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 106 ft | 2,627 ft | $22–$28 |
| F | F13 | standard electric | 34 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 74 ft | 2,623 ft | $22–$28 |
| G | G01 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 299 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G02 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 374 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G03 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 246 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G04 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 173 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G05 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 259 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G06 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 144 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G07 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 200 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G08 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 120 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G09 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 161 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G10 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 110 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G11 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 160 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G12 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 94 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G13 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 157 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G14 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 81 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G15 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 94 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G16 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 160 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G17 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 96 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G18 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 110 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G19 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 113 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G20 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 179 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G21 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 126 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G22 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 144 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G23 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 194 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G24 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 201 ft | $22–$28 | |
| G | G25 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 189 ft | $22–$28 | |
| GROU | GR B | group standard nonelectric | 1383 ft | 287 ft | $150 | |||
| Old Highway 25 | Old Highway 25 Shelter AM | day use | 30 amp | $50 | ||||
| Old Highway 25 | Old Highway 25 Shelter PM | day use | 30 amp | $50 |
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.
25 of 120 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Dam Site(Greers Ferry)1.6 miDam Site Campground1.6 mi
John F Kennedy1.9 mi
Heber Springs3.3 mi
Shiloh7.0 mi
Cherokee Campground (AR)8.3 miFrom Heber Springs, AR, take SR-25 6.25 miles north to SR-25S. Travel SR-25S 3 miles west and follow signs to campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tumbling Shoals, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 73°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

Old Highway 25 is in Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, J. French Hill (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →