Cherry Hill Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 16:11 UTC
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 29All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Open April 1 - October 31. Cherry Hill is near the Chattooga Wild and Scenic River and many miles of hiking trails. Site amenities include centrally-located drinking water, cooking grills, tables and lantern posts as well as a restroom with flush toilets and hot showers. When you make a reservation, post one of the following on the clip provided at your site: a) Your confirmation letter; b) Your reservation number; c) The name of the person that the site is reserved for.
What the agency tells you
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 29 · 9 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- 6
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…tables and lantern posts as well as a restroom with flush toilets and hot showers. When you make a reservation, post…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Site amenities include centrally-located drinking water, cooking grills, tables and lantern posts as well as a restroom with flush toilets and hot showers.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Site amenities include centrally-located drinking water, cooking grills, tables and lantern posts as well…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Fish Hatchery
- Fishing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 8th darkest of 37 in SC
- Bortle 4
Full this Saturdayread 16:11 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
1 campground has sites open within 30 miles, read 15:58 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 28 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 19 are free on Wed, Oct 21. read 16:11 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 1
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 15:58 UTC
- Oconee PointHartwell Lake · 27 mi · 2 of 132 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:11 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
29 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 29 mapped sitesAll 29 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 29 of the 29 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 29 of the 29 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 71 ft | 168 ft | 741 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 162 ft | 670 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 106 ft | 86 ft | 437 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 105 ft | 59 ft | 347 ft | $15 |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 94 ft | 73 ft | 246 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 94 ft | 73 ft | 167 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 96 ft | 83 ft | 96 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 36 ft | 71 ft | 127 ft | $15 |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 48 ft | 72 ft | 99 ft | $15 |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 84 ft | 178 ft | 103 ft | $15 |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 36 ft | 89 ft | 140 ft | $15 |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 96 ft | 107 ft | 220 ft | $15 |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 119 ft | 133 ft | 350 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 99 ft | 252 ft | 339 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 99 ft | 240 ft | 435 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 83 ft | 339 ft | 599 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 75 ft | 397 ft | 584 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 75 ft | 405 ft | 529 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 019 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 83 ft | 348 ft | 221 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 85 ft | 262 ft | 153 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 32 ft | 83 ft | 360 ft | 200 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 84 ft | 231 ft | 76 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 97 ft | 185 ft | 145 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 32 ft | 97 ft | 172 ft | 241 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 025 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 56 ft | 387 ft | 339 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 463 ft | 376 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 65 ft | 406 ft | 295 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 028 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 62 ft | 348 ft | 277 ft | $15 | |
| CHERRY HILL CAMPGROUND | 029 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 56 ft | 335 ft | 324 ft | $15 |
25 of 29 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
West Fork Campground (Clayton, GA)Chattahoochee National Forest · 6.6 mi
Willis Knob Horse CampChattahoochee National Forest · 8.2 mi
Whetstone Horse CampSumter National Forest · 9.4 miFrom Walhalla, go north 8 miles on State Highway 28. Turn right on Highway 107. Continue on Highway 107 for 9 miles. A sign for Cherry Hill Campground is on the right.
From Cashiers, NC, go south on Highway 107 for 9 miles. The sign for Cherry Hil will be on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tamassee, SC
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Cherry Hill Campground is in South Carolina’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Sheri Biggs (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneySheri BiggsU.S. Representative · South Carolina’s 3rd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationDarline GrahamU.S. Senator · South Carolina
No contact form we could verify, so that link is their own site. Contact is inside it. Washington office: 202-224-5972.
- Your senator, on the same appropriationTim ScottU.S. Senator · South Carolina
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Cherry Hill Campground, Sumter National Forest, South Carolina
Dear Sheri Biggs, I’m a constituent in South Carolina’s 3rd district. I tried to camp at Cherry Hill Campground, Sumter National Forest, South Carolina, and couldn’t. All 29 sites at Cherry Hill Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 28 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Cherry Hill Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Cherry Hill Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Cherry Hill Campground (Sumter National Forest, South Carolina) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Cherry Hill Campground, Sumter National Forest, South Carolina
Dear Darline Graham, I’m a constituent in South Carolina. I tried to camp at Cherry Hill Campground, Sumter National Forest, South Carolina, and couldn’t. All 29 sites at Cherry Hill Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 28 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Cherry Hill Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Cherry Hill Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Cherry Hill Campground (Sumter National Forest, South Carolina) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Cherry Hill Campground, Sumter National Forest, South Carolina
Dear Tim Scott, I’m a constituent in South Carolina. I tried to camp at Cherry Hill Campground, Sumter National Forest, South Carolina, and couldn’t. All 29 sites at Cherry Hill Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 28 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Cherry Hill Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Cherry Hill Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Cherry Hill Campground (Sumter National Forest, South Carolina) via campanac.com