Chilatchee Creek
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:02 UTC
- A night
- $14–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 52All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Chilatchee Creek Campground is located on its namesake at scenic Dannelly Reservoir in Alabama's Black Prairie Belt. The reservoir sits on the Alabama River and covers roughly 27 square miles, boasting more than 500 miles of shoreline. Boating, fishing, hunting and hiking are popular activities. Keep reading
Recreation
The park offers excellent fishing for bass, crappie, bluegill and catfish, and numerous fishing tournaments and annual festivals are held in the immediate area. Whitetail deer and wild turkeys roam the park, creating excellent bow-hunting opportunities.
Facilities
This waterfront campground contains 33 family sites with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a dump station. A fishing dock, boat ramp, fish cleaning stations and a playground offer additional recreation opportunities.
Natural Features
The Black Prairie Belt is characterized by rich, dark soils and a mosaic of rolling grasslands and dense hardwood and pine forests.
What the agency tells you
$2 fee for each extra vehicle
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Check-in time is 4 p.m. and check-out time is 3 p.m.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 52
- Hookups
- 46 electric, 46 water
- Longest rig
- 85 ft
- Paved pads
- 17 of 52
- Accessible sites
- 46
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a dump station.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a dump station. A fishing…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 2nd darkest of 41 in AL
- Bortle 3
68 of 88 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:02 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
“$2 fee for each extra vehicle” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$26 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:02 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 52 mapped sitesAll 52 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. 46 of the 52 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CCRE | 01 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 551 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 02 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 527 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 03 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | yes | 60 ft | 444 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 04 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | yes | 60 ft | 386 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 05 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | yes | 65 ft | 303 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 06 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | yes | 65 ft | 238 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 07 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50 amp | yes | 71 ft | 170 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 09 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | yes | 71 ft | 120 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 10 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | yes | 71 ft | 121 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 11 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | 76 ft | 103 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 12 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | yes | 70 ft | 64 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 13 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | yes | 70 ft | 66 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 14 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | yes | 77 ft | 58 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 15 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | yes | 82 ft | 47 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 16 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | yes | 68 ft | 57 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 17 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | yes | 60 ft | 63 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 18 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | yes | 60 ft | 73 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 19 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | yes | 62 ft | 73 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 20 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | yes | 78 ft | 69 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 21 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | yes | 65 ft | 81 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 22 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | yes | 107 ft | 171 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 23 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | yes | 65 ft | 143 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 24 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | yes | 91 ft | 175 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 25 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | yes | 91 ft | 109 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 26 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | yes | 92 ft | 77 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 27 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | yes | 84 ft | 90 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 28 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | yes | 82 ft | 64 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 29 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 82 ft | 53 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 30 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | yes | 90 ft | 64 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 31 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | yes | 79 ft | 100 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 32 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | yes | 79 ft | 143 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 33 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | yes | 103 ft | 276 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 34 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | yes | 103 ft | 372 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 35 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | yes | 86 ft | 480 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 36 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | yes | 63 ft | 437 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 37 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | yes | 63 ft | 375 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 38 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | yes | 105 ft | 226 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 39 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 105 ft | 198 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 40 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | yes | 100 ft | 160 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 41 | standard electric | 76 ft | 50 amp | yes | 94 ft | 182 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 42 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | yes | 80 ft | 261 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 43 | standard electric | 77 ft | 50 amp | yes | 80 ft | 264 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 44 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 107 ft | 233 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 45 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | yes | 110 ft | 185 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 46 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50 amp | yes | 102 ft | 288 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 47 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 102 ft | 352 ft | $14–$26 |
| CCRE | 48 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 168 ft | 375 ft | |||
| CCRE | 49 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 538 ft | |||
| CCRE | 50 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 578 ft | |||
| CCRE | 51 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 109 ft | 619 ft | |||
| CCRE | 52 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 109 ft | 658 ft | |||
| CCRE | 53 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 145 ft | 733 ft |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 52 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Gees Bend Park6.0 mi
Millers Ferry Campground7.0 mi
Training Dike Park7.1 mi
Elm Bluff Campground9.4 mi
Six Mile Creek20 mi
Prairie Creek (AL)33 miFrom Alberta, Alabama, take State Route 5. Turn onto Wilcox County Road 29 and travel southeast for 11 miles. Make a left on Chilatchee Creek Road and continue for 2 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Boykin, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 35°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
Who answers for this land
Chilatchee Creek is in Alabama’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Terri Sewell (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →