Chittenden Brook Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 1816 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Chittenden Brook Campground is situated in a beautiful northern hardwoods forest, approximately seven miles from Rochester, VT. It is a small and semi-remote campground, perfect for those who seek a more tranquil camping experience. The Green Mountain National Forest in partnership with the Vermont Huts Association has a cabin located at the Chittenden Brook Campground available for reservations. The Chittenden Brook Hut (pictured above) is open for year-round use and is located within the semi-remote campground on the Green Mountain National Forest. Keep reading
To make reservations and learn more please visit the Chittenden Brook Hut website: Chittenden Brook Hut Recreation With an abundance of well-maintained trails, mountain vistas, waterfalls, and streams, the Chittenden Brook area offers plentiful opportunities for hiking, mountain biking, swimming, river tubing, fishing, hunting, and more. The Chittenden Brook trail system starts at the campground and passes through a mature northern hardwood forest, along a pristine mountain stream, and past a beaver pond on its way to connecting with the Long Trail.
Facilities
The campground offers 17 overnight sites for tent and small RV camping (maximum 18'). Each site has a picnic table, fire ring with a grill, parking spur with space for two cars, and a gravel tent pad. There are two barrier-free vault toilets, but there is no potable water available. There is a recycling and trash station at the end of the campground loop. The campground also offers several first-come, first-served sites along with sites that can be reserved.
Natural Features
The campground is located along Chittenden Brook, a pristine mountain stream that feeds into the White River. Wildlife located in this area includes white-tailed deer, moose, and black bear.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby attractions include Long Trail access on site, river tubing on the White River, mountain biking on the Green Mountain Trails in Pittsfield and the towns of Killington, Rochester and Brandon.
What the agency tells you
There is no electricity/water/sewer site hook-ups at this site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 18 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tent pad. There are two barrier-free vault toilets, but there is no potable water available. There is…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…are two barrier-free vault toilets, but there is no potable water available. There is a recycling and trash station…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, River, Creek
- Biking
- Hiking
- Visitor center
- Water sports
- Night sky · 2nd darkest of 13 in VT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, in Rutland County
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 16 of the 18 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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 · 12
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
18 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 16 mapped sitesAll 18 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. 18 of the 18 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 87 ft | 472 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 51 ft | 394 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 51 ft | 440 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 51 ft | 304 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 51 ft | 332 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 129 ft | 169 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 129 ft | 176 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 68 ft | 276 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 63 ft | 246 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 63 ft | 285 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 72 ft | 259 ftChittenden Brook | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 81 ft | 221 ft | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 78 ft | 228 ft | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 78 ft | 299 ft | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 118 ft | 289 ft | $15 |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 16 | type not stated | 18 ft | 239 ft | $15 | |
| CHITTENDEN BROOK CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 222 ft | 197 ft | $15 |
| S&P Standard Nonelectric | type not stated | 18 ft | $15 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Silver Lake CampgroundMoosalamoo National Recreation Area · 8.7 mi
Moosalamoo CampgroundMoosalamoo National Recreation Area · 8.8 miLittle Rock Pond/Green Mountain LoopRobert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area · 29 mi
North Hartland Lake Beach (VT)31 mi
Greendale CampgroundGreen Mountain National Forest · 33 miFrom Rochester, travel south for 1.0 mile on Route 100 to the junction of Route 73. Follow Route 73 west for 5.1 miles.
From Brandon, travel east on Route 73 for 11.2 miles.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Rochester, VT
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 9°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Chittenden Brook Campground is in Vermont’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Becca Balint (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →