Agency-listedArkansas Dept of Agriculture Forestry DivisionFree
Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9
Drive-up · Arkansas Division of Forestry · AR · 33.74928, -93.00912
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Ask about this camp →Arkansas Division of Forestry 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 Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 273 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9NIFC · 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 Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9 · Poison Springs WMA · AR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail14 mi
- FFuel14 mi
- MMechanic14 mi
- GGrocery15 mi
- RxPharmacy15 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- +Urgent care26 mi
- EVEV fast charger26 mi
- HHardware35 mi
- OOutfitter42 mi
- WWater47 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 47-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 14 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Dump, Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9
Access
Drive-up
Land
Arkansas Division of Forestry
Elevation
273 ft
Ground slope
3.2% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~9.9 mi · industrial lead
State
AR
Coordinates
33.74928, -93.00912
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9 · Poison Springs WMA · AR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelExxon · ~14.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesBrookshire's · ~15.0 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~15.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicCHI St. Vincent Urology Clinic - Arkadelphia · ~26.0 mi
- Nearest rail line~9.9 mi · industrial lead
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
EV charging — from Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9 · Poison Springs WMA · AR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger26.0 mi straight-line N — Hamburger Barn, Arkadelphia, AR · EV Connect · CCS · 2 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 · 5 within 50 · 44 within 100 · 76 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)34.7 mi — Hope, AR - Tesla Supercharger, Hope
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO35.2 mi — Walmart 1065 (Hope, AR), Hope
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.8 mi — Holiday Inn Express Camden, AR · EVGATEWAY · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports 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 428496 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9 · Poison Springs WMA · AR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaGurdon (7-15-B) · ~19.0 mi NW
- Highway rest areaGurdon (7-14-B) · ~19.0 mi NW
Coming out here — Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9 · Poison Springs WMA · AR
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- About the name: this site is called Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9, but no named stream, river or lake is mapped near the pin — none within 1 mi in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset and none named within 1.6 mi in our OpenStreetMap pull. Neither search looks for springs, so whether a spring is mapped here is something this page cannot tell you.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 3.2% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~9.9 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as an industrial lead. No track the atlas classes as a main line is mapped within 10 mi. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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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The unit that manages Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9
Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9 is in Poison Springs WMA, a wildlife management area managed by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9
Permit
The Arkansas Forestry Commission has designated several areas as primitive campsites. A free permit must be obtained from them in order to use these campsites.
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
ARKANSAS STATE FOREST LAND, managed by the Arkansas Department of Agriculture Forestry Division (the former Arkansas Forestry Commission). PERMIT: AGFC's own Poison Springs WMA page, read 2026-08-16, says verbatim: "The Arkansas Forestry Commission has designated several areas as primitive campsites. A free permit must be obtained from them in order to use these campsites." The permit is FREE but it IS required -- ring the Division of Forestry on 870-836-5882 to reserve a campsite and get it. This is a free-with-a-phone-call site, not a turn-up-and-camp site, and the page should say so. I did NOT open the AGFC page for Poison Springs 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's own 'last_verified_date' for this point is 2015-09-30 -- the agency has not re-checked it since, so treat it as possibly stale. 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 'RVs Allowed - No Hookups'. Nearest town: Chidester ~3.3 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 Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9
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.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- 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 — Poison Springs Camping Area #B-9
Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →Fire rules & restrictions →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →