Rocky Branch Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 30 nights read 16:11 UTC
- A night
- $22–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 41All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Rocky Branch Campground sits along the vast shores of Beaver Lake in the Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas, offering spacious and sunny campsites and an abundance of recreational activities. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing opportunities are plentiful near Rocky Branch Campground. Beaver Lake has more than 28,000 surface acres of water, and anglers can try their luck at catching large and small-mouth bass, crappie, bream, white bass, stripers, and channel or spoon-bill catfish. Just below the dam, the cold waters of the upper White River provide a perfect habitat for pole-bending rainbow and record-size German brown trout. Several trails snake throughout the Ozark Mountains, offering peaceful hiking, biking and wildlife viewing opportunities for visitors. Hunters will find game plentiful in northwest Arkansas. A mixture of hardwood and evergreen forest provides a good home to many different species of wildlife. While Beaver Lake is conveniently located near several population centers, within a short driving distance hunters can find remote areas filled with upland game animals such as deer, rabbits and squirrels. Many other sports and activities await campers, including boating, swimming, picnicking, scuba diving, water skiing, spelunking and sightseeing.
Facilities
Rocky Branch Campground has large campsites with plenty of shade and room for activities, and is steps away from the lake shore. Fire rings, picnic areas, drinking water and flush toilets all make for a comfortable camping getaway. A boat ramp and playground make the area perfect for families and other large groups.
Natural Features
Towering limestone bluffs, natural caves and a variety of trees and flowering shrubs surround Rocky Branch Campground, making it an ideal retreat for outdoor enthusiasts. Beaver Lake and Dam, completed in 1966, was constructed in the White River Basin and boasts 449 miles of beautiful shoreline at the top of the conservation pool. Although the dam was originally built for flood control, hydroelectric power and public water supply, it has also created a popular recreational oasis.
Nearby Attractions
Several marinas are located around the lake, offering groceries, fuel, boat rentals and storage, fishing guides and camping supplies. Click here for more information.
What the agency tells you
Please check in with camp host upon arrival. Check-in is at 4:00 p.m. the afternoon of your reservation. Check out time is 1:00 p.m.
Campsites can accommodate one RV and one tent, or three tents.
No parking in the grass.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must deposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands. Shower tents and bathroom tents, commonly referred to as changing tents, are not allowed.
There is a $5 area use fee per vehicle for non-campers. Failure to pay day use fees, and or properly display applicable receipt, permit or pass is prohibited.
No off-road vehicles or golf carts are permitted.
All pets must be physically restrained in pens, cages, or on a 6-foot leash at all times. No Exceptions! Pets may not be left at campsites unattended. Persons bringing animals onto project lands are responsible for the proper removal and disposal of any waste produced by these animals.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project such as Beaver Lake for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
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.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 41
- Hookups
- 39 electric, 1 water
- Longest rig
- 82 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…rings, picnic areas, drinking water and flush toilets all make for a comfortable camping getaway. A boat…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 43 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 146th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
3 of 78 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:11 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$26 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 16:11 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
43 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 41 mapped sitesAll 43 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. 39 of the 43 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.
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard electric | 4 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 50 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 97 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 135 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard electric | 17 ft | 30 amp | 110 ft | 153 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard electric | 5 ft | 50 amp | 114 ft | 73 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 74 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard electric | 13 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 72 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard electric | 18 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 44 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 38 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 42 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 49 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 56 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 69 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 63 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 89 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 43 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard electric | 23 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 62 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard electric | 22 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 64 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 66 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 116 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 100 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard electric | 19 ft | 30/50 amp | 75 ft | 133 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 130 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 024 | type not stated | 5 ft | 50 amp | 24 ft | |||
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 025 | type not stated | 15 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | |||
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 164 ft | 307 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard electric | 27 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 334 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 350 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard electric | 24 ft | 30 amp | 145 ft | 457 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard electric | 12 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 314 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard electric | 12 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 303 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 035 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 513 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 036 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 498 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 037 | standard electric | 21 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 582 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 038 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 580 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 039 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 558 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 040 | standard electric | 82 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 460 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 041 | standard electric | 26 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 440 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 042 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 412 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 043 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 379 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | 044 | standard electric | 31 ft | 30 amp | 124 ft | 380 ft | $22–$26 | |
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | Group Shelter 1 | day use | yes | 171 ft | 136 ft | $75 | ||
| ROCKY BRANCH CAMPGROUND | Group Shelter 2 | day use | yes | 171 ft | 216 ft | $75 |
The agency files 2 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.
25 of 43 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lost Bridge South4.6 mi
Starkey Campground5.0 mi
Lost Bridge North5.7 mi
Horseshoe Bend (Beaver Lake)5.8 mi
Indian Creek Campground (AR)6.3 mi
Prairie Creek (AR)6.7 miFrom Rogers, Arkansas, take Highway 12 east for just under 10 miles. Turn left onto Highway 303 and travel 3.5 miles. Turn left onto Park Road and follow it 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 Lost Bridge Village, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 24°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

Rocky Branch Campground is in Arkansas’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Steve Womack (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: D-. See every public-lands vote →