ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 14 opens May 14.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$35–$50Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
168159 on recreation.gov
68 ftLongest rig
710 ftElevation
73 ftWater · East Lynn Lake
10.6 miSE of Wayne, WV
33%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices

In the agency’s own words

East Fork Campground is located on the shores of East Lynn Lake on the East Fork of Twelvepole Creek, near East Lynn, WV. Visitors come to East Fork for camping, boating, water-skiing, fishing, hiking, hunting and picnicking. Keep reading

Recreation

East Lynn Lake stretches 12 miles up Twelvepole and offers 44 miles of shoreline. It provides many recreational activities, including boating, water skiing, canoeing and swimming. Anglers fish for largemouth, smallmouth, and striped bass, black crappie, red-breast sunfish, walleye, channel catfish and muskellunge. 29 species of fish have been found in the lake. Several miles of hiking trails thread through the wooded hills on the lakeshore, including the 1.5-mile East Fork Trail, which begins within the campground. Other trails in the area include the Damsite Trail, Overlook Trail and Lakeside Trail.

Facilities

The campground offers 167 sites with electrical and/or water hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, and a dump station. A boat ramp, amphitheater, playground, and basketball and volleyball courts are on-site.

Natural Features

The lake is situated among rolling hills forested with a mix of upland hardwood trees. A variety of wildlife makes its home around East Lynn Lake, including black bears, white-tailed deer, grouse, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, turkeys and waterfowl.

Nearby Attractions

The East Lynn Lake Wildlife Management Area is nearby with 25,000 acres of public lands open to hunting, fishing and hiking.

What the agency tells you

Rule

No pets allowed in the swimming area

Rule

Please contact the campground for information on power driven mobility aids.

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.

Tents and rigs

Sites
168 · 1 tent-only
Hookups
159 electric, 151 water
Longest rig
68 ft
Paved pads
163 of 168
Accessible sites
6
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
151 of 152 sites
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Pit Toilets
“…hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, and a dump station. A…”
Showers
Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
“Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, and a dump station.”
Drinking water
Yes
“…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, and a dump station. A boat ramp, amphitheater,…”
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
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek, Beach
Amphitheater
Biking
Boating
Canoeing
Fishing
Hiking
Hunting
Ranger programs
Kayaking
Swimming
Water access
Night sky · 61st darkest of 69 in WV
Bortle 4
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 159 of the 168 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 14, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 14, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
A night$35–$50plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$78–$108DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked 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.

We’ll write once, when the season that starts Fri, May 14 2027 is open for booking.

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 · 17

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night, per site$35–$50
Standard Electric$35
Standard Electric$35
Standard Electric$35
Tent Only Electric$35
Waterfront$50
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Sep 8, 2026 to Oct 11, 2026.
Camping rates in 2025: Regular campsites: $35 Waterfront campsites$50
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$43–$58
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$78–$108

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $35–$50 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

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 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

168 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 158 mapped sites
56 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Least roomLoop 6 135 30 ftLoop 6 137 30 ftLoop 6 131 30 ft

All 168 sites

165 of 168 sites located
Tent only1RV / electric157Type not stated7
SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 159 of the 168 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.

