Burchfield Branch Park
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:24 UTC
- A night
- $20–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 36All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Burchfield Branch Park is located near Holt Lake on the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway northeast of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. With many amenities, access to the water and opportunities to view wildlife, Burchfield Branch provides a convenient camping spot for families, boaters, swimmers, picnickers and sightseers. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing is the most popular activity on the waterway. Whether fishing by boat or along the shore of the park, anglers can find bass, crappie, bream, catfish and more. Families can enjoy biking and swimming along the lakeshore, watching for birds and animals or taking advantage of the facility's two playgrounds.
Facilities
Burchfield Branch Park has 36 sites with electric and water hookups, as well as one reservable group picnic shelter for day use. RV campers have the convenience of hot showers, a dump station and trash receptacles.
Natural Features
Holt Lake was created by the damming of the Black Warrior River. The campground is situated along the forested shores of the river and displays scenic fall foliage each year. Deer, squirrel, wild turkey, migratory birds and blue birds live around the Holt Lake area. Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway consists of six lakes with a total length of 457 miles and 39,800 surface acres of water. Temperatures range from the 80s to 90s from April through September, and annual rainfall averages about 60 inches.
What the agency tells you
There is limited to no cell service at all inside the park.
Park Attendants will NOT be making reservations at the gatehouse. All reservations will be made via the recreation.gov app, recreation.gov website, or by calling 877-444-6777.
Gates are open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Limit of two vehicles per site.
Park attendants cannot perform site transfers Thursday-Saturday or on holiday weekends during the peak season
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
No ATV or UTV use is allowed.
For more information visit: https://www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Recreation/Black-Warrior-Tombigbee-BWT-Lakes/
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 36 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- 36 electric, 35 water, 4 sewer
- Longest rig
- 95 ft
- Paved pads
- 35 of 36
- Accessible sites
- 27
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “RV campers have the convenience of hot showers, a dump station and trash receptacles.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Water access
- Night sky · 36th darkest of 41 in AL
- Bortle 4
4 of 66 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:24 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$30 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 16:24 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
37 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 37 mapped sitesAll 37 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 36 of the 37 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BURCHFIELD | 01 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | yes | 66 ft | 60 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 66 ft | 57 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 03 | standard electric | 65 ft | Electricity Hookup | yes | 114 ft | 43 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 04 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 64 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BURCHFIELD | 05 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 59 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BURCHFIELD | 06 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 79 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BURCHFIELD | 07 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 92 ft | 17 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 08 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 44 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BURCHFIELD | 09 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 59 ft | 281 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 10 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 59 ft | 340 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 11 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 418 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 12 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 493 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 13 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | yes | 118 ft | 660 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 14 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 72 ft | 588 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 15 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | yes | 72 ft | 651 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 16 | standard electric | 82 ft | 50 amp | yes | 102 ft | 756 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 17 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 117 ft | 904 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 18 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | yes | 77 ft | 994 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 19 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 102 ft | 816 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BURCHFIELD | 20 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | yes | 77 ft | 1,069 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 21 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | yes | 86 ft | 1,445 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 22 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | yes | 60 ft | 1,529 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 23 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 60 ft | 1,589 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 24 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | 103 ft | 1,526 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 25 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 106 ft | 1,692 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 26 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 1,852 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BURCHFIELD | 27 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | yes | 110 ft | 1,660 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 28 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | yes | 117 ft | 1,817 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 29 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 55 ft | 1,934 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 30 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | yes | 62 ft | 2,068 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 31 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 72 ft | 2,170 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 33 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 117 ft | 2,286 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | 34 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 2,182 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BURCHFIELD | 35 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 2,059 ft | $28–$30 | |
| BURCHFIELD | 36 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | yes | 55 ft | 1,972 ft | $28–$30 |
| BURCHFIELD | GS-1 | day use | 15 amp | yes | 639 ft | 94 ft | $40 | |
| BURCHFIELD | T-32 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 117 ft | 2,347 ft | $20 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t 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 37 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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Houston Recreation AreaWilliam B. Bankhead National Forest · 47 miFrom Tuscaloosa, Alabama: From I-59, take exit 86 toward Brookwood on Tuscaloosa County Road 59. Turn right at the traffic light in Brookwood on highway 216. Turn left (northeast) onto County Road 59, then turn left at the stop sign onto Lock 17 Road. Turn left at Lock 17 Grocery onto Lock 17 Road and proceed to the park entrance (approximately 23 miles from Brookwood).
From Birmingham, Alabama: From I-59, take exit 115 toward Hueytown on Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive, which turns into Warrior River Road. Follow through Concord Community toward Lock 17 Road (Warrior River Rd. turns into Lock 17 Rd.). Continue through Oak Grove Community, turn left at Lock 17 Grocery and proceed to the park (approximately 31 miles from Interstate 59).
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tuscaloosa, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 53°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Burchfield Branch Park is in Alabama’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Terri Sewell (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →