Lost Bridge North

Another great COE campground!

The camp host is great and the camp is clean. That being said it doesn't make any sense to close a restroom that has running water in it and leave open a glorified porty potty that has no water. I understand that it was built without a heater in it which is so illogical I can not even understand it. All the water is turned off in the camp except one spigot. Why? They are frost free and are designed not to freeze. If the camp is open then so should all the facilities it has. Installation of a heater to keep the pipes in the restroom from freezing would be cheap and easy to do.

No where on their website did it say anything about closing the flush toilets and showers prior to November. All they had open when we got there on the 3rd was Vault toilets. Then two days later they were going to shut off all the water in the campground but decided to leave one spicket running for a few more days. Other than that the lake was gorgeous and the weather was pretty nice. However I will really missed the regular toilets and a shower.

Very nice park.

The 30 amp electric box outlet is not working properly and caused our camper 12 volt battery to drain to empty. All the appliances quit working and all the hydraulic jack lifts on the camper were not usable. We canceled the last seven days of our trip due to these problems with power. I told a patrolling Corp Ranger about the electrical box problem, but he said that he knew nothing about the electrical system and wished me good luck. I finally got a relative to come jump start my camper battery and helped me get the hydraulic jacks to work so we could abandon the powerless site #04 at Lost Bridge North on Beaver Lake in Arkansas.

The sites are fine, some close together. No water at sites or sewer. The whole time we were there we never saw a camp host or camp worker. Nice lake. The road is somewhat narrow but doable.

found a great little tent camping site here - everything was as expected

The shower house is probably 1.5 to 2 miles from the camp area. Very disappointing. We stayed in mid October and the showers may have even been closed. We didn't check it out because they were so far away. However, there is a flush toilet facility right in the camping area that was open. There needs to be a shower in the camping area so that campers don't have to get in a vehicle and drive to them.

Nice arrangement of terraced sites, good view of lake from #2. Might be noisy when busy, but great in October. Too many curves on road getting there.

The area is lovely, but aging badly in places. The part of the campground where we stayed has asphalt pads, which are crumbling. In our site, there was a 4-6" drop off right where the camper door sits, causing a serious risk for tripping. We had to position the camper carefully to avoid the worst of the damage. Some sites were crumbled even worse, too narrow to hold the camper. Other than this, the campground is very lovely but hilly. Some of the loops are very steep, but once you are there, the sites appear to be nice. You'll want to use your own internal toilet and showers, though. The pit toilets are smelly and uncomfortable, and the shower house is a long ways away and also pretty primitive.