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Star of the West Camping Area #1
Drive-up · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · AR · 34.23929, -93.83317
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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 Star of the West Camping Area #1
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 554 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Star of the West Camping Area #1NIFC · 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 Star of the West Camping Area #1 · Lake Greeson WMA · AR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail3 mi
- DDump14 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- FFuel14 mi
- GGrocery22 mi
- RxPharmacy24 mi
- HHardware25 mi
- MMechanic38 mi
- EVEV fast charger40 mi
- +Urgent care43 mi
- LLaundry45 mi
- WWater46 mi
- OOutfitter53 mi
- AAir-up57 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 46-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 14 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 40-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: 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 — Star of the West Camping Area #1
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Elevation
554 ft
Ground slope
3.3% · gentle
State
AR
Coordinates
34.23929, -93.83317
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Star of the West Camping Area #1 · Lake Greeson WMA · AR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLake Greeson · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townNewhope · ~2.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelExxon · ~14.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~14.2 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~21.7 mi
- PharmacyMount Ida Pharmacy · ~24.5 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~24.8 mi
EV charging — from Star of the West Camping Area #1 · Lake Greeson WMA · AR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger40.5 mi straight-line S — Walmart 1065 (Hope, AR) · Electrify America · CHAdeMO, 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 · 7 within 50 · 48 within 100 · 114 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)40.7 mi — Hope, AR - Tesla Supercharger, Hope
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)23.8 mi — Mountain Harbor Resort - Boat Ramp #1, Mount Ida, AR · 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 121827 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Star of the West Camping Area #1 · Lake Greeson WMA · AR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletAlbert Pike · ~9.8 mi N · USFS
- Flush restroomShady Lake · ~14.0 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWolf Pen Gap East · ~18.4 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCrystal · ~20.0 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Star of the West Camping Area #1 · Lake Greeson WMA · AR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lake Greeson as a perennial lake or pond, under 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 3.3% — 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.
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Other camps near Star of the West Camping Area #1
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Rock Creek Camping Area~4.7 mi
- Pikeville Camping Area #2~7.6 mi
- Shady Lake~14.0 mi · fee
- Loop B~14.2 mi
The unit that manages Star of the West Camping Area #1
Star of the West Camping Area #1 is in Lake Greeson 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 — Star of the West Camping Area #1
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. Army Corps of Engineers land, mapped as a camping area by AGFC and flagged 'No Fee Site' in AGFC's GIS. CAVEAT: I could NOT reach the Corps' own Little Rock District pages this fire -- swl.usace.army.mil returned HTTP 403 to every request -- so the fee status on this row rests on AGFC's data ALONE and has no Corps first-party confirmation. Corps campgrounds commonly do charge. VERIFY WITH THE CORPS BEFORE PUBLISHING. I did NOT open the AGFC page for Lake Greeson 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: Dierks ~13.4 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. | 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 Star of the West Camping Area #1
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 — Star of the West Camping Area #1
Water on public land →Fire rules & restrictions →Camping with a dog →Reading your camp page →All field notes →