Bee Run Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $18From, per site
- Sites
- 131 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bee Run Campground is a small, but beautiful little campground located in central WV. The campground is three miles off Interstate 79 (Flatwoods exit). The campground features twelve primitive campsites suitable for RV's, Travel Trailer's and tents. The campground is surrounded by the Elk River Wildlife Management that has several hiking, biking trails to explorer. Also, the Sutton Lake Marina and Ship Store is located nearby, along with a picnic area, swimming beach and boat launch ramp. Keep reading
Recreation
Sutton Lake offers opportunnities for motorized boating, and water sking. Fishing is available on lake, most anglers fish for large-mouth and small-mouth bass, and crappie. Guest can swim at the swimming beach located inside the day use area. Vistors can hike the Jeremiah Carpenter trail that leads them to the Sutton Dam North Abutment with wonder views of the dam.
Facilities
Each campsite has a fire ring, lantern post and picnic table. The campground has a volunteer host, vault toilets and security lighting Natural Features The campsites are located at the top of the hill and does not offer a lake view, but each campsite has a wonderful view of the WV hills and wildlife. The lake is in hiking distance for the avid hiker, but there is also plenty of parking for those who want to drive in at the day use area swimming beach and marina.
Nearby Attractions
Bee Run Campground is located in central WV and is surrounded by breath taking secenic views and full of history. The historical town of Sutton, WV has cobble-stone streets and local shops to explorer. The Bulltown Historic Area and the Flatwoods Outlet Mall are nearby.
What the agency tells you
Bee Run Campground is small, and has few amenities within the campground, the campground is adjacent to the Bee Run Day Use Area, where, visitors will find a swimming beach, boat ramp, Sutton Lake Marina and Ship Store, a playground and picnic area. Numerous trails and small ponds on the Elk River Wildlife Management Area. Bee Run Campground offers many opportunities for a quiet afternoon.
• 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
- 13
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 13 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 1 of 13 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 13 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.
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $18 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
13 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 13 mapped sitesAll 13 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. 13 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1-12 | standard nonelectric | 315 ft | 1,760 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 1 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 1,630 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 10 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 1,611 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 11 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 1,613 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 12 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 1,632 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 2 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 1,625 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 3 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 1,621 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 4 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 1,618 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 5 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 1,617 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 6 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 1,616 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 7 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 1,614 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 8 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 1,613 ft | $18 |
| A | 1-12 9 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 1,614 ft | $18 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
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 43°F, day 68°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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
Bee 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 →