Dale Hollow Damsite
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 9 of the next 9 nights read 15:59 UTC
- A night
- $32From, per site
- Sites
- 7977 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dale Hollow Damsite is a quiet, peaceful campground in the green hills of Tennessee. The campground is a popular area for families, with an abundance of amenities and recreational activities available. In the late fall through early spring the American Bald Eagle can be spotted flying overhead or perched on low-lying limbs. Dale Hollow hosts the second-largest wintering eagle population in the states of Tennessee and Kentucky. Keep reading
Recreation
Dale Hollow is renowned for its fishing opportunities. In addition to yielding the world record smallmouth bass and being known as a trophy smallmouth lake, the Obey River below Dale Hollow Dam is also known for excellent rainbow and brown trout fishing. Boating and water skiing are also popular activities, and with 27,700 surface acres of water and 620 miles of shoreline, there is plenty of space for campers to explore the lake. Secluded tie-ups are located around the shore, offering campers a peaceful nature experience. A one-mile paved walking and biking trail winds through forest, along streamside and past a rolling meadow. The Red Oak Ridge Trail is about nine miles away and hosts 18 miles of trails, mainly developed for horseback riding, but the area is available to hikers as well. The Accordian Bluff Hiking Trail is a 7.5 mile one-way trail which ascends to a ridge-top and back down to the shoreline of Dale Hollow Lake. It is an ideal trail for birders and wildflower enthusiasts and connects both Lillydale and Willow Grove Campgrounds. Trail access is located approximately 30 miles from Dale Hollow Dam Campground.
Facilities
Dale Hollow Damsite Campground features 72 single party campsites, three group camping (double party) sites and one large group picnic shelter. Electric hookups, drinking water, flush toilets and a dump station all create a comfortable camping experience. There is no direct access to Dale Hollow Lake from the campground, but visitors can launch at the nearby Pleasant Grove Day Use Area, an easy 3 mile drive from the campground. Camping is limited to a 14-day stay within a 30-consecutive day period. Site Type Definitions: An RV Site is a paved/concrete site for wheeled camping units such as motorhome, fifth wheel, pull trailer and pop-up campers. RV sites are not suitable for tents. A Standard Site is one with a fine gravel surface pad. It will accommodate wheeled units and tents. A Tent Site will accommodate tents only. Group Standard Electric are group camping sites (19 & 40, 21 & 39, 22 & 38). One fee for both sites. ATB pass discounts do not apply. View cancellation policies as group site refund policies differ from standard sites. Group Shelter Electric is the picnic shelter. For site specifics such as site measurements, parking and if the site is level, be sure to review the Information text at the bottom of each specific site page. All camping equipment and vehicles are to be located on the designated site pad or parking areas. General Site Notes: 50 Amp Service and Water Hookups on all sites EXCEPT site 37 Site 37 does NOT have water/electric hookups Paved Sites: 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 34, 38, 39, 40, 69 & 70 Accessible Sites: 60, 61 & 62 Group camping sites: 19 & 40, 21 & 39, 22 & 38; ATB pass discounts do not apply Visitors to Campers will be charged a per vehicle per day fee Fees and site conditions are subject to change A Wi-Fi hub is provided in the vicinity of the registration center providing customers the opportunity to make calls, check weather, stay up-to-date on email, and use their mobile device for making future reservations or current reservation adjustments when the registration center is closed.
Natural Features
Dale Hollow Dam and Lake was completed in 1943. Although the dam was built for flood control and power generation, it has now become a recreational oasis for more than 3 million visitors each year. The dam is located on the Obey River, about 3 miles east of Celina, Tennessee. Surrounded by a thick expanse of forest, the clear blue lake creates a stunning scenic backdrop for a variety of water and land recreational activities.
Nearby Attractions
The Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery sits adjacent to the campground. Operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the hatchery is the largest federal trout hatchery east of the Mississippi, producing 1.5 million trout annually. The hatchery is open to visitors daily.
Charges & Cancellations
Full rules and reservation policies for fees associated with changes and cancellations can be found at https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies There is no fee to make a reservation. A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refund for a cancellation. A $10 service fee may be charged to changes made to an existing reservation (see full policies for when this is applicable). Day of arrival cancellations or adjustments must be made by calling the park. A customer who cancels a standard campsite reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Customers who cancel a group overnight campsite reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee. Customers who cancel a group day-use facility reservation (picnic shelter) less than 14 days before the arrival date will forfeit the total day-use fee. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night’s recreation fee for a campsite or forfeit the entire day-use fee for a day-use facility. Applicable fees, including service/cancellation fees and change fees, are non-refundable and subject to change. No refunds for recreation use fees may be made at the campground. Early departures must depart and drop their tag before the checkout time in order to receive a refund for the unused day. Two-night weekend and three night holiday weekend minimum reservation requirement not subject to early departure refunds.
What the agency tells you
We look forward to your visit. Please ensure your camping party and visiting guests either receive a copy of the confirmation or are advised of our policies.
Firewood Policy – Campers may only burn certified heat treated firewood, commercial fire logs, kiln-dried, unpainted, unstained lumber that is free of any metal or foreign substance, or dead and downed branches in the area adjacent to the campsite. View the Nashville District Firewood Policy STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails; follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats, and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Title 36 Rules and Regulations are enforced at Dale Hollow Lake. For more information visit US Army Corps of Engineers Rules and Regulations for Water Resources Projects
Everything else this campground posts · 12
Alcohol is not permitted.
Only licensed vehicles are permitted. Each campsite is provided for two pre-paid vehicle entry. Additional vehicles, or visitors to campers are charged a fee per day per vehicle at $5.
All equipment and vehicles must be located on the designated site pad. Camping is limited to a 14-day stay within a 30-consecutive day period.
Gates are closed from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. Plan your arrival accordingly. Register at the campground office prior to occupying your site. When arriving during office closed hours, follow the instructions posted in the window. Return the next day to register and check-in. Late arrivals should call the park at 931-243-3554.
Holders of the American the Beautiful Senior or Access Pass must present the discount pass and one form of photo identification upon arrival. If the proper documentation is not provided, the full recreation use fee must be paid to use the facility. If a customer makes more than one reservation for the same location and date(s), the discount will only apply to the site the pass owner occupies. The pass owner must be present the duration of the camping stay in order for the full discount to be applied.
Domestic pets (dogs/cats only) are permitted and must be leashed, controlled and attended at all times with proper removal and disposal of any waste produced by the pet.
Check-in is 3 pm; check-out is 2 pm Central Standard time.
Dale Hollow Damsite Campground is located in a low lying area. During periods of excessive or heavy rain some sites or the surrounding area may pond with standing water.
Quiet hours are from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. No generators shall operate during quiet hours. The operation of any sound producing or motorized equipment, including but not limited to generators, vessels or vehicles, in such a manner as to unreasonably annoy, disrupt or endanger persons at any time is prohibited.
Recreation.gov Rules and Reservation Policies are followed at this park. These policies can be reviewed here . Two-night weekend and three-night holiday weekend minimum reservation requirement not subject to cancellation or early departure refunds.
If you need assistance during your stay, call 931-243-3554. Our contact information is located under the Contact section of this website or on park bulletin boards.
Black bears have been seen in the area. Stay alert and be prepared to react appropriately during possible encounters. Properly store food, trash and pet food. Learn more at https://bearwise.org/
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 79 · 3 group
- Hookups
- 75 electric, 78 water
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Paved pads
- 16 of 79
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 55 of 71 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 1 of 80 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 1 of 80 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 1 of 80 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach, Meadow
- Biking
- Fish Hatchery
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 20th darkest of 95 in TN
- Bortle 4
Full this Saturdayread 15:59 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
1 campground has sites open within 30 miles, read 15:59 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 64 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 38 are free on Mon, Oct 19. read 15:59 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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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.
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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 · 18
What you actually pay
“Additional vehicles, or visitors to campers are charged a fee per day per vehicle at $5.” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $32 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.
“Full rules and reservation policies for fees associated with changes and cancellations can be found at https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies - There is no fee to make a reservation. - A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refund for a cancellation. - A $10 service fee may be charged to changes…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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 · 7
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 1
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 15:59 UTC
- Obey River ParkDale Hollow Lake · 16 mi · 42 of 244 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 15:59 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
80 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 77 mapped sitesAll 80 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 76 of the 80 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.
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 01 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 312 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 02 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 311 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 03 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 398 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 04 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 297 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 05 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 382 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 06 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 283 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 07 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 348 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 08 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 272 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 09 | standard electric | 92 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 176 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 10 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 236 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 11 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 255 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 12 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 280 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 13 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 304 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 14 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 231 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 15 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 306 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 16 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 105 ft | 253 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 17 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 264 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 18 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 226 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 19 & 40 | group standard electric | 99 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 272 ft | $46 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 20 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 225 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 21 & 39 | group standard electric | 99 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 240 ft | $46 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 22 & 38 | group standard electric | 99 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 203 ft | $46 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 23 | standard electric | 84 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 252 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 24 | rv electric | 98 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 182 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 25 | rv electric | 81 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 168 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 26 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 41 ft | 255 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 27 | rv electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 174 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 28 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 250 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 29 | rv electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 194 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 30 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 257 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 31 | rv electric | 76 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 220 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 32 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 285 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 33 | rv electric | 99 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 212 ftDry Branch | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 34 | rv electric | 92 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 252 ftDry Branch | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 35 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 142 ftDry Branch | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 36 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 174 ftDry Branch | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 37 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 98 ft | 97 ft | $32 | ||
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 38 | type not stated | 50 amp | 155 ft | ||||
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 39 | type not stated | 50 amp | 183 ft | ||||
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 40 | type not stated | 50 amp | 195 ft | ||||
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 41 | standard electric | 76 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 161 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 42 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 158 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 43 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 78 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 44 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 157 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 45 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 75 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 46 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 151 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 47 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 72 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 48 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 85 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 49 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 100 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 50 | standard electric | 99 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 200 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 51 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 108 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 52 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 187 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 53 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 119 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 54 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 109 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 55 | standard electric | 84 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 197 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 56 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 98 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 57 | standard electric | 78 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 197 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 58 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 109 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 59 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 90 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 60 | standard electric | 81 ft | 50 amp | yes | 53 ft | 121 ft | $32 |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 61 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 72 ft | 192 ft | $32 |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 62 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 87 ft | 246 ft | $32 |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 63 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 361 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 64 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 247 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 65 | standard electric | 29 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 281 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 66 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 256 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 67 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 41 ft | 296 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 68 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 313 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 69 | rv electric | 88 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 246 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 70 | rv electric | 86 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 296 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 71 | rv electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 117 ft | 250 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 72 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 211 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 73 | standard electric | 29 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 196 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 74 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 118 ft | 170 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 75 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 114 ft | 115 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 76 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 117 ft | 120 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 77 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 123 ft | 163 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 78 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 185 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite | 79 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 207 ft | $32 | |
| Dale Hollow Damsite Day Use | L1-Picnic Shelter | day use | 30 amp | yes | 406 ft | 268 ft | $75 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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 80 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pleasant Grove Recreation Area0.9 mi
Dale Hollow Lake - Primitive Camping2.3 mi
Willow Grove Campground7.2 mi
Lillydale Campground and Day Use9.7 mi
Roaring River Park15 mi
Obey River Park16 miFrom Celina, Tennessee, take Highway 53 North for 2 miles. Turn right on Dale Hollow Dam Road, then take the second right on Campground Road. Follow signs to Dale Hollow Dam Recreation Area.
It is recommended that visitors do not rely soley on GPS or Mapquest to reach the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Celina, TN
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°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
Dale Hollow Damsite is in Tennessee’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, John Rose (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
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.
- The member who votes the moneyJohn W. RoseU.S. Representative · Tennessee’s 6th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationBill HagertyU.S. Senator · Tennessee
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMarsha BlackburnU.S. Senator · Tennessee
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 Dale Hollow Damsite, Tennessee
Dear John W. Rose, I’m a constituent in Tennessee’s 6th district. I tried to camp at Dale Hollow Damsite, Tennessee, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 77 of the 79 campsites the agency files at Dale Hollow Damsite, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 64 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Dale Hollow Damsite keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Dale Hollow Damsite. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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 Dale Hollow Damsite (Tennessee) 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 Dale Hollow Damsite, Tennessee
Dear Bill Hagerty, I’m a constituent in Tennessee. I tried to camp at Dale Hollow Damsite, Tennessee, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 77 of the 79 campsites the agency files at Dale Hollow Damsite, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 64 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Dale Hollow Damsite keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Dale Hollow Damsite. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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 Dale Hollow Damsite (Tennessee) 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 Dale Hollow Damsite, Tennessee
Dear Marsha Blackburn, I’m a constituent in Tennessee. I tried to camp at Dale Hollow Damsite, Tennessee, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 77 of the 79 campsites the agency files at Dale Hollow Damsite, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 64 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Dale Hollow Damsite keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Dale Hollow Damsite. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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 Dale Hollow Damsite (Tennessee) via campanac.com