South Abutment A
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 21 mi
This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
South Outlet Day Use area pavilion overlooks the Outlet Channel and is an excellent location for fishing opportunities. Not only can visitors bank fish, they can also use the boat ramp or handicap accessible pier. Pavilion 470 is located within walking distance of a restroom, playground, and nature trail and can accommodate up to 75 individuals. Keep reading
Recreation
Playgrounds, hiking trail, and boat ramp in area.
Facilities
Restrooms in area. Boat ramp that has a $5 fee.
Natural Features
Great place to view wildlife and various plants and trees.
Nearby Attractions
Attractions include the Overlook, Lost Bluff Hiking Trail, and Dogwoods Golf Course.
What the agency tells you
Pets have to be on a leash. Boat Ramp has a $5 fee and you must wear a life jacket while boating.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 3 of 3 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 14:14 UTC
The agency files 3 records here and marks every one of them day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
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.
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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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 14:14 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
3 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 3 mapped sitesAll 3 records
| South Abutment A | Pavilion 470 | day use | 555 ft | 160 ft | $50 |
| South Abutment A | Pavilion 494 | day use | 403 ft | 380 ft | $50 |
| South Abutment A | Pavilion 495 | day use | 403 ft | 192 ft | $50 |
The agency files 3 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 phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Grenada, MS
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°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 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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
South Abutment A 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 →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyBennie G. ThompsonU.S. Representative · Mississippi’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationCindy Hyde-SmithU.S. Senator · Mississippi
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRoger F. WickerU.S. Senator · Mississippi
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject South Abutment A has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Bennie G. Thompson, I’m a constituent in Mississippi’s 2nd district. South Abutment A, Mississippi carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about South Abutment A (Mississippi) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject South Abutment A has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Cindy Hyde-Smith, I’m a constituent in Mississippi. South Abutment A, Mississippi carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about South Abutment A (Mississippi) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject South Abutment A has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Roger F. Wicker, I’m a constituent in Mississippi. South Abutment A, Mississippi carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about South Abutment A (Mississippi) via campanac.com