Quarry Cove
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 16 of the next 16 nights read 16:17 UTC
- A night
- $24–$48Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 31All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Quarry Cove Campground sits along the shores of Nimrod Lake and Dam, cradled between Arkansas' Ouachita and Ozark Mountains. Visitors are greeted with shaded campsites, beautiful scenery and many outdoor recreation opportunities. Nimrod Lake provides the ideal spot to get away from it all, relax and enjoy yourself. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing is one of the most popular activities at the lake, with an abundance of catfish, bluegill, bass and crappie available. Boating, water skiing and tubing are also popular, with 11 boat ramps conveniently located around the lake, however, skiing and tubing are only allowed from the tip of Carden Point eastward toward the dam because areas west of there are too hazardous. Campers are likely to spot white-tailed deer, eastern wild turkey, bobwhite quail, squirrel, rabbit, fox, mink, black bear, dove and waterfowl in the area. Seasonal hunting is also permitted throughout the lake, except in or near recreation areas.
Facilities
With 31 spacious and modern campsites and one large day use group picnic shelter, Quarry Cove Campground has plenty of room for the family. A swimming beach, boat ramp and playground are also provided.
Natural Features
Nimrod Dam was completed in 1942 as part of a comprehensive plan for flood control and development of water resources in the Fourche LaFave River. Although recreation was not part of the initial mission of the dam project, the lake and surrounding 21,000 acres of pristine land have now become a recreational oasis for outdoor enthusiasts.
Nearby Attractions
Nimrod Lake is conveniently located adjacent to State Highway 7, a National Scenic Byway and other nearby points of interest like Petit Jean State Park, Mount Nebo State Park and Hot Springs National Park.
What the agency tells you
Check-in time: 3:00 p.m.
Check-out time: 1:00 p.m.
Park attendants are on duty from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m. & 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Two tents or one RV and one tent per campsite.
Off-road vehicles not permitted. Highway legal transportation only.
Group Shelters are Day Use Only. Camping is not allowed at group shelters.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 31
- Hookups
- 30 electric, 31 water
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 30 of 31 sites
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 32 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 42 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 81st darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
33 of 60 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:17 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, $24–$48 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 16:17 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
32 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 31 mapped sitesAll 32 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. 30 of the 32 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| QCOV | 01 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 1,392 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 02 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 1,298 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 03 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 1,228 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 04 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 1,172 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 05 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 1,039 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 06 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 1,300 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 07 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 1,244 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 08 | standard electric | 44 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 1,131 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 09 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 1,033 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 10 | standard electric | 68 ft | 30 amp | 172 ft | 593 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 11 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 111 ft | 439 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 12 | standard electric | 44 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 496 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 13 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 583 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 14 | standard electric | 28 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 653 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 15 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 129 ft | 658 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 16 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 1,003 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 17 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 1,053 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 18 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 1,125 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 19 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 1,224 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 20 | standard electric | 78 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 1,307 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 21 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 1,379 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 22 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 796 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 23 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 776 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 24 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 760 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 25 | standard electric | 28 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 736 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 26 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 724 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 27 | type not stated | 50 ft | 30 amp | 673 ft | ||
| QCOV | 28 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 108 ft | 571 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 29 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 653 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 30 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 798 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | 31 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 772 ft | $24–$48 |
| QCOV | GS-1 | day use | 20 amp | 182 ft | 412 ft | $75 |
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 32 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
River Road0.8 mi
Carden Point1.6 mi
Carter Cove4.2 miSouth Fourche Recreation Area6.9 mi
Sunlight Bay7.9 miFourche Mountain Recreation AreaOuachita National Forest · 14 miFrom Ola, Arkansas, take Route 7 south for 9 miles. Turn west onto US-60, and continue for .5 miles and follow signs into campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ola, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 76°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 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
Quarry Cove 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 →