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Spoon Bend Access Camping Area
Drive-up · public land · AR · 33.46124, -92.72605
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Spoon Bend Access Camping Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 94 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Spoon Bend Access Camping AreaNIFC · 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 Spoon Bend Access Camping Area · public land · AR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail6 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- OOutfitter18 mi
- +Urgent care48 mi
- EVEV fast charger50 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 8 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 50-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Water, 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 — Spoon Bend Access Camping Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
94 ft
Ground slope
9.9% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~5.9 mi · main line
State
AR
Coordinates
33.46124, -92.72605
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Spoon Bend Access Camping Area · public land · AR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureOuachita River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelValero · ~7.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~9.7 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~10.8 mi
- HardwareThe Home Depot · ~16.0 mi
- Nearest rail line~5.9 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
EV charging — from Spoon Bend Access Camping Area · public land · AR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger49.9 mi straight-line NW — 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 · 1 within 50 · 46 within 100 · 73 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)52.9 mi — Hope, AR - Tesla Supercharger, Hope
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO53.4 mi — Walmart 1065 (Hope, AR), Hope
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)10.4 mi — OECC EV STATION 1, East Camden, AR · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Sahaj Food Mart, Camden, 9.3 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily · AFDC lists it “$10 per hour”
Level 2, restricted access — Karol Malone Ford, El Dorado, 17.6 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for customers with appointments only - 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 Spoon Bend Access Camping Area · public land · AR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- No mapped restroom within 30 miles — plan to pack it out.
Coming out here — Spoon Bend Access Camping Area · public land · AR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Ouachita 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 9.9% — noticeable. 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 ~5.9 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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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Other camps near Spoon Bend Access Camping Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Poison Springs Camping Area #E-3~20.1 mi
- Poison Springs Camping Area #G-32~21.4 mi
- Poison Springs Camping Area #D-112~22.2 mi
- Poison Springs Camping Area #G-6~22.5 mi
How we know this — Spoon Bend Access 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
Mapped by AGFC as a county-owned camping area and flagged 'No Fee Site' in AGFC's GIS. CAVEAT: the owning local government publishes no page I could find this fire, so the fee status and the camping permission both rest on AGFC's data ALONE. VERIFY BEFORE PUBLISHING. 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: Louann ~6.2 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 Spoon Bend Access Camping Area
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 — Spoon Bend Access Camping Area
Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →Fire rules & restrictions →Off-grid communication →All field notes →