1001standard electric61 ft30 amp98 ft207 ft$35–$50
1002standard electric55 ft30 amp63 ft134 ft$35–$50
1003standard electric55 ft30 amp86 ft112 ft$35–$50
1004standard electric53 ft30 amp52 ft46 ft$35–$50
1005standard electric55 ft30 amp52 ft24 ft$35–$50
1006standard electric53 ft30 amp60 ft29 ft$35–$50
1007standard electric54 ft30 amp68 ft37 ft$35–$50
1008standard electric50 ft30 amp60 ft26 ft$35–$50
1009standard electric55 ft30 amp56 ft91 ft$35–$50
1010standard electric64 ft30 amp60 ft49 ft$35–$50
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1014standard electric57 ft30 amp61 ft53 ft$35–$50
1015standard electric61 ft30 amp70 ft94 ft$35–$50
1016standard electric67 ft30 amp69 ft180 ft$35–$50
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1018standard electric52 ft30 amp64 ft262 ft$35–$50
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1021standard electric59 ft30 amp$35–$50
1022type not stated57 ft30 amp264 ft
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2043type not stated48 ft30 amp108 ft
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3055standard electric41 ft30 amp52 ft88 ft$35–$50
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3067standard electric45 ft30 amp73 ft121 ft$35–$50
3068standard electric45 ft50 amp57 ft25 ft$35–$50
3069type not stated48 ft50 ampyes
3070standard electric65 ft50 amp57 ft34 ft$35–$50
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3076standard electric48 ft50 amp67 ft15 ft$35–$50
3077standard electric56 ft30 amp65 ft118 ft$35–$50
3078standard electric48 ft50 amp67 ftunder 10 ft$35–$50
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3080standard electric48 ft50 amp74 ft14 ft$35–$50
3081standard electric48 ft50 amp53 ft115 ft$35–$50
3082standard electric48 ft50 amp76 ftunder 10 ft$35–$50
3083standard electric40 ft30 amp60 ft94 ft$35–$50
3084standard electric40 ft50 amp58 ftunder 10 ft$35–$50
3085standard electric48 ft30 amp56 ft107 ft$35–$50
3086standard electric48 ft50 amp58 ftunder 10 ft$35–$50
3087standard electric48 ft30 amp56 ft97 ft$35–$50
3088standard electric48 ft50 amp89 ftunder 10 ft$35–$50
3089standard electric22 ft30 amp52 ft72 ft$35–$50
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4102standard electric52 ft50 amp47 ft41 ft$35–$50
4103type not stated45 ft50 ampyes131 ft
4104standard electric52 ft50 amp47 ft25 ft$35–$50
4105standard electric42 ft30 amp50 ft108 ft$35–$50
4106standard electric42 ft50 amp53 ft17 ft$35–$50
4107standard electric42 ft50 amp50 ft104 ft$35–$50
4108standard electric36 ft50 amp56 ft18 ft$35–$50
4109standard electric42 ft50 amp56 ft13 ft$35–$50
4110standard electric42 ft50 amp72 ftunder 10 ft$35–$50
4111standard electric50 ft50 amp132 ft11 ft$35–$50
5112standard electric45 ft50 amp63 ft79 ft$35–$50
5113standard electric22 ft50 amp53 ft168 ft$35–$50
5114standard electric50 ft50 amp58 ft53 ft$35–$50
5115standard electric22 ft50 amp45 ft145 ft$35–$50
5116standard electric45 ft50 amp57 ft30 ft$35–$50
5117standard electric22 ft50 amp45 ft131 ft$35–$50
5118standard electric42 ft50 amp57 ft19 ft$35–$50
5119standard electric27 ft50 ampyes53 ft108 ft$35–$50
5120standard electric45 ft50 amp57 ftunder 10 ft$35–$50
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5122standard electric45 ft50 amp57 ftunder 10 ft$35–$50
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6138standard electric21 ft50 amp54 ft136 ft$35–$50
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6140standard electric21 ft50 amp65 ft199 ft$35–$50
6141standard electric36 ft50 amp41 ft372 ft$35–$50
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6143standard electric21 ft50 amp44 ft367 ft$35–$50
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6145standard electric49 ft50 amp62 ft491 ft$35–$50
6146standard electric49 ft50 amp44 ft563 ft$35–$50
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6154standard electric61 ft50 amp55 ft403 ft$35–$50
6155type not stated61 ft50 amp354 ft
6156standard electric40 ft50 amp42 ft406 ft$35–$50
6157standard electric58 ft50 ampyes41 ft359 ft$35–$50
JRAN025type not stated42 ft30 amp
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JRAN027standard electric30 ft30 amp137 ft343 ft$35–$50
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JRAN029type not stated40 ft30 amp452 ft
L1158standard electric42 ft30 amp60 ft72 ft$35–$50
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L1160standard electric52 ft30 amp53 ft34 ft$35–$50
L1161standard electric54 ft30 amp50 ft34 ft$35–$50
L1162standard electric27 ft30 amp69 ft103 ft$35–$50
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L1164standard electric41 ft30 amp57 ft95 ft$35–$50
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L1166standard electric45 ft30 amp57 ft90 ft$35–$50
L1167standard electric35 ft30 amp50 ft18 ft$35–$50
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L1169standard electric32 ft30 amp54 ft13 ft$35–$50
L1170tent only electric36 ft20 amp54 ft65 ft$35

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 168 listed

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Coordinate38.09317, -82.31901
The phone304-849-5000 / 304-849-2355
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today54°Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny31% rain
Tonight28°Clear then Widespread Frost
Sunday62°Widespread Frost then Sunny
Sunday Night37°Clear

NWS forecast for Harts, WV

Typical weather

Typical October night 45°F, day 66°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°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: DUNLOW 1 SW, WV (USC00462522), 11 miles away and 403 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Carol Miller, official portrait

East Fork (WV) 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

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.
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.
Nearest place of any size: Harts, WV, 9.4 mi WNW (a census designated place). Straight line.