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Hot Springs National Park
Gulpha Gorge Campground
 

Camping at Gulpha Gorge Campground costs $10 per night ($5 with a Golden Age/Interagency Senior pass or Golden Access/Interagency Access card.) Sites are available on a first come, first served basis. You cannot make a reservation. Each campsite has a picnic table, pedestal grill, and water nearby. While there are no showers or hookups, there are modern restrooms. Water is available for registered campers only at several stations throughout the campground most of the year and at the dump station. Camping is limited to 14 days per year.

Beginning June 1, 2009 water and electric hookups will be available at sites 3-13 and 16. The fee for these sites will be $24 per night; $12 per night if you have a Golden Age/Interagency Senior Pass or Golden Access/Interagency Access Pass card. They will be first come, first served, no reservations. Sites are not pull-through. Full utilities are being added to more sites. Read more about it. Quiet hours are 10 p.m.-6 a.m.

Pets are allowed if leashed. Please pick up animal waste.

You can get the Interagency Passes at the Hot Springs National Park Visitor Center in the historic Fordyce Bathhouse. For more information about the federal government recreation passes, such as the Senior Pass or the Access Pass, please click here.

Campgrounds with showers and hookups are available in the surrounding area. For more information, use these links:
Ouachita National Forest
Lake Ouachita Corps of Engineers
Arkansas State Parks
Commercial Campgrounds

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Relax on a shady park trail.
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Gulpha Creek in fall, below campground amphitheater, with bridge over Gorge Road in right background  

Did You Know?
The name Gulpha Creek is a corruption of the French name for the stream. Explorer William Dunbar reports the name "Fourche รก Calfat" in the journal of his visit in 1804. Calfat eventually became Gulpha.

Last Updated: April 02, 2009 at 12:42 EST