U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · AR

Starkey Campground

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 1 opens May 1.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$22–$28Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
23All of them booked ahead
29 ftLongest rig
1,360 ftElevation
796 ftWater · Beaver Lake
6 miW of Eureka Springs, AR
66%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices

In the agency’s own words

Starkey Campground sits along the vast shores of Beaver Lake in the Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas, offering spacious and sunny campsites and an abundance of recreational activities. Keep reading

Recreation

Fishing opportunities are plentiful near Starkey Campground. Beaver Lake has more than 28,000 surface acres of water, and anglers can try their luck at catching large and small-mouth bass, crappie, bream, white bass, stripers, and channel or spoon-bill catfish. Just below the dam, the cold waters of the upper White River provide a perfect habitat for pole-bending rainbow and record-size German brown trout. Several trails snake throughout the Ozark Mountains, offering peaceful hiking, biking and wildlife viewing opportunities for visitors. Hunters will find game plentiful in northwest Arkansas. A mixture of hardwood and evergreen forest provides a good home to many different species of wildlife. While Beaver Lake is conveniently located near several population centers, within a short driving distance hunters can find remote areas filled with upland game animals such as deer, rabbits and squirrels. Many other sports and activities await campers, including boating, swimming, picnicking, scuba diving, water skiing, spelunking and sightseeing.

Facilities

Starkey Campground has large campsites with plenty of shade and room for activities, and is steps away from the lake shore. Fire rings, picnic areas, drinking water all make for a comfortable camping getaway. A boat ramp and playground make the area perfect for families and other large groups.

Natural Features

Towering limestone bluffs, natural caves and a variety of trees and flowering shrubs surround Starkey Campground, making it an ideal retreat for outdoor enthusiasts. Beaver Lake and Dam, completed in 1966, was constructed in the White River Basin and boasts 449 miles of beautiful shoreline at the top of the conservation pool. Although the dam was originally built for flood control, hydroelectric power and public water supply, it has also created a popular recreational oasis.

Nearby Attractions

Several marinas are located around the lake, offering groceries, fuel, boat rentals and storage, fishing guides and camping supplies. Click here for more information.

What the agency tells you

Rule

Please check in with camp host upon arrival. Check-in is at 4:00 p.m. the afternoon of your reservation. Check out time is 1:00 p.m.

Rule

Campsites can accommodate one RV and one tent, or three tents.

Rule

No parking in the grass.

Everything else this campground posts · 7
Rule

No dumping of household trash, gray water, rubbish, black water or any other waste material or waste liquid. All waste generated must deposed of at the dump station or removed from the project lands. Shower tents and bathroom tents, commonly referred to as changing tents, are not allowed.

Rule

There is a $5 area use fee per vehicle for non-campers. Failure to pay day use fees, and or properly display applicable receipt, permit or pass is prohibited.

Rule

No off-road vehicles or golf carts are permitted.

Rule

All pets must be physically restrained in pens, cages, or on a 6-foot leash at all times. No Exceptions! Pets may not be left at campsites unattended. Persons bringing animals onto project lands are responsible for the proper removal and disposal of any waste produced by these animals.

Rule

Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project such as Beaver Lake for a period longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.

Rule

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.

Rule

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
23
Hookups
23 electric, 7 water, 7 sewer
Longest rig
29 ft
Paved pads
All
Accessible sites
None listed
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Drinking water
Yes
“…lake shore. Fire rings, picnic areas, drinking water all make for a comfortable camping getaway. A boat…”
Boat ramp
Yes
Playground
Yes
Stay limit
14 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, River, Beach
Boating
Hiking
Hunting
Night sky · 138th darkest of 158 in AR
Bortle 4
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 1, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 1, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record
A night$22–$28plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$52–$64DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
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
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Sat, May 1 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night, per site$22–$28
Standard Electric- 30 Amp$22
Standard Electric- 30 Amp Full Hookup$28
Group area, a night$75
These are next season’s rates, May 1, 2027 to Sep 14, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.
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.
What a stay costs
One nightDerived$30–$36
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$52–$64

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$28 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.

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 · 5

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

24 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 24 mapped sites
92 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Least room13 55 ft15 55 ft21 66 ft

All 24 records

24 of 24 records located
RV / electric23Day use1
SleepsTakes aUp to

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.

STARKEY CAMPGROUND01standard electric22 ft30 amp94 ft768 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND02standard electric10 ft30 amp94 ft676 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND03standard electric6 ft30 amp110 ft645 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND04standard electric20 ft30 amp90 ft539 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND05standard electric29 ft30 amp90 ft543 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND06standard electric7 ft30 amp93 ft447 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND07standard electric11 ft30 amp145 ft415 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND08standard electric7 ft30 amp102 ft357 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND09standard electric29 ft30 amp102 ft452 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND10standard electric8 ft30 amp110 ft362 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND11standard electric8 ft30 amp131 ft420 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND12standard electric10 ft30 amp103 ft447 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND13standard electric9 ft30 amp56 ft423 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND14standard electric8 ft30 amp66 ft342 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND15standard electric8 ft30 amp56 ft405 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND16standard electric11 ft30 amp77 ft284 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND17standard electric8 ft30 amp70 ft235 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND18standard electric7 ft30 amp82 ft214 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND19standard electric8 ft30 amp70 ft287 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND20standard electric7 ft30 amp103 ft207 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND21standard electric14 ft30 amp66 ft210 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND22standard electric8 ft30 amp66 ft145 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUND23standard electric7 ft30 amp90 ft183 ft$22–$28
STARKEY CAMPGROUNDGroup Shelterday useyes1006 ft313 ft$75

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 agency’s directions · the phone number
Coordinate36.39000, -93.87693
The phone479-253-5866
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Getting there

From Rogers, Arkansas, take Highway 62 east for approximately 28 miles. Turn right onto Highway 187 towards Beaver Dam and travel 5.5 miles. Turn right onto Mundell Road and follow it 3.9 miles to the campground.

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight41°Partly Cloudy
Saturday63°Sunny
Saturday Night41°Clear
Sunday68°Sunny

NWS forecast for Lost Bridge Village, AR

Typical weather

Typical October night 46°F, day 71°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 24°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°20°

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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: BENTONVILLE 4 S, AR (USC00030586), 19 miles away and 140 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Steve Womack, official portrait

Starkey Campground 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
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.
Nearest place of any size: Lost Bridge Village, AR, 1.2 mi E (a census designated place). Straight line.