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Catherine's Landing

81 RV Sites, 18 Cottages

Catherine's Landing in Hot Springs, Arkansas, offers 78 RV sites and 18 cottages across 400 acres with a mile of Lake Catherine shoreline, five minutes from downtown Hot Springs. Sites carry full hookups with 30 and 50-amp service and cable TV, take rigs to 65 feet, and include waterfront back-in categories, with a zip line, splash pad, and boat ramp on the property. Seventy-eight sites run in premium back-in and waterfront back-in configurations, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 65 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Eighteen cottages serve guests without a rig. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and a gated entrance handle the practical side. Two policies to note: the resort enforces a ten-year age restriction on RVs, though older coaches are reviewed for approval if you send a photo in advance, and all holiday weekends require a three-night minimum. The 400 acres carry the recreation. A zip line runs the property, a splash pad and outdoor pool cover the swimming season, and a boat ramp and fishing pier give direct access to Lake Catherine's clear, Ouachita-fed water. Canoeing, kayaking, hiking, and fishing all run from camp, with bike rentals, a dog park, playground, clubhouse, pavilion, and pond besides. Pets are welcome. Hot Springs National Park is the smallest in the system and the most historically layered thermal spring community in North America, with Bathhouse Row, Oaklawn racing, and the Mountain Valley Spring heritage all five minutes away. The resort operates through the Arkansas season, with summer lake recreation and the Oaklawn racing calendar driving demand. Book holiday weekends well ahead, and confirm RV age approval before arrival if your coach is over ten years old.

from $68 $59/night

Treasure Isle RV Park

14 RV Sites, 1 Cabin

Treasure Isle RV Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, offers 14 RV sites and a cabin on Lake Hamilton, with 30 and 50-amp full hookups and rigs accepted to 42 feet. Four categories cover concrete back-ins and pull-throughs, gravel pull-throughs, and lakefront back-ins, with boat docks, a boat ramp, kayak rentals, and an outdoor pool on site. Fourteen sites run in concrete 30/50-amp back-in, concrete 30/50-amp pull-through, gravel 30/50-amp pull-through, and lakefront 30/50-amp back-in categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 42 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The lakefront category is worth requesting early. A cabin serves guests without a rig. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, and a pavilion handle the practical side, with WiFi throughout. A multi-night discount applies automatically — 10% off stays of 7 to 21 nights, excluding cabins and kayak rentals. Lake access is the draw. Boat docks, a boat ramp, boat storage, boat rentals, and kayak rentals put guests on Lake Hamilton directly, with fishing, boating, and swimming from the property and an outdoor pool as the managed alternative. A playground, gaga ball, and corn hole fill the rest. Pets are welcome. Hot Springs sits in Garland County on the Ouachita reservoir chain. Hot Springs National Park's Bathhouse Row, the Oaklawn racing calendar, and the city's arts scene are all close, and the thermal springs have made this a resort destination since the early twentieth century. Summer lake season and the Oaklawn meet drive demand. With 14 sites, reserve well ahead.

