War Eagle Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
War Eagle 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 War Eagle 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-sized 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
War Eagle Campground has large campsites with plenty of shade and room for activities. Fire rings, picnic areas, drinking water and flush toilets all make for a comfortable camping getaway.
Natural Features
Towering limestone bluffs, natural caves and a variety of trees and flowering shrubs surround War Eagle 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 created a popular recreational oasis for the area.
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
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.
Campsites can accommodate one RV and one tent, or three tents.
No parking in the grass.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
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.
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.
No off-road vehicles or golf carts are permitted.
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.
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.
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.
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
- 26
- Hookups
- 26 electric
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…rings, picnic areas, drinking water and flush toilets all make for a comfortable camping getaway. Natural…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…activities. Fire rings, picnic areas, drinking water and flush toilets all make for a comfortable…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Night sky · 152nd darkest of 158 in AR
- Bortle 5
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.
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 · 13
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
27 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 27 mapped sitesAll 27 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. 26 of the 27 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.
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard electric | 8 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 446 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard electric | 8 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 420 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard electric | 8 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 367 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 431 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard electric | 5 ft | 30 amp | 126 ft | 539 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard electric | 8 ft | 30 amp | 153 ft | 597 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard electric | 8 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 628 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard electric | 8 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 591 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 127 ft | 473 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard electric | 8 ft | 30 amp | 115 ft | 201 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard electric | 14 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 149 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard electric | 9 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | 299 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 168 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 151 ft | 295 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 268 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 16 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 235 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 307 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 18 | standard electric | 8 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 373 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 19 | standard electric | 15 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 370 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 20 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 322 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 21 | standard electric | 7 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 261 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 22 | standard electric | 10 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 172 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 23 | standard electric | 12 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 125 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 24 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 140 ft | 84 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 25 | standard electric | 8 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 105 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 26 | standard electric | 5 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 136 ft | $22 | |
| WAR EAGLE CAMPGROUND | Group Shelter | day use | yes | 103 ft | 221 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.
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hickory Creek Park (AR)2.1 mi
Horseshoe Bend (Beaver Lake)4.7 mi
Rocky Branch Campground9.2 mi
Prairie Creek (AR)9.6 mi
Lost Bridge South14 mi
Starkey Campground14 miTake Highway 412 East from Springdale and for about 8 miles. Turn left on Nob Hill Loop, then continue onto County Rd 95/War Eagle Blacktop Rd and travel about 3 miles. Turn left onto War Eagle Park Road, which is the entrance of the Park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Springdale, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°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
War Eagle 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 →