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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · MS

Wallace Creek

ReservableBookable through October 31; an off-peak season follows November 1 to February 28.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:23 UTC
A night: $30From, per site
Sites: 101All of them booked ahead

Photos · USACE

141 ftLongest rig

260 ftElevation

1,091 ftWater · Enid Lake

5.5 miSE of Courtland, MS

37%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices

In the agency’s own words

Wallace Creek is a quiet, family-oriented campground situated along the banks of Enid Lake in the forests of northern Mississippi. View a virtual tour of Enid Lake. Keep reading

Recreation

Enid Lake has been recognized as one of America's Top 10 Fishing Spots, with white crappie, bass and catfish available in abundance. The lake is the home of the world record white crappie, which weighed an impressive 5 pounds, 3 ounces. Fishing tournaments are held annually at the lake. Hiking trails wind along the lakeshore and throughout the surrounding landscape, offering hiking, biking and horseback riding opportunities. Boating is a popular pastime on the lake, and boat ramps are provided at the campground.

Facilities

Wallace Creek Campground offers 101 campsites, along with one large group picnic shelters. Modern amenities like full hookups and flush toilets are provided, and a playground and interpretive trail offer additional recreation opportunities. Picnic areas complete with grills and picnic tables make the area perfect for parties or family trips.

Natural Features

Enid Lake is part of a dam project on the Yocona River. The dam creates almost 16,000 acres of water for the millions of annual visitors to enjoy. An additional 44,000 acres of thick, green forests surround the lake, offering countless recreational opportunities for campers, equestrians, hikers and more.

Nearby Attractions

Memphis, Tennessee, located about an hour away, offers plenty of famous tourist attractions.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

No livestock permitted

Rule

A large picnic shelter can be reserved for $50/day

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.

Everything else this campground posts · 4

Rule

Must have reservation before camping.

Rule

America Beautiful Senior and Access card holder has to be present when card is used.

Rule

No Pets in buildings.

Rule

No ATV's allowed

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 101
Hookups: 101 electric, 101 water, 101 sewer
Longest rig: 141 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: 2
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…Modern amenities like full hookups and flush toilets are provided, and a playground and interpretive…”
Drinking water: Yes; DRINKING WATER on 1 of 102 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 1 of 102 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 102 campsite records
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: counted from this campground’s own campsite records and read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Creek; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Swimming
Night sky · 26th darkest of 61 in MS: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

46 of 192 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:23 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBooked

Booking windowThrough October 31Bookable now through October 31, 2026, the end of the peak season. The off-peak season that follows runs November 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027; recreation.gov releases it on its own schedule, so check there before counting on those nights.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$68DerivedFriday 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

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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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.

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$30

Standard Electric$30

Group area, a night$50

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Mar 1, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026.

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$38

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

102 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 101 mapped sites

78 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop WOOD 101 864 ftLoop WOOD 100 298 ftLoop PWOO 30 171 ftLoop WOOD 96 159 ftLoop LBLU 72 155 ft

Least roomLoop WOOD 91 39 ftLoop WOOD 92 39 ftLoop LBLU 55 41 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 102 records

101 of 102 records located

RV / electric101

43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 100 101 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

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. 101 of the 102 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


