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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · IL

Fishermans Corner

ReservableBookable through October 24; November 1 opens May 1.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 8 of the next 30 nights read 16:14 UTC
A night: $14–$26Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 56All of them booked ahead

Photographs of individual campsites · USACE

70 ftLongest rig

570 ftElevation

319 ftWater · Mississippi River

In townHampton, IL

23%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices

In the agency’s own words

With impressive views of the mighty Mississippi River, Fishermans Corner provides convenient RV and tent camping facilities for outdoor enthusiasts. The lush river landscape provides plenty of shade, and activities from water sports to hiking to wildlife viewing. Eagle watching is particularly popular during the winter months at Fishermans Corner. Keep reading

Recreation

Although there is no river access from within the campground, the Fishermans Corner Day Use facility is a short walk away and offers numerous fishing areas as well as a canoe ramp. Visitors can also catch a weekly educational program at the amphitheater located within the campground. The Central Trail section of the famous Mississippi River Trail passes directly in front of the campground, offering visitors miles of walking and biking trails along the river bank. The expansive Elton E. Fawks Bald Eagle Refuge and Nature Preserve and the Illiniwek Forest Preserve are also located just minutes away.

Facilities

Of the 51 reservable campsites, 46 campsites have electric hookups and 5 campsites do not have electric hookups and are for tents only. Fisherman's Corner provides the comforts of modern camping, including drinking water, a shower house, electric hook-ups, flush toilets, while still providing visitors with an authentic outdoor experience.

Natural Features

Fishermans Corner offers an excellent view of a small aquatic marsh near Locks and Dam 14, which is home to an array of wildlife species. On any given morning visitors may see turtles sunning on rocks near the river bed or countless bird species hunting the shallow waters for food. The scenery during camping season never disappoints, whether it's the vivid greenery during the spring or the breathtaking medley of colors during the fall. Contact Info For local information, please call (563) 232-9096 or call (815) 259-3628 for general information.

Nearby Attractions

The John Deere Pavilion, an interactive museum spanning almost 200 years of the famous American agricultural company's history is located a convenient 20-minutes away by car. For a more exotic experience, the Botanical Center located in Rock Island, features an array of colorful plant species located in both indoor and outdoor gardens.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Visitors are expected to be aware of Campground Rules

Rule

This campground is a Self-Service Campground. Self-Service Campgrounds allow campers to modify their own reservations on their arrival date, at no charge using the Recreation.gov website or Mobile App. So, if you want to add a night, leave early, or move to a different site, you can do it all from your smartphone!

Rule

Check-out time is 12:00 pm. Check-in time is 2:00 pm.

Everything else this campground posts · 1

Rule

Campsites are by Reservation Only. 1. Campers With a Reservation: - MUST confirm the site reserved, locate site, and start camping. - A Park Ranger or Volunteer will come to your campsite to check you in. Have your ID and ATB pass, if applicable, ready to present. 2. Campers Without a Reservation: - MUST check for campsite availability and make reservation first by: - Using your smartphone camera to scan the QR Code at campsite - or call 1-877-444-6777 - or visit www.recreation.gov

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 56 · 5 tent-only
Hookups: 51 electric
Longest rig: 70 ft
Paved pads: 51 of 56
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: 48 of 49 sites

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

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…a shower house, electric hook-ups, flush toilets, while still providing visitors with an authentic…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; Shower/Bath Type states a shower on 1 campsite record(s) that are not a cabin, of this campground's 56
Drinking water: Yes; “…comforts of modern camping, including drinking water, a shower house, electric hook-ups, flush toilets,…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Camp host: On site; recreation.gov lists “Host”
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: National Park Service and agency records

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description and counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: River; Biking; Fishing
Night sky · 30th darkest of 30 in IL: Bortle 5

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

32 of 106 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:14 UTC

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

OpenBookedClosed

Booking windowThrough October 24Bookable now through October 24, 2026, the end of the reservable season. On November 1, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 1, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$14–$26plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$36–$60DerivedFriday 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.

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 · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$14–$26

Tent Only Nonelectric$14

Standard Electric$26

Rates for the season the campground is in now, May 1, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026.

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$22–$34

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$36–$60

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$26 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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 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

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

recreation.gov availability, read 16:14 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

56 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 56 mapped sites

42 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

0%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most room023 81 ft013 74 ft012 74 ft021 70 ft014 66 ft

Least room038 28 ft039 28 ft002 30 ft

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

All 56 sites

56 of 56 sites located

Tent only5RV / electric51

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056

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 56 of the 56 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. 56 of the 56 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.


FISHERMANS CORNER	001	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	52 ft	150 ft	1,258 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	002	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	30 ft	210 ft	1,185 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	003	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	52 ft	142 ft	1,206 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	004	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	45 ft	193 ft	1,141 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	005	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/50/30 amp	33 ft	136 ft	1,136 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	006	standard electric	50 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	46 ft	181 ft	1,095 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	007	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	33 ft	115 ft	1,109 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	008	standard electric	70 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	36 ft	92 ft	1,078 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	009	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	34 ft	78 ft	1,042 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	010	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	46 ft	132 ft	970 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	011	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	34 ft	66 ft	1,008 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	012	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	74 ft	83 ft	875 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	013	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	74 ft	44 ft	934 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	014	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	66 ft	156 ft	891 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	015	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	43 ft	204 ft	954 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	016	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	43 ft	172 ft	965 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	017	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	63 ft	166 ft	1,032 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	018	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	61 ft	251 ft	1,044 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	019	standard electric	50 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	39 ft	278 ft	1,104 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	020	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	39 ft	286 ft	1,143 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	021	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	70 ft	341 ft	1,229 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	022	standard electric	35 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	46 ft	275 ft	1,190 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	023	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	81 ft	273 ft	1,290 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	024	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	30 ft	235 ft	1,205 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	025	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	54 ft	199 ft	1,244 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	026	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	42 ft	428 ft	1,599 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	027	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	41 ft	461 ft	1,633 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	028	standard electric	60 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	48 ft	413 ft	1,744 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	029	standard electric	70 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	48 ft	448 ft	1,768 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	030	standard electric	50 ft	50/20/50/30 amp	41 ft	495 ft	1,666 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	031	standard electric	50 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	43 ft	484 ft	1,701 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	032	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	39 ft	414 ft	1,787 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	033	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	39 ft	375 ft	1,822 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	034	standard electric	20 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	31 ft	327 ft	1,869 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	035	standard electric	50 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	31 ft	303 ft	1,898 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	036	standard electric	60 ft	50/20/50/30 amp	49 ft	258 ft	1,947 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	037	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	48 ft	191 ft	2,025 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	038	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	28 ft	190 ft	2,026 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	039	standard electric	35 ft	50/20/50/30 amp	28 ft	211 ft	2,007 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	040	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	39 ft	158 ft	2,070 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	041	standard electric	25 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	30 ft	232 ft	1,991 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	042	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	39 ft	196 ft	2,040 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	043	standard electric	50 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	52 ft	282 ft	1,950 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	044	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	46 ft	238 ft	2,013 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	045	standard electric	28 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	40 ft	364 ft	1,917 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	046	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	54 ft	335 ft	1,902 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	047	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	40 ft	387 ft	1,877 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	048	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	65 ft	398 ft	1,838 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	049	standard electric	35 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	33 ft	357 ft	1,819 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	050	standard electric	30 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	33 ft	343 ft	1,786 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	051	standard electric	40 ft	50/20/30/50 amp	44 ft	320 ft	1,742 ft	$26
FISHERMANS CORNER	052	tent only nonelectric			33 ft	431 ft	1,750 ft	$14
FISHERMANS CORNER	053	tent only nonelectric			33 ft	400 ft	1,782 ft	$14
FISHERMANS CORNER	054	tent only nonelectric			32 ft	362 ft	1,818 ft	$14
FISHERMANS CORNER	055	tent only nonelectric			32 ft	342 ft	1,842 ft	$14
FISHERMANS CORNER	056	tent only nonelectric			46 ft	295 ft	1,887 ft	$14

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 · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 56 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

Coordinate41.56972, -90.39000

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phoneTHOMSON RANGER OFFICE: 815-259-3628 OR FISHERMAN'S CORNER FE

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Clarks Ferry23 mi

Shady Creek27 mi

Bulger's Hollow Recreation Area27 mi

Thomson CausewayUpper Mississippi River National Wildlife And Fish Refuge · 30 mi

Blanchard Island Recreation Area38 mi

Blanding Landing49 mi

Getting there

From Interstate 80, take Exit 1 for IL State Route 84, East Moline/Savanna. Travel South on IL State Route 84 S/2nd Ave and follow for 1.5 miles to the campground. Entrance to campground will be on the right. From East Moline, travel North on IL State Route 84. Entrance to campground will be on the left.

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

Overnight34°Areas Of Frost

Saturday58°Widespread Frost then Sunny

Saturday Night40°Clear

Sunday64°Sunny

NWS forecast for Hampton, IL

Source: National Weather Service, DVN forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 44°F, day 64°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°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: LE CLAIRE L&D 14, IA (USC00134705), 0.6 miles away and at about the same elevation

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

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Fishermans Corner is in Illinois’s 17th congressional district. Its representative, Eric Sorensen (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. 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: recreation.gov is offering sites on 8 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 56 of the 56 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 14, 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 56 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: 3.2 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 30 rated federal campgrounds in Illinois · 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

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 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