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Riverside Camping Area #2
Drive-up · U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service · AR · 34.00183, -91.16240
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 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 Riverside Camping Area #2
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 149 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Riverside 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 Riverside Camping Area #2 · Trusten Holder WMA · AR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump5 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- GGrocery13 mi
- MMechanic20 mi
- OOutfitter22 mi
- HHardware23 mi
- LLaundry23 mi
- RxPharmacy23 mi
- +Urgent care23 mi
- EVEV fast charger31 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 13 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 31-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Water, 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 — Riverside Camping Area #2
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Elevation
149 ft
Ground slope
0.5% · flat
State
AR
Coordinates
34.00183, -91.16240
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Riverside Camping Area #2 · Trusten Holder WMA · AR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWhite River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~12.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~5.3 mi
- GroceriesDouble quick · ~12.8 mi
- PharmacyShelby Drug Store · ~22.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicHarrington Clinic · ~22.9 mi
- HardwareFerretti Building Materials · ~22.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Riverside Camping Area #2 · Trusten Holder WMA · AR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger30.9 mi straight-line SE — Entergy Mississippi, LLC - Cleveland · 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 · 4 within 50 · 47 within 100 · 143 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)62.4 mi — Brinkley, AR - Tesla Supercharger, Brinkley
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO42.2 mi — 1009 Highway 82 E Greenville MS 38701, Greenville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)30.5 mi — Robinson Electric Company, Cleveland, MS · Blink Network · 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 458300 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Riverside Camping Area #2 · Trusten Holder WMA · AR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomVisitor Center Bldg · ~10.5 mi W · NPS
- RestroomComfort Station · ~11.0 mi W · NPS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~25.5 mi N · FWS
Coming out here — Riverside Camping Area #2 · Trusten Holder WMA · AR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps White River as a perennial river, ~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 0.5% — 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.
Open Riverside Camping Area #2 elsewhere
Other camps near Riverside Camping Area #2
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Riverside Camping Area #1~0.2 mi
- Riverside Camping Area #3~0.3 mi
- Boundary Road Camping Area~3.8 mi
The unit that manages Riverside Camping Area #2
Riverside Camping Area #2 is in Trusten Holder 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 — Riverside Camping Area #2
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
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.
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 Riverside 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.
- 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 — Riverside Camping Area #2
Finding water out here →Fire rules & restrictions →Camping with a dog →Reading your camp page →All field notes →