Cranberry River Campsites
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 14All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fourteen primitive and separately numbered campsites dispersed along a 5-mile section of the lower Cranberry River. Toilets closed as of November 30. Campsites are number 6-19 along the Cranberry River between Big Rock Campground and Cranberry Campground on Forest Road 76. Double sites available at sites 7 and 12. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing in the Cranberry RIver, hiking in Cranberry Wilderness.
Facilities
Each campsite has a picnic table, fire ring, and lantern post. Vault toilets are spaced along the river corridor.
Natural Features
Campsites are located adjacent to the Cranberry River.
Nearby Attractions
Cranberry RIver and Cranberry Wilderness.
What the agency tells you
Be Bear Aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
No RV hookups are available
Limit 2 vehicles per campsite
Everything else this campground posts · 2
For more information on Monongahela National Forest, click here https://www.fs.usda.gov/mnf
Don't move firewood: To limit the spread of invasive tree-killing pests, firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Some states have quarantines and may confiscate your firewood. Please help protect our forests from invasive species by obtaining your firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Visit https://www.dontmovefirewood.org/
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 14
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table, fire ring, and lantern post. Vault toilets are spaced along the river corridor. Natural…”
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:55 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$20 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 15:55 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites
All 14 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. 14 of the 14 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Cranberry River | 10 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 11 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 12 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 13 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 14 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 15 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 16 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 17 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 18 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 19 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 6 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 7 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 8 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
| Cranberry River | 9 | standard nonelectric | $10–$20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Big RockMonongahela National Forest · 0.0 mi
Bishop KnobMonongahela National Forest · 0.0 mi
Cranberry CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 0.0 mi
Day Run CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 0.0 mi
Pocahontas CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 0.0 mi
Red Oak Fire LookoutMonongahela National Forest · 0.0 miFrom Richwood travel one mile east on State Route 39/55, then 6 1/2 miles north on Forest Road 76. Campsites are numbered 6-19 and dispersed along Forest Road 76.
The agency publishes this point for 10 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Durbin, WV
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°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
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
Cranberry River Campsites is in West Virginia’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Riley Moore (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →