Buckhorn Hunt Camp
1Heads up1 fire 38 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
Get back to nature while enjoying primitive camping. Hunting This location is used primarily as a hunt camp during general gun season.
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 · 4
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Camel Lake CampgroundApalachicola National Forest · 27 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fort Braden, FL
Typical weather
Typical October night 57°F, day 83°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 38°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
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
Buckhorn Hunt Camp is in Florida’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Neal Dunn (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →