Day Run Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- Season
- April 1Opens April 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Located just off the Highland Scenic Highway this small developed campground is a perfect getaway for fisherman and hikers. Many of the 12 camping sites boarder the upper scenic Williams River and the campground is within walking distance of many popular trails. Each site is equipped with a wooden picnic table, lantern post, and fire ring. Several campsites also have a tent pad, although all sites are suitable for tent or trailer camping.
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 12 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Highland Scenic HighwayMonongahela National Forest · 6.4 miPocahontas CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 9.9 mi
Cranberry Glades Botanical AreaCranberry Glades National Natural Landmark · 10 miTea Creek CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 12 mi
Blowing SpringsGeorge Washington National Forest · 15 mi
Lake Sherwood Recreation Area and CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 15 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Marlinton, WV
Typical weather
Typical April night 33°F, day 60°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Day Run Campground is in West Virginia’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Carol Miller (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →