National Park Service · New River Gorge National Park and Preserve · WV
Brooklyn Campground
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Burnwood Campground and Restroom Closure The Burnwood group campground will be closed from October 5 through mid November due to a construction project to replace water lines. During that time restroom facilities will be closed at the Burnwood Trailhead.
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Bridge Day closures On Saturday, October 17, U.S. Route 19 will close at 7 a.m. on Saturday and remain closed until 5 p.m. that afternoon. Alternate route is via US Routes 60 and 16 (about a 45-minute detour). The parking lot at Canyon Rim Visitor Center will…
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Rend Trail Closed through December 2027 The Rend Trail is closed for trail Improvements that will include a new parking area, restroom, and a small picnic area overlooking Arbuckle Creek at the Minden trailhead, structural improvements to five historic railroad trestles along…
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Kaymoor Miners Trail Closure From June 15 through November 19 the upper part of the Kaymoor Miners Trail (from Kaymoor Top down to the mine site at the junction with the Kaymoor Trail) will be closed Monday through Thursday due to a trail rehab project. The trail is…
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 5 sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 55 of them walk-up
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
Photos · NPS
1,000 ftElevation
58 ftWater · New River
2 miE of Oak Hill, WV
5Walk-up sites
85%Tree cover
Open year-roundToday
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This tent only campground is located on the banks of the New River near the Cunard River Access point and Southside Trailhead. It offers 4 walk-in tents sites and 1 tent-only drive-in site. There are no drive-in sites for RVs or campers at this location. RV, camper, or car camping is prohibited.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Portable Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
Source: National Park Service and agency records
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Night sky · 63rd darkest of 69 in WV
- Bortle 4
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park 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.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
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 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Coordinate37.98410, -81.02788
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
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Grandview SandbarNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 8.9 mi
Army CampNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 9.5 mi
War Ridge/Backus Mountain CampgroundNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 9.9 mi
Stone CliffNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 4.0 miThayer CampgroundNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 5.7 miBurnwood Group CampsiteNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 6.7 miGrandview SandbarNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 8.9 miArmy CampNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 9.5 miWar Ridge/Backus Mountain CampgroundNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 9.9 miSource: 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
This Afternoon49°Mostly Sunny7% rain
Tonight30°Widespread Frost3% rain
Sunday60°Widespread Frost then Sunny
Sunday Night35°Clear
NWS forecast for Cunard, WV
Source: National Weather Service, RLX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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: MT NEBO 1 S, WV (USC00466284), 17 miles away and 953 ft higher
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Brooklyn 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now.
Season: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 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 · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Park 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.
Nearest place of any size: Cunard, WV, 1.1 mi SSE (a census designated place). Straight line.