Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 29 of the next 30 nights read 15:34 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 9All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC CAMPGROUND. SCOUTS AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS ONLY. These sites are for overnight camping by organized non-profit (501c) youth groups (scouts, church youth groups) under adult supervision for the purpose of education of the historic resources of the battlefield. Due to limited space and facilities, camping for solely recreational purposes is not allowed. Groups must choose sites according to the size of their group. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking, biking, and horseback riding are popular recreation activities at the park. Groups may also request a ranger tour of the park or ranger-led activity. Chickamauga Battlefield contains around 50 miles of hiking trails. In addition, the park has developed a series of recommended trail routes highlighting specific stories within Chickamauga Battlefield. These hike routes are especially popular with scout groups as scouts can earn a badge for each hike. Bicycling is permitted on all paved roads and service roads within Chickamauga Battlefield. Please refer to trail maps for more information about specific trails where horseback riding is allowed. For inquiries about service projects, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Will Wilson at 706-866-9241 ext. 137 or will_wilson@nps.gov.
Facilities
A set of vault toilets are located between sites 3 and 4. Sites 1, 3, and 4 have water spigots with potable water. All sites are equipped with a picnic table, fire ring with grill, and lantern pole. There is an ampitheatre-style area in the campground that is available first-come, first-serve. Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center is 1.5 miles away by car and about 0.45 miles on foot.
Natural Features
Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground offers tree-sheltered, flat tent sites. The campground is surrounded by a hardwood decidious forest. With over 9,000 acres of preserved land, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park has many native plants and animals which call the park home.
Nearby Attractions
Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center is located less than 2 miles from the camping area by vehicle and 0.45 miles by foot. Again, these campsites are only available to organized youth groups and as such are not open to the public. There are a number of public and private campgrounds in the surrounding area. Charges & Cancellations
What the agency tells you
This campground is NOT for public use. Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground is ONLY available for "organized non-profit youth groups under adult supervision for the purpose of education of the historic resources of the Chickamauga Battlefield."
There are no public use campgrounds in the park. See Georgia State Parks and Tennessee State Parks
Group leaders are responsible for sharing this information with all members of their group.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Please practice Leave No Trace principles while visiting the park.
Parking: All vehicles should be parked along the edge of the roadway. Please leave room for emergency vehicles to pass. Keep entry gate closed after entering or exiting.
Firewood: To prevent the spread of invasive species, please do not bring firewood into the park. Dead/downed wood may be collected and burned.
Safety and Security: An adult leader must be present with the group at all times. Camp only in the boundaries of your designated site. Do not leave the campground after dark except in case of emergency. All areas of the park close after sunset. First aid is available at the Visitor Center during open hours. For emergencies, dial 911. Do not climb on monuments or cannons.
Hiking to Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center: We encourage campers to explore the many trails around the Battlefield. If you decide to hike to the visitor center, please do not enter the building with muddy shoes. Stow all backpacks, food, drink, etc along the side entrance before entering. Be courteous to other visitors by speaking quietly and behaving respectfully both inside and outside the visitor center.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9 · 9 tent-only, 9 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…will_wilson@nps.gov. Facilities A set of vault toilets are located between sites 3 and 4. Sites 1, 3, and…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 3 of 9 campsite records
- Stay limit
- 5 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- Amphitheater
- Berry Picking
- Biking
- Birding
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Horseback riding
- Ranger programs
- Wildlife viewing
Full this Saturdayread 15:34 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedNot reservable
Every one of the 6 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 9 are free on Mon, Oct 19. read 15:34 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($20), 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
9 sites
All 9 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 9 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Chickamauga Battlefield | Site 1 | group tent only area nonelectric | $20 |
| Chickamauga Battlefield | Site 2 | group tent only area nonelectric | $20 |
| Chickamauga Battlefield | Site 3 | group tent only area nonelectric | $20 |
| Chickamauga Battlefield | Site 4 | group tent only area nonelectric | $20 |
| Chickamauga Battlefield | Site 5 | group tent only area nonelectric | $20 |
| Chickamauga Battlefield | Site 6 | group tent only area nonelectric | $20 |
| Chickamauga Battlefield | Site 7 | group tent only area nonelectric | $20 |
| Chickamauga Battlefield | Site 8 | group tent only area nonelectric | $20 |
| Chickamauga Battlefield | Site 9 | group tent only area nonelectric | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pocket CampgroundChattahoochee National Forest · 26 miHickey Gap CampgroundChattahoochee National Forest · 34 mi
Lake Conasauga Overflow CampgroundChattahoochee National Forest · 35 mi
Lake Conasauga CampgroundChattahoochee National Forest · 35 mi
Cottonwood Patch CampgroundChattahoochee National Forest · 36 miFrom Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center, turn right (south) onto Lafayette Road. Travel 1.5 miles and turn right onto Dyer Road. You will see Brotherton Cabin at this intersection. At the first stop sign, turn right onto Glenn-Kelly Road. Travel 0.5 miles, passing a triangular intersection on your left. Turn left at the next roadway, South Post. Enter through the gate, making sure to close it behind you. Drive down this road and the camping loop will be on your right. Campsites are located around this loop road and each site is marked with a numbered post.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fort Oglethorpe, GA
Typical weather
Typical October night 47°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground is in Georgia’s 14th congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Marjorie Greene for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.
Who can change it · 2
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.
- 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
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 Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia
Dear Jon Ossoff, I’m a constituent in Georgia. I tried to camp at Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia, and couldn’t. All 9 sites at Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 6 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. Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park 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 Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground (Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia) 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 Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia
Dear Raphael G. Warnock, I’m a constituent in Georgia. I tried to camp at Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia, and couldn’t. All 9 sites at Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 6 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. Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park 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 Chickamauga Battlefield Group Campground (Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia) via campanac.com