Hand Cove Resort & RV Park
on Norfork Lake,  Arkansas
870-488-5367
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8885 Hand Cove Road Elizabeth, AR 72531
 Featuring lake front cabins, RV camping, fishing, and lake vacation rentals on Lake Norfork.  Hand Cove Resort on Norfork Lake is your natural choice for the better family vacation in the Arkansas Ozarks Mountains.

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Your better family and fishing vacation is at Hand Cove Resort on Lake Norfork. Look to Hand Cove Lake Norfork Resorts for the best of Norfork Lake lodging resorts cabin rentals vacation rentals. Our campground features full hook up RV sites for Lake Norfork camping. Our full service resort offers Norfork Lake cabin rentals, fishing, rental boats, Lake Norfork Lake fishing bait and tackle. Our new steel boat dock is your gateway to Norfork Lake sand beaches, Sand Island, Norfork Dam, and Jordan Island. For your better lake, fishing, and Ozark Fall Foliage Color vacation, it's Hand Cove Resort on Norfork Lake of the Ozarks Mountains of Arkansas near Mountain Home. Check out our current Lake Norfork Lake fishing report. For Norfork Lake cabins, Norfork Lake camping, and Norfork Lake lodging on the Lake Norfork, Hand Cove Resort is your natural choice in Arkansas, the Natural State in the Ozark Mountains.

Hand Cove Resort and RV Park is near the city of Mountain Home, Arkansas, on the southeast end of Norfork Lake. We are the closest resort to the water of any resort on Norfork Lake. You can walk across our gently sloped grass yard 100 yards to the water's edge. Hand Cove Resort is in a quiet, secluded section of the Big Creek Arm of Norfork Lake within sight of the Hand Cove/Jordan Recreation Area beaches. Many experienced fishermen consider the Hand Cove/Jordan Recreation Area to be the best fishing zone on the lake. Many repeat guests come to Hand Cove Resort every year for the peace, quiet, and tranquility of the Arkansas Ozark Mountains as well as the fishing and water sports.

Hand Cove Resort Is Your Gateway To:
Cabins / Cottages
Some call them cabins. Some call them cottages. Either way they are exceptionally clean full housekeeping units. All of our cabins / cottages have been recently renovated. Each unit has a fully equipped kitchen with a full size refrigerator, a 4 burner gas range with oven, microwave, pots, pans, dishes, and silverware. A bath with shower, satellite color TV with remote, free wireless internet access, bed and bath linens, cement patio with picnic table, a Weber BBQ kettle, and lawn chairs complete our cabin amenities. For your comfort, all units are air conditioned and heated. Our studio cabin sleeps 3, our one bedroom cabins sleep up to 5, and our two bedroom cabins sleep up to 9 persons. A stall for your boat in our new steel boat dock is included free with each cabin rental. All you need to bring is food and your beach towels.

RV Sites
Would you like to bring your own cabin? Then park your RV right here in our resort. Our RV guests enjoy all of the same resort facilities that our cabin guests do including our rental boats. Each of our 20 graveled and leveled sites has water, 30 amp electric hookups, and sewer connections. All of our sites overlook our central park area or the lake and some are shaded by tall hardwood trees. We offer both short and long term site rentals.

WE ARE THE ONLY RV PARK WITH DIRECT LAKE NORFORK ACCESS – NO other RV park on Lake Norfork offers resort type amenities, dock access, boat rentals, and proximity to the lake like Hand Cove Resort and RV Park.

Reservation Policies
Reservations are accepted by mail, phone, or e-mail. Your reservation should be accompanied by your deposit check, credit card, or money order with the balance due upon your arrival. Your phone or e-mail reservation will be held for 10 days pending receipt of your deposit check or money order with the balance due upon your arrival. Your reservation will be confirmed upon receipt of your deposit.

Please plan on being billed for your entire reservation regardless of your actual arrival or departure date. Sorry, but we will not be able to credit you for a late arrival or early departure date.

