Chattahoochee Park
This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 24 of the next 30 nights read 15:28 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Chattahoochee Park is located on Lake Seminole in Southwest Georgia. The lake and surrounding area provide a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities for fishing, camping, boating, picnicking, hiking, biking and birding. There are 3 reservable picnic shelters in the park, each offering spectacular views of the lake. Chattahoochee Park offers great views, multiple places to bank fish or fish from a pier and places to play. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Seminole is known as one of the best sites for sports fishing in America. Extensive stump and grass beds provide abundant cover where anglers fish for largemouth, hybrid, striped and white bass. Sizable populations of catfish, crappie and bream are also present. Over 79 species of fish have been identified in the lake.
Facilities
Chattahoochee park offers opportunities for fishing, wildlife viewing, picnicking, and playing. A boat ramp provides access to the lake. There are restroom facilities within walking distance of all 3 shelters. A playground, tennis court, basketball court are located near Turkey Flight Shelter and a sand volleyball court is located near Swim Beach Shelter. Potable water and electricity are available at all shelters. All shelters have 8 picnic tables and a grill available for use.
Natural Features
Lake Seminole has a surface area of 37,500 acres with 376 miles of shoreline. A pine and hardwood forest covers the rolling hills around the lake. A variety of wildlife makes its home around Seminole Lake, including raccoons, alligators, ring-necked ducks, canvasbacks, scaup, hawks, bald eagles, black vultures, tortoises and snakes. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (229) 662-2001.
What the agency tells you
There is no swim beach at this park.
Swim beach shelter is only available April 1 through September 30.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 3 of 3 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 3 of 3 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Picnicking
- Wildlife viewing
Something open on 24 of the next 24 bookable nightsread 15:28 UTC
The agency files 3 records here and marks every one of them day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
OpenBookedNot reservable
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What you actually pay
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 15:28 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
3 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 3 mapped sitesAll 3 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 3 of the 3 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| Chattahoochee Park | Ramp Shelter (Building #L50A) | day use | yes | 807 ft | 224 ft | 197 ft | $60 |
| Chattahoochee Park | Swim Beach Shelter (Building #L81) | day use | 2515 ft | 166 ft | under 10 ft | $60 | |
| Chattahoochee Park | Turkey Flight Shelter (Building #L59A) | day use | 807 ft | 256 ft | 670 ft | $60 |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Eastbank1.3 mi
Hales Campground3.9 mi
River Junction Campground3.9 mi
Rays Lake Park6.7 mi
Faceville Landing Park12 mi
Hales Landing Park14 miFrom Hwy 90, in Chattahoochee, FL turn at North Bolivar Street. This will turn into Booster Club Road. Continue on this road for 2 miles. Look for directional sign at the Y on Booster Club Road to stay left.
At the park entrance, swim beach shelter will be to the left. The ramp shelter and Turkey flight shelter will be to the right. Continue straight to Turkey flight shelter. Follow signs to the right for the boat ramp shelter.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Chattahoochee, FL
Typical weather
Typical October night 58°F, day 81°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Chattahoochee Park is in Georgia’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Sanford Bishop (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneySanford D. Bishop, Jr.U.S. Representative · Georgia’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJon OssoffU.S. Senator · Georgia
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRaphael G. WarnockU.S. Senator · Georgia
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Chattahoochee Park has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., I’m a constituent in Georgia’s 2nd district. Chattahoochee Park, Georgia carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Chattahoochee Park (Georgia) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Chattahoochee Park has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Jon Ossoff, I’m a constituent in Georgia. Chattahoochee Park, Georgia carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Chattahoochee Park (Georgia) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Chattahoochee Park has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Raphael G. Warnock, I’m a constituent in Georgia. Chattahoochee Park, Georgia carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Chattahoochee Park (Georgia) via campanac.com