Bluff Campground
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 66 of them walk-up
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The Bluff Campground is a hike in campground and is perfect for those looking to camp in the frontcountry yet have a more backcountry experience. This campground has 6 sites that can accommodate up to 8 campers each. Each site has a firepit and a picnic table. Restrooms are available at either the visitor center or the Longleaf Campground, and water and park information is available at the visitor center. This is a pack it in/pack it out campground.
Facilities
- Toilets
- None. Pack out what you bring in
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
Around the campground
- Night sky · 33rd darkest of 37 in SC
- Bortle 4
Some sites book, the rest walk up
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), 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
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Bluff Hike In CampingCongaree National Park · 0.0 mi
Longleaf CampgroundCongaree National Park · 0.8 mi
Rocky Branch Seasonal Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 51 mi
Collins Creek Seasonal Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 60 mi
Brick House Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 66 mi
Woods Ferry Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 70 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gadsden, SC
Typical weather
Typical October night 56°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Bluff Campground is in South Carolina’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, James Clyburn (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →