Bakers Run Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $28–$46Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7775 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bakers Run Campground is one of the best kept secrets in West Virginia. The campground rests among shady forests and flowing tributaries of the Elk River, which has the highest species diversity and richness of any river in the entire state. This makes the fishing excellent for bass, crappie, catfish, bluegill, and walleye. Bakers Run is surrounded by the Elk River Wildlife Management Area, campers will hear turkeys gobble and see whitetail deer along with other wildlife as a part of their experience. Choose from 77 sites. There are eight full hook-up campsites, 26 electric campsites, and 44 primitive campsites. Keep reading
Recreation
Sutton Lake has three other developed recreational areas, including the Sutton Dam and Downstream that includes tail water fishing access, picnic shelters, a playground, trail access, and a pollinator garden. Gerald R. Freeman Campground, located about three miles North on the Holly River has 158 sites, many of which may be reserved on recreation.gov. The Bee Run Recreation Area offers a primitive campground, boat launch, marina, swimming beach, picnic shelters, and a playground.
Facilities
Along with the lake, recreation opportunities include a playground with swings, horseshoe pits, bean bag toss, volleyball area, and basketball court. There is a shower house and restroom inside the campground Natural Features Along with the lake, recreation opportunities include a playground with swings, horseshoe pits, bean bag toss, volleyball area, and basketball court. There is a shower house and restroom inside the campground. Fishermen are likely to be found casting lines from lawn chairs strewn off of the Tunnel Road fishing access. Bakers Run is surrounded by a wildlife management area, making it likely for campers to hear turkeys gobble and see whitetail deer along with other wildlife as a part of their experience.
Nearby Attractions
Bakers Run Campground is nestled deep in the West Virginia mountains, and within driving range to the Monongahela National Forest. The Elk River is a majestic river, flowing past Bakers Run Campground where kayaking, fishingand other water ativities. The historical town of Sutton has plenty of history on the Cobblestone streets, where the "Weston and Gualey Bridge Turnpike" passes through the town of Sutton. The Weston and Gualey Bridge Turnpike was a major highway back during the American Civil War timeframe that connected Weston, WV to Gualey Bridge, WV. Flatwood Outlet Mall is a nearby attraction in the area, where you can find groceries, supplies and take out and dine-in food.
What the agency tells you
Bakers Run Campground is one of the best kept secrets in West Virginia. It rests among shady forests and flowing tributaries of the Elk River, which has the highest species diversity and richness of any river in the entire state. This makes the fishing excellent for bass, crappie, catfish, bluegill, and walleye.
• No person(s) may camp at one or more campsites for more than 14 days in a 30 day consecutive period at “Sutton Lake”. This includes the reservation holder (primary occupant) and all other overnight occupants.
• Any person utilizing a Federal Pass for a discount on camping fees must present the discount pass upon request, be registered on the campsite, and occupy the site overnight for the entire duration of the reservation to receive the full discount.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
• You may only be registered as the primary occupant at one campsite upon check-in.
• All trash and debris must be completely removed from the campsite upon departure.
• All motorized recreational vehicles, including motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATV), utility terrain vehicles (UTV), mopeds, scooters, golf carts, hoverboards, etc., that are not licensed for use on all roadways are prohibited in the campgrounds.
• Please contact the campground or lake office for questions on power driven mobility aids.
• The primary occupant is responsible for the adherence to camping rules and regulations by all other occupants, guests, and visitors on the campsite.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 77
- Hookups
- 32 electric, 8 water
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “There is a shower house and restroom inside the campground”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Night sky · 39th darkest of 69 in WV
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 75 of the 77 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $28–$46 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
77 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 75 mapped sitesAll 77 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 75 of the 77 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| BRCG | 1 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 106 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 10 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 37 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 11 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 37 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 12 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 43 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 13 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 50 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 14 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 37 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 15 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 37 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 16 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 38 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 17 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 38 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 18 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 47 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 19 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 68 ft | 22 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 2 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 48 ft | 41 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 20 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 34 ft | 37 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 21 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 34 ft | 43 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 22 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 42 ft | 63 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 23 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 52 ft | 58 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 24 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 37 ft | 52 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 25 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 37 ft | 40 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 26 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 53 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 27 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 57 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 28 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 63 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 29 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 56 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 3 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 34 ft | 14 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 30 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 42 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 31 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 40 ft | 71 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 32 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 93 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 33 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 115 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 34 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 46 ft | 127 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 35 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 46 ft | 122 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 36 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 48 ft | 118 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 37 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 48 ft | 120 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 38 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 131 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 39 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 145 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 4 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 34 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 40 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 128 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 41 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 92 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 42 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 88 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 43 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 40 ft | 103 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 44 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 125 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 45 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 153 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 46 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 194 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 47 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 145 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 48 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 138 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 49 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 44 ft | 171 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 5 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 50 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 50 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 202 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 51 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 232 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 52 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 267 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 53 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 223 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 54 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 183 ft | ||
| BRCG | 55 | type not stated | 50 ft | 30 amp | 157 ft | ||
| BRCG | 56 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 89 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 57 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 116 ft | $34–$46 |
| BRCG | 58 | standard electric | 50 ft | 56 ft | 123 ft | $34–$46 | |
| BRCG | 59 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 90 ft | 33 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 6 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 57 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 60 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 69 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 61 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 49 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 62 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 63 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 50 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 64 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 47 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 65 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 50 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 66 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 47 ft | 29 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 67 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 52 ft | 58 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 68 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 53 ft | 96 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 69 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 63 ft | 106 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 7 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 61 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 70 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 45 ft | 156 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 71 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 45 ft | 195 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 72 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 52 ft | 55 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 73 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 52 ft | 45 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 74 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 47 ft | 25 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 75 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 47 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 76 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 48 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 77 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 48 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 8 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 32 ft | under 10 ft | $28 | |
| BRCG | 9 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 32 ft | under 10 ft | $28 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 77 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Gerald Freeman Campground4.6 mi
Bee Run Campground7.0 mi
Bulltown Camp12 mi
Riffle Run Campground16 miBishop Knob CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 20 miFrom I-79 (Charleston/Clarksburg)
1. Exit 61 (Gassaway) and exit 67 (Flatwoods), Turn on WV Route 4 towards Sutton,
2. Turn unto Main Street travel 0.5 miles
3. Turn Right on 2nd Street and cross the green bridge, stay to the right onto South Stonewall Street/OLD TURNPIKE Road travel 4 miles
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sutton, WV
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Bakers Run Campground is in West Virginia’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Carol Miller (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →