Pine Ridge
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 17 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:06 UTC
- A night
- $14–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4338 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pine Ridge 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 Arkansas Game and Fish Commission have also stocked hybrid striped bass in the lake. There are plenty of opportunities for hunting on the lands around the lake. Except for developed recreation areas and lands in the vicinity of the dam, all project lands are open to the public for hunting. Game species include bobwhite quail, mourning dove, turkey, fox squirrel, gray squirrel, cottontail rabbit and deer. Although DeQueen Lake does not have a designated hiking trail, the vast expanse of land is open to the public and hiking activities are welcomed anywhere on project lands.
Facilities
Pine Ridge Campground offers 35 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 at Oak Grove 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 · 5
Check out time is by 5 p.m.
No ATV/UTV's Allowed
This Area has the possiblity of flooding throughout the year. You may want to check lake levels before traveling.
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.
Please wear a life jacket when participating in water recreation activites.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 43 · 11 tent-only
- Hookups
- 26 electric, 26 water
- Longest rig
- 84 ft
- Paved pads
- 32 of 43
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 11 of 44 campsite records
- Showers
- Seasonal Showers
- SHOWERS (SEASONAL) on 11 of 44 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 44 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 11 of 44 campsite records
- 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
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Night sky · 44th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
40 of 74 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:06 UTC
recreation.gov lists 38 of the 43 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$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
44 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 44 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. 26 of the 44 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.
| Lake Side | 30 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 110 ft | $14–$25 |
| Lake Side | 31 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 156 ft | $14–$25 |
| Lake Side | 32 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 221 ft | $14–$25 |
| Lake Side | 33 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 105 ft | 228 ft | $14–$25 |
| Lake Side | 34 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 105 ft | 196 ft | $14–$25 |
| Lake Side | 35 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 175 ft | $14–$25 |
| Lake Side | 36 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 161 ft | $14–$25 |
| Lake Side | 37 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 136 ft | $14–$25 |
| Lake Side | 38 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 130 ft | 136 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 39 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 124 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 40 | standard electric | 84 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 277 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 41 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 145 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 42 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 251 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 43 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 160 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 44 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 213 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 45 | standard electric | 74 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 150 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 46 | standard electric | 76 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 132 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 47 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 176 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 48 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 290 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 49 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 182 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 50 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 276 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 51 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 182 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 52 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 257 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 53 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 160 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 54 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 133 ft | 238 ft | $14–$25 |
| Offshore | 55 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 133 ft | $14–$25 |
| Pine Ridge Park | PS1 | day use | 312 ft | 104 ft | $30 | ||
| PRID | 12 | type not stated | 79 ft | 1,014 ft | |||
| PRID | 13 | type not stated | 32 ft | 855 ft | |||
| PRID | 14 | type not stated | 60 ft | 956 ft | |||
| PRID | 16 | type not stated | 43 ft | 928 ft | |||
| PRID | 17 | type not stated | 52 ft | 880 ft | |||
| PRID | 18 | type not stated | 38 ft | 765 ft | |||
| Primitive Loop | 01 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 98 ft | 1,076 ft | ||
| Primitive Loop | 02 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 67 ft | 1,093 ft | ||
| Primitive Loop | 03 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 67 ft | 1,132 ft | ||
| Primitive Loop | 04 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 42 ft | 1,154 ft | ||
| Primitive Loop | 05 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 42 ft | 1,162 ft | ||
| Primitive Loop | 06 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 49 ft | 1,142 ft | ||
| Primitive Loop | 07 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 77 ft | 1,075 ft | ||
| Primitive Loop | 08 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 72 ft | 1,017 ft | ||
| Primitive Loop | 09 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 72 ft | 982 ft | ||
| Primitive Loop | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 108 ft | 930 ft | ||
| Primitive Loop | 11 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 114 ft | 897 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. 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.
25 of 44 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Oak Grove (AR)1.2 mi
Bellah Mine2.2 mi
Cossatot Reefs13 mi
Big Coon Creek13 mi
Little Coon Creek Park13 mi
Jefferson Ridge17 miFrom DeQueen, AR, take Highway 71 north for 3 miles. Turn west onto DeQueen Lake Road and continue for 5.5 miles, then turn west again onto County Road and follow 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
Pine Ridge 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 →