Riverside Camping Area #2

public land records

Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge land. fws.gov Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge activities page, read 2026-08-16, verbatim: "Visitors have access to ten different primitive camping areas on the refuge", "No reservations or fees are required", and "Camping is permitted only within the designated primitive camping areas." "Camping area entrances are marked by signs, and boundaries are marked with orange paint." The refuge page does not publish a stay limit; refuge rules, not AGFC's WMA rules, govern here. I did NOT open the AGFC page for Trusten Holder 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 'RVs Allowed - No Hookups'. Nearest town: Watson ~9.1 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) --- PROVENANCE CORRECTED 2026-08-18 -- THE NOTE ABOVE CITES THE WRONG REFUGE. I re-queried AGFC's live ArcGIS layer 1 (the source that produced this row) today. This point's 'Associated WMA' field reads 'Trusten Holder WMA', its county code is 01 (Arkansas County) and its associated waterbody is the White River. It is NOT on Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, which lies about 130 miles south in Ashley/Bradley/Union counties, so the Felsenthal quotation above does not justify this row and must not be reused on its page. THE RIGHT SOURCE, READ TODAY: AGFC's own Trusten Holder WMA page, https://www.agfc.com/wma/trusten-holder-wma/, under the heading 'Camping', says verbatim: "There are 5 primitive camping areas located in Arkansas County." The same page gives the ownership split -- "AGFC: 4,406 acres; USFWS: 1,490 acres; US Army Corps of Engineers: 4,372 acres" (8,173 acres) -- which is why AGFC's GIS marks this particular point 'USFWS'. AGFC's GIS holds four free primitive camping points on this WMA in Arkansas County (Boundary Road, Riverside #1, #2 and #3) against the five the page claims, and separately holds the fee parks the same page describes -- Merrisach Lake, Pendleton Bend, Notrebes Bend and Wilbur D Mills, all flagged 'Fee Site' -- so the two sources corroborate each other closely. Name, coordinates and the 'No Fee Site' flag on this row are unchanged in the live service. CAVEATS THE PAGE SHOULD CARRY: this is USFWS-owned ground inside an AGFC-managed WMA, and the same page notes "Portions of Trusten Holder owned by the USFWS are closed to bear hunting", so federal refuge rules can add restrictions AGFC does not print; the WMA sits on the White River and floods. AGFC publishes no per-site detail, so claim no table, fire ring, toilet, trash service or potable water. NOT A DUPLICATE on coordinates against anything we publish. VERDICT: approved on the Trusten Holder citation, not the Felsenthal one.

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.

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.