U.S. Forest Service · Green Mountain National Forest · VT

Greendale Campground

ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 15. 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
$10From, per site
Sites
11All of them booked ahead
1,710 ftElevation
172 ftWater · Greendale Brook
11.8 miNW of Chester, VT
78%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 5th darkest of 13 in VT

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices

In the agency’s own words

Greendale Campground is a small remote campground located along Greendale Brook in Weston, VT. There are 11 campsites available in a wooded setting. Each site has a picnic table, a fire ring with a grill, and a parking spur. Most sites can accommodate small campers as well as tents. There is also a vault toilet. The campground offers easy access to the Greendale Loop , a 4.0 mile hike through a mixed forest of northern hardwood and conifer trees with long stretches bordering scenic streams. This loop includes approximately 2 miles of walking along town maintained roads open to vehicular traffic. This site is not maintained for winter use. Deep snow often covers amenities at this site December – mid April. The nearest plowed parking area to the campground in the winter is approximately one mile away and access is via skis or snowshoes. Keep reading

Recreation

Hiking, biking, fishing, camping, and snowshoeing and nordic skiing.

Facilities

2 Vault toilets and 11 campsites.

Natural Features

The Greendale brook runs along the campground and provides opportunities for recreation.

What the agency tells you

Rule

There are no electricity/water/sewer hookups at this campground. Pets must be kept on a leash within the campground.

Tents and rigs

Sites
11
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…as well as tents. There is also a vault toilet. The campground offers easy access to the Greendale…”

Around the campground

On the water
Creek
Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 16 km away
Peak color
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (16 km) · Oct 7, 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.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 15, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$10plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$28DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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Every line of the receipt · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night$10
Single Site$10
Rates for the season the campground is in now, May 15, 2026 to Oct 12, 2026.
Camping fee of $10.00 per site, per night is payable at the camping self-service fee station and is collected mid-May through October .
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 nightDerived$18
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$28

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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.

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

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

11 sites

All 11 sites

Up to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Greendale01standard nonelectric$10
Greendale02standard nonelectric$10
Greendale03standard nonelectric$10
Greendale04standard nonelectric$10
Greendale05standard nonelectric$10
Greendale06standard nonelectric$10
Greendale07standard nonelectric$10
Greendale08standard nonelectric$10
Greendale09standard nonelectric$10
Greendale10standard nonelectric$10
Greendale11standard nonelectric$10

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today62°Rain Showers99% rain
Tonight31°Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy79% rain
Saturday36°Mostly Sunny5% rain
Saturday Night24°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Weston, VT

Typical weather

Typical October night 34°F, day 59°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 8°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°0°

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: CAVENDISH, VT (USC00431243), 11 miles away and 868 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Roadless
Devil's Den 090839,169 acres · 1 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Griffith Lake 090841,833 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Wilder Mountain 090828,759 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 28, 2026

Who answers for this land

Becca Balint, official portrait

Greendale Campground is in Vermont’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Becca Balint (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest 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: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (16 km) · Oct 7, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest 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.
Nearest place of any size: Weston, VT, 4 mi NNW (a census designated place). Straight line.