Beaver Lake - COE/Prairie Creek

Penny Watson

Nice park. Clean facilities. Quiet at night except for all the trucks with boats leaving the ramp area but that ends fairly earlier so not really an issue. Only complaint we had was the trash dumpster were overflowing when we arrived at the park and they were not emptied during the week were there. Always overflowing. Side note: fire department and police were called to one site 3x during the week but again no issues for us. We will visit again.

Michael Scott

This is the nicest COE campground I have visited in Arkansas! 👍🏻🥳 Wonderful beach area, picnic area, huge boat ramp, and the largest marina on Beaver lake! Over 900 covered floating boat slips 😱 However like all of the ones I have visited recently. I walk around with a bag and pick up trash every time! Cigarette butts, pop tops from cans🤷🏻‍♂️ drink box straw wrappers, water bottle caps, cable ties after they are cut loose from whatever they were holding. 🤔 In this particular location they were two campsites where people just left their garbage! 🤬 One had the bag ripped open by critters and the trash was just everywhere waiting to get run over by the lawn mower 🫣 Nobody goes around and cleans up the campsite anymore. Nobody cleans out the fire pits. You have to pass the dumpster to leave the park! Again you need to be a local or have visited the place beforehand so that you can wisely choose your choice site. 😳There are so many different sections. And so many sites that would be difficult to get larger units in, or to. Some very steep roads as well. It is an absolutely magnificent🤩 huge campground with wonderful shelters, nice bathrooms, there is a modern nice shower facility.🚿 One thing unique to this location is the park rangers from Hobbs State Park will come here and post their events at the guard gate window, 👍🏻

Rudegyal

I love this campground. It’s clean and the staffs very friendly. The swimming area has clean bathrooms and showers. We came back for a second time and so far it’s the best within distance from Joplin that’s reasonable travel wise. There’s firewood etc. We stayed Friday to Sunday and had no issues with anything. There’s recent flooding and storms for 3 weeks causing trees to be down which helped with firewood. They have people throughout the day that drive around maintaining the facilities.

K R

We camp a lot and this is the worst camping experience so far. We had site 50. It looks nothing like the picture on the website. The positive of this area is it appears to have a nice area for day use. Nice beach area, playgrounds for kids and boating facilities. It is close to lots of shopping and the. Lake is beautiful driving in. The cons out weigh the pros by far in regards to camping. It appears a tornado ripped through and uprooted a massive amount of trees a couple of years ago. They are still on the ground piled up in a ravine and the area is grown up with brush. It is just my guess but it looks like many of the hillside sites suffered runoff damage that has not been repaired. The pads are small and consist of mostly rocks, and unlevel walking area. Ticks were a big problem in our sites. The hillside made it difficult to walk around. Trash cans were quite a distance, uphill. We decided to shorten our stay and move on to our next destination. The last night here I was wakened at midnight by loud thumping music that was so loud it was vibrating the camper. Some guys in a car had pulled in to a campsite 3 sites away and decided to open up their doors and hatch back with music on full blast. So much for park closes at 10. They did leave when I made my presence known but were sketchy and left me unable to get sleep afterwards. Another con of camping close to big town. We won’t be back.

Ali Shalhoub

Prairie Creek Campground is a fantastic spot. It's well-maintained, offers beautiful views, and provides a peaceful escape. A great choice for camping in the area.