National Park Service · Gateway National Recreation Area · NY

Fort Wadsworth Campsite

5Heads uppark alerts
Information
Ryan Visitor Center Phone Line Out of Service The Floyd Bennett Field Ryan Visitor Center phone line (718-338-3799) is out of service. For information on ranger programs in the Jamaica Bay Unit, call the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center at 718-318-4340. For questions about…
Park Closure
Dead Horse Bay (Brooklyn) Remains Closed to the Public The entire southern area of Dead Horse Bay, including Glass Bottle Beach, is closed to the public. Dead Horse Bay is located in Brooklyn, NYC.
Park Closure
Jacob Riis Park Access Restrictions Due to extremely hazardous conditions Gateway National Recreation Area has restricted access to sections of Jacob Riis Park. Erosion has created unsafe conditions from Bays 1-5, and portions of the eastern beach are closed.
Information
Dogs Not allowed on ocean beaches in Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook March 15- Sept. 15 Dogs are not allowed on ocean beaches at Sandy Hook between March 15 through September 15. Dogs are not allowed on the ocean beaches at Jacob Riis Park, Fort Tilden, Breezy Point Tip and at the bayside of Breezy Point between March 15…
Park Closure
Spring Creek (Queens) Closed to the Public Spring Creek is closed to the public at this time. The NPS is conducting field investigations as part of a Remedial Investigation at the site. Spring Creek is located in Queens, NYC.
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 17. Season not published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$30From, per site
Sites
7All of them booked ahead
Drawn from the record · 20 ft · 0% tree cover · water within reach · Bortle 8 sky
20 ftElevation
3,255 ftWater · an unnamed pondEstuary · 346 ft · to Raritan Bay
In townNew York, NY
0%Tree cover
Bortle 8Night sky · 10th darkest of 11 in NY

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

The Fort Wadsworth Campground is currently closed.

Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets - seasonal
Drinking water
Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records

Around the campground

Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 15 km away
Patchy color
Source: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (15 km) · Oct 9, 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.

recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$68DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itNational Park ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 11

What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
A night, from$30
Fort Wadsworth Camping Fees$30
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 night, fromDerived$38
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($30), 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
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today54°Partly Sunny8% rain
Tonight39°Mostly Clear
Sunday56°Sunny
Sunday Night43°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for New York, NY

Typical weather

Typical October night 51°F, day 65°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°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: NY AVE V BROOKLYN, NY (USC00305796), 4 miles away and at about the same elevation

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Nicole Malliotakis, official portrait

Fort Wadsworth Campsite is in New York’s 11th congressional district. Its representative, Nicole Malliotakis (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: National Park Service 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.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (15 km) · Oct 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Park Service’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.