Fort Hamby Park
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:36 UTC
- A night
- $30When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 33In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fort Hamby Park is located on the north side of W. Kerr Scott Reservoir in western North Carolina. Constructed in the beautiful Yadkin River Valley, the lake offers extensive opportunities for outdoor recreational activities. Keep reading
Recreation
The 1,475-acre reservoir offers excellent boating, canoeing, kayaking and swimming opportunities. Anglers will find channel catfish, large and smallmouth bass, bluegill, threadfin shad, spotted bass, striped bass, and hybrid striped bass. Miles of multi-trails, that allow hiking and mountain biking, surround the lake, including the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail. An additional 25 miles of trails can be found at the Warrior Creek and Dark Mountain areas.
Facilities
The campground offers a thick canopy of forest on one side and the scenic lake shore on the other. There are 32 campsites available, all with electric hookups, and one large group site that can accommodate up to 100 guests. Modern amenities like flush toilets, drinking water and showers create a comfortable camping experience, while a playground, sandy beach, basketball court and horseshoe pit provide additional recreation opportunities.
Natural Features
The gentle Yadkin River flows through its scenic namesake valley in the foothills of the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains. Forests of mixed hardwoods, including sycamore, poplar, oak and hickory, cover the region. Wildlife is abundant in the valley. White-tailed deer, black bear, eastern cottontails and more can be found among the hills. Birds in the area include wild turkey, woodpeckers, Carolina chickadees, red-eyed vireo, ovenbirds, mallards and wood ducks.
What the agency tells you
For Campground side only: Check out time is 12pm. Check in time 3pm or after. If no attendant is in the gatehouse, Guests will self-check in using the gate code emailed to them at the point the reservation is made. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LAST SELECTED DATE ON CALENDAR IS YOUR DEPARTURE DATE!
ATTENTION: Gatehouse will not make changes to your reservation. All reservations, changes, and cancellations must be made by the guest using Recreation.gov, by calling 877-444-6777, or using the Recreation.gov moblie app. The gate code will be delivered to the email address associated with the reservation. Highly recommend downloading the recreation.gov moblie app from the recreation.gov website prior to arriving at the campground.
Frequently asked Rules and Regulations: Maximun stay is 14 days within any 30 day period. Changing names on a reservation, changing campsites, or making multiple reservations in order to stay over 14 days is prohibitied. Golden Age/Access and America the Beautiful Interagency Senior and Access Passes are accepted at this campground. Cardholders receive a 50% discount on camping fees. Cardholder must be present at of check in, show pass and ID, and camp during the entire stay. Alcoholic beverages and off-road (golf carts, 4-wheelers, etc.) are prohibited. Camping is permitted in designated campsites only, and only permitted to those who have a reservation. Most campsites have a gravel bases: bring padding for tents. All equipment much be placed within site perimeter. Quiet hours are from 10pm. to 6am. Generators and music must be cut off at 10pm. Campers/Customers should not have packages delivered to the Park. For a full list of rules and regulations, please visit Title 36 .
Everything else this campground posts · 1
For Day Use Side of Park to include Shelters Reservations: The shelter reservation fee does include the $7 day use fee if the car is parked at the shelter parking area. All vehicles not associated with a shelter reservation will pay the day use at the kiosk. This fee is to be paid at the kiosk at the entrance to day use area (near gatehouse). The receipt from the kiosk is to be placed on the dash of the car as proof of payment. The playground and volleyball court are not included in your reservation. Those areas area available to all day users. Park only in designated areas. Parking at the shelter is not guaranteed. Carpooling is highly recommended.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 33 · 1 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- 32 electric, 32 water
- Longest rig
- 143 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 33
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…up to 100 guests. Modern amenities like flush toilets, drinking water and showers create a comfortable…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Modern amenities like flush toilets, drinking water and showers create a comfortable camping experience, while a playground, sandy beach, basketball court and horseshoe pit provide additional recreation opportunities.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Modern amenities like flush toilets, drinking water and showers create a comfortable camping…”
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Archery
- Disc Golf
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Night sky · 67th darkest of 84 in NC
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:36 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Fort Hamby Park closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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- Briar Bottom Group CampgroundPisgah National Forest · 59 mi · 6 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 16:36 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
36 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 36 mapped sitesAll 36 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 32 of the 36 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FORT HAMBY | 01 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 848 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 02 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 884 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 03 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 780 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 04 | standard electric | 83 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 687 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 05 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 543 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 06 | standard electric | 78 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 586 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 07 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 633 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 08 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 620 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 09 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 695 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 10 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 748 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 11 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | yes | 67 ft | 760 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 |
| FORT HAMBY | 12 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 167 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 13 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 192 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 14 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 152 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 15 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 237 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 16 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 115 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 17 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 141 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 18 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 95 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 19 | standard electric | 74 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 128 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 20 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 460 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 21 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 468 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 22 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 430 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 23 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 398 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 24 | standard electric | 129 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 411 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 25 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 357 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 26 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 327 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 27 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 261 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 28 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 109 ft | 240 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 29 | standard electric | 81 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 506 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 30 | standard electric | 143 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 517 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 31 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 562 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY | 32 | standard electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 616 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $30 | |
| FORT HAMBY PARK | Ann Picnic Shelter | day use | 20 amp | 198 ft | 272 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $50 | ||
| FORT HAMBY PARK | Laura Shelter | day use | 20 amp | 327 ft | 321 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $50 | ||
| FORT HAMBY PARK | Tom Picnic Shelter | day use | 20 amp | 198 ft | 273 ftW Kerr Scott Reservoir | $50 | ||
| RDGA | RD | group tent only area nonelectric | 202 ft | 727 ft |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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 36 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Bandits Roost1.3 mi
Warrior Creek2.1 mi
W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room2.5 mi
Fish Dam Creek Park2.6 mi
Basin Cove Backcountry CampingBlue Ridge Parkway · 19 miBoone Fork CampgroundPisgah National Forest · 21 miFrom Winston-Salem, North Carolina, take Highway 421 North (approximately 61 miles) and turn left onto S. Recreation Road. Continue for approximately 1.5 miles. Campground entrance is located at the end of the road.
From Charlotte, North Carolina, take I-77 North (approximately 60 miles) before merging onto Highway 421 North towards Wilkesboro/Boone, continue to S. Recreation Road (approximately 28 miles), turn left onto S. Recreation Road and go approximately 1.5 miles. Campground entrance is located at the end of the road.
Travel times from: Winston Salem: 1 hour Charlotte: 1.5 hours
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wilkesboro, NC
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 72°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
Fort Hamby Park is in North Carolina’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Virginia Foxx (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →