Grandview Camping Solar Event | Center Ridge, Arkansas

About Us

Grandview Camping Solar Event offered camping on a farm of more than 100 acres of countryside at Center Ridge, Arkansas, for the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024.

The farm was quiet and free of streetlights, with wide open fields for watching the eclipse and for stargazing at night. The site was scheduled to have 4 minutes and 15 seconds of totality.

There were several primitive tent or car camping sites, primitive RV sites and day-only parking passes, plus two campers set up with all the linens and kitchen supplies a stay needed. Fire rings were set up for campfires.

Parking passes covered a single day, from 7am to 7pm, with no overnight stays. Anyone who wanted to stay the night booked a tent, car or RV site instead.

The total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, photographed from Little Rock, Arkansas

The eclipse of April 8, 2024, photographed from Little Rock, Arkansas.

Amenities & Facilities

More details:

Accommodation Types

Primitive tent or car camping sites
Primitive RV sites
Two campers with linens and kitchen supplies
Day-only parking passes

Who it suited

Eclipse watchers
Stargazers
Tent and car campers
RV campers
Day visitors with a parking pass
Campers with pets

Amenities

Community restrooms
Fire rings
Hiking
Gasoline nearby
Pets allowed

Site Rules

Nightly stays with no minimum
Campfires only in designated areas
No glass bottles
Pets on a leash or caged at night
Parking passes 7am to 7pm, no overnight stays

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Gallery

The first photograph, the farm at sunset, is from the original website. The rest are openly licensed photographs of the 2024 eclipse in Arkansas and of places nearby.

Sunset over the farm's fields, barn and pond at Center Ridge

Totality on April 8, 2024, seen from Russellville, Arkansas

Autumn trees and the valley below Petit Jean Mountain

Greers Ferry Lake from the bluffs at Miller's Point

Mist over the wooded hills below Petit Jean Mountain

Looking over the water from Cadron Settlement Park

Photo: Kalpa Semasinghe, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (the eclipse from Russellville)

Photo: Lance Cheung, U.S. Department of Agriculture, public domain, Wikimedia Commons (the eclipse from Little Rock, beside About Us)

Photos: Marcus O. Bst, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons (autumn view from Petit Jean Mountain; Cedar Falls)

Photos: Brandonrush, public domain and CC0, Wikimedia Commons (mist from Petit Jean Mountain; Greers Ferry Lake at sunset)

Photo: Dkbrawley, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (Greers Ferry Lake from Miller's Point)

Photos: Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (Cadron Settlement Park: the water and the blockhouse)

Photo: ErgoSum88, public domain, Wikimedia Commons (panorama from Petit Jean Mountain, banner)

Camping near Center Ridge

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What to do

Petit Jean State Park

Also in Conway County, the park sits on top of Petit Jean Mountain beside the Arkansas River, where Cedar Creek drops 95 feet into a canyon at Cedar Falls.

Greers Ferry Lake

The reservoir behind Greers Ferry Dam, northeast of Center Ridge, is popular for swimming, boating, fishing and camping.

Cadron Settlement Park

A 150-acre park at Conway with a reconstructed blockhouse, hiking trails and a boat launch, on a site where Native Americans stopped on the Trail of Tears.