Pat's Bluff
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pat’s Bluff is a 15 site campground located on the southern shoreline of Sardis Lake. Conveniently located near I-55, Sardis Lake consistently ranks as one of the top crappie fishing location in the country. The 32,000 reservoir is also a great fishery for bass and catfish and offers many other outdoor activities as well. Keep reading
Recreation
Sardis Lake offers an array of recreational activities, including fishing, boating, water skiing, hiking, camping, picnicking and many others. Pat’s Bluff Recreation Area includes a boat ramp, picnic shelter, and campground available to visitors.
Facilities
Pat’s Bluff has 15 campsites with water and electric hookups. Flush toilets, showers, and a dump station are available in the campground. The area also offers a group picnic shelter and a boat ramp.
Natural Features
Sardis Lake’s total area covers 98,000 acres in the rolling hills of North Mississippi. As part of Sardis Lake, Pat’s Bluff is appropriately named because of the sandstone bluff that prominent on the shoreline of Sardis Lake. The Pat’s Bluff Recreation Area is covered in a mixture of hardwood and pine forests that open up for great views of Sardis Lake.
Nearby Attractions
Pat’s Bluff campground is located off of MS Highway 278. It is a 20 minute drive to the university town of Oxford, MS (Home of Ole Miss) and a 10 minute drive to Batesville, MS. The towns of Sardis and Como are also nearby.
What the agency tells you
• Visitors are expected to be aware of general park rules. • Don’t Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Campers and/or their camping units will be limited to a stay of no more than 14 days in any 30-day period at a single USACE Vicksburg District campground. At the end of their 14-day stay, campers and camping unit must leave the campground but will be allowed to relocate to a different USACE campground at the same lake.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- 15 electric, 15 water
- Paved pads
- 11 of 15
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with water and electric hookups. Flush toilets, showers, and a dump station are available in the…”
- 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
- Reservoir, Lake, Beach
- Boating
3 of 30 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:22 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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
16 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 16 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. 15 of the 16 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Lower End | 12 | rv electric | 50 amp | 61 ft | 125 ft | $24 |
| Lower End | 13 | rv electric | 50 amp | 61 ft | 95 ft | $24 |
| Lower End | 14 | rv electric | 50 amp | 55 ft | 94 ft | $24 |
| Lower End | 15 | rv electric | 50 amp | 55 ft | 148 ft | $24 |
| Lower End | 16 | rv electric | 50 amp | 71 ft | 150 ft | $24 |
| Upper End | 1 | rv electric | 50 amp | 47 ft | 614 ft | $24 |
| Upper End | 10 HOST SITE | host pad | 50 amp | 389 ft | ||
| Upper End | 11 | rv electric | 50 amp | 120 ft | 414 ft | $24 |
| Upper End | 2 | rv electric | 50 amp | 47 ft | 644 ft | $24 |
| Upper End | 3 | rv electric | 50 amp | 97 ft | 635 ft | $24 |
| Upper End | 4 | rv electric | 50 amp | 35 ft | 546 ft | $24 |
| Upper End | 5 | rv electric | 50 amp | 46 ft | 591 ft | $24 |
| Upper End | 6 | rv electric | 50 amp | 64 ft | 456 ft | $24 |
| Upper End | 7 | rv electric | 50 amp | 35 ft | 543 ft | $24 |
| Upper End | 8 | rv electric | 50 amp | 120 ft | 422 ft | $24 |
| Upper End | 9 | rv electric | 50 amp | 64 ft | 503 ft | $24 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t 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 · the phone number
Where it is
Clear Creek (MS)1.4 mi
Engineer Point3.4 mi
Outlet Channel (Sardis)3.5 mi
Big Acres3.7 miOak Grove Campground3.7 mi
Paradise Point3.8 miFrom Interstate 55 take the Hwy. 278 east exit at Batesville, MS. Follow the road approximately 10 miles and take a left onto BlackJack Road. Follow Blackjack Road approximately 3/4 of a mile and turn right onto Sardis Lake Drive. Follow Sardis Lake Drive for approximately 6 miles and the road dead ends straight at Pat's Bluff Recreation Area. Follow the road straight to get 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 Oxford, MS
Typical weather
Typical October night 54°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°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 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
Pat's Bluff 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 →