Sugar Loaf
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $18–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7672 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sugar Loaf Park is located on Greers Ferry Lake in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of north-central Arkansas. The environment provides the ideal location for family camping, fishing, boating and hiking. Keep reading
Recreation
Greers Ferry Lake is an outdoor enthusiasts' dream, with boating, sailing, water skiing, swimming, scuba diving and fishing opportunities. Sugar Loaf Mountain Island National Nature Trail is adjacent to the campground, on an island within the lake. The trail must be accessed by boat, but visitors who tackle the 1.5-mile hike reach levels 1,001 ft. above sea level, providing impressive panoramic views of the surrounding lake and countryside.
Facilities
This campground offers 70 sites, 55 of which have electric hookups. Additional amenities include flush and vault toilets, drinking water, showers, a dump station, playground, picnic shelter and a boat ramp.
Natural Features
A dense mix of red cedar, black gum, red oak, elm, pecan, and sweet gum trees forest the area, providing shade in the summer months and beautiful fall colors in autumn. Wildlife is plentiful around Greers Ferry Lake. Visitors commonly see white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, rabbits, squirrels and a wide variety of birds.
Nearby Attractions
With over 30,000 acres of water surface, the lake serves as a playground for all kinds of water sports. Eighteen parks around the shoreline provide modern campgrounds, boat ramps, swim areas and marinas. Contact Info For local information, please call (501) 654-2267 or call (501) 362-2416 for general information.
What the agency tells you
Attendant is on duty during peak season.
One wheeled camping unit and two tents or four tents are allowed per site. Maximum of 8 occupants per site.
ATV's, golf carts or off-road vehicles are prohibited.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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.
For more information on Greers Ferry Lake, click HERE .
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
- 76
- Hookups
- 55 electric
- Longest rig
- 200 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Additional amenities include flush and vault toilets, drinking water, showers, a dump station,…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Additional amenities include flush and vault toilets, drinking water, showers, a dump station, playground, picnic shelter and a boat ramp.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush and vault toilets, drinking water, showers, a dump station, playground, picnic…”
- 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, Beach
- Boating
- Swimming
- Night sky · 103rd darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 72 of the 76 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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.
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 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 rates for this season, $18–$24 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
78 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 70 mapped sites2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 78 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. 70 of the 78 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | A01 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 785 ft | $18 | ||
| A | A02 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 53 ft | 736 ft | $18 | |
| A | A03 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 67 ft | 775 ft | $18 | |
| A | A04 | type not stated | 55 ft | 691 ft | |||
| A | A04 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 66 ft | 622 ft | $18 | |
| A | A05 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 55 ft | 682 ft | $18 | |
| A | A06 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 85 ft | 525 ft | $18 | |
| A | A07 | type not stated | 40 ft | 590 ft | |||
| A | A07 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 60 ft | 464 ft | $18 | |
| A | A08 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 421 ft | $18 | |
| A | A09 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 90 ft | 306 ft | $18 | |
| A | A10 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 65 ft | 248 ft | $18 | |
| A | A11 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 65 ft | 291 ft | $18 | |
| A | A12 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 81 ft | 228 ft | $18 | |
| A | A13 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 101 ft | 202 ft | $18 | |
| A | A14 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 112 ft | 205 ft | $18 | |
| A | A15 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 785 ft | $18 | ||
| B | B01 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 346 ft | $24 |
| B | B02 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 317 ft | $24 |
| B | B03 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 382 ft | $24 |
| B | B03A | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 489 ft | ||
| B | B04 | standard electric | 41 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 370 ft | $24 |
| B | B05 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 482 ft | $24 |
| B | B06 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 514 ft | $24 |
| B | B07 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 431 ft | $24 |
| B | B08 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 586 ft | $24 |
| B | B09 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 599 ft | $24 |
| B | B10 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 590 ft | $24 |
| B | B11 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 651 ft | $24 |
| B | B12 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 608 ft | $24 |
| B | B13 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 546 ft | $24 |
| B | B14 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 30 ft | 454 ft | $24 |
| B | B15 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 30 ft | 427 ft | $24 |
| B | B15A | type not stated | 52 ft | 30 amp | 371 ft | ||
| B | B16 | standard electric | 64 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 407 ft | $24 |
| B | B17 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 445 ft | $24 |
| B | B18 | standard electric | 44 ft | 30 amp | 40 ft | 452 ft | $24 |
| B | B19 | standard electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 405 ft | $24 |
| B | B20 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 46 ft | 462 ft | $24 |
| B | B21 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 46 ft | 423 ft | $24 |
| B | B22 | standard electric | 61 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 393 ft | $24 |
| B | B23 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 356 ft | $24 |
| B | B24 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 285 ft | $24 |
| B | B25 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 215 ft | $24 |
| B | B26 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 234 ft | $24 |
| C | C01 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 632 ft | $24 |
| C | C02 | standard electric | 43 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 611 ft | $24 |
| C | C03 | standard electric | 41 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 566 ft | $24 |
| C | C04 | standard electric | 43 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 533 ft | $24 |
| C | C05 | standard electric | 67 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 473 ft | $24 |
| C | C06 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 488 ft | $24 |
| C | C07 | standard electric | 59 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 428 ft | $24 |
| C | C08 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 505 ft | $24 |
| C | C09 | standard electric | 63 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 454 ft | $24 |
| C | C10 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 596 ft | $24 |
| C | C11 | standard electric | 34 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 566 ft | $24 |
| C | C12 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 735 ft | $24 |
| C | C13 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 674 ft | $24 |
| C | C14 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 755 ft | $24 |
| C | C15 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 820 ft | $24 |
| D | D01 | standard electric | 43 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 149 ft | $24 |
| D | D02 | standard electric | 43 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 205 ft | $24 |
| D | D03 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 171 ft | $24 |
| D | D04 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 228 ft | $24 |
| D | D05 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 272 ft | $24 |
| D | D06 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 204 ft | $24 |
| D | D07 | standard electric | 61 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 137 ft | $24 |
| D | D08 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 219 ft | $24 |
| D | D09 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 228 ft | $24 |
| D | D10 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 284 ft | $24 |
| D | D11 | standard electric | 31 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 336 ft | $24 |
| D | D12 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 359 ft | $24 |
| D | D13 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 448 ft | $24 |
| D | D14 | standard electric | 66 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 477 ft | $24 |
| D | D15 | type not stated | 61 ft | 199 ft | |||
| D | D16 | type not stated | 200 ft | 330 ft | |||
| Sugar Loaf | Sugar Loaf Shelter AM | day use | $75 | ||||
| Sugar Loaf | Sugar Loaf Shelter PM | day use | $75 |
The agency files 2 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.
25 of 78 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Narrows (AR)4.4 mi
Devils Fork5.7 mi
Cherokee Campground (AR)5.8 mi
Cove Creek (AR)5.8 mi
Mill Creek (AR)5.8 mi
Choctaw6.2 miFrom Bee Branch, AR, take SR-92 12 miles northeast to SR-337. Travel SR-337 1 mile west, and follow signs to campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fairfield Bay, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°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
Sugar Loaf is in Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, J. French Hill (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →