Grubb Hollow Campground

One of the smallest campgrounds in Ozark National Scenic Riverways: five sites and no hookups on a broad sandy clearing above the lower Current River, across the water from Kelley Bluff, reached down a park road off Carter County Road 227.

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Grubb Hollow is one of the smallest campgrounds in Ozark National Scenic Riverways: five sites and no electric hookups on a broad sandy clearing above the north bank of the lower Current River. The Park Service places it just across the water from Kelley Bluff, and the ground agrees: the clearing sits on the north shore, with the bluff's wooded slope rising on the south bank opposite and a quiet backwater channel in the bend to the east.

There is no loop road and no developed layout to learn. National Park Service Road 223 runs south off Carter County Road 227, forks across the sand at the top of the clearing, and sends a spur down into it, and campers pitch on the open ground above the bank. What the Park Service says the stay is for is the river itself: swimming, floating, and fishing on the lower Current, with the woods behind the clearing pretty in every season.

Two things are honestly unstated here, so plan around them rather than past them: the Park Service page for this campground states no camping fee in the sources read, and it states no hours and no season. The ground is sand and gravel at river level, high water rewrites it, and the park posts Current River levels and closures; check them before you drive down.