Self Creek
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- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $16–$22When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 72In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Self Creek and Jim Wylie Campgrounds are located just off of US HWY 70 on beautiful Lake Greeson. Access to the nearest boat ramp for these areas is located at the Self Creek Boat Ramp. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Greeson is recognized for its rich variety of game fish, including large mouth, small mouth, stripped, spotted, and white bass, as well as flathead and channel catfish, black and white crappie, walleye, and blue gill. The clear waters offer an excelent opportunity for many boating activites including water skiing, tubing, personal water craft, or just cruising. Four marinas at the lake offer boaters' fuel, boat and other water craft rentals, picnic and fishing supplies.
Facilities
Self Creek area (sites 1 - 46) has 15 electrical sites. Sites 1-6 and 12-20 have 20 amp and 30 amp service. Each site provides a picnic table, ground grill, pedestal grill, and lantern post. Other amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, swim beach, and playground. Dump station is located in the Jim Wylie area. Jim Wylie area (sites 47 - 72) all sites have 20 amp and 30 amp service. Site 47 has sewer and water hookup. Each site provides a picnic table, ground grill, pedestal grill, and lantern post. Other amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and dumpstation.
Natural Features
Lake Greeson is about 12 miles long with over 7,260 surface acres of water fed by the clear cool waters of the Little Missouri River. Loblolly pine, shortleaf pine, sweet gum and oak are the dominate tree species on upland areas of the lake, while bottomland hardwoods are common along rivers, creeks and streams that enter the lake. The public lands around Lake Greeson provide a variety of habitats for numerous species of wildlife, including white-tailed deer, wild turkey, geese, bald eagles, migratory waterfowl, and songbirds.
Nearby Attractions
The Bear Creek Cycle Trail is a draw for off-road enthusiasts. Trail Access Points are located in nearby campground at Daisy State Park, Kirby Landing Campground, and Bear Creek Campground. Crater of Diamonds State Park is within a 40 mile drive of the campground. It is the only diamond-producing site in the world open to the public
What the agency tells you
Campers must have a reservation confirmation number before setting up on a campsite. All transactions must be made through recreation.gov website or by calling Recreation One Stop at 877-444-6777
Check-Out time is 4:00 pm and Check-In time is 6:00 pm.
If arriving more than 24 hours after the start of your reservation, call (870) 285-2151 or your reservation will be cancelled and a $20 No-Show fee plus the cost of the first night’s stay will be charged.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Dumping of “Gray” Water is prohibited. Dump Station is available for proper disposal of waste liquid generated during authorized recreational activities.
Sanitation: All garbage, trash, litter should be deposited in receptacles (trash cans) for that purpose DAILY. Do not place in fire ring or in large trash bags hanging from lantern post, trees, etc. Trash is picked up daily.
All campers/day users are required to keep their site free of trash and litter during occupancy and remove all personal equipment and clean their site upon departure.
Pets must be caged, penned, or kept on a 6-foot leash. PETS MUST NOT BE LEFT UNATTENDED. All animal waste must be properly disposed of. Pets are prohibited in sanitary facilities, playgrounds, and swimming beaches.
Quite hours are between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am.
During the Peak Season (1 May to Labor Day) 14-day Maximum Length of Stay (NO EXTENSIONS WILL BE GRANTED).
Please refer to this link for a complete list of rules and regulations Rules and Regulations
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 72
- Hookups
- 41 electric, 1 water
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- 19 of 72
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 72 of 72 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 72 of 72 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, swim beach, and playground. Dump station is…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 12th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:22 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 · 13
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 Self Creek 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 150 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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- Redding Recreation AreaOzark National Forest · 100 mi · walk-up
recreation.gov availability, read 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
72 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 72 mapped sites5 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 72 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 72 of the 72 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.
| JW | 47 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 171 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 48 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 137 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 49 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 20 ft | 120 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 50 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 36 ft | 103 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 51 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 11 ft | 91 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 52 | standard electric | 37 ft | 30 amp | 18 ft | 90 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 53 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 24 ft | 98 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 54 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 4 ft | 108 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 55 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 22 ft | 112 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 56 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 87 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 57 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 85 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 58 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 80 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 59 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 74 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 60 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 46 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 61 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 58 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 62 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 29 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 63 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 108 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 64 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | $18–$22 | |
| JW | 65 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | $18–$22 | |
| JW | 66 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 22 ft | 108 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 67 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 4 ft | 107 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 68 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 24 ft | 117 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 69 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 18 ft | 108 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 70 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 11 ft | 101 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 71 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 36 ft | 130 ft | $18–$22 |
| JW | 72 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 20 ft | 134 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 01 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 260 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 02 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 228 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 03 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 193 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 04 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 134 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 05 | standard electric | 39 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 112 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 06 | standard electric | 21 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 131 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 07 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 43 ft | 210 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 08 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 274 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 09 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 112 ft | 522 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 10 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 112 ft | 463 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 11 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 118 ft | 404 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 12 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 43 ft | 167 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 13 | standard electric | 29 ft | 30 amp | 99 ft | 133 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 14 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 99 ft | 124 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 15 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 128 ft | 164 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 16 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 35 ft | 201 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 17 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 238 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 18 | standard electric | 39 ft | 30 amp | 35 ft | 235 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 19 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 19 ft | 271 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 20 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 19 ft | 254 ft | $18–$22 |
| SC | 21 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 37 ft | 180 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 22 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 102 ft | 258 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 23 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 53 ft | 214 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 24 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 53 ft | 183 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 25 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 37 ft | 157 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 26 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 103 ft | 140 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 27 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 103 ft | 168 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 28 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 24 ft | 177 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 29 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 24 ft | 186 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 30 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 48 ft | 189 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 31 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 219 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 32 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 78 ft | 263 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 33 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 37 ft | 210 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 34 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 37 ft | 213 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 35 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 381 ft | $16 | ||
| SC | 36 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 381 ft | $16 | ||
| SC | 37 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 18 ft | 417 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 38 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 18 ft | 417 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 39 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 381 ft | $16 | ||
| SC | 40 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 19 ft | 381 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 41 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 21 ft | 500 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 42 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 10 ft | 398 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 43 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 10 ft | 405 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 44 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 52 ft | 373 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 45 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 21 ft | 480 ft | $16 | |
| SC | 46 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 21 ft | 418 ft | $16 |
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 72 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Arrowhead Point2.7 mi
Kirby Landing3.8 mi
Star of The West4.2 mi
Bear Creek (AR)5.3 mi
Dam Area6.6 mi
Parker Creek6.7 miFrom Hot Springs, AR take HWY 70 West. At the intersection of HWY 27 South and HWY 8 East turn left on to HWY 70 West. Continue west on HWY 70 until turning left 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 Daisy, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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
Self Creek 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 →