A wet-weather creek slides over rock under a full green canopy. That is the first thing you notice on this cabin with 20 acres in Clinton, Arkansas. The path in is narrow and rough. Four-wheel drive is required. An agent must go with you. The 20-by-32 cabin sits in the trees, still in the dry, with a wood stove already in place and a private well on the land.
The wet-weather creek moving over stone through dense summer woods on the 20-acre tract.
This is off-grid ground in Van Buren County, listed as rural, wooded, and not in a subdivision. Some of the acreage is sloped. Some is level. Wildlife uses the creek and the timber. The cabin is a shell you can camp in now and finish later. It is not a turnkey home.
You can check the full pricing history and listing details in the source link below the photos. Read the agent remarks before you drive out. Access is part of the deal.
Inside the 20-by-32 Cabin
The main room is one open volume under a raw wood ceiling. Exposed rafters run the length of the space. Plywood and studs show on the walls. High windows let in tree light. A wood stove stands on one side with a black pipe up the wall.
Looking down the unfinished cabin toward the far wall, with open rafters, a wood stove, and stored gear.
Furniture and boxes sit where a living room would go. A fridge and a boxed television wait against the back wall. Insulation batts lean in a stack. The floor is unfinished. This is a hunting camp or a project cabin, not a finished house with a gourmet kitchen or a primary suite.
The same room facing the window wall and glass door, with the stove on the left and trees outside.
Large windows and a glass door open to the woods and the deck. Transom glass sits above. Daylight is the finish that already works. Everything else is still to be built: kitchen, bath, sleeping rooms, flooring.
A side window looking onto the covered porch, with construction materials on the cabin floor.
The stove is the heat source on site. A crate of tools sits beside it. Recliners face the glass. If you stay overnight now, you live in one room and heat with wood.
Close view of the wood stove, pipe, and open framing, with the window wall and door beyond.
The Porch and the Trees
A wood deck runs along the cabin. Posts and a simple rail hold it up. The floorboards look out into hardwoods. A blue barrel and a bucket sit on the boards. This is the outdoor living space that already exists.
The covered porch looking into the woods, with wood posts, a rail, and a blue barrel on the deck.
Housewrap still covers parts of the exterior. Screens are in the window openings. A round table and a white chair sit on the deck with work gear on top. The cabin is being lived in and worked on at the same time.
Looking down the porch along the housewrap wall, with screens in the openings and tools on a table.
Stand off the end of the cabin and the woods come right to the wall. Leaf litter and moss cover the ground. There is no formal yard. Privacy comes from timber, not from a fence.
The side of the cabin against the woods, with housewrap on the wall and a thick stand of trees.
Twenty Acres, Pipe, and the Creek Bottom
Blue pipe and cut poles lie in the woods below the deck. That stack is part of the unfinished work. The ground here is typical Ozark slope: leaves, saplings, and taller trunks. Take a look at these exterior shots, and find the complete photo gallery linked at the end of this tour.
Blue pipe and timber stacked on the forest floor among young trees and leaf litter.
From below, the cabin sits on posts with storage underneath. Extra lumber is stacked in the shade. The porch hangs over the slope. The wet-weather creek is the water feature. It will run harder after rain and quieter in a dry spell. Confirm flow on the day you visit.
The raised cabin and porch from the slope, with woods on one side and stored lumber underneath.
Clinton, Van Buren County, and Getting There
Clinton is the county seat and the nearest town for groceries and fuel. The local real estate market still has raw acreage and camp cabins at prices that look low next to the rest of the Ozarks. Schools follow the Clinton district if you ever make this a homestead.
Prime location here means distance from neighbors and a creek in the timber. It does not mean a paved driveway. The listing is clear: four-wheel drive, a narrow path, and an agent on the showing. Plan extra time. Wear boots.
There is no listed sewer. The well is the water start. Power is off-grid unless you bring solar or another source. Ask what is already piped and what still has to be built. Those answers change the budget more than the list price.
What You Would Be Buying
The cabin with 20 acres in Clinton, Arkansas, is a 20-by-32 dry shell, a wood stove, a well, a porch, and a wet-weather creek in the woods. It can be a hunting camp this season. It can become a small homestead if you finish the interior and handle access, power, and waste.
It will not live like a finished house on day one. Walk the creek. Stand under the rafters. Drive the path in a capable truck. If that still feels like the right piece of ground, the listing agent has the rest of the photos and the parcel notes.
If you’re interested in learning more about this property, please contact the listing agent through the Zillow link provided below the photos.
Zillow Listing and Full Gallery