Reservation Availability Requests
The best way to find out if we have openings on the dates you need is to phone us at 870-488-5367. This way we can also answer your questions about accommodations, pets, boat rentals, directions, etc. If it is more convenient, please e-mail your inquiry to greg@handcoveresort.com

Deposits & Refunds Cabins /Cottages
The deposit for a reservation of 3 nights or less is $150.00 per cabin. The deposit for a reservation of 4 nights or more is $250.00 per cabin. Group and multiple unit/site reservations may require additional deposit amounts.

If you find it necessary to cancel your reservation, your deposit will be eligible for refund, less a $25 processing fee, if your cancellation is received prior to your planned arrival date, and your reserved cabin is re-rented for the same nights you reserved. Deposits for boat and equipment rentals are not refundable.

Pets Are Welcome at Hand Cove Resort
We are animal lovers and have a dog of our own, so we know how important it is to be able to bring your pets. Some of our cabins have been set aside for guests with pets. Your well behaved dog or cat is welcome with advance notice. Please let us know about your pet at the time you make your reservation. We have special areas of our grounds to walk and exercise your pet. As a courtesy to our other guests, please keep your pet attended to at all times and on a leash when outside of your cabin or RV. You are responsible for any damage caused by your pet.

Dock & Lake Access
At Hand Cove Resort and RV Park, you'll enjoy fast and easy lake access. You can fish or swim from either our swim/fish deck, or from our 1/4 mile shoreline. There are several good bank fishing spots, and there are great places to swim in the lake. Feel like a morning hike? Then explore part of the up to 550 miles of primitive shoreline of Norfork Lake. The lake shore, along with our grounds offers an abundance of native plants and wildlife. If you are not a hiker, then do your exploring, fishing, swimming, or tubing from the comfort and convenience of a rental boat. Whether you are a cabin or RV guest, our rental boats will carry you to all of the best Norfork Lake has to offer.

Bringing your own boat? Just back it into the water on the hard surface concrete launch ramp next to our dock, pull your vehicle out, and either park in our large parking area at the launch, or near your

Boat Dock In A Protected Cove
Our new steel private covered illuminated 11 stall boat dock is located a short distance from the main lake channel in a protected cove. You will sleep well each night knowing that your boat is safe and secure from the elements. Each stall is well lit, and has electrical outlets to power your battery chargers and other equipment. Our new well lit fish cleaning station has electric outlets and running water.

Our new boat dock can be seen easily from most of our resort cabins. With the resort's boat dock so close to the launch ramp, it is easy to launch and dock your boat. Pull right up to our dock to unload coolers, food, fishing gear, water toys, and then head out for some lake fun.

Two full service marinas are a short boat ride away. They offer fuel sales, fishing guide services, bait, snacks, ice, etc., and full service marine repairs.

Activities
Scuba Diving - This area of Norfork Lake is famous for scuba diving. Jordan Marina, 1/2 mile away by water, has a PADI certified scuba shop with equipment sales, air, service and rentals. They also have maps detailing locations of 29 underwater attractions that are nearby. The underwater visibility is excellent for scuba diving which also makes for good spear fishing. Ask us about a dive site map detailing locations of 29 underwater attractions that are nearby.

Fishing - Our area of the lake has some of the best fishing Norfork Lake offers. The lake supports largemouth, smallmouth, Kentucky, white, and striped bass, crappie and walleye, blue channel and flathead catfish, bluegill, and sunfish. Norfork Lake stripers typically run 8 to 14 pounds. Stripers and catfish over 25 pounds are not unusual. Three to 5 pound bass are relatively common. The kids love catching crappie and bluegill from our dock. We have an outdoor propane fish fryer for your free use.

Sand Island & The Beaches - Norfork Lake's only white sand beaches are 5 minutes away from our resort by boat. The beaches are a favorite place for vacationers to beach their boats, swim, picnic, fish, sun, and build sand castles. Bonfires are a normal happening on the weekends. Hop into your boat (or rent one of ours) and join the fun!

Area Attractions - Mountain Home, AR is about 30 minutes from the resort. Mountain Home has many restaurants, movie theaters, two 18 hole golf courses, churches, bowling, miniature golf, horseback riding, antique and craft shopping. The resort is a convenient base camp for day trips. Many of our guests enjoy exploring Blanchard Springs Caverns, The Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Old Hardy Town, Branson, MO for music shows and Silver Dollar City theme park.

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