Arkansas bound May 24, 2020

Once again I left without reservations.  This time my travel buddy is my oldest son, Jack. We drove up to the Degray Lake area south of Hot Springs, Arkansas and found a campsite at Caddo Drive Corps of Engineers campground.  It’s my first time to visit this campground.  It’s Sunday night, near the end of the Memorial Day weekend but this campground has a few vacancies. Site #71 was a pull through site with electric hookups only. All of the sites are electric only. All sites are up high on a bluff overlooking the lake and depending on the season all have lake views but this time of year with all the leaves on the trees our view was just a glimpse of a sliver of lake.  At the end of the point there’s a beautiful overlook area with benches and porch swings. Site was slightly sloped but easy to level using my Camco trileverers. There’s another section of the campground that are tent sites only. There’s a lake beach and day use area also.  One post Covid-19 world change is reservations are required before you can enter the campground so I sat in front of the visitors check in station phone in hand and quickly made a reservation for one night. There’s a playground and a bathhouse in the RV section of the campground but both are closed due to Covid. Here’s a link to the campground website:  https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233446






                                                                Welcome to Arkansas 

                                                                          On the road again 






                                                                 Our pull through site # 71





                                   This site is right next to the road and my neighbors across the road 





                                                                  One of the back in sites 



                                               Beautiful view from the end of the campsite loop 





                                                                     Empty pull through site 


                                                              Playground closed due to Covid 



                                                                      Another RV back in site 





                               Visitor’s check in station (Covid protocol requires advance reservations)





One of the tent campsites (these are closer to the lake) 


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