National Park Service · New River Gorge National Park and Preserve · WV
Burnwood Group Campsite
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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
ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 16. Season not published.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
Photos · NPS
1,740 ftElevation
1,887 ftWater · New River
0.4 miNE of Fayetteville, WV
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 66th darkest of 69 in WV
Open year-roundToday
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Burnwood is located across Route 19 from Canyon Rim Visitor Center and offers group camping. This site is only for groups of 8 or more people and requires a Special Use Permit. For a permit for the group campsites, contact the permits office at 304-465-6531. Permits require a minimum of 10 business days after the application has been received.
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Every line of the receipt · 4
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.
Burnwood Group Campsite$75
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
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: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Also near here
Brooklyn CampgroundNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 6.7 mi
Stone CliffNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 9.7 mi
Thayer CampgroundNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 12 mi
Battle Run14 mi
Gauley TailwatersGauley River National Recreation Area · 14 mi
Army CampNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 15 mi
Brooklyn CampgroundNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 6.7 miStone CliffNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 9.7 miThayer CampgroundNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 12 miBattle Run14 miGauley TailwatersGauley River National Recreation Area · 14 miArmy CampNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 15 miSource: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight42°Rain Showers99% rain
Saturday51°Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy51% rain
Saturday Night28°Clear then Widespread Frost
Sunday60°Widespread Frost then Sunny
NWS forecast for Fayetteville, WV
Source: National Weather Service, RLX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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: OAK HILL, WV (USC00466591), 8 miles away and 300 ft higher
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Burnwood Group Campsite 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: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 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.