Elm Bluff Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:29 UTC
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Elm Bluff Campround is very rustic. Water is available but no power. It is located on a beautiful stretch of the Alabama River. Cell service is limited. Please make reservations in advance.
What the agency tells you
Please make your reservations in advance. The honor box will no longer be available for payment.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Elm Bluff Campround is very rustic. Water is available but no power. It is located on a beautiful stretch…”
- Cell signal
- Little or none
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Army Corps says
- Spotty
20 of 22 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:29 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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.
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 make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $14 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.
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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:29 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sites11 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 11 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 11 of the 11 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.
| Elm Bluff | Site 1 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
| Elm Bluff | Site 10 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
| Elm Bluff | Site 11 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
| Elm Bluff | Site 2 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
| Elm Bluff | Site 3 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
| Elm Bluff | Site 4 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
| Elm Bluff | Site 5 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
| Elm Bluff | Site 6 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
| Elm Bluff | Site 7 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
| Elm Bluff | Site 8 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
| Elm Bluff | Site 9 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | $14 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Boykin, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Who answers for this land
Elm Bluff Campground is in Alabama’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Terri Sewell (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…on a beautiful stretch of the Alabama River. Cell service is limited. Please make reservations in advance.”