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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · WV

Guyandotte Campground

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 15 opens May 15.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $26–$32Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 9286 on recreation.gov

Photos · 304Strong

1,150 ftElevation

84 ftWater · Rockhouse Branch

7.6 miE of Gilbert Creek, WV

20%Tree cover

Bortle 4Night sky · 60th darkest of 69 in WV

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices

In the agency’s own words

Guyandotte is along the upper branch of the lake and offers electric to full hookup sites. Cam[ground has two loops, playgrounds, restroom, showers and shoreline fishing opporttunities. Keep reading

Recreation

Guyandotte camground resides on RD Bailey Lake which offers great fishing, boating, trail hiking and superior hunting opportunities.

Facilities

The campgroiund offers developed showerhouses and playgrounds.

Nearby Attractions

Big Branch Shelter Visitor Center Shelter Guyandotte Point Shelter RD Bailey Lake RD Bailey Lake Visitor Center Hatfield & Maccoy ATV Trails

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

No person(s) may camp at one or more campsites for more than 14 days in a 30 day consecutive period except on the sited designated as Long Term Campsites. This includes the reservation holder (primary occupant) and all other overnight occupants.

Rule

Guyandotte Campground will be offering Long Term Camping opportunities on the following sites. Reedy Creek Loop ( 3,5,7,12,13,15,23,24,25,26,27) Locust Branch Loop (50,52,53, 61, 73, 75,80,81,93,94). These sites have a minimum stay of 16 consecutive nights and a maximum stay of 90 consecutive nights. All other sites will have a 14 night maximum consecutive stay.

Rule

Any person utilizing a Federal Pass for a discount on camping fees must present the discount pass upon request, it must be signed on the back of the card, be registered on the campsite, and occupy the site overnight for the entire duration of the reservation to receive the full discount.

Everything else this campground posts · 7

Rule

All motorized recreational vehicles, including motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATV), utility terrain vehicles (UTV), mopeds, scooters, golf carts, hoverboards, etc., that are not licensed for use on all roadways are prohibited in the campgrounds.

Rule

Please contact the campground or lake office for questions on power driven mobility aids

Rule

You may only be registered as the primary occupant at one campsite upon check-in.

Rule

All trash and debris must be completely removed from the campsite upon departure.

Rule

For more information on Rules and Regulations, please visit the link here Title 36

Rule

- Pets must be penned, caged, on a leash under six feet in length, or otherwise physically restrained. - Owners must clean up after their pet.

Rule

Check out time is 5 p.m. Check in time is 6 p.m. - Quiet hours are from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. - Visting hours end at 10 p.m.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 92 · 2 group
Hookups: 86 electric, 6 water
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: 1
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Playground: Yes

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, Beach; Boating; Canoeing; Fishing; Hiking; Hunting; Kayaking; Paddle Boating; Paddling; Water access

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 86 of the 92 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

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

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 15, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 15, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

A night$26–$32plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$60–$72DerivedFriday 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. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$26–$32

Standard electric campsites$26

Full Hookup campsites$32

Group areas, a night$32–$40

These are next season’s rates, May 15, 2027 to Sep 6, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

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$34–$40

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$60–$72

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $26–$32 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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

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

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The sites

92 sites

All 92 sites

SleepsUp 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. 86 of the 92 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


Locust Branch	032	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	033	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	034	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	035	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	036	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	037	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	038	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	039	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	040	standard electric	50/50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	041	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	042	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	043	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	044	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	045	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	046	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	047	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	048	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	049	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	050	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	051	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	052	type not stated	50 amp
Locust Branch	053	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	054	type not stated	50/50 amp
Locust Branch	055	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	056	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	057	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	058	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	059	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	060	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	061	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	062	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	063	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	064	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	065	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	066	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	067	standard electric	50/50/30/20 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	068	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	069	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	070	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	071	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	072	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	073	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	074	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	075	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	076	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	077	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	078	type not stated	50 amp
Locust Branch	079	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	080	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	081	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	082	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	083	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	084	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	085	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	086	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	087	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	088	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	089	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	090	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	091	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	092	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	093	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Locust Branch	094	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	001	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	002	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	003	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	004	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	005	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	006	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	007	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	008	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	009	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	010	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	011	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	012	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	013	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	014	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	015	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	016	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	017/018	group standard electric	50 amp		$32–$40
Reedy Creek	019	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	020/021	group standard electric	50 amp		$32–$40
Reedy Creek	022	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	023	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	024	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	025	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	026	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	027	standard electric	50 amp		$26–$32
Reedy Creek	028	standard electric	50/50 amp	yes	$26–$32
Reedy Creek	029	type not stated	50 amp
Reedy Creek	030	type not stated	50 amp
Reedy Creek	031	type not stated	50 amp

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 92 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

Coordinate37.58648, -81.72003

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone304-664-3229

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

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Stone CliffNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 43 mi

Thayer CampgroundNew River Gorge National Park and Preserve · 44 mi

Lower Twin Campground (VA)44 mi

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today53°Rain Showers82% rain

Tonight31°Mostly Clear then Widespread Frost

Sunday63°Widespread Frost then Sunny

Sunday Night35°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Brenton, WV

Source: National Weather Service, RLX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 43°F, day 68°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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: OCEANA 2 SE, WV (USC00466600), 8 miles away and 170 ft higher

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Guyandotte Campground is in West Virginia’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Carol Miller (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 86 of the 92 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.56 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 69 rated federal campgrounds in West Virginia · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’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: Brenton, WV, 4.3 mi WSW (a census designated place). Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026