from $48/night

Leisure Landing RV Park

33 RV Sites

Leisure Landing RV Park occupies a quiet position on the shores of Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Arkansas — one of a small number of truly lakeside RV parks in a city where the combination of thermal spring history, national park designation, horse racing, and an unusually sophisticated food and arts scene has made Hot Springs one of the South's most genuinely varied weekend destinations. The park's location away from highway noise, with spacious sites extending to 60 feet for large motorhomes and satellite TV connectivity, gives guests the tranquil lakefront environment that the Spa City's reputation for relaxation specifically promises. Spacious sites accommodating rigs up to 60 feet with full hookups and satellite-friendly positioning handle the practical needs of contemporary RV travel at a level of comfort that the campground's loyal guest base consistently rates among the best available in the Hot Springs corridor. Lake Hamilton — one of the Ouachita River impoundments that form the chain of lakes through Garland County — provides the waterfront backdrop and the boating and fishing access that complement the city's thermal bath heritage. The park's exceptional quiet, even in peak season, reflects its protected lakeside position away from the commercial thoroughfares that carry most of Hot Springs' visitor traffic. Lake Hamilton's warm, relatively shallow water supports an active warm-water fishery through the seasons, and the lake's coves and timber structure hold quality largemouth bass and bream populations that draw fishing-oriented guests who combine therapeutic soaking with recreational angling in the specific Spa City tradition. The lake's evening light and the surrounding Ouachita Mountain silhouettes visible from the shoreline are consistent features of any Leisure Landing stay that guests mention alongside the practical amenities. Hot Springs National Park, the centerpiece of the city's historic identity, protects 47 thermal springs that produce water at 143 degrees Fahrenheit and has drawn visitors seeking therapeutic bathing since the 19th century. Bathhouse Row, a collection of eight grand bathhouses built between 1892 and 1923 in the national park's corridor, represents the most intact collection of thermal bathing architecture in North America — the fully restored Buckstaff Bathhouse and the Quapaw Baths and Spa provide active thermal bath experiences in facilities of genuine architectural distinction. Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, a two-hour drive southwest, is the world's only diamond-producing site open to the public where visitors keep what they find — a uniquely Arkansas experience worth the drive for any Hot Springs visitor planning a multi-day stay. Leisure Landing RV Park serves guests year-round in Arkansas's mild Ouachita Mountain climate. The Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort's thoroughbred racing season from January through May draws significant visitor traffic to the Hot Springs area, and the combination of racing, thermal baths, and Lake Hamilton winter fishing makes the January-April window a particularly active period for the park's extended-stay guests. Reserve ahead for Oaklawn racing weekends and the spring racing meets, when Hot Springs accommodation fills from a regional draw that extends well into Arkansas and the surrounding Gulf South states.

from $25/night

River Run Resort and Recreation

River Run Resort and Recreation sits along the Caddo River in Glenwood, Arkansas—a small resort of 15 full hookup RV sites in Pike County, 30 minutes southwest of Hot Springs, where the Caddo River's spring-fed current, clear water, and accessible float corridor have made it a destination for the Ouachita Mountain float trip tradition that defines Arkansas river camping at its most authentic. The Caddo's character — cold, relatively clear, spring-fed water in a corridor of mixed hardwood and pine — distinguishes it from the more turbid river systems of the Arkansas lowlands and gives float trips here the clarity and coolness that make them genuinely refreshing in the Arkansas summer. Fifteen sites with 30 and 50-amp electric service, water, and sewer hookups provide the full hookup RV camping infrastructure, with WiFi connectivity supporting guests who maintain work or communication needs during their stay. River Run operates as a river outfitter alongside the campground, offering canoe, kayak, and tube rentals for Caddo River float trips — the combination of camping and outfitter services in a single property is the defining operational characteristic that makes River Run a functional all-in-one river camping destination rather than a campground where guests need to arrange float equipment separately. Paintball adds an on-property recreation option beyond the river activities, and dining options are accessible nearby in Glenwood. The Caddo River above DeGray Lake is recognized among Arkansas fly fishing and light tackle anglers as one of the more productive streams in the Ouachita Mountain region for smallmouth bass, spotted bass, and — during the March and April spawning run — white bass and hybrid striped bass that move up from the reservoir in concentrations that can make fishing exceptionally productive. The Caddo's pool-and-riffle structure in the middle reaches above Glenwood provides both float fishing access for anglers covering water by canoe or kayak and wade fishing opportunities at the gravel bars and deeper pools that structure the smallmouth population through the summer season. Lake Ouachita, north of the resort via Arkansas 84 and Arkansas 88, is the primary large-lake recreation resource within day-trip range — a 40,000-acre reservoir in the Ouachita National Forest with exceptionally clear water resulting from the low-nutrient geology of the Ouachita Mountains that sustains it, providing bass and trout fishing, scuba diving visibility rare for an Arkansas reservoir, and the surrounding Ouachita National Forest recreation infrastructure of camping, hiking, and ATV trails. Albert Pike Recreation Area in the Ouachita National Forest south of Glenwood on the Little Missouri River provides the whitewater canoe and kayak experience on the Little Missouri Falls Scenic Area in a National Forest setting. River Run Resort and Recreation operates through the Arkansas river recreation season, with the Caddo float trip peak from April through September when water temperatures are comfortable and flow conditions typically allow tubing and canoe navigation. The spring period from March through May provides the best combination of water conditions, comfortable temperatures, and productive fishing — particularly the white bass run in March and April. Hot Springs National Park, 30 minutes northeast, provides the historic bathhouse architecture of Bathhouse Row, the thermal springs that give the city its name and its original character as a nineteenth-century resort destination, and the Ouachita Trail's trailhead access for day hikes in the Zig Zag Mountains.

