Water Valley Landing
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 2625 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Water Valley Landing is a quiet, family-oriented campground along the banks of Enid Lake in the forests of northeast 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
Water Valley Landing Campground offers 29 campsites, and modern amenities like full hookups and flush toilets are provided. A playground trail and interpretive trail offer additional recreation opportunities. Picnic areas complete with grills and 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 surrounding the lake offer countless recreational opportunities for campers, equestrians, hikers and more.
Nearby Attractions
Memphis, Tennessee, located about an hour away, offers plenty of famous tourist attractions.
What the agency tells you
Must have reservation before camping.
No horses or livestock permitted at the campground
A large picnic shelter is available for $50/day
Everything else this campground posts · 4
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.
America Beautiful Senior and Access card holder has to be present when card is used.
No Pets in buildings.
No ATV's allowed
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26
- Hookups
- 25 electric, 26 water, 26 sewer
- Longest rig
- 110 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…modern amenities like full hookups and flush toilets are provided. A playground trail and interpretive…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 27 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 1 of 27 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 27 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Visitor center
- Night sky · 16th darkest of 61 in MS
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 25 of the 26 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 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.
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 25 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. 25 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.
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 01 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 135 ft | 1,088 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 02 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 1,096 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 03 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 1,183 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 04 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 1,112 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 05 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 1,162 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 06 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 1,230 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 07 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 1,280 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 08 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 1,316 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 09 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 1,373 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 10 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 1,330 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 11 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 1,285 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 12 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 1,251 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 13 | standard electric | 105 ft | 50 amp | 142 ft | 1,405 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 14 | type not stated | 110 ft | 50 amp | 1,373 ft | ||
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 15 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 102 ft | 1,460 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 16 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 127 ft | 1,573 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 17 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 128 ft | 1,630 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 18 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 102 ft | 1,559 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 19 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 1,405 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 20 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 1,521 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 21 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 1,535 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 22 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 1,375 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 23 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 1,389 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 1,274 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 25 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 1,287 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | 26 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 1,217 ft | $30 |
| WATER VALLEY LANDING | Picnic Shelter (613) | day use |
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
Ford's Well1.8 mi
Chickasaw Hill3.6 mi
Long Branch Campground4.8 mi
Plum Point Campground5.3 mi
Persimmon Hill(Enid Lake)7.0 mi
Wallace Creek7.4 miFrom I-55, take exit 227 onto State Route 32 east and continue for 17 miles. Turn onto County Road 53 and continue for 2 miles, following signs into the campground.
The weather
the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
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.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Water Valley Landing 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 →