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Camp Pleasant

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The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Prince William Forest Park is a 15,000-acre forested oasis, located 35 miles south of Washington, DC. 21 miles of bicycle trails and 37 miles of hiking trails crisscross Quantico Creek and its tributaries. Camp Pleasant, also known as Camp 4, can sleep up to 200 visitors and is located on the eastern side of the park. Most of the camp's rustic sleeping cabins sleep 12 people and are arranged in 5 units connected by gravel trails. Trails in the camp also lead to a small dock on a tiny lake and a campfire circle. While the dining hall in this camp is the only one without a fireplace, a wing added to the dining hall in the 1940s provides a large open area for indoor activities.Camp Pleasant is also the only camp that has a large theater building, perfect for events or large gatherings on rainy days. Keep reading

Recreation

There is a large field area available for recreational sports. Access to the lake is a short walk from the camp. Hiking and biking trails are a short walk from the camp.

Facilities

Camp Pleasant can sleep up to 200 visitors and is located on the eastern side of the park. Most of the camp's sleeping cabins sleep 12 people and are arranged in 5 units connected by gravel trails. Trails in the camp also lead to a small dock on a tiny lake and a campfire circle. While the dining hall in this camp is the only one without a fireplace, a wing added to the dining hall in the 1940s provides a large open area for indoor activities. The camp also has a large theater building that is perfect for indoor activities. Each unit has a restroom with showers and there is a central restroom near the dining hall with men's and women's facilities. The women's side has three toilets and three showers. The men's side has two toilets, 1 urinal and three showers. The family restroom has a toilet and a shower. There are also restrooms located in the dining hall, infirmary, and theater building. Campers are responsible for cleaning and sanitizing floors, shower stalls, sinks, and toilets. Plungers and toilet brushes are provided. Campers should bring hand soap, detergents, and other necessary toiletries. Toilet paper is provided. The dining hall seats up to 126 people and contains a commercial kitchen. The park does not provide food to campers. The dining hall provides wooden tables and benches. The kitchen is equipped with the following: 10 burner gas stove 3 ovens Large griddle Microwave Walk-in refrigerator Freezer Large sinks Food warming station with 4 trays Storage space Plenty of counter space Natural Features Camp Pleasant is located within a nearly 15,000-acre forest. There is a large field area available for recreational sports. Access to the lake is a short walk from the camp.

Nearby Attractions

Camp Pleasant is located 35 miles south of Washington D.C. and a few miles from the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Sep 16, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
1 · 1 cabin
Hookups
1 electric
Accessible sites
None listed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Sep 16, 2026

Facilities

Showers
Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
“Each unit has a restroom with showers and there is a central restroom near the dining hall with men's and women's facilities.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 16, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek
Biking
Birding
Hiking
Picnicking
Water access
Wildlife viewing
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Sep 16, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:25 UTC

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OpenBookedClosedNot on the booking system

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
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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.
All reservations must be made online and paid for electronically.
No payment will be accepted onsite.
All vehicles entering the park must also pay the park vehicle entrance fee.
Visit the park website's fees and passes page for rates.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 3
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
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 · Sep 16, 2026
Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Camp Pleasant closed this Friday and Saturday night. The National Park Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.

Closure: National Park Service status record · Sep 17, 2026

There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.

recreation.gov availability, read 15:25 UTC · record Sep 16, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

1 sites

All 1 sites

Sleeps
PleasantCamp Pleasantcabin electric
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Sep 16, 2026

Getting there

the phone number
The phone703-221-5843
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

The weather

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

The land, and who answers for it

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 15:25 UTC). National Park Service has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, counted from the nightly snapshot: it named 1 campsites. The per-campsite read hasn’t reached this campground, so no campsite here is recorded as one recreation.gov doesn’t list. · Sep 16, 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.