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Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2
Drive-up · Arkansas Game & Fish Commission · AR · 35.02013, -91.51566
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Ask about this camp →Arkansas Game & Fish Commission lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 194 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2NIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2 · Arkansas Game & Fish Commission · AR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel3 mi
- GGrocery3 mi
- HHardware3 mi
- @Mail3 mi
- +Urgent care18 mi
- MMechanic18 mi
- AAir-up19 mi
- WWater20 mi
- LLaundry20 mi
- EVEV fast charger20 mi
- OOutfitter20 mi
- RxPharmacy22 mi
- DDump46 mi
- ShShower46 mi
- PPropane57 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 3 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2
Access
Drive-up
Land
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission
Elevation
194 ft
Ground slope
0.6% · flat
State
AR
Coordinates
35.02013, -91.51566
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2 · Arkansas Game & Fish Commission · AR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLake Des Arc · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townDes Arc · ~3.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelExxon · ~3.0 mi
- Propane / LPGDude's Place · ~25.4 mi
- GroceriesRing Glo · ~3.0 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~29.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicWhite County Health Unit · ~17.9 mi
- HardwareGarth Tru Value · ~3.2 mi
EV charging — from Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2 · Arkansas Game & Fish Commission · AR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger19.6 mi straight-line SE — Brinkley, AR - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 17 within 50 · 67 within 100 · 110 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS35.2 mi — Gwatney Chevrolet, Jacksonville
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO40.8 mi — Walmart 91 (Forrest City, AR), Forrest City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)18.6 mi — Hampton Inn Searcy - Tesla Destination · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Orr Chevrolet Buick GMC, Searcy, 18.2 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for dealership use only · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 187161 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2 · Arkansas Game & Fish Commission · AR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~9.6 mi NE · FWS
- Highway rest areaWhite River (6-10-B) · ~12.9 mi S
- Highway rest areaWhite River (6-8-B) · ~13.0 mi S
Coming out here — Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2 · Arkansas Game & Fish Commission · AR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lake Des Arc as a perennial lake or pond, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 0.6% — flat. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
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Who holds the land at Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Bayou Desarc, manager on record: a state fish and wildlife agency. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2
Fire rules
On property owned, leased or cooperatively managed by the AGFC, you may not: burn any noncombustible materials in campsites (glass, nails, etc.); burn wood, brush or grass outside of designated campsites; leave a fire unattended or allow one to escape from control.
Permit
All campers 16 and older on AGFC-owned WMAs must have a valid hunting or fishing license or a WMA/Lake Conservation Permit ($10.50).
Area rules
Unless otherwise noted under a specific WMA, camping is limited to no more than 14 consecutive days and must be in a designated camping area.
Source
public land records
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Bayou Des Arc WMA designated camping area, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. LEGAL BASIS -- AGFC 2026-27 General WMA Regulations, agfc.com/regulations/general-wma-regulations/ read 2026-08-16, verbatim: "Unless otherwise noted under a specific WMA, camping is limited to no more than 14 consecutive days and must be in a designated camping area." Also: "It is unlawful to camp or use any campsite for more than 30 days total during one calendar year"; camps "may not remain unoccupied for more than 48 hours"; "Creating a disturbance after 10 p.m. is not allowed"; it is unlawful to possess alcoholic beverages on Commission-controlled WMAs. FIRE: you may not "burn any noncombustible materials in campsites", "burn wood, brush or grass outside of designated campsites", or "leave a fire unattended or allow one to escape from control". THE 'UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED' CLAUSE IS LOAD-BEARING -- individual WMAs override these numbers, so read that WMA's own page at agfc.com/wma/ before publishing a stay limit. ACCESS PERMIT, NOT A CAMPING FEE: AGFC's general WMA regulations state "All campers 16 and older on AGFC-owned WMAs must have a valid hunting or fishing license or a WMA/Lake Conservation Permit ($10.50)." That is a right-of-access permit for the whole area. AGFC publishes NO separate per-night camping charge for these sites, and its own GIS marks this point 'No Fee Site' -- which is why fee=0. I did NOT open the AGFC page for Bayou Des Arc WMA this fire -- only the general WMA regulation above and AGFC's GIS support this row. Read agfc.com/wma for that area's own camping paragraph, stay limit and seasonal closures before publishing. Hunting seasons run on these areas. Check agfc.com/wma for current season dates, permit hunts and any closure before you go, and wear hunter orange in season. AGFC records NO 'last_verified_date' for this point -- age unknown. COORDINATE PROVENANCE: the latitude and longitude on this row are AGFC's own, taken from the public ArcGIS service https://gisec2.agfc.com/arcgis/rest/services/GIS/AGFC_DATA/MapServer layer 1 ('Public Use Facilities'), queried 2026-08-16 for ftype IN ('RVs Allowed - No Hookups','Tents Only','RVs Allowed - Hookups','RVs Allowed - Hookups and Dump'). This is the agency's mapped facility point, NOT a field visit and NOT a geocode. The fee flag on this row is AGFC's own 'fdescrip' column reading 'No Fee Site'. AGFC does not publish per-site facility detail, so the presence of a table, fire ring, toilet or trash service is UNKNOWN and is not claimed here. NO WATER SOURCE IS CLAIMED -- treat any lake, river or bayou nearby as NON-POTABLE. AGFC's facility type for this point is 'Tents Only'. Nearest town: Des Arc ~3.2 mi. 'Nearest town' is STRAIGHT-LINE distance to the nearest OpenStreetMap place=city/town/village and is NOT a driving distance; in the Delta bottoms and the Ouachitas the road in can be far longer. Ingest 2026-08-16. STATUS=pending: this is a lead for review, not published. | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether the fire rule stated above still stands today — what we have is a dated reading of the agency's listing, not a live restriction feed
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Bayou Des Arc Camping Area #2
Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →Fire rules & restrictions →Reading the aerial →All field notes →