Parker Creek
1Heads up1 fire 30 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:16 UTC
- A night
- $16–$22Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 60All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Parker Creek Campground is located on Lake Greeson on the beautiful Little Missouri River in Pike County, Arkansas. The lake is approximately 12 miles long with 7,260 surface acres of water for water sports, picnicking and hiking along the forested lake shore. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Greeson is recognized for its rich variety of game fish, including large mouth, stripped, spotted, small mouth and white bass, as well as flathead and channel catfish, black and white crappie, walleye and blue gill. The tail-waters of the Little Missouri River below the dam also support a healthy population of rainbow trout and small mouth bass. Boating is another popular activity. The beautiful clear waters offer an excellent opportunity for many boating activities including water skiing, tubing, cruising and fishing. Four marinas at Lake Greeson offer boaters fuel, boat rentals and picnic and fishing supplies. Lake Greeson offers 30 miles of walking, nature and cycling trails for public use. There is a short nature trail in the campground for naturalists, birders and families to enjoy. The best opportunity for hunting lies within the Lake Greeson Wildlife Management Area. Deer, quail, turkey, squirrel and rabbits are the primary game.
Facilities
Parker Creek offers 60 campsites, most of which have electric hookups. There are also three tent-only, non-electric sites. Each campsite has a picnic table, grill and lantern pole. Other amenities include a dump station, drinking water, two bathrooms with hot showers, a boat ramp, playground and swimming beach.
Natural Features
Central Arkansas is mild and somewhat humid in spring and fall, hot and very humid in summer and variable in winter, where temperatures may range from below freezing to the 60s. Loblolly pine, shortleaf pine, sweet gum and oak are the dominant tree species on upland areas of the lake, while bottomland hardwoods are common along rivers, creeks and streams that enter the lake. The public lands around Lake Greeson provide a variety of habitats for numerous species of wildlife, including white-tailed deer, wild turkey, geese, southern bald eagles, migratory waterfowl and songbirds. Bald eagles are an attraction for visitors each winter.
Nearby Attractions
Ouachita National Forest and Hot Springs National Park are within a two-hour drive from the campground.
What the agency tells you
Campers must have a reservation confirmation number before setting up on a campsite. All transactions must be made through recreation.gov or by calling 877-444-6777.
Check-Out time is 4:00 pm and Check-In time is 6:00 pm.
If arriving more than 24 hours after the start of your reservation, call (870) 285-2151 or your reservation will be cancelled and a $20 No-Show fee plus the cost of the first night’s stay will be charged.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Dumping of “Gray” Water is prohibited. Dump Station is available for proper disposal of waste liquid generated during authorized recreational activities.
Sanitation: All garbage, trash, litter should be deposited in receptacles (trash cans) for that purpose DAILY. Do not place in fire ring or in large trash bags hanging from lantern post, trees, etc. Trash is picked up daily.
All campers/day users are required to keep their site free of trash and litter during occupancy and remove all personal equipment and clean their site upon departure.
Pets must be caged, penned, or kept on a 6-foot leash. PETS MUST NOT BE LEFT UNATTENDED. All animal waste must be properly disposed of. Pets are prohibited in sanitary facilities, playgrounds, and swimming beaches.
Quite hours are between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am.
During the Peak Season (1 May to Labor Day) 14-day Maximum Length of Stay (NO EXTENSIONS WILL BE GRANTED).
Please refer to this link for a complete list of rules and regulations Rules and Regulations
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 60 · 3 tent-only
- Hookups
- 57 electric, 57 water, 2 sewer
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- 48 of 60
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 60 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 1 of 60 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 60 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 3 of 60 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Night sky · 14th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 3
13 of 52 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:16 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, $16–$22 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 16:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
60 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 60 mapped sitesAll 60 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. 60 of the 60 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| PARKER CREEK | 01 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 182 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 02 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 272 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 03 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 225 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 04 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 212 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 05 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 215 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 06 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 232 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 07 | standard electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 370 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 08 | standard electric | 33 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 83 ft | 365 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 09 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 362 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 10 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 349 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 11 | standard electric | 29 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 236 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 12 | standard electric | 18 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 326 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 13 | standard electric | 22 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 219 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 14 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 137 ft | 95 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 15 | standard electric | 16 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 102 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 16 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 110 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 17 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 113 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 18 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 126 ft | 129 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 19 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 154 ft | 93 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 20 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 114 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 21 | standard electric | 18 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 150 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 22 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 142 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 23 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 139 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 24 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 145 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 25 | standard electric | 22 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 131 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 26 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 136 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 27 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 128 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 28 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 134 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 29 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 132 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 30 | standard electric | 18 ft | 50 amp | 106 ft | 110 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 31 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 125 ft | 115 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 32 | standard electric | 18 ft | 50 amp | 131 ft | 156 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 33 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 210 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 34 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 279 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 35 | standard electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 315 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 36 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 463 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 37 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 547 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 38 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 549 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 39 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 679 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 40 | standard electric | 16 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 690 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 41 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 814 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 42 | standard electric | 18 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 845 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 43 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 154 ft | 985 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 44 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 860 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 45 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 833 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 46 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 700 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 47 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 704 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 48 | standard electric | 19 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 624 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 49 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 849 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 50 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 897 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 51 | standard electric | 24 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 985 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 52 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 168 ft | 781 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 53 | standard electric | 24 ft | 50 amp | 168 ft | 623 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 54 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 459 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 55 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 100 ft | 403 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 56 | standard electric | 32 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 132 ft | 348 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 57 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 132 ft | 300 ft | $20–$22 |
| PARKER CREEK | 58 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 110 ft | 352 ft | $16 | |
| PARKER CREEK | 59 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 96 ft | 431 ft | $16 | |
| PARKER CREEK | 60 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 94 ft | 353 ft | $16 |
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 60 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Dam Area2.0 mi
Cowhide Cove5.0 mi
Self Creek6.7 mi
Kirby Landing6.9 mi
Arrowhead Point7.9 mi
Bear Creek (AR)7.9 miFrom Texarkana, Arkansas, take Interstate 30 east for 46 miles to Prescott. Continue onto Highway 19 north to Narrows Dam. After crossing the bridge across the Little Missouri River, proceed about 3 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Murfreesboro, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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
Parker Creek 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 →