Brandywine Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 41 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Not suitable for large RVs. Dump station is available. Sites are limited to one RV or two tents, no more than two vehicles, and no more than eight persons per site. When recreating on Forest Service Lands, follow the safety and outdoor ethics recommendations. Keep reading
Water is available when temperatures are above freezing but is winterized when temperatures are low enough to freeze and damage the water system Recreation This wooded recreation area affords access to multiple hiking and mountain biking trails, a swimming beach, and a campground with an onsite host. Dump station is available. Sites are limited to one RV or two tents, no more than two vehicles, and no more than eight persons per site. Bath houses have hot showers and flush toilets, drinking water available. Each campsite has a tent pad, picnic table, lantern post and grill.
Nearby Attractions
High Knob trail #1021: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/gwj/recreation/trails/high-knob-forest-trail-1021 High Knob Tower on Shenandoah Mountain near North River was built using native stone in 1939–1940 by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC Camp #2) crews and World War I veterans. History and Location Location: Sits on the border of Virginia and West Virginia along Shenandoah Mountain in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests . Design: It is a unique historic stone fire tower featuring a catwalk and an interior room. Elevation: Stands at an elevation of 4,223 feet
What the agency tells you
The America the Beautiful Interagency Pass series and the George Washington & Jefferson National Forests Seasonal Day Use Pass are accepted here and cover day use fees. The America the Beautiful Senior and Access Passes provide a 50% discount to the base campsite fee (not hook ups) and day use fees.
Cell Phone coverage is sparce. Visitors should not rely on cell phone communication for help or emergency communicaitons.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 4
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…site. Bath houses have hot showers and flush toilets, drinking water available. Each campsite has a tent…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Bath houses have hot showers and flush toilets, drinking water available.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and outdoor ethics recommendations. Water is available when temperatures are above freezing but is…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Beach
- Paddle Boating
- Picnicking
- Swimming
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 4 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 sites
All 4 sites
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Brandywine Recreation AreaGeorge Washington National Forest · 0.0 miHone Quarry CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 9.8 miCamp Run CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 12 miTodd Lake CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 16 miTodd Lake Recreation AreaGeorge Washington National Forest · 16 miNorth River CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 18 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Brandywine, WV
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 68°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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
Brandywine Campground 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 →