Shouse Ford
1Heads up1 fire 30 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 100All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Shouse Ford Campground sits on the banks of DeGray Lake in the foothills of the Quachita Mountains. Large sandy beaches, world-class fishing and endless water sports make the campground a popular recreation area. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, water skiing, kayaking and other water sports are the biggest draw to the lake, and a boat ramp and large sandy beaches are provided. The lake is also stocked with a variety of game fish, including plenty of hybrid striped bass, making it an ideal area for both boat and bank fishing.
Facilities
Shouse Ford provides reservable modern campsites with electric hookups. The campground come with flush toilets, hot showers, water, two swimming beaches, an amphitheater and a boat ramp. To see USACE DeGray Lake Virtual Tour, click here.
Natural Features
Degray Lake is one of the region's five Diamond Lakes, known for their crystal clear waters. The lake flows from the Caddo River in western Arkansas and spans 13,500 surface acres.
Nearby Attractions
The DeGray Lake Resort State Park offers golf courses, tennis courts, horseback riding trails and more along the 207 miles of lake shoreline. The Ouachita National Forest and Hot Springs National Park are both located nearby.
What the agency tells you
Check-Out time is 1:00 pm and Check-In time is 3:00 pm.
During the Non-Peak season certain campsites and loops will be closed. Reservations longer than 14 days will require an approved extension. Extensions can be obtained from a ranger, or the information board located at the entrance of campground.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
If arriving more than 24 hours after the start of your reservation, call (870) 246-5501 or your reservation will be cancelled and a $20 no-show fee plus the cost of the first night's stay will be charged.
Sanitation, No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must be disposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands.
Quiet hours are between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am.
Daily occupancy is required.
No off-road vehicles permitted.
One tent and one RV or two tents are allowed per campsite.
All pets must be penned, caged or on a 6 foot leash at all times, No Exceptions!!!
Persons bringing animals onto project lands are responsible for the proper removal and disposal of any waste produced by these animals.
Fireworks are prohibited on project lands.
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 refer to the link for rules and regulations. Rules and Regulations
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 100
- Hookups
- 100 electric
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Paved pads
- 99 of 100
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…hookups. The campground come with flush toilets, hot showers, water, two swimming beaches, an…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The campground come with flush toilets, hot showers, water, two swimming beaches, an amphitheater and a boat ramp.”
- 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
- Hot springs, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 97th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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 rate for this season, $20 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
100 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 100 mapped sitesAll 100 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. 100 of the 100 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SHOUSE FORD | 01 | rv electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 406 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 02 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 395 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 03 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 411 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 04 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 439 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 05 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 472 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 06 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 504 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 07 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 516 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 08 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 532 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 09 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 501 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 10 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 478 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 11 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 468 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 12 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 468 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 13 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 444 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 14 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 411 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 15 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 350 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 16 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 300 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 17 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 236 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 18 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 203 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 19 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 187 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 20 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 182 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 22 | rv electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 249 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 23 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 166 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 24 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 232 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 25 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 352 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 26 | rv electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 297 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 27 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 405 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 28 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 449 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 29 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 480 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 30 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 443 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 31 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 470 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 32 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 486 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 33 | rv electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 459 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 34 | rv electric | 23 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 370 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 35 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 25 ft | 341 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 36 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 25 ft | 317 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 37 | rv electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 315 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 38 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 320 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 39 | rv electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 39 ft | 325 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 40 | rv electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 320 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 41 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 39 ft | 286 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 42 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 324 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 43 | rv electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 276 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 44 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 316 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 45 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 35 ft | 258 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 46 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 275 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 47 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 229 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 48 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 199 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 49 | rv electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 33 ft | 240 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 49A | standard electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 33 ft | 215 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 50 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 146 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 51 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 236 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 51A | rv electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 292 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 52 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 125 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 53 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 252 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 54 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 117 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 55 | rv electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 221 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 56 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 147 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 57 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 109 ft | 130 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 58 | rv electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 129 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 59 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 233 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 60 | rv electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 207 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 61 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 274 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 62 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 219 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 63 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 236 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 64 | standard electric | 21 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 197 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 65 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 107 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 66 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 139 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 67 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 36 ft | 199 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 68 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 36 ft | 232 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 69 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 280 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 70 | rv electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 304 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 71 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 121 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 72 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 156 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 73 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 74 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 74 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 73 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 75 | rv electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 80 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 76 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 82 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 77 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 70 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 78 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 138 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 79 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 28 ft | 82 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 80 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 28 ft | 101 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 81 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 197 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 82 | rv electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 175 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 83 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 241 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 84 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 232 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 85 | rv electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 236 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 86 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 28 ft | 241 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 87 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 25 ft | 255 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 88 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 24 ft | 277 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 89 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 24 ft | 302 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 90 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 27 ft | 327 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 91 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | yes | 30 ft | 355 ft | $20 |
| SHOUSE FORD | 92 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 465 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 93 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 459 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 94 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 441 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 95 | standard electric | 24 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 413 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 96 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 358 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 97 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 341 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 98 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 333 ft | $20 | |
| SHOUSE FORD | 99 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 315 ft | $20 |
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 100 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Point Cedar2.2 mi
Alpine Ridge3.1 mi
Oak Bower Group Use Area3.8 mi
Arlie Moore3.8 mi
Caddo Drive5.0 mi
Edgewood5.3 miFrom Interstate 30, take exit 78 and merge onto State Highway 7 north to Bismarck. Turn left on State Highway 84 and go 9 miles west to Point Cedar. Turn left onto Shouse Ford road and continue 4 miles 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 Bismarck, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Shouse Ford 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 →