Day use, not campingThe agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.

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Right now
Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:23 UTC
100 ftElevation
520 ftWater · an unnamed lake
2.4 miNW of Demopolis, AL
79%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 15th darkest of 41 in AL

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices

In the agency’s own words

Belmont Park offers a primitive campground and access to some of the best public hunting and fishing opportunities on the Tombigbee River. The area gives quick access to properties located on the David K. Nelson Wildlife Management Area as well as areas managed by the Corps of Engineers. Campers will appreciate the group shelter and water borne restroom facilities conveniently located on the grounds. Keep reading

Recreation

Fishing, boating, family gatherings, rustic/primitive camping opportunities are just a few of the activities you can enjoy at Belmont Park.

What the agency tells you

Rule

The rental of this shelter is subject to the following conditions:

Rule

Day users may rent the picnic shelters for a fee of $25. It reserves the shelter for the day. It does not guarantee entry into the park nor special treatment so customers are urged to show up early.

Rule

Excessive noise is PROHIBITED. This includes the operation or use of any audio or other noise producing device including, but not limited to: radios, televisions, stereos, musical instruments, and motorized equipment in a loud and disruptive manner.

Everything else this campground posts · 11
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Items that can use excessive water, such as water slides, are prohibited.

Rule

The use of water balloons is prohibited.

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Boisterous, rowdy and/or disorderly actions by individuals are prohibited.

Rule

The group/sponsor will not charge the public a fee to enter the shelter or for items the group/sponsor possesses (i.e., selling of food plates).

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All vehicles must be parked in designated parking spaces. Vehicles should not be parked off pavement or gravel area without special written permission.

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Park closes at 10:00 p.m.

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Shelter should be cleaned, lights turned off, and area vacated by closing time.

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All trash at shelter and surrounding area (including parking lot) should be picked up and placed in garbage cans. If garbage cans become full, excess trash should be placed in bags and stacked next to garbage cans. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR LEAVING THE SHELTER THE WAY YOU FOUND IT.

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Group size will be limited to seating and parking capacity of shelter and parking area.

Rule

NO REFUNDS OR RAIN CHECKS OF RESERVATION FEE. Cancellation due to inclement weather may be rescheduled on another open day within 6 months of original reservation date. The reservation holder must show original reservation receipt and this completed page at time of rescheduling reservation.

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Confetti and/or water balloons are prohibited.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Around the campground

On the water
River
Hunting
Picnicking
Water access
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

1 of 1 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:23 UTC

The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.

OpenBooked

Booking window6 months outBookable now through April 16, 2027. Today at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov
Max stay1 nightthe facility record
Sites, a night, from$25From the rate schedule matched to 1 of its 1 sites. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no campground-level rate we can read.derived by CAMPANAC
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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Every line of the receipt · 12

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Sites, a night, from$25
Derived by CAMPANAC from the rate schedule matched to 1 of its 1 sites. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no campground-level rate for this campground that we can read, only per-site rate templates its own record matches to each site’s own type.
Group area, a night$25
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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

recreation.gov availability, read 15:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

1 records · the site map

All 1 records

1 of 1 records located
Day use1
Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

Belmont ParkBelmont Park Shelterday use517 ft1,435 ft$25

The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate32.55487, -87.88066
The phoneResource Office 334-289-3540
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight49°Clear3% rain
Saturday68°Sunny
Saturday Night45°Clear
Sunday70°Sunny

NWS forecast for Demopolis, AL

Typical weather

Typical October night 53°F, day 78°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°32°20°

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.

Measured at: DEMOPOLIS L&D, AL (USC00012245), 3 miles away and at about the same elevation

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it · a letter you can send

Who answers for this land

Terri Sewell, official portrait

Belmont Park is in Alabama’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Terri Sewell (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →

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Who can change it · 3
Ask whether this could be a place to sleep

The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.

Read the draft, or change the wording
To Terri A. Sewell

Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.

Subject Belmont Park has sites, and nobody may sleep in them

Dear Terri A. Sewell,

I’m a constituent in Alabama’s 7th district. Belmont Park, Alabama carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight.

I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not?

Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do.

Sent about Belmont Park (Alabama) via campanac.com
To Katie Boyd Britt

Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.

Subject Belmont Park has sites, and nobody may sleep in them

Dear Katie Boyd Britt,

I’m a constituent in Alabama. Belmont Park, Alabama carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight.

I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not?

Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do.

Sent about Belmont Park (Alabama) via campanac.com
To Tommy Tuberville

Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.

Subject Belmont Park has sites, and nobody may sleep in them

Dear Tommy Tuberville,

I’m a constituent in Alabama. Belmont Park, Alabama carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight.

I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not?

Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do.

Sent about Belmont Park (Alabama) via campanac.com
How we know this · 4
The figures in these drafts: Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress (CRS Report RS20643) · Updated December 4, 2025 · “The ship’s final procurement cost was $13,316.5 million (i.e., about $13.3 billion) in then-year dollars.”
The figures in these drafts: Salary Table 2026-GS, Incorporating the 1% General Schedule Increase, Effective January 2026 (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) · Effective January 2026 · “Grade 5, Step 1: $34,799 (annual rate, before locality pay).”
The figures in these drafts: Update to Civilian Position Full Fringe Benefit Cost Factor, Federal Pay Raise Assumptions, and Inflation Factors used in OMB Circular No. A-76 (OMB Memorandum M-08-13) · March 11, 2008 · “the civilian position full fringe benefit cost factor needs to be adjusted downward, from 36.45 percent to 36.25 percent”

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 30 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.
Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.