LBLU	43	standard electric	96 ft	50 amp		74 ft	1,577 ft	$30
LBLU	44	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		74 ft	1,635 ft	$30
LBLU	45	standard electric	83 ft	50 amp		93 ft	1,571 ft	$30
LBLU	46	standard electric	141 ft	50 amp		93 ft	1,517 ft	$30
LBLU	47	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		121 ft	1,457 ft	$30
LBLU	48	standard electric	91 ft	50 amp		121 ft	1,382 ft	$30
LBLU	49	standard electric	92 ft	50 amp		108 ft	1,289 ft	$30
LBLU	50	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp		117 ft	1,232 ft	$30
LBLU	51	standard electric	100 ft	50 amp		82 ft	1,163 ft	$30
LBLU	52	standard electric	91 ft	50 amp	yes	82 ft	1,088 ft	$30
LBLU	53	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		100 ft	1,019 ft	$30
LBLU	54	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		52 ft	920 ft	$30
LBLU	55	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		41 ft	881 ft	$30
LBLU	56	standard electric	81 ft	50 amp		41 ft	884 ft	$30
LBLU	57	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		108 ft	1,233 ft	$30
LBLU	58	standard electric	101 ft	50 amp		82 ft	1,124 ft	$30
LBLU	59	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp		69 ft	1,049 ft	$30
LBLU	60	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		69 ft	1,044 ft	$30
LBLU	61	standard electric	117 ft	50 amp		75 ft	776 ft	$30
LBLU	62	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp		63 ft	632 ft	$30
LBLU	63	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		85 ft	673 ft	$30
LBLU	64	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		75 ft	504 ft	$30
LBLU	65	standard electric	100 ft	50 amp		71 ft	446 ft	$30
LBLU	66	standard electric	120 ft	50 amp		75 ft	572 ft	$30
LBLU	67	standard electric	94 ft	50 amp		71 ft	512 ft	$30
LBLU	68	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		92 ft	776 ft	$30
LBLU	69	standard electric	91 ft	50 amp		75 ft	717 ft	$30
LBLU	70	standard electric	95 ft	50 amp		63 ft	591 ft	$30
LBLU	71	standard electric	91 ft	50 amp		71 ft	593 ft	$30
LBLU	72	standard electric	94 ft	50 amp		155 ft	440 ft	$30
PWOO	01	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		123 ft	1,768 ft	$30
PWOO	02	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		71 ft	1,656 ft	$30
PWOO	03	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		71 ft	1,645 ft	$30
PWOO	04	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		95 ft	1,741 ft	$30
PWOO	05	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		95 ft	1,637 ft	$30
PWOO	06	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		103 ft	1,740 ft	$30
PWOO	07	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		95 ft	1,655 ft	$30
PWOO	08	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		105 ft	1,770 ft	$30
PWOO	09	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		89 ft	1,602 ft	$30
PWOO	10	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		89 ft	1,515 ft	$30
PWOO	11	standard electric	126 ft	50 amp		93 ft	1,428 ft	$30
PWOO	12	standard electric	100 ft	50 amp		86 ft	899 ft	$30
PWOO	13	standard electric	129 ft	50 amp		106 ft	876 ft	$30
PWOO	14	standard electric	92 ft	50 amp		86 ft	832 ft	$30
PWOO	15	standard electric	100 ft	50 amp		110 ft	771 ft	$30
PWOO	16	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		83 ft	744 ft	$30
PWOO	17	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		87 ft	715 ft	$30
PWOO	18	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		75 ft	695 ft	$30
PWOO	19	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		77 ft	644 ft	$30
PWOO	20	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		75 ft	638 ft	$30
PWOO	21	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		77 ft	585 ft	$30
PWOO	22	standard electric	106 ft	50 amp		104 ft	571 ft	$30
PWOO	23	standard electric	111 ft	50 amp	yes	97 ft	460 ft	$30
PWOO	24	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		59 ft	466 ft	$30
PWOO	25	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		57 ft	410 ft	$30
PWOO	26	standard electric	140 ft	50 amp		97 ft	324 ft	$30
PWOO	27	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		57 ft	355 ft	$30
PWOO	28	standard electric	120 ft	50 amp		97 ft	201 ft	$30
PWOO	29	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		81 ft	297 ft	$30
PWOO	30	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp		171 ft	283 ft	$30
PWOO	31	standard electric	78 ft	50 amp		90 ft	884 ft	$30
PWOO	32	standard electric	71 ft	50 amp		65 ft	825 ft	$30
PWOO	33	standard electric	97 ft	50 amp		79 ft	903 ft	$30
PWOO	34	standard electric	71 ft	50 amp		65 ft	844 ft	$30
PWOO	35	standard electric	79 ft	50 amp		50 ft	707 ft	$30
PWOO	36	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		50 ft	658 ft	$30
PWOO	37	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		63 ft	578 ft	$30
PWOO	38	standard electric	110 ft	50 amp		88 ft	588 ft	$30
PWOO	39	standard electric	78 ft	50 amp		63 ft	516 ft	$30
PWOO	40	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		66 ft	490 ft	$30
PWOO	41	standard electric	97 ft	50 amp		76 ft	428 ft	$30
PWOO	42	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		66 ft	428 ft	$30
Wallace Creek	Picnic Shelter (637)	day use
WOOD	100	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		298 ft	1,410 ft	$30
WOOD	101	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		863 ft	1,118 ft	$30
WOOD	73	standard electric	81 ft	50 amp		69 ft	1,444 ft	$30
WOOD	74	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp		69 ft	1,388 ft	$30
WOOD	75	standard electric	102 ft	50 amp		80 ft	1,288 ft	$30
WOOD	76	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp		74 ft	1,326 ft	$30
WOOD	77	standard electric	82 ft	50 amp		80 ft	1,259 ft	$30
WOOD	78	standard electric	82 ft	50 amp		50 ft	1,084 ft	$30
WOOD	79	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		50 ft	1,035 ft	$30
WOOD	80	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		79 ft	1,148 ft	$30
WOOD	81	standard electric	87 ft	50 amp		79 ft	1,145 ft	$30
WOOD	82	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		78 ft	1,110 ft	$30
WOOD	83	standard electric	78 ft	50 amp		78 ft	1,076 ft	$30
WOOD	84	standard electric	100 ft	50 amp		68 ft	1,002 ft	$30
WOOD	85	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp		56 ft	869 ft	$30
WOOD	86	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		66 ft	969 ft	$30
WOOD	87	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		56 ft	836 ft	$30
WOOD	88	standard electric	83 ft	50 amp		52 ft	916 ft	$30
WOOD	89	standard electric	96 ft	50 amp		57 ft	810 ft	$30
WOOD	90	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp		52 ft	890 ft	$30
WOOD	91	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		39 ft	601 ft	$30
WOOD	92	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		39 ft	594 ft	$30
WOOD	93	standard electric	106 ft	50 amp		128 ft	698 ft	$30
WOOD	94	standard electric	100 ft	50 amp		81 ft	1,033 ft	$30
WOOD	95	standard electric	74 ft	50 amp		113 ft	927 ft	$30
WOOD	96	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp		159 ft	733 ft	$30
WOOD	97	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp		129 ft	745 ft	$30
WOOD	98	standard electric	102 ft	50 amp		117 ft	874 ft	$30
WOOD	99	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		50 ft	988 ft	$30

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.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

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 102 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate34.16111, -89.89167

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone662-563-4571

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Hickory Ridge0.3 mi

McCurdy Point0.4 mi

Outlet Channel (Enid Lake)0.8 mi

Riverview1.2 mi

Persimmon Hill(Enid Lake)1.8 mi

Plum Point Campground2.1 mi

Getting there

From I-55, take exit 233 and head east on Country Road 36. After about 2.5 miles follow the signs to the campground.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight47°Partly Cloudy

Saturday67°Sunny

Saturday Night43°Clear

Sunday72°Sunny

NWS forecast for Pope, MS

Source: National Weather Service, MEG forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 49°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.

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: WATER VALLEY, MS (USC00229400), 15 miles away and 50 ft higher

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Wallace Creek 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 30 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 101 of the 101 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 12, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 101 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.7 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 61 rated federal campgrounds in Mississippi · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

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: Pope, MS, 3.9 mi SE. Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026