Goose Point
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 14 nights read 16:15 UTC
- A night
- $26–$68Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6362 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Goose Point Campground is nestled on the shores of Philpott Lake in the rugged foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. The clear water and natural shoreline make Philpott Lake a unique place for visitors. Philpott Lake Virtual Tour: https://corpslakes.erdc.dren.mil/visitors/virtual/philpott/tour.html Recreation The lake provides visitors with great boating and swimming opportunities. Anglers enjoy fishing for large and smallmouth bass, walleye, bluegill, crappie and catfish. Many miles of hiking and biking trails surround Philpott Lake, allowing visitors to get out and explore this scenic area. Keep reading
Facilities
The campground has spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It offers 63 campsites, 53 of which have electric and water hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and a dump station. For family-friendly entertainment, a beach, boat ramp, dock, fishing pier, picnic shelter, playground and amphitheater are also on-site. During non-peak season (November-March), the campground and bathhouses are closed. The boat ramp is open and there is a vault toilet. No drinking water is available.
Natural Features
Philpott Lake covers 2,900 acres and has 100 miles of shoreline. The lake's steep, rocky banks meet beautiful mixed forests of oak, maple, hickory, pine and cedar. Wildlife is abundant throughout the area: Deer, turkeys, squirrels, raccoons, and a variety of songbirds and waterfowl are commonly viewed. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (276) 344-8878.
Nearby Attractions
The lake is adjacent to Fairystone State Park and Fairystone Farms Wildlife Management Area, which includes 5,300 acres of public recreational lands.
What the agency tells you
Access road and park roads are hilly, winding and narrow and may be difficult for larger RVs to navigate.
Two vehicles are allowed per campsite.
A fee of $7/day will be charged for extra vehicles at the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Park gates closed 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Alcohol is prohibited.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 63
- Hookups
- 52 electric, 53 water
- Longest rig
- 82 ft
- Paved pads
- 4 of 63
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…and water hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and a dump station. For… / …The boat ramp is open and there is a vault toilet. No drinking water is available. Natural Features…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and a dump station.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 67th darkest of 88 in VA
- Bortle 4
4 of 122 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:15 UTC
recreation.gov lists 62 of the 63 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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.
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What you actually pay
“A fee of $7/day will be charged for extra vehicles at the campground.” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $26–$68 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:15 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
63 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 62 mapped sitesAll 63 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. 62 of the 63 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LOOA | 45 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 432 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 46 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 477 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 47 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 381 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 48 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 472 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 49 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 417 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 50 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 427 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 51 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 476 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 52 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 451 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 53 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 398 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 54 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 379 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 55 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 362 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 56 | type not stated | 35 ft | 50 amp | 425 ft | |||
| LOOA | 57 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 504 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 58 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 496 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 59 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 39 ft | 551 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 60 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 562 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 61 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 39 ft | 589 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 62 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 607 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOA | 63 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 592 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOB | 35 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 106 ft | 164 ft | $26 | ||
| LOOB | 36 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 104 ft | 181 ft | $26 | ||
| LOOB | 37 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 121 ft | 140 ft | $26 | ||
| LOOB | 38 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 93 ft | 209 ft | $26 | ||
| LOOB | 39 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 93 ft | 182 ft | $26 | ||
| LOOB | 40 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 114 ft | 295 ft | $26 | ||
| LOOB | 41 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 97 ft | 299 ft | $26 | ||
| LOOB | 42 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 100 ft | 328 ft | $26 | ||
| LOOB | 43 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 98 ft | 338 ft | $26 | ||
| LOOB | 44 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 98 ft | 247 ft | $26 | ||
| LOOC | 01 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 18 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 02 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 10 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 03 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 33 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 04 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 11 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 05 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 117 ft | 14 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 06 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 61 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 07 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 59 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 08 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 52 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 09 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 53 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 10 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 44 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 11 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 80 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 12 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 186 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 13 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 77 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 14 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 158 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 15 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 78 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 65 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 17 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 98 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 18 | standard electric | 82 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 68 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 19 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 143 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 20 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 82 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 21 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 166 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 22 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 112 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 23 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 172 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 24 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 144 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 25 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 117 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 26 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | yes | 81 ft | 206 ft | $34–$68 |
| LOOC | 27 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 104 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 28 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 179 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 29 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 122 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 30 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 136 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 31 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | yes | 72 ft | 246 ft | $34–$68 |
| LOOC | 32 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 231 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 33 | standard electric | 27 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 198 ft | $34–$68 | |
| LOOC | 34 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 154 ft | $34–$68 |
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 63 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Deer Island1.0 mi
Salthouse Branch1.2 mi
Horseshoe Point2.0 mi
Philpott Park2.2 mi
Rock Castle Gorge Backcountry CampingBlue Ridge Parkway · 16 mi
Rocky Knob CampgroundBlue Ridge Parkway · 16 miFrom HWY 220, take the Bassett, VA exit onto HWY 57 West. Go approximately 10 miles to Goose Point Road. Look for brown Goose Point Park sign, turn right, then go 5 miles on a paved road to the park entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bassett, VA
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°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
Goose Point 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 →