Bear Heaven Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- Season
- – November 30Closes November 30. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
A small primitive campground l ocated approximately 14 miles northeast of Elkins, West Virginia, on Forest Road 91 (Stuart Drive) near the Otter Creek Wilderness . 8 available sites are nestled along r ock outcroppings that offer unique landscapes. There is stream fishing and hiking located nearby. Middle Point Trail #140, 3.7 miles in length is located along Forest Road 91 (Stuart Drive) west of the Campground. The Otter Creek Wilderness offers several trails and more challenging experiences just next door.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Stuart Recreation AreaMonongahela National Forest · 5.0 miStuart Day Use Area and CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 5.0 miLaurel Fork CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 13 miGatewood GroupMonongahela National Forest · 16 mi
Spruce Knob LakeSpruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area · 16 miSpruce Knob Lake CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 16 miThe weather
the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Typical weather
Typical November night 26°F, day 49°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical November night 26°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 moreOutside the published season
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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Bear Heaven Campground is in West Virginia’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Riley Moore (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →