Glass Bridge Park
This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Glass Bridge Park, managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, offers boat launching facilities year-round. There are also numerous picnic sites and good access for bank fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Glass Bridge Group Shelter is located near the shoreline of West Point Lake with easy access for bank fishing and a boat ramp for access to the lake.
Facilities
Glass Bridge offers three tables, grill and restrooms.
Natural Features
Glass Bridge Group Shelter is located on the shoreline of West Point Lake which extends 35 miles along the Chattahoochee River on the Alabama-Georgia state line and has 525 miles of shoreline. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (706) 645-2937.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations must be made 14 days prior to the reservation date in order to receive a refund. No refunds will be issued after the date of the reservation. Reservations will not be refunded due to weather related issues.
What the agency tells you
Shelter rentals that are for activities such as weddings, fishing tournaments, races or anticipate a large number of people in attendance, might require a Special Event Permit. Please contact the West Point Project Management office at 706.645.2937 to inquire if a special permit will be required in addition to the shelter reservation.
Parking is first come first serve.
Please assist us in making your visit safe and enjoyable. The following guidelines are intended to ensure orderly park operation, visitor safety and protection of public property: • Vehicles should only be parked in designated parking spaces. • Golf carts and off-road vehicles including UTV, ATV and dirt bikes are prohibited. • Please keep the area clean. Trash cans are conveniently located around the shelter. • Commercial activities are prohibited. Fees may not be collected. • Roadways shall be kept clear and the normal flow of traffic should not be impeded. Objects such as grills, trailers, inflatable toys and other recreation items will not be placed in the roadways. • Pets should be kept on a leash under six feet in length. Pets are not allowed on the beaches. • Please do not feed the wildlife. • Excessive noise that unreasonably disturbs others is prohibited. • Please wear your life jacket when engaging in water related activities. • Reservations will not be refunded due to weather related issues.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:36 UTC
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
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.
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 · 11
What you actually pay
“Cancellations must be made 14 days prior to the reservation date in order to receive a refund. No refunds will be issued after the date of the reservation. Reservations will not be refunded due to weather related issues.” · this campground’s own terms
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 15:36 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
| A | Glass Bridge | day use | 172 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t 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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Earl Cook Recreation Area1.0 mi
Holiday (Georgia)1.7 mi
Whitetail Ridge1.9 mi
Horace King Park2.0 mi
Long Cane Recreation Area2.5 mi
Rocky Point Recreation Area2.6 miFrom LaGrange, turn onto US-29 heading West for approximately 4.5 miles, watch for park sign, turn right onto Glass Bridge Road, drive approximately 3.5 miles, then you arrive to the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for LaGrange, GA
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 32°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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Glass Bridge Park is in Georgia’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Brian Jack (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyBrian JackU.S. Representative · Georgia’s 3rd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJon OssoffU.S. Senator · Georgia
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRaphael G. WarnockU.S. Senator · Georgia
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Glass Bridge Park has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Brian Jack, I’m a constituent in Georgia’s 3rd district. Glass Bridge Park, Georgia carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Glass Bridge Park (Georgia) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Glass Bridge Park has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Jon Ossoff, I’m a constituent in Georgia. Glass Bridge Park, Georgia carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Glass Bridge Park (Georgia) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Glass Bridge Park has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Raphael G. Warnock, I’m a constituent in Georgia. Glass Bridge Park, Georgia carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Glass Bridge Park (Georgia) via campanac.com