Fox Creek Horse Camp
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $5From, per site
- Sites
- 223 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fox Creek Horse Camp is a premiere destination for riding enthusiasts who are looking for the rare opportunity to ride from their campsite onto hundreds of miles of trails in the spectacular Mount Rogers National Recreation Area. Located at almost 4,000 feet, it serves as a welcome retreat for summer camping and horseback riding. Keep reading
Recreation
While hiking and horseback riding are the primary attractions near the campground, there are also ample native trout streams, the Mount Rogers Scenic Byway, local festivals and music, the Appalachian Trail and the Virginia Creeper National Recreation Trail.
Facilities
This campground offers the basic amenities including pit toilets, garbage and manure collection, and visitor information.
Natural Features
The campground is adjacent to Fox Creek, a small rocky trout stream with large boulders and rhododendron and northern hardwoods along the banks. The campsites are located in open fields on either side of the creek.
Nearby Attractions
The Mount Rogers High country offers opportunities for day trips and overnight pack trips. This open setting offers expansive views, summer rhododendron flowering, blueberry picking, and spectacular fall colors. The Mount Rogers National Recreation Headquarters is located about 20 minutes from the campground and offers maps, directions, and a variety of bookstore items.
What the agency tells you
Caution: Bears frequent the area; keep a clean camp (including dog food and horse feed), store all foods items in closed containers.
Check-in is at 2pm and check-out is at 12pm.
A per day, per vehicle fee will be collected onsite for any extra vehicles.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Wilderness Areas have group size limits of 10 people.
Campers are required to deposit manure and hay in centralized bin.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
No Cell phone coverage or pay phone available.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22 · 21 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…offers the basic amenities including pit toilets, garbage and manure collection, and visitor…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fishing
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 21st darkest of 88 in VA
- Bortle 4
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:47 UTC
recreation.gov lists 3 of the 22 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $5 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 16:47 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites · the site map
All 22 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. 21 of the 22 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Equestrian | Equestrian Non Electric | equestrian nonelectric | 50 ft | $5 | |
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 01 | equestrian nonelectric | 50 ft | 128 ft | $5 |
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 02 | equestrian nonelectric | 50 ft | 116 ft | $5 |
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 03 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 04 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 05 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 06 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 07 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 08 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 09 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 10 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 11 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 12 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 13 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 14 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 15 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 16 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 17 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 18 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 19 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | 20 | equestrian nonelectric | $5 | ||
| FOX CREEK HORSE CAMP | EQUESTRIAN NONELECTRIC | type not stated | 35 ft |
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 agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Old Virginia Group Horse CampMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 0.9 mi
Hurricane CampgroundMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 1.9 mi
GrindstoneMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 2.2 mi
Raccoon Branch CampgroundMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 5.6 mi
BeartreeMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 8.0 miBeartree Recreation AreaMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 10 miFrom exit 45 on I-81, take State Route 16 South for approximately 17 miles to State Route 603 at Troutdale, Va. Turn right on State Route 603. Campground is approximately 4 miles down 603 on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Troutdale, VA
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Fox Creek Horse Camp is in Virginia’s 9th congressional district. Its representative, H. Morgan Griffith (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →