Springhill
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:06 UTC
- A night
- $16–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 48All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Download a Springhill park map HERE Springhill Park sits along John Paul Hammerschmidt Lake in the lush, rolling hills of Arkansas. Campers come here for boating, birding and relaxing. Avid mountain bikers enjoy the Springhill Park Mountain Bike Trail, a 10-mile "fast" trail where experienced bikers race frequently. The trail is also a designated National Recreation Trail. Keep reading
Recreation
Year-round fishing for catfish, bream, crappie and white and largemouth bass is fantastic in the fertile waters of the Arkansas. From late fall until early spring, the tailwaters immediately below the lock and dam boasts some of the best sauger fishing in the country.
Facilities
Springhill Park offers several spacious sites with electric hookups, along with four large group picnic shelters. Additional amenities include showers, a dump station, playground and boat ramps.
Natural Features
John Paul Hammerschmidt Lake is on the James W. Trimble Lock and Dam of the Arkansas River. Some campsites line the river while others sit between the lake and Massard Creek. Bottomland hardwood timber banks, steep bluffs and open agricultural fields create the scenery.
Nearby Attractions
The Fort Smith Museum of History is located about 20 minutes away.
What the agency tells you
NOTICE: Group shelters are open for reservations, Please follow all CDC/State guidelines for social distancing, sanitizing, and face covering for COVID-19. NOTE: A special event application is required for any event including, but not limited to one or more of the following: 1. An entry, spectator, or participating fee is charged 2. If you have an anticipated attendance of 100 or more persons 3. An extraordinary impact on project resources is expected 4. Corps personnel provide additional patrols, surveillance, refuse collection, and/or crowd control 5. Event involves the use of concession tents and/or vendors 6. Event involves Bounce Houses/Bump N Jump Inflatables 7. Fishing Tournament 8. Music Festival: In addition to the special event application, you may be asked to submit the following information before approval can be granted: (1) proof of liability insurance; (2) event details & description; (3) schedule of events; (4) parking plans. PROHIBITED: Please note that livestock, exotic animals, explosives, loaded projectile firing devices, pinatas, water balloons, and commercial activities are prohibited on project lands unless written permission has been received from the District Commander. If commercial tents are permitted for your special event, please note that driving tent stakes into concrete or asphalt on project lands is prohibited. For additional information regarding Special Event Applications & Permit Fees, please contact the Russellville Project Office at (501) 340-1762.
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• 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
- 48 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 41 electric, 37 water, 1 sewer
- Longest rig
- 113 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Additional amenities include showers, a dump station, playground and boat ramps.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 154th darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 5
8 of 86 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:06 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$26 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 16:06 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
53 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 49 mapped sitesAll 53 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 35 of the 53 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 45 of the 53 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 | A01 | type not stated | 78 ft | 30 amp | 165 ftMassard Creek | ||||
| A | A02 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 114 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A03 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 89 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A04 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 51 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A05 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 55 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A06 | standard electric | 39 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 87 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A07 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 96 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A08 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 113 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A09 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 126 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A10 | standard electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 123 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A11 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 118 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A12 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 96 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A13 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 125 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A14 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 125 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A15 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 140 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| A | A16 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 128 ftMassard Creek | $24–$26 | ||
| B | B01 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 523 ftArkansas River | 658 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B02 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 615 ftArkansas River | 546 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B03 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 114 ft | 479 ftArkansas River | 650 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B04 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 109 ft | 505 ftArkansas River | 594 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B05 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 444 ftArkansas River | 734 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B06 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 433 ftArkansas River | 800 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B07 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 313 ftArkansas River | 890 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B08 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 368 ftArkansas River | 905 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B09 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 280 ftArkansas River | 1,056 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B10 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 370 ftArkansas River | 993 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B11 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 120 ft | 304 ftArkansas River | 1,125 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B12 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 113 ft | 559 ftArkansas River | 941 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B13 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 456 ftArkansas River | 1,063 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B14 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 391 ftArkansas River | 1,118 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B15 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 335 ftArkansas River | 1,157 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B16 | standard electric | 69 ft | 50 amp | 113 ft | 600 ftArkansas River | 878 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B17 | standard electric | 113 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 574 ftArkansas River | 889 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B18 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 703 ftArkansas River | 760 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B19 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 612 ftArkansas River | 831 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B20 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 805 ftArkansas River | 656 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B21 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 39 ft | 951 ftArkansas River | 527 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B22 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 39 ft | 968 ftArkansas River | 520 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B23 | standard electric | 23 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 1,028 ftArkansas River | 476 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B24 | standard electric | 22 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 1,073 ftArkansas River | 449 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B25 | type not stated | 85 ft | 50 amp | 1,060 ftArkansas River | 257 ft | |||
| B | B26 | standard electric | 50 ft | Electricity Hookup | 195 ft | 936 ftArkansas River | 247 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | B27 | type not stated | 38 ft | 50 amp | 977 ftArkansas River | 112 ft | |||
| B | B28 | standard electric | 38 ft | Electricity Hookup | 195 ft | 830 ftArkansas River | 259 ft | $24–$26 | |
| B | GCA01 | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $30 | |||||
| E | E01 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 126 ft | 212 ft | 1,970 ft | $16 | ||
| E | E02 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 60 ft | 89 ft | 1,852 ft | $16 | ||
| E | E03 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 60 ft | 97 ft | 1,812 ft | $16 | ||
| SPRINGHILL | GS1 | day use | 20 ft | yes | 413 ft | 375 ftMassard Creek | $35 | ||
| SPRINGHILL | GS2 | day use | 20 ft | yes | 51 ft | 366 ftArkansas River | 2,930 ft | $75 | |
| SPRINGHILL | GS3 | day use | 20 ft | 15 amp | yes | 109 ft | 396 ftArkansas River | 702 ft | $75 |
| SPRINGHILL | GS4 | day use | 20 ft | 15 amp | yes | 411 ft | 1,109 ft | 232 ft | $75 |
| SPRINGHILL | GS5 | day use | 20 ft | yes | 51 ft | 370 ftArkansas River | 2,980 ft | $35 |
The agency files 5 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.
25 of 53 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Clear Creek - Ozark Lake (AR)9.7 mi
Short Mountain Cove28 mi
Shores Lake Recreation AreaOzark National Forest · 28 mi
AUX ARC29 mi
Applegate Cove30 mi
Cowlington Point30 miFrom Barling, Arkansas, take SR-59 north for 1.5 miles and follow signs into campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Barling, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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

Springhill is in Arkansas’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Steve Womack (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: D-. See every public-lands vote →