Blue Meadow
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 12 of the next 27 nights read 15:56 UTC
- A night
- $75From, per site
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Blue Meadow is a group campground. In the event that this campground has not been reserved, it may be opened for overflow. At this time, sites 1-17 may be claimed as individual campsites on a first come, first serve basis. Keep reading
Recreation
Anthony Creek attracts anglers looking for trout. The "Blue Hole" in the creek is a favorite spot for swimming. Nearby Big Draft Wilderness provides an opportunity to explore more remote areas of teh Forest. Anthony Creek Trail follows the creek in a narrow valley filled with rhododendron and many flowering forest trees. Blue Bend Loop Trail offers 3 scenic overlooks. Both trails are recommended for hikers and bird watchers.
Facilities
Blue Meadow's group campground is divided into 17 campsites, including 4 walk-to sites. It comes with picnic tables, grills, lantern posts and trash collection services. Vault toilets are available, but drinking water is not on-site. Drinking water can be accessed from the Blue Bend Campground.
Natural Features
At an elevation of 1,860 feet, the campground is in a pleasant, wooded valley along Anthony Creek. Across the creek lies Round Mountain. The Monongahela National Forest comprises about a million acres of forest that attracts 1.3 million visitors each year. A variety of animals make their home here, including black bear, coyote, wild turkey, white-tailed deer, red and gray fox, bobcat, fisher, otter and mink. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (681) 368-0663.
Nearby Attractions
The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia is a 15 minute drive. The West Virginia State Fair, held in August each year, is located 30 minutes away in Lewsiburg, West Virginia.
What the agency tells you
Drinking water can be accessed from the Blue Bend Campground
Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
There are no electric site hook-ups at this facility
Everything else this campground posts · 3
For more information on Monongahela National Forest, click here
Don't move firewood: To limit the spread of invasive tree-killing pests, firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Some states have quarantines and may confiscate your firewood. Please help protect our forests from invasive species by obtaining your firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Visit dontmovefirewood.org for more information.
Access Road Subject to FLOODING – Roads accessing this recreation area may become impassable due to flash flooding. Monitor conditions and expect delays in departing until flood waters recede. YOUR SAFTETY IS YOUR RESPONSIBILTY
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18 · 4 walk-in, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…posts and trash collection services. Vault toilets are available, but drinking water is not on-site.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Vault toilets are available, but drinking water is not on-site. Drinking water can be accessed from…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Meadow
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 34th darkest of 69 in WV
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 24 km away
- Peak color
Something open on 12 of the next 12 bookable nightsread 15:56 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBookedClosedNot reservable
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.
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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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $75 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:56 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
37 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 37 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 18 of the 37 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BLUE | 001 | group standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 93 ft | 515 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 97 ft | 297 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 010 | walk to | 25 ft | 76 ft | 585 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 156 ft | 370 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 146 ft | 272 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 142 ft | 185 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 195 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 66 ft | 261 ftAnthony Creek | $75 |
| BLUE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 225 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 85 ft | 309 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 02 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 87 ft | 554 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 03 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 109 ft | 456 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 04 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 85 ft | 562 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 05 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 85 ft | 554 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 61 ft | 530 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 07 | walk to | 25 ft | 74 ft | 446 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 08 | walk to | 25 ft | 61 ft | 572 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| BLUE | 09 | walk to | 25 ft | 74 ft | 510 ftAnthony Creek | $75 | |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 25 ft | $75 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX10 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX11 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX12 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX13 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX14 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX15 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX16 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX17 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX18 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX2 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX4 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX5 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX6 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX7 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX8 | unnamed record | $75 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX9 | unnamed record | $75 |
The agency files 19 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 37 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Blue Bend Rec AreaMonongahela National Forest · 1.2 mi
Hopkins Mountain Fireman's CabinMonongahela National Forest · 1.4 mi
Lake Sherwood Recreation Area and CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 14 mi
Lake SherwoodMonongahela National Forest · 14 mi
Morris Hill CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 15 miFrom White Sulphur Springs, travel 8 miles north on State Route 92. Turn left (west) at Alvon, West Virginia, onto State Route 16. Travel 4 miles to the recreation area.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Falling Spring, WV
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 65°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
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
Blue Meadow 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 →