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U.S. Forest Service · George Washington National Forest · VA

Bolar Mountain Recreation Area

ReservableOut of season; the next season isn't published.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Sites: 123All of them booked ahead

Photos · USFS

50 ftLongest rig

1,600 ftElevation

33 ftWater · Lake Moomaw

11.8 miN of Covington, VA

75%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices

In the agency’s own words

Bolar Mountain Recreation Area is a great destination for visitors looking for a fun getaway on Lake Moomaw. The area provides plenty of outdoor activities, including boating, fishing, camping and hiking. There is little to no cell service, so be ready to disconnect! Keep reading

Recreation

Boating, canoeing, water skiing and relaxing on the beach are popular activities at the lake. Anglers fish for brown and rainbow trout, bass and crappie. A boat ramp is located at the Bolar Flat Marina, which has a modern dock with boat slips. Bolar Mountain boasts 11 miles of hiking trails that lead to two impressive scenic overlooks: Islands Overlook Spur and Grouse Point Overlook. Looking for a more primitive experience? Hike or boat to Greenwood Point for dispersed camp sites.

Facilities

We have four campgrounds here at Bolar Mountain Recreation area; Sugar Ridge, Campground 1, Campground 2 & Campground 3 respectively. Each campground has "Prime" sites which have a view and/or direct access to the lake, those seeking electric sites will find most of their options at Campground 1 followed by 2 & 3. Potable water taps can be found throughout each camp along with flush toilets and showers. Individual camp sites have a picnic table, lantern post, a fire ring and a Camp Host to answer any questions/concerns you may encounter. Campers can empty their waste tanks at one of the two dump stations at Campground 1 or Campground 2.

Natural Features

The campground sits on the northern end of Lake Moomaw, a manmade lake covering 2,530 acres along the Jackson River. The lake is held by Gathright Dam, constructed in the 1980's by the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control. The lake's average depth is 80 feet and it has 43 miles of wooded shoreline making it the second largest impoudment in western virginia. Bolar Mountain is part of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest which span 1.8 million acres across Virginia and parts of West Virginia and Kentucky. The forest protects 40 tree species within mostly Appalachian hardwood and mixed pine-hardwood forests, 60 species of mammals and 200 species of birds.

Nearby Attractions

Hidden Valley is a short drive from the lake and has ample opportunities for outdoor enthusiast: Hike or ride your horse along the Jackson River, all the way to Poor Farm, cast a line for trout, and stay at the Hidden Valley Campground or even better the historic bed and breakfast. Warm Springs has restaurants, shopping and a Historical Society for Bath County in addition to other typical amenities.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Additional first-come, first-served sites may be available

Rule

Full RV hookups are not available

Rule

Click here for more information on George Washington and Jefferson National Forests

Everything else this campground posts · 2

Rule

Check out the forest's campground description for specific information to Fish Your National Forest

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 123 · 2 tent-only, 6 walk-in
Hookups: 34 electric, 12 water, 2 sewer
Longest rig: 50 ft
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…be found throughout each camp along with flush toilets and showers. Individual camp sites have a picnic…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Potable water taps can be found throughout each camp along with flush toilets and showers.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…at Campground 1 followed by 2 & 3. Potable water taps can be found throughout each camp along with…”
Dump station: Yes
Boat ramp: Yes
Cell signal: Little or none
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Beach; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Hunting; Ranger programs; Swimming; Water sports; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 5th darkest of 88 in VA: Bortle 3
Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says: Spotty
Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 25 km away: Peak color

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Cell signal: the Forest Service’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. · Sep 8, 2026

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (25 km) · Oct 7, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. The last reservable season the agency published ended September 3, 2025, and it hasn't published the next one.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 12

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.

Sugar Ridge Walk to Sites = $16 (Access or Senior Discount = $8) Tent Only Sites = $18 (Access or Senior Discount = $9) Standard Non-Electric = $21(Access or Senior Discount = $10.50) Premium Non-electric = $23 (Access or Senior Discount = $11.50) (Sites on the Water) Double Non-Electric Sites = $32 (No Discount) Premium Double Site = $37 (No Discount)(Sites on the Water) Campground #1, Campground #2, & Campground #3 Standard Non-Electric = $21(Access or Senior Discount = $10.50) Premium Non-electric = $23 (Access or Senior Discount = $10.50)(Sites on the Water) Electric Sites = $30 (Access or Senior Discount = $10.50) Premium sites on the water will have higher fees due to their popularity and increase maintenance needs.

Senior and Access discount passes give a discount of the basic camping fees and even though we would like to, they do not discount amenity fees like electric.

Discount passes are also not available to discount the use of Double or Group sites.

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 · 4

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

125 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 122 mapped sites

74 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

87%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most roomLoop BFPS Bolar Mountain Group Picnic 486 ftSugar Ridge Loop 096 118 ftSugar Ridge Loop 114 113 ftLoop 1 38 111 ftSugar Ridge Loop 109 106 ft

Least roomLoop 2 45 19 ftLoop 2 48 19 ftLoop 3 68 51 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 125 records

123 of 125 records located

Standard81Tent only2RV / electric32Walk, hike or boat in6Day use2

01 02 03 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49-Double 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 75 77 78 79 80 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 Bolar Flat Group Picnic Bolar Mountain Group Picnic 091 094 096 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 120 125 127 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes a

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.