Ouachita Campground at Edendell

15 RV Sites, 10 Tent Sites, 2 Lodges

Between Mena and the Talimena Scenic Drive on one side and Mount Ida—the self-proclaimed Crystal Mining Capital of the World—on the other, Ouachita Campground at Edendell in Oden, Arkansas occupies a basecamp position in the geographic heart of the Ouachita Mountains that is genuinely hard to improve upon: full hookup sites with EV charging, cabins, a pond, kayak rentals, walking trails, and a guest facilities building with free showers, bathrooms, laundry, and kitchenette all included in the reservation, in a year-round property surrounded by Ouachita National Forest and the river, crystal mine, and scenic byway access that makes the Arkansas Ouachitas one of the most rewarding outdoor destinations in the American South that most travelers haven't discovered yet. Full hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp electric accommodate big rigs in the forested Ouachita Mountain setting, and EV charging reflects a forward-looking property investment that serves the growing community of electric vehicle–towing RV travelers on the Ouachita circuit. Cabins provide the enclosed accommodation option for non-RV guests exploring the region, and the guest facilities building's free showers, bathrooms, laundry, and kitchenette—included in every reservation—represent an unusual amenity commitment that eliminates the coin-operated laundry and pay-per-shower calculus that characterizes most campground infrastructure. A pond on the property supports fishing and the leisurely campground waterfront experience, and kayak rentals provide access to the nearby Ouachita River and Little Missouri River float opportunities that define this part of western Arkansas. Oden sits in Montgomery County in the Arkansas Ouachitas, where the folded and faulted ridges of the east-west mountain system—a geological formation unique in North America for its ridge orientation—create the landscape of parallel ridges, narrow valleys, and stream-cut hollows that characterizes the Ouachita Mountains' distinct topography. The Ouachita National Forest encompasses 1.8 million acres of this terrain in Arkansas and Oklahoma, representing the largest national forest in the South and one of the most biologically diverse forest ecosystems in the eastern United States—home to black bears, elk (reintroduced successfully in the 1980s), and the pine-hardwood forest community that produces exceptional spring wildflower displays and consistent fall foliage. Mount Ida, approximately 25 miles east, serves as the gateway to the quartz crystal mines that make Montgomery County the most significant crystal-mining location in the United States—a geological consequence of the Ouachitas' quartz-rich Ordovician geology. Crystal mines near Mount Ida allow visitors to dig their own quartz crystals from the productive soil for a fee, producing the tactile geological experience that makes the Ouachita crystal country a memorable stop on any Ouachita itinerary. The Talimena Scenic Drive (Oklahoma Highway 1/Arkansas Highway 88) runs 54 miles along the Ouachita Mountains' ridge tops between Mena, Arkansas, and Talihina, Oklahoma—one of the most spectacular scenic byways in the South, with the ridgeline views across the Ouachita forest in fall foliage producing some of the finest color drives in the region. Ouachita Campground at Edendell operates year-round, providing access to the Ouachita Mountains' four-season character—the spring wildflower season from March through May, the summer river float season on the Ouachita and Little Missouri, the fall foliage on the Talimena Drive in October, and the winter crystal mining season when the mines are accessible and the forest crowds are absent. The campground's stargazing, in the genuinely dark skies of remote Montgomery County, is exceptional on any clear night regardless of season. Reserve your site or cabin at Ouachita Campground at Edendell and let the crystal country, the scenic byway, and the wild Ouachita Mountains show you the Arkansas that most travelers drive straight through on their way to somewhere else.

