Riverview
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:23 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Riverview Recreation Area is located below the dam at Enid Lake. Amenities include three comfort stations, volleyball court, softball field, soccer field/football field, horseshoe pits, two large picnic shelter, one small picnic shelter, 22 individual picnic sites, 1/2 mile fitness trail, fitness exercise area, and a playground. This area is popular among visitors wanting to enjoy a day at the lake picnicking, playing sports, walking and cycling. Keep reading
Recreation
Riverview offers three comfort stations, volleyball court, softball field, soccer field/football field, horseshoe pits, two large picnic shelter, one small picnic shelter, 22 individual picnic sites, 1/2 mile fitness trail, fitness exercise area, a playground and bank fishing. This area is popular among visitors wanting to enjoy a day at the lake picnicking, fishing, playing sports, walking and cycling.
Facilities
The day uses offers 22 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 comfort stations, volleyball court, softball field, soccer field/football field, horseshoe pits, two large picnic shelter, one small picnic shelter, 1/2 mile fitness trail, fitness exercise area, a playground and bank fishing in the old river run. Nearby day use areas offers 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 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. It a perfect location for a day at the lake for picnicking, exercising, playing sports, walking or to spend the day. 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 card are not accepted for picnic shelters and ball field reservations. Picnic Shelters and ball field can be reserved for $50/day. No Pets in buildings. No ATV's allowed. 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.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 3 of 4 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 3 of 4 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 4 of 4 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 3 of 4 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:23 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 Riverview 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 15:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 3 mapped sitesAll 4 records
| Picnic Shelter 541 | day use | 425 ft | 55 ft | $50 |
| Picnic Shelter/Stage 669 | day use | 293 ft | 114 ft | $50 |
| Picnic Shelter565 | day use | 293 ft | 87 ft | $50 |
| Softball Field 670 | day use | 258 ft |
The agency files 4 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
Outlet Channel (Enid Lake)0.5 mi
McCurdy Point0.8 mi
Hickory Ridge0.9 mi
Wallace Creek1.2 mi
Persimmon Hill(Enid Lake)1.7 mi
Plum Point Campground3.1 miTake exit 233 off of Interstate 55 toward Enid Lake. Go east on County Road 36 for .8 miles. Turn right on Enid Dam Road for .2 miles. Turn right onto County Road 35 for .4 miles. Turn right on County Road 517 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
Riverview 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 →