Brick House Campground (SC)
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $5From, per site
- Sites
- 2420 on recreation.gov
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Brick House Campground is located on SC Route 66, 3.5 miles east of I-26, situated in the heart of the Enoree Ranger District in Newberry County. The campground is surrounded by a mixed pine-hardwood forest with an elevation of approximately 550 feet. Long hot summers and mild winters are the norm for the Enoree Ranger District. Winter temperatures range from low 40's to upper 60's degrees and summer temperatures range from high 80's to high 90's. Wild azaleas are clumped by the old homesites and wildflowers and dogwoods dot the landscape. This site offers a great opportunity for all season camping. Ample hunting opportunities for wild turkey and whitetail deer are available in the surrounding general forest. The campground is located 51 miles north of Columbia and is 41 miles south of Spartanburg. Keep reading
Recreation
Brick House offers a year-round primitive, single loop campground with 21 campsites. The small campground offers a primitive laid back setting that one can relax and enjoy in. Available by reservation only year round through recreation.gov. The 30 mile Buncombe Horse Trail offers a variety a loops which riders can choose between a short or all day ride. The trail is open to horses, hikers and mountain bikers. The 24 mile Enoree OHV Trail is a short 10 minute drive north of Brick House. The motorized trail is open to atvs, utvs, and dirt bikes that are 50 inches and less in width. Bring your own equipment. The trail has a user fee and is closed when trail conditions are too wet for riding.Call the "Call Before You Haul" hotline. The surrounding national forest lands are a great place for big game deer and turkey hunting along with other small game hunting. Hunting and fishing in South Carolina is regulated by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Visit www.dnr.sc.gov for more about the SCDNR.
Facilities
Brick House offers year-round access to 21 campsites campground. All sites have some shade throughout the day. The campground has a gravel road and parking spurs that all vehicles need to be parked on. Campsite parking spurs are level and vary in size and grade. Not all sites can accommodate all vehicles. All sites have a picnic table, fire ring, and a lantern post. Up to two horses per campsite are allowed but need to be highlined or kept in portable corrals. Two, double vault toilet buildings are centrally located at each end of the campground. There is no water, no electrical hookups, and no dump station available. Cell coverage can be spotty. Pets are welcome but must be leashed at all times within the campground. Campsites are for reservation only year round through recreation.gov . and have a 14 day stay limit within 30 rolling days.
Natural Features
Over 700,000 acres of pine-hardwood forest with gently rolling terrain make up the Enoree Ranger District. Headleys Creek runs through the area a bit over half a mile away from the campground by road.
Nearby Attractions
Enoree OHV Trail- 10 minutes up the road is a 24 mile designated trail for motorized atvs, utvs and dirt bikes that are 50 inches wide or less. Warning: the trail closes when trail conditions are too wet for riding. Use the Call Before You Haul hotline to check trail status. Newberry Opera House, Newberry, SC. https://www.newberryoperahouse.com/
What the agency tells you
Campsites are reservation only year round through recreation.gov. All sites available with same day reservations. When you make a reservation, post one of the following on the campsite post clip provided: confirmation letter, reservation number or name of person site reserved for.
Forest Order FM-19-01: Camping or maintaining a campsite in excess of 14 days within any 30-day time period is prohibited, excluding designated sites during designated hunting season.
Single-family sites limited to no more than 8 people and 2 vehicles. No more than 2 horses per site.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
No water or electrical hookups. Cell coverage is unreliable.
Care should be taken in the woods during big-game season. Wear blaze orange or bright colors big game deer and turkey seasons, April and September through January.
South Carolina fishing and hunting license and regulations apply on all national forest land. A valid South Carolina fishing license is required to fish on the national forests. The U.S. Forest Service does not issue any licenses or permits for hunting or fishing.
Horses in outer edge campsites need to be kept behind the white-banded tree perimeter. Don’t tie horses where they can chew on trees.
Dispose of horse manure and hay by scattering in the woods prior to departure.
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.
No ATVs, UTVs or golf carts allowed.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24 · 20 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 21 of 24 sites
- Campfires
- 21 of 24 sites
- Shade
- 21 of 24 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…or kept in portable corrals. Two, double vault toilet buildings are centrally located at each end of the…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…located at each end of the campground. There is no water, no electrical hookups, and no dump station…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Spotty
4 of 17 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:17 UTC
recreation.gov lists 20 of the 24 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $5 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 14:17 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 24 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 21 of the 24 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. 24 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Brickhouse | 01 | equestrian nonelectric | 46 ft | 2,612 ft | 1,149 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 02 | equestrian nonelectric | 46 ft | 2,624 ft | 1,129 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 03 | equestrian nonelectric | 51 ft | 2,645 ft | 1,149 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 04 | equestrian nonelectric | 51 ft | 2,639 ft | 1,184 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 05 | type not stated | 2,630 ft | 1,292 ft | $5–$150 | |
| Brickhouse | 06 | equestrian nonelectric | 63 ft | 2,542 ft | 1,208 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 07 | equestrian nonelectric | 49 ft | 2,558 ft | 1,282 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 08 | equestrian nonelectric | 49 ft | 2,514 ft | 1,241 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 09 | equestrian nonelectric | 51 ft | 2,506 ft | 1,294 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 10 | equestrian nonelectric | 51 ft | 2,470 ft | 1,245 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 11 | equestrian nonelectric | 57 ft | 2,431 ft | 1,263 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 12 | equestrian nonelectric | 12 ft | 2,428 ft | 1,329 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 13 | equestrian nonelectric | 12 ft | 2,438 ft | 1,339 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 14 | equestrian nonelectric | 69 ft | 2,483 ft | 1,407 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 15 | equestrian nonelectric | 48 ft | 2,565 ft | 1,472 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 16 | equestrian nonelectric | 48 ft | 2,552 ft | 1,503 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 17 | equestrian nonelectric | 108 ft | 2,607 ft | 1,413 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 18 | equestrian nonelectric | 78 ft | 2,818 ft | 1,383 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 19 | equestrian nonelectric | 78 ft | 2,797 ft | 1,320 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 20 | equestrian nonelectric | 50 ft | 2,712 ft | 1,285 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | 21 | equestrian nonelectric | 50 ft | 2,662 ft | 1,245 ft | $5 |
| Brickhouse | S&P Annual | type not stated | $5–$150 | |||
| Brickhouse | S&P Monthly | type not stated | $5–$150 | |||
| Brickhouse | S&P Nightly | type not stated | $5–$150 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Collins Creek Seasonal Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 11 mi
Sedalia Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 13 mi
Rocky Branch Seasonal Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 22 mi
Poplar Springs22 mi
Woods Ferry Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 23 miWoods Ferry Recreation AreaSumter National Forest · 23 miFrom Columbia: Take I-26 W- 51 mi, Take exit #60 (SC 66), drive east for 3.5 miles. Turn right onto Forest Service Road 358 and drive .3 miles. You will first pass the Buncombe Trailhead parking area on left, continue past to the Brick House campground on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Joanna, SC
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Brick House Campground (SC) is in South Carolina’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Sheri Biggs (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…electrical hookups, and no dump station available. Cell coverage can be spotty. Pets are welcome but must be leashed at all times within the…”