from $20/night

Beaverfork Lake RV Resort

26 RV Sites

Set on the quiet shores of Beaverfork Lake just two miles off I-40, Beaverfork Lake RV Resort offers a lakeside retreat that manages to feel genuinely tucked away despite its effortless highway access. Located at 27 Beaverfork Road in Conway, Arkansas—a growing college town about 30 minutes northwest of Little Rock—the resort combines the relaxed pace of lakeside camping with the convenience of a full-service RV destination. Whether you're stopping through on a cross-country run or planning a longer lakeside stay, Beaverfork delivers waterfront atmosphere without the waterfront price tag. The resort features 30/50-amp full hookup sites on concrete pads, giving big rigs a solid, level foundation for a comfortable stay. A clubhouse and snack bar serve as the social center of camp, while the boat docks put guests directly on the water. A dog park ensures four-legged travelers are well accommodated, and a dump station rounds out the essential facilities for self-sufficient RVers. Cornhole Golf—a Beaverfork signature—adds a unique twist to the recreational lineup, complemented by fire pits and grills throughout the resort for classic campfire evenings. Pickleball courts provide a spot for competitive play between the lake sessions. Beaverfork Lake stretches across several hundred acres of central Arkansas landscape, its wooded shoreline framing a water body that rewards anglers and paddlers alike. The lake is fished for bass, catfish, and crappie, and the resort's boat docks make launching easy for guests who bring their own watercraft. Kayaking and canoeing are popular ways to explore the lake's quiet coves, while the surrounding terrain offers walking and the kind of unhurried Ozark-adjacent scenery that keeps Arkansas under the radar for those who haven't discovered it yet. Showers, laundry, and the convenience of the snack bar keep the experience smooth from arrival to checkout. Conway itself is a lively mid-sized city anchored by three universities, giving it a youthful energy and a dining scene that punches well above its size. Little Rock, the state capital, lies about 30 minutes southeast on I-40, offering the Bill Clinton Presidential Center, the Arkansas River Trail, and a revitalized downtown riverfront. Lake Conway—one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States—sits nearby and offers additional fishing and boating opportunities for those who want to venture beyond Beaverfork's waters. Hot Springs National Park, with its historic bathhouses and thermal pools, is less than an hour's drive away. Spring and fall are especially pleasant on Beaverfork Lake, with mild temperatures and wildflowers or brilliant foliage adding to the lakeside scenery. Summer brings peak lake traffic—fishing tournaments, kayakers, and families making the most of the boat ramps and fire pits. The resort's proximity to I-40 makes it a logical overnight stop between Dallas and Nashville, but its waterfront amenities reward those who stay longer and slow down. Book your concrete-pad hookup site at Beaverfork Lake RV Resort and trade the interstate for a lakeside evening in the heart of Arkansas.

from $52 $45/night

Ohana Celebration Park

9 RV Sites, 1 Cabin, 5 Tent Sites

Ohana Celebration Park in Vilonia, Arkansas, offers nine RV sites, a cabin, and five tent sites on a lake in the central Arkansas countryside, with 30 and 50-amp full hookups on a big-rig-friendly layout. Premium lake-front and lake view pull-throughs join group RV sites, with a beach, boat and kayak rentals, and on-site dining. Nine sites run in group RV, lake view pull-through, and premium lake front pull-through categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, with fire pits and picnic tables. The lake front and lake view categories are worth requesting early. A cabin and five tent sites round out the accommodations. A general store, laundry, personal mailboxes, restrooms, and a pavilion handle the practical side, and the group sites suit families or clubs traveling together. The lake carries the recreation. A beach gives swimming access, with boat and kayak rentals on site and fishing, boating, canoeing, kayaking, and paddle boats from the shoreline, plus inflatable water toys in season. Walking trails, hiking, biking, a playground, community fire pit, and on-site dining fill the rest, with planned activities through the season and strong stargazing over the water. Pets are welcome. The park has been reborn since 2021 under the Mize family's stewardship from the historic Lester Flatt Memorial Park site, welcoming both short and extended stays. Vilonia sits in Faulkner County between Conway and Little Rock, with the Central Arkansas Karting Complex and Precision Paintball nearby. Summer lake season drives demand. With nine sites, reserve well ahead.