1	01	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	55 ft	582 ft
1	02	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	82 ft	521 ft
1	03	standard electric	20 ft	30 amp	89 ft	431 ft
1	04	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp
1	05	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	89 ft	486 ft
1	06	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	85 ft	508 ft
1	07	standard electric	20 ft	30 amp	85 ft	481 ft
1	08	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	74 ft	440 ft
1	09	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	62 ft	382 ft
1	10	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	62 ft	368 ft
1	11	standard electric	26 ft	30 amp	61 ft	443 ft
1	12	standard electric	25 ft	30 amp	68 ft	447 ft
1	13	standard electric	25 ft	30 amp	59 ft	504 ft
1	14	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	59 ft	562 ft
1	15	standard electric	32 ft	30 amp	70 ft	534 ft
1	16	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	62 ft	629 ft
1	17	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	86 ft	619 ft
1	18	standard electric	25 ft	30 amp	62 ft	653 ft
1	19	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	91 ft	709 ft
1	20	standard electric	25 ft	30 amp	86 ft	712 ft
1	21	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	55 ft	636 ft
1	22	standard nonelectric	30 ft		60 ft	203 ft
1	23	standard nonelectric	40 ft		84 ft	127 ft
1	24	standard nonelectric	20 ft		58 ft	191 ft
1	25	standard nonelectric	37 ft		58 ft	153 ft
1	26	standard nonelectric	20 ft		84 ft	95 ft
1	27	standard nonelectric	30 ft		84 ft	61 ft
1	28	standard nonelectric	30 ft		97 ft	40 ft
1	29	standard nonelectric	28 ft		96 ft	37 ft
1	30	standard nonelectric	30 ft		96 ft	42 ft
1	31	standard nonelectric	30 ft		73 ft	104 ft
1	32	standard nonelectric	40 ft		73 ft	69 ft
1	34	standard nonelectric	45 ft		94 ft	134 ft
1	35	standard nonelectric	30 ft		103 ft	71 ft
1	36	standard nonelectric	34 ft		66 ft	163 ft
1	37	standard nonelectric	38 ft		52 ft	198 ft
1	38	standard nonelectric	35 ft		110 ft	178 ft
1	39	standard nonelectric	42 ft		52 ft	242 ft
1	40	standard nonelectric	35 ft		65 ft	280 ft
1	41	standard nonelectric	44 ft		65 ft	349 ft
1	42	standard nonelectric	45 ft		68 ft	301 ft
2	43	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	93 ft	313 ft
2	44	standard electric	45 ft		93 ft	347 ft
2	45	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp	19 ft	217 ft
2	46	standard nonelectric	45 ft		84 ft	170 ft
2	47	standard nonelectric	45 ft		77 ft	126 ft
2	48	standard nonelectric	35 ft		19 ft	201 ft
2	49-Double	standard nonelectric	30 ft		81 ft	157 ft
2	50	standard nonelectric	25 ft		75 ft	83 ft
2	51	standard nonelectric	40 ft		75 ft	74 ft
2	52	standard nonelectric	40 ft		93 ft	171 ft
2	53	standard nonelectric	40 ft		79 ft	92 ft
2	54	standard nonelectric	45 ft		85 ft	92 ft
2	55	standard nonelectric	45 ft		97 ft	190 ft
2	56	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	74 ft	271 ft
2	57	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	74 ft	243 ft
2	58	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	97 ft	267 ft
3	59	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	101 ft	414 ft
3	60	standard electric	26 ft	50 amp	84 ft	370 ft
3	61	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	84 ft	286 ft
3	62	standard nonelectric	45 ft		69 ft	189 ft
3	63	standard nonelectric	45 ft		69 ft	115 ft
3	64	standard nonelectric	40 ft		61 ft	150 ft
3	65	standard nonelectric	30 ft		67 ft	214 ft
3	66	standard nonelectric	33 ft		61 ft	199 ft
3	67	standard nonelectric	35 ft		62 ft	208 ft
3	68	standard nonelectric	30 ft		51 ft	273 ft
3	69	standard electric	32 ft	50 amp	51 ft	299 ft
3	70	standard nonelectric	45 ft		66 ft	230 ft
3	71	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp	59 ft	341 ft
3	72	standard nonelectric	45 ft		66 ft	285 ft
3	73	standard nonelectric	45 ft		73 ft	310 ft
3	75	standard nonelectric	30 ft		71 ft	270 ft
3	76	standard electric	40 ft	15 amp
3	77	standard nonelectric	20 ft		56 ft	222 ft
3	78	standard electric	20 ft		67 ft	275 ft
3	79	standard nonelectric	45 ft		78 ft	141 ft
3	80	standard nonelectric	45 ft		78 ft	117 ft
3	82	standard nonelectric	38 ft		89 ft	108 ft
3	83	standard nonelectric	45 ft		56 ft	195 ft
3	84	standard nonelectric	45 ft		68 ft	139 ft
3	85	standard nonelectric	30 ft		68 ft	208 ft
3	86	standard nonelectric	45 ft		68 ft	207 ft
3	87	standard nonelectric	45 ft		55 ft	162 ft
3	88	standard nonelectric	45 ft		62 ft	113 ft
3	89	standard nonelectric	30 ft		55 ft	114 ft
3	90	standard nonelectric	30 ft		69 ft	160 ft
BFPS	Bolar Flat Group Picnic	day use	20 ft			284 ft
BFPS	Bolar Mountain Group Picnic	day use	20 ft		486 ft	171 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	091	standard nonelectric	34 ft		66 ft	475 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	094	tent only nonelectric	25 ft		66 ft	424 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	096	tent only nonelectric	34 ft		118 ft	348 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	098	standard nonelectric	35 ft		86 ft	269 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	099	standard nonelectric	40 ft		86 ft	330 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	100	standard nonelectric	32 ft		93 ft	222 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	101	standard nonelectric	27 ft		93 ft	200 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	102	standard nonelectric	26 ft		84 ft	293 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	103	standard nonelectric	35 ft		74 ft	214 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	104	standard nonelectric	50 ft		84 ft	262 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	105	standard nonelectric	45 ft		76 ft	277 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	106	standard nonelectric	22 ft		74 ft	188 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	107	standard nonelectric	22 ft		88 ft	164 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	108	standard nonelectric	50 ft		76 ft	251 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	109	standard nonelectric	20 ft		106 ft	133 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	110	standard nonelectric	46 ft		85 ft	181 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	111	standard nonelectric	20 ft		87 ft	46 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	112	standard nonelectric	50 ft		83 ft	134 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	113	standard nonelectric	22 ft		87 ft	22 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	114	standard nonelectric	25 ft		112 ft	44 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	115	standard nonelectric	47 ft		83 ft	156 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	116	standard nonelectric	45 ft		96 ft	151 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	117	standard nonelectric	50 ft		51 ft	78 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	118	standard nonelectric	35 ft		51 ft	113 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	120	standard nonelectric	30 ft		66 ft	151 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	125	standard nonelectric	34 ft		92 ft	308 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	127	standard nonelectric	32 ft		70 ft	332 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	129	standard nonelectric	31 ft		70 ft	290 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	130	standard nonelectric	34 ft		89 ft	381 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	131	standard nonelectric	34 ft		89 ft	464 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	132	walk to			71 ft	268 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	133	walk to			60 ft	276 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	134	walk to			60 ft	254 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	135	walk to			75 ft	189 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	136	walk to			56 ft	118 ft
Sugar Ridge Loop	137	walk to			56 ft	69 ft

