Spadra
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 23All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Download a Spadra park map HERE Beautiful campground on the Arkansas river providing excellent opportunities for recreation, boating, fishing, and watefowl viewing. Keep reading
Recreation
This quaint park offers great opportunities for fishing and has an excellent day use area with multiple picnic areas. Campsites with available electric and water, boat launching ramps, and an adjacent marina make recreating easy.
Facilities
Spadra park includes 24 campsites many with electric and water, 2 picnic shelters, showers facilities, 2 restrooms, and 2 boat ramps.
Natural Features
Sitting next to the Arkansas River, a major interstate waterway, this park is an excellent entry to Little Spadra Creek and Higskin Creek.
Nearby Attractions
A short drive into the nearby city of Clarksville, Arkansas provides ample shopping opportunities. A marina is also close by for the last minute boating and fishing needs.
What the agency tells you
NOTICE: Group Shelters are open for reservations. Please follow all applicable CDC, State, and local guidelines regarding public health and safety. SPECIAL EVENT APPLICATION REQUIREMENT The Special Event Application can be found under the Facility Information tab, Additional Information sub-tab. A Special Event Application is required for any event that includes one or more of the following: - An entry, spectator, or participant fee is charged. - Anticipated attendance of 100 or more persons. - An extraordinary impact on project resources is expected. - Additional Corps personnel support is required, including patrols, surveillance, refuse collection, and/or crowd control. - The event involves concession tents and/or vendors. - The event involves bounce houses or inflatable amusement devices. - Fishing tournaments. - Music festivals. Once completed, the Special Event Application must be submitted via email to rv.ceswl-rv@usace.army.mil for review and approval. In addition to the Special Event Application, applicants may be required to provide the following before approval can be granted: - Proof of liability insurance - Event details and description - Schedule of events - Parking plans PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES Livestock, exotic animals, explosives, loaded projectile firing devices, piñatas, water balloons, and commercial activities are prohibited on project lands unless written permission has been received from the District Commander. If commercial tents are approved as part of a special event, driving tent stakes into concrete or asphalt surfaces on project lands is prohibited. For additional information regarding Special Event Applications and Permit Fees, please contact the Russellville Project Office at (501) 340-1762.
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.
Two tents or one RV and one tent per campsite
Everything else this campground posts · 1
• For Aquatic Facilities (Lake, Reservoir, or River Recreation): 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. • For Terrestrial Facilities (Trailheads or Campsites): 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. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec . • For Combined Aquatic and Terrestrial Facilities (Trailheads or Campsites with Lake, Reservoir, or River Recreation): 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
- 23
- Hookups
- 23 electric, 9 water
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- 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
- River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Wildlife viewing
15 of 48 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:22 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sites2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 24 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. 23 of the 24 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.
| A | A1 | standard electric | 30 amp | 96 ft | 126 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| A | A2 | standard electric | 30 amp | 110 ft | 157 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| A | A3 | standard electric | 30 amp | 92 ft | 121 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| A | A4 | standard electric | 30 amp | 70 ft | 108 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| A | A5 | standard electric | 30 amp | 80 ft | 80 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| A | A6 | standard electric | 30 amp | 85 ft | 81 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| A | A7 | standard electric | 30 amp | 149 ft | 86 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| B | B2 | standard electric | 30 amp | 70 ft | 178 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| B | B3 | standard electric | 30 amp | 85 ft | 159 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| B | B4 | standard electric | 30 amp | 80 ft | 140 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| C | C1 | standard electric | 30 amp | 79 ft | 100 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| C | C2 | standard electric | 30 amp | 79 ft | 109 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| C | C3 | standard electric | 30 amp | 154 ft | 90 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| C | C4 | standard electric | 30 amp | 111 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | ||
| C | C5 | standard electric | 30 amp | yes | 94 ft | 121 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 |
| D | D1 | standard electric | 30 amp | 111 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | ||
| D | D2 | standard electric | 30 amp | 61 ft | 140 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| D | D3 | standard electric | 30 amp | 61 ft | 157 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| D | D4 | standard electric | 30 amp | 52 ft | 195 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| D | D5 | standard electric | 30 amp | 52 ft | 180 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| P | GS1 | day use | 15 amp | 151 ft | 171 ftLake Dardanelle | $75 | |
| P | P1 | standard electric | 30 amp | 96 ft | 175 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| P | P2 | standard electric | 30 amp | 104 ft | 267 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 | |
| P | P3 | standard electric | 30 amp | 104 ft | 261 ftLake Dardanelle | $22 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t 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 Clarksville, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 73°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 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
Spadra 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 →