from $25/night

Mena Cabins

Mena Cabins in Mena, Arkansas, offers cabins and modern glamping units in the Ouachita Mountains at the base of Rich Mountain, the second-highest peak in the state. On-site dining, walking trails, and WiFi serve a mountain property built around trail riding, hiking, fishing, and stargazing in the Arkansas-Oklahoma border country. The accommodations are the product here. Modern glamping units come with climate control, furnishings, bed linens, kitchenettes, fire pits, and covered outdoor spaces that make mountain weather manageable — the bridge between camping and lodging. Cabin options provide fully enclosed, private shelter in the forested Ouachita setting. On-site dining covers meals, and WiFi reaches the property. Walking trails run the grounds along the creek, with fishing, hiking, and picnicking from the property. The dark mountain sky makes stargazing one of the genuine draws. Off-roading is nearby — the Wolf Pen Gap ATV trail system has made the Mena area one of the most active outdoor recreation destinations in western Arkansas, and riders form a significant share of the local visitor base. Mena sits in Polk County in the Ouachita National Forest's ridge-and-valley terrain. The Talimena Scenic Drive runs the ridgeline from here toward Oklahoma, carrying some of the best fall color in the mid-South, and Queen Wilhelmina State Park sits atop Rich Mountain. The property serves the Ouachita season across the year, with trail riding, hiking, and fishing shifting through it. October foliage on the Talimena Drive is the most spectacular window and the busiest — reserve well ahead for fall color weekends, when lodging across the Mena area fills.

Bigfoot Adventure Luxury RV Resort

38 RV Sites

At 2260 State Highway 3 in Broken Bow, Oklahoma—in the Ouachita Mountain pine forest of McCurtain County where Broken Bow Lake's 14,000 acres of clear-water impoundment, Beavers Bend State Park's cedar forests, and the Hochatown entertainment district's cabins, breweries, axe-throwing bars, and distilleries have created the most rapidly growing nature-resort destination in the Midwest—Bigfoot Adventure Luxury RV Resort opened in April 2024 as the full-hookup, resort-quality alternative for the Broken Bow camping market that was previously underserved by luxury RV infrastructure relative to its cabin rental supply. Asphalt-paved roads and site pads, a heated swimming pool, a fishing pond, mini golf, go-karts, and the Bigfoot-themed artisan carvings scattered throughout the grounds create a resort identity as distinctive as the 300-foot pines that give the Ouachita landscape its visual scale. Full hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer connections on dust-free asphalt pads provide the premium surface that the resort's luxury positioning demands, and the asphalt road network throughout the property handles the McCurtain County clay soil's rain-day mudding problem that gravel-and-grass campgrounds in this rainfall-heavy corner of Oklahoma routinely present. A heated swimming pool serves the warm-season outdoor recreation need and extends the swimming season into the spring and fall when unheated pools in the Oklahoma Ouachitas are impractical. A stocked fishing pond provides the immediate angling access without requiring a Broken Bow Lake boat launch, and mini golf and go-karts add the family entertainment dimension that distinguishes a resort property from a campground with a pool. Private showers and bathrooms, spacious laundry facilities, a well-stocked convenience store, a charming gazebo, designated pet parks, and designated children's play areas complete the amenity profile. The resort's artisan wood carvings—Bigfoot figures, bears, owls, and the mythological creature that gives the park its name rendered in chainsaw-carved detail throughout the grounds—provide the thematic character that gives the resort its specific identity in the highly competitive Broken Bow accommodation market. Beavers Bend State Park, accessible from the resort within minutes, constitutes the most versatile public recreation space in the Oklahoma park system: cedar-covered trails, mountain biking on the Cedar Bluff Trail network, fly fishing and conventional fishing on the Mountain Fork River (Oklahoma's only quality trout fishery, stocked year-round below the dam), canoe and kayak rentals, miniature golf, and the nature center that provides the natural history context for the Ouachita Mountain ecology. Hochatown—the unincorporated community that has absorbed the cabin resort development that makes the Broken Bow area a national destination—provides the dining, brewery, distillery, axe-throwing, and entertainment density that gives the Ouachita Mountains a nightlife and social scene disproportionate to the surrounding McCurtain County population. The combination of Hochatown's entertainment infrastructure and Beavers Bend's natural recreation access has made Broken Bow Lake the Midwest's most oversubscribed outdoor destination on fall weekends, and Bigfoot's resort infrastructure meets the demand that premium-quality camping guests couldn't previously satisfy here. Bigfoot Adventure Luxury RV Resort is open year-round in the McCurtain County climate that Broken Bow's inland position makes milder than the Oklahoma plains. Fall foliage season from October through early November drives the highest demand. Reserve well in advance for fall weekends, pick up the Beavers Bend State Park trail map on arrival, and let the Ouachita pine forest and Hochatown's entertainment district deliver what Oklahoma's best-kept outdoor secret looks like in full autumn color.

