Hales Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 14:34 UTC
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hales Campground is located on Lake Seminole on the Georgia-Florida state line. The lake and surrounding area provide a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities for fishing, camping, boating, picnicking, hiking, biking and birding. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Seminole is known as one of the best sites for sports fishing in America. Extensive stump and grass beds provide abundant cover where anglers fish for largemouth, hybrid, striped and white bass. Sizable populations of catfish, crappie and bream are also present. Over 79 species of fish have been identified in the lake. Boating, water skiing and swimming are popular activities. The campground offers a boat ramp, dock and a fish cleaning station.
Facilities
The campground is open year-round and offers a total of 24 sites, most of which have both electric and water hookups. Flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and a dump station are provided. A group picnic shelter is on-site.
Natural Features
Lake Seminole has a surface area of 37,500 acres with 376 miles of shoreline. A pine and hardwood forest covers the rolling hills around the lake. A variety of wildlife makes its home around Seminole Lake, including raccoons, alligators, ring-necked ducks, canvasbacks, scaup, hawks, bald eagles, black vultures, tortoises and snakes.
What the agency tells you
Maximum of 8 people per campsite. Visitor fees are $5.00. Maximum of 3 vehicles per campsite. Extra vehicle fees are $3.00. Park gate is locked from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. eastern time. In case of emergency, exits are available. Golf carts and non-registered vehicles are not allowed in the park.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- 24 electric, 11 water
- Longest rig
- 62 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…have both electric and water hookups. Flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and a dump station are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…water hookups. Flush toilets, showers, drinking water, and a dump station are provided. A group picnic…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Night sky · 8th darkest of 96 in GA
- Bortle 4
Something open on 30 of the next 30 bookable nightsread 14:34 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fees are $3.00.” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $26 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 14:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites
All 24 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. 24 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | $26 |
| A | 10 | standard electric | 44 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 11 | standard electric | 37 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 12 | standard electric | 28 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 13 | standard electric | 31 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 14 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 15 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 17 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 18 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 19 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 2 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 20 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 21 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 22 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 23 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 3 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 4 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 5 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 6 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 7 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 8 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 | |
| A | 9 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | $26 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
River Junction Campground0.0 mi
Rays Lake Park3.1 mi
Chattahoochee Park3.9 mi
Eastbank5.1 mi
Faceville Landing Park12 mi
Hales Landing Park13 miThe agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sneads, FL
Typical weather
Typical October night 58°F, day 81°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Hales Campground is in Georgia’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Sanford Bishop (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →