Wolf Pen Recreation Area
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This campground, located next to the Mulberry River , offers scenic rock bluffs in the northwestern portion of the state. Activities include canoeing on the Mulberry River (very popular with the canoeists) within view of the scenic rock bluffs, fishing, hiking and river access. Camping consists of 6 primitive units, available space for small camping trailers, and the picnicking area is designed for 5 family units. The area is also equipped with vault toilets but there is no drinking water. Good fishing and hunting is available nearby when in season. Campground and Day-Use Area Rules
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…units. The area is also equipped with vault toilets but there is no drinking water. Good fishing and…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…is also equipped with vault toilets but there is no drinking water. Good fishing and hunting is available nearby when…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $10 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Wolf Pen CampgroundOzark National Forest · 0.1 mi
Horsehead Lake Recreation AreaOzark National Forest · 7.6 miRedding Recreation AreaOzark National Forest · 8.7 mi
Redding CampgroundOzark National Forest · 8.7 mi
Ozone CampgroundOzark National Forest · 10 miOzone Recreation AreaOzark National Forest · 10 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Oark, AR
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Wolf Pen Recreation Area is in Arkansas’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Bruce Westerman (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →