ReservableOut of season; the next season isn't published.
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Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Sites
111All of them booked ahead
75 ftLongest rig
1,110 ftElevation
258 ftWater · Lake Sidney Lanier
2.2 miW of Gainesville, GA
66%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices

In the agency’s own words

Duckett Mill Campground is located on Lake Sidney Lanier. With over 692 miles of shoreline, the lake is well known for its aqua-blue water, spectacular scenery and variety of recreational activities. The lake has over 11 million visitors annually. Constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s, Lake Lanier is a multi-purpose lake that provides for flood protection, power production, water supply, navigation, recreation and fish and wildlife management. Keep reading

Recreation

Duckett Mill Campground offers many outdoor recreation opportunities including fishing, swimming and bike riding. On the lake there are opportunities for wake boarding, kayaking, boating and much more. There's also a swimming beach and a boat ramp (located just outside the campground) avaliable for campers.

Facilities

The campground boasts 97 sites with water and electric hookup plus 14 tent-only sites. Restrooms/showerhouses, laundry facilities and a playground are among the amenities here.

Natural Features

Lake Lanier's expansive 38,000 surface water acres touches five counties in northern Georgia. The lake, surrounded by rolling farmland, is just 1 hour from Atlanta.

Nearby Attractions

Head to Don Carter State Park for birding and hiking opportunities, or climb Sawnee Mountain at the Sawnee Mountain Preserve for breathtaking views of the area. The nearby cities of Dawsonville, Dalonega and Gainesville provide a wide variety of leisure activities. Contact Info This location is staffed. Please call (770) 532-9802 to speak with local staff.

Charges & Cancellations

Cancellations must be made via the online/phone reservation system or in person at the gatehouse. Cancellation calls to the gatehouse will not be honored.

What the agency tells you

Rule

Alcoholic beverages are prohibited

Rule

Check-in is 3:00 p.m., and check out is by 12:00 p.m.

Rule

Due to COVID-19, camper registration will take place through the gatehouse window. Upon arrival to the campground, please have your ID, license plate number, camping unit’s license plate number, site number, and discount pass (if applicable) ready to give the Park Attendant. Please approach the gatehouse slowly and bring your vehicle close to the window. At no point should you park and walk to the gatehouse window. Do not attempt to enter the gatehouse.

Everything else this campground posts · 11
Rule

Gatehouse open 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Monday - Thursday. Gatehouse open 7 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday - Sunday.

Rule

Payments are not accepted at the gatehouse.

Rule

For more information on Lake Sidney Lanier, please go to: http://www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Recreation/Lake-Sidney-Lanier/

Rule

The campground does not accept mail or food deliveries for campers in the campground. Campers must coordinate to accept these items at a location outside the campground gate.

Rule

Gates lock at 10:30pm and reopen 7am.

Rule

"NO SHOWS" will be charged the full amount for their reservation.

Rule

DISCOUNT PASSES must be presented upon arrival and can only be used for ONE site where the cardholder is the REGISTERED camper. Fraudulent use of a discount pass may result in a mandatory appearance in court in accordance with Title 36 CFR 327.23 (d) RECREATION FEES. DISCOUNT PASSES must be applied at the time the reservation is made.

Rule

Gatehouse Attendants have limited or no internet access and are unable to perform actions affecting a reservation.

Rule

LENGTH OF STAY for campers is no longer than 14 days during any 30 consecutive day period for any USACE campground on Lake Lanier (Ex. Cannot stay at Bolding Mill Campground 14 days with another reservation immediately following at another USACE operated campground on Lake Lanier). Consecutive reservations under different names that exceed 14 days are not authorized and are subject to eviction and/or the issuance of a citation in accordance with Title 36 CFR 327.7 (b).

Rule

Commercial operations are prohibited in USACE operated campgrounds. Rental campers must be operated and set up by the registered camper.

Rule

Day using is prohibited. Registered campers must occupy their site overnight.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
111 · 14 tent-only
Hookups
97 electric, 97 water
Longest rig
75 ft
Paved pads
97 of 111
Accessible sites
6
Pets
Allowed
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Dump station
Yes
recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp
Yes
Playground
Yes
Stay limit
14 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Beach
Biking
Boating
Fishing
Picnicking
Swimming
Water access
Night sky · 90th darkest of 96 in GA
Bortle 5
Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 33 km away
Patchy color
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (33 km) · Oct 13, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

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. The last reservable season the agency published ended September 10, 2023, and it hasn't published the next one.recreation.gov
Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 10

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Reservations can be made online at recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777.
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
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
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 must be made via the online/phone reservation system or in person at the gatehouse. Cancellation calls to the gatehouse will not be honored.” · 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 · 5

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

111 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 109 mapped sites
91 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Least roomLoop DMIL 036 42 ftLoop DMIL 037 42 ftLoop DMIL 038 45 ft

All 111 sites

109 of 111 sites located
Tent only14RV / electric95
SleepsTakes a

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 109 of the 111 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

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.

DMIL001standard electric35 ft50 amp97 ft88 ft279 ft
DMIL002standard electric30 ft50 amp77 ft97 ft354 ft
DMIL003standard electric35 ft50 amp77 ft75 ft424 ft
DMIL004standard electric45 ft50 amp148 ft59 ft553 ft
DMIL005standard electric40 ft50 amp84 ft107 ft668 ft
DMIL006standard electric40 ft50 amp84 ft82 ft702 ft
DMIL007standard electric30 ft50 amp94 ft52 ft706 ft
DMIL008standard electric35 ft50 amp99 ft94 ft649 ft
DMIL009standard electric30 ft50 amp140 ft72 ft855 ft
DMIL010standard electric40 ft50 amp118 ft106 ft970 ft
DMIL011standard electric30 ft50 amp118 ft65 ft1,088 ft
DMIL012standard electric30 ft50 amp123 ft112 ft980 ft
DMIL013standard electric30 ft50 amp108 ft65 ft860 ft
DMIL014standard electric30 ft50 amp108 ft77 ft791 ft
DMIL015standard electric40 ft50 amp96 ft46 ft728 ft
DMIL016standard electric40 ft50 amp94 ft45 ft732 ft
DMIL017standard electric40 ft50 amp91 ft56 ft784 ft
DMIL018standard electric50 ft50 amp91 ft71 ft832 ft
DMIL019standard electric55 ft50 amp69 ft120 ft735 ft
DMIL020standard electric50 ft50 amp61 ft58 ft784 ft
DMIL021standard electric60 ft50 amp61 ft24 ft823 ft
DMIL022standard electric30 ft50 amp64 ft19 ft669 ft
DMIL023standard electric30 ft50 amp64 ft32 ft621 ft
DMIL024standard electric30 ft50 amp75 ft66 ft553 ft
DMIL025standard electric30 ft50 amp95 ft73 ft460 ft
DMIL026standard electric30 ft50 amp101 ft99 ft376 ft
DMIL027standard electric35 ft50 amp101 ft112 ft314 ft
DMIL028standard electric30 ft50 amp148 ft117 ft241 ft
DMIL029standard electric30 ft50 ampyes
DMIL030standard electric50 ft50 amp249 ft48 ft141 ft
DMIL031tent only nonelectric59 ft91 ft379 ft
DMIL032tent only nonelectric60 ft72 ft372 ft
DMIL033tent only nonelectric51 ft59 ft392 ft
DMIL034tent only nonelectric46 ft49 ft421 ft
DMIL035tent only nonelectric47 ft48 ft450 ft
DMIL036tent only nonelectric42 ft56 ft490 ft
DMIL037tent only nonelectric42 ft27 ft526 ft
DMIL038tent only nonelectric45 ft27 ft494 ft
DMIL039tent only nonelectric46 ft35 ft461 ft
DMIL040tent only nonelectric51 ft33 ft440 ft
DMIL041tent only nonelectric59 ft32 ft435 ft
DMIL042standard electric35 ft50 amp142 ft96 ft1,046 ft
DMIL043standard electric40 ft50 amp113 ft112 ft1,182 ft
DMIL044standard electric35 ft50 amp113 ft90 ft1,257 ft
DMIL045standard electric45 ft50 ampyes108 ft131 ft1,422 ft
DMIL046standard electric35 ft50 amp107 ft90 ft1,517 ft
DMIL047standard electric35 ft50 amp107 ft61 ft1,620 ft
DMIL048standard electric30 ft50 amp111 ft63 ft1,718 ft
DMIL049standard electric30 ft50 amp98 ft62 ft1,767 ft
DMIL050standard electric30 ft50 amp98 ft47 ft1,708 ft
DMIL051standard electric35 ft50 amp103 ft50 ft1,553 ft
DMIL052standard electric40 ft50 amp88 ft56 ft1,451 ft
DMIL053standard electric60 ft50 amp88 ft48 ft1,363 ft
DMIL054tent only nonelectric63 ft20 ft569 ft
DMIL055tent only nonelectric86 ft49 ft569 ft
DMIL056tent only nonelectric63 ft78 ft510 ft
DMIL057standard electric30 ft50 amp91 ft30 ft378 ft
DMIL058standard electric35 ft50 amp85 ftunder 10 ft470 ft
DMIL059standard electric35 ft50 amp85 ftunder 10 ft553 ft
DMIL060standard electric50 ft50 ampyes90 ft16 ft601 ft
DMIL061standard electric40 ft50 amp119 ft10 ft700 ft
DMIL062standard electric30 ft50 ampyes120 ft14 ft748 ft
DMIL063standard electric60 ft50 amp90 ft174 ft535 ft
DMIL064standard electric35 ft50 amp90 ft144 ft621 ft
DMIL065standard electric30 ft50 amp101 ft136 ft721 ft
DMIL066standard electric50 ft50 amp114 ft158 ft833 ft
DMIL067standard electric40 ft50 amp123 ft119 ft955 ft
