Gulpha Gorge Campground

Access to the park is good. Paved all the way. Signage was easy to see.

The park office is not manned. There is a self serve vending machine that will accept credit cards as well as cash. You find an unoccupied (un-tagged) site. Park your rig and then register. We poked our faces into the washrooms. There are no showers but they were clean.

Our site, 14, was a back in and it consisted of an asphalt pad with a Concrete table, Grill and Fire Pit The utilities, power, water and sewer were to the left rear. The park is adjacent to the road way but there is very little traffic that passes by so it did not bother us.

Our Verizon cell and Mifi worked well. There is not internet at the park. We did get some OTA TV. Satellite would probably be difficult. There are lots of trees.

The camp hosts looked after the park very well. They were pleasant but appeared to be firm ensuring rules and regs were followed.

We paid $30.00 per night and feel we were well served. If you have a Passport America you are entitled to a 50% discount. This is a very nice park. We would be back if in the area.

This is a nice first come first serve campground in the Hot Springs National Park. The campground is very clean and well kept. Most of the sites will fit any size rig as long as you are decent at backing up. Each site has water, up to 50 amp service, sewer, fire pit, and picnic table. We luckily found a site right on the river which was amazing. All of the sites are fairly close together, but some have trees/shrubbery in between.

We were able to hike about 3 miles to get to bathhouse row. This was an easy/moderate level hike and was very easy to get to via the provided maps. This campground is about 10-15 minutes driving distance to the nearest Walmart, Lowes, Best Buy, or other big box store. There are plenty of neat places to visit and eat in town and on bathhouse row.

This is definitely a place we will be coming to again. We will getting there during the week as the spots fill up on Friday. We were told by the camp host that it gets really busy during peak season. We were lucky that we came in late February. 10/10!!

We love this park as it is camping in nature but close to fun things to do nearby. Campsites are a little close together and there are no showers/laundry/cable but that is the only reason we didn’t give this five stars. We were backed up to a creek and lots of hiking trails nearby. Be sure to go to one of the mineral baths nearby, totally rejuvenating!

Lovely trees, adjacent to the creek. Wish it was warm enough that I could sleep with the windows open! Full hook ups, cement picnic table, rusted BBQ grill. This site has no fire ring, but many others do. Level pad right to left, but had to stack several levelers to put down the back stabilizers.

Tip: No reservations. Upside: As long as you are in the spot, you can keep renewing at noon on the day of departure. So I was able to pay for a couple of nights and then three more after I decided to hang out a little longer.

We have stayed at this campground multiple times over the years, and it's remains a favorite. However on this visit, it was way more full than ever before. The camp host told us they were expecting it to be this way until Thanksgiving due to the fall leaves.

We planned our arrival for around 11a - and were surprised to only find one site available, and not a great one. We pulled in to hold it (you can't officially check in until noon - but once you have stuff on a site, it's yours).

While waiting, we noticed two sites packing up along the creek - so we moved on over in short order to a fabulous site. Score. At the strike of noon we went to the registration building and used the digital ranger (a fabulous feature that we've not seen elsewhere yet) and paid for our two nights. Once you're paid, you can't switch sites - so make sure you have the one you want.

Some sites are quite un-level, and we watched a number of huge motorhomes try to squeeze into sites way too small for them trying to make it work.

Once in, we walked the rather challenging 1.5 mile trail to Bathhouse row for a delightful soak at Quapaw, thermal brew and then dinner. All within the national park. We took a Lyfx back.

Keep in mind that the bathhouses are basic with no showers, but all sites are now full hook-up.

Fabulous Verizon and AT&T signal here.

We only stayed one night and loved it. Our appt wasn’t the best but the campground is really nice.
We were on the creek but it was way down a concrete wall at our spot.
There is a swimming place, safe for kids. We arrived at 4:30 on a Thursday and easily found a spot. In the morning it was like being in an aviary with all the beautiful bird sounds.
Highly recommend it.