Outlet Channel (Enid Lake)
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:22 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Outlet Channel Recreation Area is located below the dam at Enid Lake. Amenities include a fishing pier, three comfort stations, two fish cleaning stations, three group picnic shelters, and 27 individual picnic sites. This area is popular among fisherman, cyclists, walkers, and visitors wanting to enjoy a day at the lake picnicking, fishing, walking and cycling. Keep reading
Recreation
Outlet channel offers three comfort stations with flush toilets, 27 individual picnic sites, 3 picnic shelters, bank fishing and handicap accessible fishing per. This area is popular among fishermen and visitors wanting to enjoy a day at the lake fishing, picnicking, walking and cycling.
Facilities
The day uses offers 27 individual picnic sites that includes a grill, a serve table and picnic table. Three assessable comfort stations with flush toilets are located in this area. Other amenities includes three large picnic shelters, a playground, fishing pier and bank fishing. Nearby day use areas offers volleyball court, softball field, soccer field/football field, horseshoe pits, more picnic shelters, 1/2 mile fitness trail, fitness exercise area, a playground, bank fishing, boat ramps,life jacket loaner boards, beaches, amphitheaters and a view of the lake.
Natural Features
Pavilions, picnic sites, and other amenities are nestled among towering native pine and oak trees. The surrounding woods provide habitat for squirrels, raccoons, chipmunks, deer, butterflies, geese and variety of birds. This day use area is off Interstate 55 and easily assessable to visitors and fishermen. It a perfect location for a day at the lake for picnicking, exercising, playing sports, walking fishing in the channel or to spend the day relaxing. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (662) 563-4571.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby towns of Water Valley and Batesville, Mississippi offers shopping, hotels, restaurants and emergency care facilities if needed. Memphis, Tennessee, approximately 60 miles, offers tours of Graceland, Home of Elvis Presley. His birthplace is located in nearby Tupelo, Mississippi.
What the agency tells you
America Beautiful Senior and Access cards are not accepted for picnic shelter and amphitheater reservations. Picnic Shelters can be reserved for $50.00/day No Pets in buildings. No ATV's allowed. Don't move firewood: Protect your forests from tree illing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on site. Visit dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 3 of 3 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 3 of 3 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 3 of 3 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 3 of 3 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 3 of 3 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:22 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Outlet Channel (Enid Lake) closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 1
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Bear Creek Lake Recreation AreaSt. Francis National Forest · 59 mi
recreation.gov availability, read 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
3 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 3 mapped sitesAll 3 records
| Outlet Channel | Picnic Shelter 595 | day use | 399 ft | 119 ft | $50 |
| Outlet Channel | Picnic Shelter 596 | day use | 1420 ft | 188 ft | $50 |
| Outlet Channel | Picnic Shelter 597 | day use | 399 ft | 139 ft | $50 |
The agency files 3 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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
McCurdy Point0.4 mi
Riverview0.5 mi
Hickory Ridge0.6 mi
Wallace Creek0.8 mi
Persimmon Hill(Enid Lake)1.9 mi
Plum Point Campground2.9 miTake exit 233 off of Interstate 55 toward Enid Lake. Go east on County Road 36 for .6 miles. Take a slight right onto County Road 188 and you have arrived at the destination.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Pope, MS
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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
Outlet Channel (Enid Lake) 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 →