Grout Pond Campground
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $16When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 18In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Grout Pond is a popular destination for camping, hiking, paddling, and fishing. Located in a beautiful mixed conifer and hardwood forest, the campground has 12 reservable sites and offers easy access to over 10 miles of mulituse trails. The Green Mountain National Forest in partnership with the Vermont Huts Association has a cabin located at the Grout Pond Campground available for reservations. The Grout Pond Hut (pictured above) is open for year-round use and is located within the semi-remote campground on the Green Mountain National Forest. Keep reading
To make reservations and learn more please visit the Grout Pond Hut website: Grout Pond Hut Recreation Grout Pond offers a variety of recreation opportunities year-round. In the warmer months, fishing and non-motorized boating is popular on the pond. A 200-foot carry-in boat launch is accessible from an unloading pull-out just before the parking lot. Please help prevent the spread of non-native invasive species, such as Eurasian watermilfoil, by cleaning and drying your boat between each use. Hiking is another popular activity at Grout Pond. Over 10 miles of relatively flat trails are accessible from the campground. These trails connect with a more extensive system off National Forest lands around Somerset Reservoir to the south. Trails that are marked with blue diamond blazes are designed for cross-country skiing and can be very wet and muddy in the spring, summer, and even fall.
Facilities
The campground offers 12 overnight sites available for reservation. Nine of these sites are tent sites accessed by hiking in from the main parking area. Hike-in distances vary from a quarter to three-quarters of a mile. Three campsites are drive-in sites that accomodate small RVs. The campground also offers two drive-in sites that are available on a first-come, first-served basis and cannot be reserved. All campsites are outfitted with fire rings and several have picnic tables. Hike-in sites have tent pads; please use the tent pads in order to minimize camping impacts. Vault toilets are located off the main parking area and near the old cabin building. Potable water is available from an old-fashioned hand pump in the day use area near the pond.
Natural Features
Grout Pond is 84 acres and 28 feet deep. The water can be chilly but refreshing on a hot summer day. The campground is located along the pond and is shaded by red maple, yellow birch and red spruce. Fall foliage viewing in the autumn months is excellent.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby attractions include hiking trails accessible from the site and paddling on the pond. The campground is also in close proximity to Appalachian/Long Trail trailheads off Kelly Stand Road and Stratton Mountain Resort and Village.
What the agency tells you
There are no electricity/water/sewer hookups at this campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18 · 8 walk-in, 2 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 14 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…in order to minimize camping impacts. Vault toilets are located off the main parking area and near the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…area and near the old cabin building. Potable water is available from an old-fashioned hand pump in the…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Paddle Boating
- Picnicking
- Night sky · 11th darkest of 13 in VT
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, in Windham County
- Peak color
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Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Grout Pond Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
recreation.gov availability, read 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
18 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 16 mapped sitesAll 18 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 16 of the 18 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 18 of the 18 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| 1 | walk to | 148 ft | 33 ft | 1,048 ft | $16 | |
| 10 | walk to | 367 ft | 20 ft | 2,714 ft | $16 | |
| 11 | walk to | 420 ft | 59 ft | 3,114 ft | $16 | |
| 12 | standard nonelectric | 221 ft | 748 ft | 256 ft | $16 | |
| 13 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 645 ft | 133 ft | $16 | |
| 14 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 744 ft | 242 ft | $16 | |
| 15 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 587 ft | 250 ft | $16 | |
| 16 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 602 ft | 279 ft | $16 | |
| 17 | standard nonelectric | 14 ft | 470 ft | 829 ft | 744 ft | $16 |
| 2 | walk to | 148 ft | 41 ft | 1,170 ft | $16 | |
| 3 | walk to | 183 ft | 199 ft | 1,346 ft | $16 | |
| 4 | walk to | 132 ft | 178 ft | 1,664 ft | $16 | |
| 5 | walk to | 132 ft | 118 ft | 1,684 ft | $16 | |
| 6 | shelter nonelectric | 194 ft | 321 ft | 1,921 ft | $16 | |
| 8 | shelter nonelectric | 194 ft | 172 ft | 2,019 ft | $16 | |
| 9 | walk to | 367 ft | 35 ft | 2,397 ft | $16 | |
| S&P Standard Nonelectric | type not stated | $16 | ||||
| S&P Walk To | type not stated | $16 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Winhall Brook Camping Area11 mi
Townshend Lake Recreation Area13 mi
Hapgood PondGreen Mountain National Forest · 15 mi
Greendale CampgroundGreen Mountain National Forest · 22 miLittle Rock Pond/Green Mountain LoopRobert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area · 25 miFrom Route 7 in Arlington, take the Arlington exit and turn west on Route 313 at the end of the exit ramp. Take the first right onto South Road and follow to the end. Turn right onto Kansas Road and follow it over Route 7 and over a two-lane bridge. After the bridge turn right and travel east on the Kelley Stand Road (Stratton-Arlington Road) for about 10.32 mils. Turn right onto Forest Road 262 and follow in to the end.
From Route 100 in West Wardsboro, travel west on the Kelley Stand Road (Stratton-Arlington Road) for about 6.0 miles. Turn left onto Forest Rooad 262 and follow it to the end.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Stratton Mountain, VT
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Grout Pond 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 →