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Sleepy Bend Campground

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:33 UTC
Why it’s closed, and what’s open near hereTell me when it comes back
Right now
Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:33 UTC
Sites
50In the agency’s record
Photographs of individual campsites · Usace

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices

In the agency’s own words

Walking trails, Playgrounds, and Beaches are located a short drive from campground Facilities The area has 2 shower houses Natural Features Sleepy Bend Campgroud is a Class C Campground located on the Lower Sardis Lake.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Beginning August 11, 2024, Sardis will begin drawing down water in the Lower Lake to perform maintenance on the outlet channel. During this time swimming areas will be closed and boating traffic on the Lower Lake will be limited to fishing only. If you have any questions, please contact the Sardis Lake Field Office at 662-563-4531.

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
50 · 43 tent-only
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Playground
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Beach
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:33 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.

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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.

We’ll write once, when the agency reopens it.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Every line of the receipt · 8

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 3
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Sleepy Bend Campground 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.

Closure: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers status record · Oct 16, 2026

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.

recreation.gov availability, read 15:33 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

50 sites

All 50 sites

1tent only nonelectric
10tent only nonelectric
11tent only nonelectric
12tent only nonelectric
13tent only nonelectric
14tent only nonelectric
15type not stated
16tent only nonelectric
17tent only nonelectric
18tent only nonelectric
19tent only nonelectric
2tent only nonelectric
20tent only nonelectric
21tent only nonelectric
22tent only nonelectric
23tent only nonelectric
24tent only nonelectric
25tent only nonelectric
26tent only nonelectric
27tent only nonelectric
28tent only nonelectric
29tent only nonelectric
3tent only nonelectric
30tent only nonelectric
31tent only nonelectric
32tent only nonelectric
33tent only nonelectric
34tent only nonelectric
35tent only nonelectric
36tent only nonelectric
37tent only nonelectric
38tent only nonelectric
39tent only nonelectric
4tent only nonelectric
40tent only nonelectric
41tent only nonelectric
42tent only nonelectric
43tent only nonelectric
44tent only nonelectric
45type not stated
46type not stated
47type not stated
48type not stated
49type not stated
5tent only nonelectric
50type not stated
6tent only nonelectric
7tent only nonelectric
8tent only nonelectric
9tent only nonelectric

25 of 50 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the phone number
The phone662-563-4531
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

The weather

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

The land, and who answers for it

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 15:33 UTC). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 43 of the 50 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 12, 2026
Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.