from $38/night

Dogwood Springs Campground

8 Cabins

At 621 East Court Street in Jasper, Arkansas—the Boone County seat in the Arkansas Ozarks where the Buffalo National River makes its most dramatic passage through the limestone bluffs and cedar-forest hollows of the Newton County reaches, and where the Boxley Valley elk herd and the Upper Buffalo's whitewater sections create the specific outdoor identity that makes the Jasper area the most spectacularly positioned small town in the Arkansas park system—Dogwood Springs Campground and Resort combines studio cabins and cottages, 30 and 50-amp full hookup RV sites, tent sites with on-site electricity, a seasonal swimming pool, and the trail and river access that makes the Buffalo National River corridor the most sought-after camping destination in the Arkansas Ozarks. The campground's position in Jasper—minutes from the National River, within the zone of elk sightings, and in the geographic heart of the Arkansas Scenic 7 Byway—makes the drive time from any site to the Buffalo's most beautiful accesses negligible. Studio cabins and studio cottages provide the most enclosed and equipped accommodation—with full kitchens, private bathrooms, climate control, and fireplace options that make cold-season Ozark visits comfortable and self-contained in a way that tent camping cannot match. Full hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp electric service, water, and sewer connections accommodate the RV population, and tent sites with on-site electrical service bridge the gap between primitive camping and full hookup, giving tent campers the electrical access for lighting, fans, and device charging that modern tent camping increasingly depends on. A seasonal swimming pool provides controlled aquatic recreation during the Ozark summer when the Buffalo River's flow can vary with rainfall patterns. Coin-operated laundry facilities, a covered pavilion with picnic tables, designated fire rings at select sites, and clean showers and bathrooms complete the practical amenity inventory. The Buffalo National River—the first national river designated in the United States system, protected by Congress in 1972—flows through one of the last undammed, free-flowing rivers in the lower 48 states with the specific water quality and natural character that undammed status preserves. The Upper Buffalo, accessible from Jasper, provides the most technically challenging and scenically dramatic whitewater paddling on the river system—running in late winter and early spring when seasonal rainfall fills the narrow canyon sections—while the lower sections provide the flatwater float experience that summer and fall visitors access by canoe and kayak. The Boxley Valley elk herd—one of the largest free-ranging elk herds in the eastern United States, reintroduced to the Arkansas Ozarks in 1981 from Rocky Mountain populations—inhabits the Boxley Valley and surrounding ridge terrain in numbers large enough that morning and evening wildlife viewing from the valley road has become a specific Jasper-area activity that visitors plan trips around. The fall rut in September and October brings bugling bulls to the valley floor in the same manner that Rocky Mountain elk are famous for, but accessible by car on a paved road rather than requiring a backcountry hiking permit. Rock climbing in the Ozarks, cave tours at the Cosmic Cavern and Mystic Caverns near Harrison, and elk-viewing photography constitute the activity calendar that gives the Newton County area its multi-day destination credibility. Dogwood Springs Campground and Resort is open year-round in the Arkansas Ozarks' four-season climate. The fall elk-viewing season and the spring whitewater season represent the two demand peaks most specific to the Jasper area. Reserve your cabin or RV site early for October elk rut weekends and let the Buffalo National River and the Arkansas Ozarks earn the wilderness reputation that one of the Midwest's finest river corridors deserves.

from $75/night