The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

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.

25 of 125 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate37.98361, -79.96694

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone540-279-4144

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

McClintic PointGeorge Washington National Forest · 0.0 mi Greenwood Point CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 1.7 mi

Coles PointGeorge Washington National Forest · 2.3 mi

Lake SherwoodMonongahela National Forest · 2.9 mi

Lake Sherwood Recreation Area and CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 3.0 mi McClintic Point CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 3.3 mi

Getting there

Know your route ahead of time, cell service will be intermitten if available at all.

From Covington, take 220 North to Hwy 39 and turn left on Hwy 39. Take Hwy 39 to Hwy 600 (Bolars Draft Road) and turn left on Hwy 600 towards the campgrounds. After about 7.5 miles turn right on Twin Ridge Drive for all campgrounds. Stay straight to head towards the store & marina, an overlook of the lake and McClintic Point.

**GPS often routes vehicles to take Richardson Gorge rd. via the Jackson River tpk. This route is NOT SUGGESTED for travel, especially when towing. It's a narrow dirt road with steep soft edges. Multiple accidents occur on this road each year.**

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today80°Mostly Sunny then Rain Showers Likely69% rain

Tonight43°Chance Rain Showers40% rain

Saturday53°Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny33% rain

Saturday Night33°Clear then Areas Of Frost

NWS forecast for Hot Springs, VA

Source: National Weather Service, RNK forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 42°F, day 65°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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: GATHRIGHT DAM, VA (USC00443310), 3 miles away and 170 ft higher

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless

Middle Mountain19,020 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

Oliver Mountain13,090 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

Bolar Mountain Recreation Area is in Virginia’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Ben Cline (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 124 of the 123 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 123 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.17 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 88 rated federal campgrounds in Virginia · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (25 km) · Oct 7, 2026

Reported by: USA National Phenology Network (Nature's Notebook), reported peak color · Oct 7, 2026

“…boating, fishing, camping and hiking. There is little to no cell service, so be ready to disconnect! Recreation Boating,…”

Nearest place of any size: Hot Springs, VA, 6.4 mi W (a census designated place). Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026