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Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest)
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · AR · 34.89491, -93.39223
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Can I go now? — Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest) · U.S. Forest Service · AR
Open today Year-round per the agency record.
U.S. Forest Service record: “Year-round” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest) · U.S. Forest Service · AR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 83W (Main Mountain), 10 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 83W (Main Mountain), 10 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 83W (Main Mountain): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,122 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest)NIFC · 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 Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest) · U.S. Forest Service · AR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel4 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- MMechanic24 mi
- LLaundry26 mi
- DDump28 mi
- ShShower28 mi
- OOutfitter29 mi
- WWater30 mi
- EVEV fast charger31 mi
- PPropane36 mi
- AAir-up54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 30-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 31-mi run (and back).
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 — Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest)
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,122 ft
Ground slope
6.3% · gentle
State
AR
Coordinates
34.89491, -93.39223
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest) · U.S. Forest Service · AR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBrogan Creek · ~0.2 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townOnyx · ~3.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelExxon · ~3.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~27.5 mi
- GroceriesHarps · ~10.9 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~11.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicChambers Memorial Hospital · ~11.1 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~27.0 mi
EV charging — from Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest) · U.S. Forest Service · AR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger30.9 mi straight-line NE — Cogswell Motors, Russellville, AR · EV Connect · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 6 within 50 · 45 within 100 · 93 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)32.1 mi — FRANKLINS 3-4 FRANKLIN HS1, Hot Springs
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO32.1 mi — FRANKLINS 3-4 FRANKLIN HS2, Hot Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)22.1 mi — Mountain Harbor Resort - South Dock, Mount Ida, AR · Blink Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- 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 447266 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest) · U.S. Forest Service · AR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletFourche Mountain · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPeeler Gap Range · ~10.7 mi N · USFS
- RestroomComfort Station, Building 78 · ~11.3 mi SE · NPS
- Vault / pit toiletBear Creek Equestrian Camp · ~15.1 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest) · U.S. Forest Service · AR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Brogan Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.2 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 6.3% — gentle. 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.
Open Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest) elsewhere
Other camps near Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Petit Jean WMA Camping Area #1~14.6 mi
- Bear Creek Equestrian Camp~15.1 mi
- Petit Jean River WMA Camping Area #1~15.4 mi
- Petit Jean WMA Camping Area #2~15.9 mi
Who holds the land at Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest)
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Ouachita National Forest, manager on record: Forest Service (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest)
Open season
Year-round
Source
public land records
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
U.S. Forest Service, Ouachita National Forest, Jessieville-Winona-Fourche Ranger District. Source: fs.usda.gov/r08/ouachita/recreation/fourche-mountain-recreation-area read 2026-08-16. The latitude and longitude on this row are the Forest Service's OWN published coordinates from that page (34.89490515 / -93.39222871). USFS verbatim: "Small campground with a scenic view from the mountaintop." "No fees are required for this site." "Open all year." Restrooms: "Vault toilet(s)". WATER: USFS verbatim -- "Potable water is not available at this site." No electricity. CORROBORATION: the Ouachita NF "Recreation Schedule and Fees for 2025" PDF (fs.usda.gov/sites/nfs/files/r08/ouachita/publication/2025 - Schedule and Fees.pdf) lists under the Jessieville district "Fourche Mountain / Day Use/Campground -- All Year -- No Charge (no water/electric available)". Two first-party Forest Service sources agree it is a campground and it is free. Located on Highway 27, 5 miles south of Rover, AR. FOREST ORDER: the Ouachita National Forest carries a standing order (fs.usda.gov/r08/ouachita/alerts/forest-order-day-use-areas-and-rifle-ranges, read 2026-08-16) prohibiting 'Camp within the designated day use area. 36 CFR 261.58(e)' at a long list of named sites. This row is NOT one of them -- it was checked against that list. Nearest town: Plainview ~8.4 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.
--- NIGHT-SHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-18 (reviewer=nightshift-verified) ---
RE-CHECKED 2026-08-18. I re-fetched https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/ouachita/recreation/fourche-mountain-recreation-area
today. The page is flagged "Site Open", is stamped "Last updated October 28, 2025", and still says verbatim:
"Small campground with a scenic view from the mountaintop", "Open all year. No water or electricity available",
"No fees are required for this site", "Vault toilet(s)" and "Potable water is not available at this site."
The Forest Service's own published Latitude 34.89490515 / Longitude -93.39222871 still match this row exactly.
Directions on the page: "On Highway 27, 5 miles south of Rover, AR." District contact: Jessieville Winona
Fourche Ranger District, 8607 N Hwy 7, Jessieville AR 71949, (501) 984-5313. None of the three alerts listed on
the forest's page (Sugar Creek Multi-Use Trail partially closed for logging, Henderson Hill Road FSR 689
partially closed, portions of Wildcat Trail closed for tornado damage) touch this site. NOT A DUPLICATE on
coordinates against anything we publish. VERDICT: approved.
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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 Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest)
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 that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- 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 — Fourche Mountain Recreation Area (Ouachita National Forest)
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →