Bluff Creek
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:58 UTC
- A night
- $26–$48When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 87In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bluff Creek Campground is situated on the shores of Walter F. George Lake on the Georgia and Alabama border. The lake is a great place to get away for a week, a weekend or just an afternoon. Boating, swimming, fishing and camping are popular activities. Click here for a virtual tour of the many facilities at Walter F. George Lake. Keep reading
Recreation
The Chattahoochie River lakes are an angler's paradise, where largemouth bass, white bass, hybrids, crappie, channel catfish and bream are found. The lake's 640 miles of shoreline offer many excellent locations for bank fishing, and a boat ramp is conveniently located nearby. The lake and its surrounding forests provide a great locale for hiking, hunting or simply observing wildlife.
Facilities
The campground offers 77 sites with electric and water hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and fish cleaning station. A group picnic shelter is available on a first come, first served basis.
Natural Features
Walter F. George Lake, sometimes called Lake Eufaula, stretches 85 miles up the Chattahoochee River. Visitors come to relax and play among the natural beauty of the area. The lands surrounding the lake are forested with dense stands of mixed hardwoods. A wide variety of wildlife is commonly seen, including waterfowl, deer, squirrels, rabbits, eagles, hawks, bobcats and dozens of species of songbirds.
Nearby Attractions
The historic towns of Eufaula, Alabama and Cuthbert, Georgia are nearby. Eufaula boasts more than 20 structures and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Beautiful antebellum mansions are located throughout both towns. Contact Info Between 03/14/2025 and 09/14/2025 this location is staffed. Please call (334) 855-2746 to speak with local staff. From 09/14/2025 to 03/15/2026 this location is unstaffed. Please call (229) 768-2516 for general information.
What the agency tells you
Review all Rules and Regulations at https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-36/chapter-III/part-327.Camping is 327.7 section.
LENGTH OF STAY: Limited to fourteen (14) days, consecutive or non-consecutive, on this project during any thirty (30) day consecutive period. Extensions require prior approval from the Resource Management Office.
CAMPSITE OCCUPANCY: Only twelve (12) people per site, age 13 and up counts to this total. Only four (4) camper/visitor vehicles per site.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
CHECKOUT TIME: 11:00 AM. (No Exceptions).
GRAY WATER AND WASTE MATTER: Discharge onto campsite is prohibited. Use the sanitary dump station.
QUIET HOURS: 10:00 PM till 7:00 AM. Unreasonable loud noise is prohibited any time.
Gates are closed from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. E.T.
This campground operates on Eastern Standard Time.
Off-road vehicles not permitted
Livestock not permitted at the campground
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
No skinning deer or other wild game in campground
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 87
- Hookups
- 87 electric, 87 water
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…and water hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and fish…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and fish cleaning station.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and fish cleaning station. A group…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 34th darkest of 41 in AL
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:58 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Bluff Creek closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 150 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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- Lake Sinclair Recreation AreaOconee National Forest · 118 mi · walk-up
recreation.gov availability, read 15:58 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
87 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 86 mapped sitesAll 87 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 86 of the 87 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 84 of the 87 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| CLOO | 75 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 63 ft | 63 ftBluff Creek | 1,114 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 76 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 42 ft | 63 ftBluff Creek | 1,169 ft | |
| CLOO | 77 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 70 ft | 153 ftBluff Creek | 1,165 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 78 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 42 ft | 56 ftBluff Creek | 1,210 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 79 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 53 ft | 63 ftBluff Creek | 1,263 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 80 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 65 ft | 171 ftBluff Creek | 1,232 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 81 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 40 ft | 49 ftBluff Creek | 1,323 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 82 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 40 ft | 71 ftBluff Creek | 1,353 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 83 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 82 ft | 154 ftBluff Creek | 1,342 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 84 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 50 ft | 203 ftBluff Creek | 1,338 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 85 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/50/20/30 amp | 54 ft | 232 ftBluff Creek | 1,264 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 86 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 50 ft | 213 ftBluff Creek | 1,369 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 87 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 54 ft | 281 ftBluff Creek | 1,252 ft | $26–$48 |
| CLOO | 88 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 223 ftBluff Creek | 1,365 ft | $26–$48 |
| MRUN | 11 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/30/50/20 amp | 48 ft | 250 ft | 667 ft | $26–$48 |
| MRUN | 12 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 48 ft | 205 ft | 673 ft | $26–$48 |
| MRUN | 13 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 55 ft | 115 ft | 590 ft | $26–$48 |
| MRUN | 14 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 55 ft | 77 ft | 558 ft | $26–$48 |
| MRUN | 15 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/50/20/30 amp | 60 ft | 74 ft | 485 ft | $26–$48 |
| MRUN | 16 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 60 ft | 89 ft | 433 ft | $26–$48 |
| MRUN | 17 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 56 ft | 95 ft | 357 ft | $26–$48 |
| MRUN | 18 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 56 ft | 103 ft | 302 ft | $26–$48 |
| MRUN | 19 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/30/50/20 amp | 66 ft | 188 ft | 275 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 59 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 63 ft | 122 ftBluff Creek | 716 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 60 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 63 ft | 89 ftBluff Creek | 779 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 61 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 58 ft | 41 ftBluff Creek | 849 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 62 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 58 ft | under 10 ftBluff Creek | 905 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 63 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 80 ft | under 10 ftBluff Creek | 971 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 64 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 82 ft | under 10 ftBluff Creek | 1,074 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 65 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 80 ft | under 10 ftBluff Creek | 1,047 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 66 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 76 ft | under 10 ftBluff Creek | 1,020 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 67 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 66 ft | under 10 ftBluff Creek | 1,008 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 68 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 66 ft | under 10 ftBluff Creek | 981 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 69 | rv electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 145 ftBluff Creek | 828 ft | |
| PBLU | 70 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 115 ftBluff Creek | 863 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 71 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 60 ft | 65 ftBluff Creek | 953 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 72 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 60 ft | 44 ftBluff Creek | 998 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 73 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 52 ft | 44 ftBluff Creek | 1,033 ft | $26–$48 |
| PBLU | 74 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 52 ft | 46 ftBluff Creek | 1,068 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 20 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 49 ft | 253 ft | 255 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 21 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 49 ft | 244 ft | 208 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 22 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 53 ft | 227 ft | 167 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 23 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 46 ft | 188 ft | 153 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 24 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 46 ft | 179 ft | 156 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 25 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 49 ft | 169 ft | 178 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 26 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 62 ft | 144 ft | 234 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 27 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 62 ft | 125 ft | 289 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 28 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/30/50/20 amp | 73 ft | 120 ft | 349 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 29 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/50/30 amp | 68 ft | 118 ft | 415 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 30 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 63 ft | 96 ft | 483 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 31 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/50/30 amp | 61 ft | 91 ft | 546 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 32 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 76 ft | 250 ft | 475 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 33 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/30/20/50 amp | 61 ft | 116 ft | 594 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 34 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/30/50/20 amp | 76 ft | 192 ft | 536 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 35 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 66 ft | 136 ft | 600 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 36 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 109 ft | 143 ft | 637 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 37 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/50/30 amp | 125 ft | 83 ft | 659 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 38 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 68 ft | 131 ftChattahoochee River | 423 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 39 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 68 ft | 112 ftChattahoochee River | 391 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 40 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 61 ft | 55 ftChattahoochee River | 352 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 41 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 98 ft | 216 ftChattahoochee River | 333 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 42 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 61 ft | 30 ftChattahoochee River | 304 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 43 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/30/20/50 amp | 60 ft | 60 ftChattahoochee River | 239 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 44 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 53 ft | 112 ftChattahoochee River | 184 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 45 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | $26–$48 | |||
| RFOR | 46 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/50/30 amp | 53 ft | 160 ftChattahoochee River | 143 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 47 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 112 ft | 158 ftChattahoochee River | 209 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 48 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 60 ft | 164 ftChattahoochee River | 182 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 49 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 143 ftChattahoochee River | 239 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 50 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/30/50/20 amp | 52 ft | 110 ftChattahoochee River | 297 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 51 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 52 ft | 132 ftChattahoochee River | 339 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 52/53 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50/50/30/20 amp | 57 ft | 146 ftChattahoochee River | 437 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 54 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 53 ft | 151 ftChattahoochee River | 476 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 55 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 53 ft | 159 ftChattahoochee River | 514 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 56 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 44 ft | 163 ftChattahoochee River | 561 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 57 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 44 ft | 136 ftChattahoochee River | 605 ft | $26–$48 |
| RFOR | 58 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 63 ft | 160 ftBluff Creek | 641 ft | $26–$48 |
| UTRA | 01 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 66 ft | 424 ft | 1,358 ft | $26–$48 |
| UTRA | 02 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 66 ft | 385 ft | 1,363 ft | |
| UTRA | 03 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 70 ft | 330 ft | 1,345 ft | $26–$48 |
| UTRA | 04 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 262 ft | 1,304 ft | $26–$48 |
| UTRA | 05 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 207 ft | 1,246 ft | $26–$48 |
| UTRA | 06 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 84 ft | 150 ft | 1,162 ft | $26–$48 |
| UTRA | 07 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 80 ft | 102 ft | 1,079 ft | $26–$48 |
| UTRA | 08 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 60 ft | 73 ft | 1,009 ft | $26–$48 |
| UTRA | 09 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 60 ft | 75 ft | 958 ft | $26–$48 |
| UTRA | 10 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/20/30/50 amp | 75 ft | 139 ft | 888 ft | $26–$48 |
25 of 87 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hatchechubbee Creek Park21 mi
Highland Park21 mi
White Oak (Creek) Campground29 mi
Cotton Hill35 mi
Hardridge Creek38 mi
Eagleview Park52 miFrom Eufaula, Alabama, follow US 431 north. Turn right on State Route 165 and continue for 18 miles, then follow signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, GA
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 81°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land

Bluff Creek is in Alabama’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Shomari Figures (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →