Cochrane Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 30 nights read 15:41 UTC
- A night
- $32–$34Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6052 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cochrane Campground on Gainesville Lake of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway offers a unique recreational experience for outdoor enthusiasts. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, fishing, and hunting may be done from Cochrane Campground. Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Hunting Permit and information can be found on Recreation.gov searching for Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway Hunting Permit.
Facilities
The 60 "Class A" campsites provide concrete pads, picnic tables, grills, lantern posts, fire rings, electrical and water connections, and plenty of shade.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby Aliceville, Alabama has amenities such as grocery and hardware stores, restaurants, and pharmacies. Aliceville also has the Aliceville Museum and Cultural Arts Center.
What the agency tells you
LOCAL CAMPING POLICIES A limit of 8 people per site. The America The Beautiful Senior and Access cards are accepted at this campground for discount camping. When making a reservation only one card can be used on one reservation. If multiple reservations are made with one card one reservation will receive the discount and the others will have to pay the full price upon check-in. A camping extension is no more than 14 additional camping days beyond a camper’s initial 14 day camping limit. For each camping extension granted, a camping party cannot exceed 14 days per extension and can only pay for 14 days at a time. Peak Season Extension Policy: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Campgrounds. After the initial 14 day stay one extension is allowed on a non-prime site for a total of 28 days during peak season (March 1- Sept. 15). At the end of this 28 day stay the camper and equipment must move to another campground on the project but may return to the campground after 7 days. If camping on a prime site the camper must move to a non-prime site after the initial 14 day stay. Off Season Extension Policy: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Campgrounds. After the initial 14 day stay no more than one extension will be allowed on a non-prime site for a total of 28 days during the off season (Sept. 13 -Feb. 28). At the end of this 28 day stay the camper and equipment must move to another campground on the project but may return to the campground after 7 days. Length of stay on a prime site during the off season remains limited to 14 days. A camper may stay on a prime site 14 days, and move to a non-prime site for 14 days. Extensions beyond the 14 day limit will not be granted during major summer holidays. Please turn in all passes to the park attendant when leaving the campground. Only empty boat trailers are allowed to be parked on grass.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 60
- Hookups
- 52 electric, 52 water
- Paved pads
- 49 of 60
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
68 of 102 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:41 UTC
recreation.gov lists 52 of the 60 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $32–$34 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:41 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
60 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 52 mapped sitesAll 60 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. 52 of the 60 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Cochrane | Site 1 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 47 ft | 605 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 10 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 77 ft | 361 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 11 | type not stated | 366 ft | ||||
| Cochrane | Site 12 | type not stated | 204 ft | ||||
| Cochrane | Site 13 | standard electric | 68 ft | 153 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 14 | standard electric | 61 ft | 112 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 15 | standard electric | 61 ft | 93 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 16 | standard electric | 137 ft | under 10 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 17 | standard electric | 38 ft | 53 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 18 | standard electric | 38 ft | 77 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 19 | standard electric | yes | 15 ft | 77 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 2 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 47 ft | 615 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 20 | standard electric | 15 ft | 62 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 21 | standard electric | 35 ft | 127 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 22 | standard electric | 60 ft | 99 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 23 | standard electric | 60 ft | 94 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 24 | standard electric | 129 ft | 103 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 25 | type not stated | 114 ft | ||||
| Cochrane | Site 26 | standard electric | 128 ft | 100 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 27 | type not stated | 63 ftTombigbee River | ||||
| Cochrane | Site 28 | type not stated | 114 ftTombigbee River | ||||
| Cochrane | Site 29 | standard electric | 73 ft | 103 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 3 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 73 ft | 516 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 30 | standard electric | 71 ft | 114 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 31 | standard electric | 71 ft | 135 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 32 | standard electric | 55 ft | 129 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 33 | standard electric | 55 ft | 133 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 34 | standard electric | 30 amp | 102 ft | 122 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 35 | standard electric | 51 ft | 160 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 36 | type not stated | 110 ftTombigbee River | ||||
| Cochrane | Site 37 | standard electric | 57 ft | 106 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 38 | standard electric | 57 ft | 116 ftLower Cedar Creek | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 39 | standard electric | 55 ft | 120 ftLower Cedar Creek | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 4 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 73 ft | 467 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 40 | standard electric | 55 ft | 126 ftLower Cedar Creek | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 41 | standard electric | 30 amp | 116 ft | 189 ftLower Cedar Creek | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 42 | standard electric | 54 ft | 243 ftLower Cedar Creek | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 43 | standard electric | 54 ft | 297 ftLower Cedar Creek | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 44 | standard electric | 65 ft | 212 ftLower Cedar Creek | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 45 | standard electric | 65 ft | 190 ftLower Cedar Creek | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 46 | standard electric | 70 ft | 186 ftLower Cedar Creek | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 47 | standard electric | 70 ft | 189 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 48 | standard electric | 51 ft | 194 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 49 | standard electric | 62 ft | 215 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 5 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 93 ft | 385 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 50 | standard electric | 113 ft | 158 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 51 | standard electric | 73 ft | 207 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 52 | standard electric | 73 ft | 176 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 53 | standard electric | 87 ft | 142 ftTombigbee River | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 54 | standard electric | 35 ft | 148 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 55 | standard electric | 58 ft | 146 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 56 | standard electric | yes | 57 ft | 126 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 57 | standard electric | 139 ft | 229 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 58 | standard electric | 164 ft | 320 ft | $32–$34 | ||
| Cochrane | Site 59 | type not stated | 400 ft | ||||
| Cochrane | Site 6 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 79 ft | 326 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 60 | type not stated | 392 ft | ||||
| Cochrane | Site 7 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 79 ft | 319 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 8 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 65 ft | 336 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Cochrane | Site 9 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 65 ft | 342 ft | $32–$34 |
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.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Memphis, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Cochrane Campground 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 →