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U.S. Forest Service · Allegheny National Forest · PA

Dewdrop

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 22 opens May 22.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
A night: $20–$24Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 8071 on recreation.gov

Photos · ASM

50 ftLongest rig

1,430 ftElevation

507 ftWater · Allegheny Reservoir

7.9 miE of Warren, PA

82%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices

In the agency’s own words

Dewdrop Campground sits on the Kinzua Arm of the Allegheny Reservoir in northwest Pennsylvania, offering a popular getaway for boaters and families. Keep reading

Recreation

Water activities abound, including lake fishing, boating, and water skiing. A boat launch is available for convenient lake access for campers only. A 2.5 mile trail winds around the campground. Dewdrop is located on the Longhouse Scenic Drive, a winding loop around the Kinzua Arm of the reservoir that includes PA-59, PA-321, and Forest Road 262 (Longhouse Scenic Byway).

Facilities

This large campground offers 74 reservable family campsites that include a picnic table, fire ring and tent pad. Flush toilets, drinking water and a dump station are provided. Amenities such as firewood, ice, interpretive services and 24-hour campground attendants are offered at the site.

Natural Features

The Allegheny National Forest covers nearly half a million acres and is populated primarily with black cherry, maple and other hardwoods. The Kinzua Dam, built in 1965, impounds the Allegheny River to form the 25-mile-long Allegheny Reservoir. Dewdrop clings to the hillside above the water, providing a multi-level tiered campground. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (814) 362-4613.

Nearby Attractions

The Kinzua Dam is a short drive to the west on PA-59. The Jakes Rocks Epic Mountain Bike Trail system connects to Dewdrop Campground and consists of trail loops built specifically for mountain biking on the mountain behind the campground. Hikers are also welcome on the trail but remember to keep an eye out for and give way to mountain bike riders. Kinzua Point Information Center is staffed by volunteers on most summer weekends and offers great views up the Allegheny Reservoir.

Charges & Cancellations

Cancellations or changes must be made through Recreation.gov

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

There is no beach available

Rule

Check out time is 12:00 pm. Check in time is 2pm. Camping fees must be paid after 30 minutes of arrival -if it is after hours please use the self pay station, don't forget to put your site number and license plate number on your fee envelope.

Rule

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 dontmovefirewood.org for more information.

Everything else this campground posts · 4

Rule

Interagency passes are accepted at most sites and are valid for the pass holder and any accompanying passengers in a private vehicle. Pass holder must occupy the site.

Rule

Please place trash in provided receptacles. Do not burn trash or waste food in the fire ring. This invites wild animals into the campground.

Rule

Please build fires only in the fire ring or grill provided. Dead and down material can be used for fires but live trees, shrubs, and plants must not be cut or damaged.

Rule

Pets must be on a leash at all times and cannot be left unattended. Please clean-up after your pets.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 80 · 10 tent-only
Hookups: None
Longest rig: 50 ft
Accessible sites: 10
Pets: Allowed at 77 of 78 sites
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…a picnic table, fire ring and tent pad. Flush toilets, drinking water and a dump station are provided.…”
Drinking water: Yes; “…fire ring and tent pad. Flush toilets, drinking water and a dump station are provided. Amenities such as…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Firewood: Mentioned
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Reservoir, Lake, River; Boating; Fishing; Mountain biking; Swimming; Water sports
Night sky · 21st darkest of 48 in PA: Bortle 4
Fall color · reported 8 days ago, in Warren County: Near peak

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 8, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 71 of the 80 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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 22, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 22, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record

A night$20–$24plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$48–$56DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night, per site$20–$24

Standard Non Electric$20

Premium Site$24

Premium Site- walk to$24

Group area, a night$40

These are next season’s rates, May 22, 2027 to Sep 24, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$28–$32

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$48–$56

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$24 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

“Cancellations or changes must be made through Recreation.gov” · this campground’s own 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 · 6

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

80 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 62 mapped sites

109 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop WTRB 065 249 ftLoop WTRB 031 187 ftLoop BNON 074 185 ftLoop BNON 060 183 ftLoop DEWD 002 178 ft

Least roomLoop WTRA 015 49 ftLoop WTRA 017 49 ftLoop BNON 040 52 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 80 sites

67 of 80 sites located

Standard54Tent only8Type not stated5

026 027 029 030 032 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 046 047 048 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 069 070 071 073 074 001 002 004 005 006 007 008 011 016 019 021 022 023 024 025 014 034 4 01 010 012 013 015 017 018 020 031 033 065 067 068

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 67 of the 80 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 80 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.


BNON	026	standard nonelectric	40 ft		143 ft	369 ft	388 ft	$20–$24
BNON	027	standard nonelectric	35 ft	yes	89 ft	385 ft	206 ft	$20–$24
BNON	029	standard nonelectric	45 ft		89 ft	303 ft	125 ft	$20–$24
BNON	030	standard nonelectric	25 ft		172 ft	252 ft	253 ft	$20–$24
BNON	032	standard nonelectric	45 ft		143 ft	283 ft	110 ft	$20–$24
BNON	034	type not stated						$35
BNON	035	standard nonelectric	45 ft		71 ft	317 ft	258 ft	$20–$24
BNON	036	standard nonelectric	35 ft	yes	90 ft	467 ft	169 ft	$20–$24
BNON	037	standard nonelectric	25 ft		108 ft	342 ft	290 ft	$20–$24
BNON	038	standard nonelectric	30 ft		107 ft	453 ft	298 ft	$20–$24
BNON	039	standard nonelectric	20 ft		108 ft	381 ft	398 ft	$20–$24
BNON	040	standard nonelectric	30 ft		53 ft	516 ft	404 ft	$20–$24
BNON	041	standard nonelectric	35 ft		141 ft	460 ft	587 ft	$20–$24
BNON	042	standard nonelectric	40 ft	yes	53 ft	567 ft	449 ft	$20–$24
BNON	043	standard nonelectric	35 ft		141 ft	549 ft	658 ft	$20–$24
BNON	044	standard nonelectric	30 ft		77 ft	644 ft	509 ft	$20–$24
BNON	045	standard nonelectric						$20–$24
BNON	046	standard nonelectric	30 ft		56 ft	706 ft	415 ft	$20–$24
BNON	047	standard nonelectric	50 ft	yes	141 ft	590 ft	371 ft	$20–$24
BNON	048	standard nonelectric	30 ft	yes	94 ft	581 ft	373 ft	$20–$24
BNON	049	standard nonelectric						$20–$24
BNON	050	standard nonelectric						$20–$24
BNON	051	standard nonelectric	30 ft		90 ft	437 ft	249 ft	$20–$24
BNON	052	standard nonelectric	35 ft		110 ft	366 ft	298 ft	$20–$24
BNON	053	standard nonelectric	40 ft		71 ft	347 ft	288 ft	$20–$24
BNON	054	standard nonelectric	20 ft	yes	93 ft	390 ft	140 ft	$20–$24
BNON	055	standard nonelectric	30 ft	yes	110 ft	461 ft	274 ft	$20–$24
BNON	056	standard nonelectric	30 ft		93 ft	479 ft	233 ft	$20–$24
BNON	057	standard nonelectric	45 ft	yes	92 ft	528 ft	402 ft	$20–$24
BNON	058	standard nonelectric	30 ft	yes	92 ft	618 ft	466 ft	$20–$24
BNON	059	standard nonelectric	35 ft		56 ft	753 ft	468 ft	$20–$24
BNON	060	standard nonelectric	35 ft		183 ft	803 ft	588 ft	$20–$24
BNON	061	standard nonelectric	40 ft		118 ft	611 ft	366 ft	$20–$24
BNON	062	standard nonelectric	35 ft		173 ft	736 ft	481 ft	$20–$24
BNON	063	standard nonelectric	25 ft		115 ft	566 ft	311 ft	$20–$24
BNON	069	tent only nonelectric			138 ft	93 ft	280 ft	$24
BNON	070	tent only nonelectric			82 ft	178 ft	253 ft	$24
BNON	071	tent only nonelectric			82 ft	109 ft	294 ft	$24
BNON	073	tent only nonelectric			129 ft	113 ft	282 ft	$24
BNON	074	tent only nonelectric			186 ft	37 ft	484 ft	$24
BNON	075	type not stated						$35
DEWD	001	type not stated	45 ft			565 ft	155 ft	$35
DEWD	002	standard nonelectric	45 ft		179 ft	390 ftDewdrop Run	414 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	003	type not stated						$35
DEWD	004	standard nonelectric	20 ft		119 ft	214 ftDewdrop Run	448 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	005	standard nonelectric	20 ft		110 ft	204 ftDewdrop Run	564 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	006	standard nonelectric	20 ft		110 ft	117 ftDewdrop Run	630 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	007	standard nonelectric	30 ft		119 ft	256 ftDewdrop Run	340 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	008	standard nonelectric	20 ft		138 ft	125 ftDewdrop Run	420 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	009	standard nonelectric						$20–$24
DEWD	011	standard nonelectric	45 ft		169 ft	303 ft	166 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	014	type not stated						$35
DEWD	016	standard nonelectric	35 ft		95 ft	225 ft	344 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	019	standard nonelectric	35 ft	yes	95 ft	227 ft	412 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	021	standard nonelectric	25 ft		108 ft	319 ft	494 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	022	standard nonelectric	35 ft		59 ft	192 ft	506 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	023	standard nonelectric	30 ft		59 ft	244 ft	472 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	024	standard nonelectric	45 ft		71 ft	386 ft	401 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	025	standard nonelectric	45 ft		71 ft	435 ft	341 ft	$20–$24
DEWD	028	standard nonelectric						$20–$24
MANAGEMENT SITES	014	type not stated				298 ft	271 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	034	type not stated				203 ft	212 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	4	type not stated	35 ft			235 ftDewdrop Run	415 ft	$35
PV	01	type not stated				491 ft	793 ft	$35
S&P	S&P Premium walk To/Tent Only	standard nonelectric						$20–$24
S&P	S&P Standard Nonelectric	standard nonelectric						$20–$24
WTRA	010	standard nonelectric	40 ft		134 ft	113 ftDewdrop Run	413 ft	$20–$24
WTRA	012	standard nonelectric	20 ft		134 ft	133 ft	319 ft	$20–$24
WTRA	013	standard nonelectric	30 ft		63 ft	187 ft	252 ft	$20–$24
WTRA	015	standard nonelectric	30 ft		48 ft	185 ft	271 ft	$20–$24
WTRA	017	standard nonelectric	45 ft		48 ft	186 ft	289 ft	$20–$24
WTRA	018	standard nonelectric	30 ft		123 ft	162 ft	534 ft	$20–$24
WTRA	020	standard nonelectric	45 ft		118 ft	169 ft	621 ft	$20–$24
WTRB	031	standard nonelectric	35 ft		187 ft	99 ft	159 ft	$20–$24
WTRB	033	standard nonelectric	20 ft		129 ft	182 ft	301 ft	$20–$24
WTRB	065	tent only nonelectric			249 ft	113 ft	671 ft	$24
WTRB	066	tent only nonelectric						$24
WTRB	067	tent only nonelectric			164 ft	137 ft	458 ft	$24
WTRB	068	tent only nonelectric			142 ft	103 ft	304 ft	$24
WTRB	072	tent only nonelectric						$24

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 80 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate41.83194, -78.95944

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone814-368-4158

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Morrison Boat Access CampgroundAllegheny National Forest · 1.8 mi

Pine Grove Boat Access CampgroundAllegheny National Forest · 3.0 mi

KiasuthaAllegheny National Forest · 4.4 mi

Red Bridge (PA)Allegheny National Forest · 5.4 mi

Hopewell Boat Access CampgroundAllegheny National Recreation Area · 5.7 mi

Handsome Lake Boat Access CampgroundAllegheny National Recreation Area · 6.4 mi

Getting there

From Warren, Pennsylvania, take PA-59 east for 13 miles. Turn onto Longhouse Scenic Byway/Forest Road 262 south and continue 3 miles to the campground. From the east, take PA-59. Just after crossing the Morrison Bridge over the Kinzua Arm of the reservoir, turn left and proceed 3 miles to the campground.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today67°Showers And Thunderstorms99% rain

Tonight32°Rain Showers Likely66% rain

Saturday46°Mostly Sunny6% rain

Saturday Night28°Widespread Frost

NWS forecast for Clarendon, PA

Source: National Weather Service, CTP forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 41°F, day 61°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical February night 18°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: WARREN, PA (USC00369298), 10 miles away and 220 ft lower

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

developing

Allegheny National Forestdrilling

Roadless

Verbeck Island14 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

Tracy Ridge9,034 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

Cornplanter2,929 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 28, 2026

Who answers for this land

Dewdrop is in Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district. Its representative, Glenn Thompson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 71 of the 80 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 67 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.32 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 48 rated federal campgrounds in Pennsylvania · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 8, 2026

Reported by: Pennsylvania DCNR, reported near peak · Oct 8, 2026

Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Clarendon, PA, 7.4 mi ENE. Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026