Dub Patton Campground

This is a great place but many of the sites are not level. Covid has taken a toll on maintenance in the area.

As compared to other COE campgrounds I’ve been to, this one is definitely the least manicured. It’s more along the lines of a rustic state park than a COE. Our site was missing the picnic table and the slope of the ground made it hard to enjoy the traditional patio area. We sat out near the woods directly behind the rig. The bathouse was clean! There were individual shower stalls with lockable doors, and there were no shower curtains trying to eat me during my very hot shower! Strangely enough, in thus year of COVID-19, there was no soap provided in the bathrooms. I’m used to that, but figured it would be different in 2020. Three stars in my system means “we would go back if we need a site and are nearby, but we won’t make a trip just to go here. If you have a tent, sites 9 and 10 look like the best ever tent sites-right on a bluff overlooking the lake.

Nice quiet location with playground near for the kids

Facilities were very clean. Our first time at this campground and probably won’t be back to Dub Patton. A lot of long term rv’s parked here and some were not well kept. Good side is that you saw rangers several in the area. Appears to be older campsites. South Abutment much better area.

Love Arkabutla, the propery is beautiful and exceptionally maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
The Dub Patton area seems like it was perhaps the very first campground created here as the sites are highly unlevel, and many of the sites are elevated meaning you have an immediate 2-4 ft drop in elevation (Hill) from the paved pad down to the firepit area and picnic tables. Perhaps a dozen or more sites are laughably horrible like this.
The remaining sites still have a lot of elevation changes, and are pretty closely packed together.
We originally had a site reserved in the South Abutment area but had our reservation cancelled 2 days prior due to reported electrical problem sin the area - and we were told the dub patton area had plenty of vacancy. Now we know why - the dub patton is woefully the worst camping area due to the issues already noted. Plus, there is no lake access at all from any of the sites unless you dont mind crawling over very dangerous rocks / riprap.
Being forced to move to the dub patton area, we found a couple sites that were pretty level and they worked out well for us. However, the restroom faciltiy did NOT have any lighting at all - apparently also a casualty of the electrical issues. The heaters and hand air dryers worked, just no lighting. Also, they closed down the dump station.
So the stay was very inconvienant - no lighting in the restroom facilities and no dumping station access, and no walk-down lake access.
I have no intention of every staying in Dub Patton area again.
However, I love the arkabutla area.

Awesome! Beautiful! Water view! Hope we return next year!

Beautiful campground! We really enjoyed our stay here.

The site was not level. If I had done more research on the campground, I might have found a better site. The dump station was one of the worst I've ever seen. It overflowed, there was raw sewage everywhere. It had obviously been like that for some time. This is a health hazzard. I am thankful this is the exception for Corp campgrounds. We will not return to this facility.

It was a very pleasant stay the only problem was we couldn’t park both cars easily due to the neighbors having junk spilling over and the waste dump was closed down making it a little inconvenient. Overall a nice peaceful area.

Camp ground was clean better than most places that I've been bathroom was spotless and we'll stocked with quality toilet tissue. The only draw back I have firepit was full of sand I understand the purpose but it had built up to the point of it being unusable also there was no garbage receptacle a simple hollow tube to accept a bag would be great I had my own bag. All in all I will definitely be back and highly recommend this area to anyone.