DMIL068standard electric50 ft50 ampyes108 ft92 ft1,107 ft
DMIL069standard electric50 ft50 amp108 ft73 ft1,198 ft
DMIL070standard electric45 ft50 amp102 ft51 ft1,212 ft
DMIL071standard electric30 ft50 amp79 ft29 ft1,136 ft
DMIL072standard electric35 ft50 amp69 ft32 ft1,108 ft
DMIL073standard electric35 ft50 amp69 ft56 ft1,120 ft
DMIL074standard electric35 ft50 amp71 ft54 ft1,183 ft
DMIL075standard electric30 ft50 amp95 ft85 ft1,267 ft
DMIL076standard electric45 ft50 amp95 ft68 ft1,264 ft
DMIL077standard electric35 ft50 amp136 ft62 ft1,360 ft
DMIL078standard electric30 ft50 amp111 ft81 ft1,493 ft
DMIL079standard electric45 ft50 amp83 ft15 ft1,604 ft
DMIL080standard electric60 ft50 amp83 ft13 ft1,610 ft
DMIL081standard electric60 ft50 amp116 ft24 ft1,606 ft
DMIL082standard electric40 ft50 amp116 ft42 ft1,533 ft
DMIL083standard electric70 ft50 amp90 ft73 ft1,339 ft
DMIL084standard electric70 ft50 amp81 ft138 ft1,252 ft
DMIL085standard electric75 ft50 amp81 ft138 ft1,189 ft
DMIL086standard electric35 ft50 amp85 ft128 ft1,136 ft
DMIL087standard electric35 ft50 amp129 ft111 ft898 ft
DMIL088standard electric45 ft50 amp85 ft85 ft824 ft
DMIL089standard electric70 ft50 amp85 ft133 ft764 ft
DMIL090standard electric40 ft50 amp103 ft114 ft661 ft
DMIL091standard electric30 ft50 amp103 ft152 ft349 ft
DMIL092standard electric55 ft50 amp103 ft101 ft288 ft
DMIL093standard electric45 ft50 amp103 ftunder 10 ft362 ft
DMIL094standard electric55 ft50 ampyes
DMIL095standard electric45 ft50 amp83 ft17 ft698 ft
DMIL096standard electric45 ft50 amp82 ft41 ft775 ft
DMIL097standard electric30 ft50 amp78 ft73 ft855 ft
DMIL098standard electric70 ft50 amp78 ft66 ft918 ft
DMIL099standard electric45 ft50 amp90 ft89 ft936 ft
DMIL100standard electric35 ft50 amp90 ft83 ft909 ft
DMIL101standard electric45 ft50 amp98 ft80 ft743 ft
DMIL102standard electric40 ft50 amp98 ft94 ft645 ft
DMIL103standard electric30 ft50 amp136 ft61 ft543 ft
DMIL104standard electric45 ft50 amp123 ft86 ft411 ft
DMIL105standard electric50 ft50 amp123 ft101 ft294 ft
DMIL106standard electric45 ft50 amp82 ft187 ft793 ft
DMIL107standard electric70 ft50 amp78 ft140 ft840 ft
DMIL108standard electric30 ft50 amp78 ft73 ft905 ft
DMIL109standard electric30 ft50 amp78 ft63 ft982 ft
DMIL110standard electric45 ft50 amp83 ft55 ft1,064 ft
DMIL111standard electric35 ft50 amp116 ft163 ft1,013 ft

25 of 111 listed

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Coordinate34.30706, -83.93167
The phone770-532-9802
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Getting there

To reach this park take state route 400 north to exit 17, turn right on Georgia Highway 306, turn right on Georgia Highway 53, turn right on Duckett Mill road. Follow Duckett Mill Road into the campground.

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight52°Partly Cloudy1% rain
Saturday64°Sunny
Saturday Night45°Clear
Sunday63°Sunny

NWS forecast for Gainesville, GA

Typical weather

Typical October night 50°F, day 72°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°20°

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: GAINESVILLE, GA (USC00093621), 4 miles away and 60 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Rich McCormick, official portrait

Duckett Mill is in Georgia’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Rich McCormick (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (33 km) · Oct 13, 2026
Cell signal: the Army Corps’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.