U.S. Forest Service · Wayne National Forest · OH

Burr Oak Cove Campground

First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$10From, per site
Drawn from the record · 870 ft · 69% tree cover · water within reach · Bortle 4 sky
870 ftElevation
837 ftWater · an unnamed pond
3 miNE of Glouster, OH
69%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 3rd darkest of 20 in OH

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Burr Oak Cove Campground is a small densely wooded campground on the northwest tip of Burr Oak Reservoir in Athens County. The campground has 19 camping units, including walk-in sites which offer additional seclusion to the camper looking for solitude.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Drinking water
None, bring your own
“Fees: $15 per night for standard sites/$10 per night when water is turned off.”
Source: read from the agency fee text, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Reservoir
Source: Stated in the agency description

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $10 with nothing added. 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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A night$10Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$20DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 6

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$10
Camping Fees: $15 per night for standard sites/$10 per night when water is turned off.
Night for walk-in campsites .$10
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$10
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$20

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight39°Rain Showers81% rain
Saturday54°Mostly Sunny7% rain
Saturday Night32°Clear then Widespread Frost
Sunday61°Widespread Frost then Sunny

NWS forecast for Glouster, OH

Typical weather

Typical October night 41°F, day 66°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°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: MC CONNELLSVILLE LK 7, OH (USC00335041), 13 miles away and 110 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

developing
Wayne National Forestdrilling, pollution

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 5, 2026

Who answers for this land

Troy Balderson, official portrait

Burr Oak Cove Campground is in Ohio’s 12th congressional district. Its representative, Troy Balderson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Cell signal: the Forest 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.