Hapgood Pond
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hapgood Pond Recreation Area and Campground is situated next to its scenic namesake pond, 13 miles east of Manchester, Vermont. Visitors enjoy camping, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, swimming, and hiking. Keep reading
Recreation
The Hapgood Pond is a popular place for non-motorized boating, including canoeing and kayaking. A carry-down launch area is located on the south end of the pond. Fishing and swimming are also favorite activities. Hapgood boasts the Forest's only designated and managed swim beach. A fishing pier is located on the south shore. Hapgood Pond Trail begins in the day-use area and continues almost a mile around the north edge of the pond to the dam. A short spur trail follows a stream and winds through the woods around the pond. Younger visitors love the big play field area within Hapgood, a perfect spot for Frisbee or ball games.
Facilities
Hapgood Pond Recreation Area offers family campsites and day-use picnic shelters for groups. First come, first served sites are available. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Each family campsite is equipped with a picnic table, campfire ring with grill, parking spur, and a cleared area for a tent. Campsites 9-28 are reservable. Each group picnic shelter can accommodate up to 35 people, and is equipped with a pavilion, picnic tables, and a grill. The two shelters are available for reservations.
Natural Features
Hapgood Pond Recreation Area is eight acres and is set in a wooded area in the northeastern portion of the Green Mountain National Forest, which encompasses over 400,000 acres in southwestern and central Vermont. Hapgood Pond covers another 12 acres which is perfect for swimming, boating, and fishing. The Green Mountain National Forests includes three nationally designated trails: the Appalachian Trail, the Long Trail, and the Robert Frost National Recreation Trail. The Forest also contains three alpine ski areas, seven Nordic ski areas, and approximately 900 miles of multiple-use trails.
Nearby Attractions
The town of Manchester, Vermont, popular for its shops, restaurants, and other attractions, including the American Museum of Fly Fishing, is a short drive away.
What the agency tells you
Must bring reservation confirmation letter to campground and display on windshield.
No lifeguard on duty; swim at your own risk
Click here for more information on the Green Mountain National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Don't move firewood: To limit the spread of invasive tree-killing pests, firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Some states have quarantines and may confiscate your firewood. Please help protect our forests from invasive species by obtaining your firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Visit dontmovefirewood.org for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30 · 2 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 25 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…come, first served sites are available. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Each family…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…sites are available. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Each family campsite is equipped with…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Beach
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 7th darkest of 13 in VT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, in Bennington County
- Peak color
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.
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.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
32 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 28 mapped sitesAll 32 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 30 of the 32 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. 30 of the 32 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.
| HAPG | 001 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 96 ft | 586 ft | 452 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 672 ft | 547 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 003 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 669 ft | 565 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 004 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 70 ft | 736 ft | 645 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 51 ft | 736 ft | 677 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 51 ft | 776 ft | 703 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 37 ft | 758 ft | 716 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 008 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 37 ft | 792 ftFlood Brook | 752 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 009 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 60 ft | 742 ftFlood Brook | 800 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 60 ft | 757 ftFlood Brook | 859 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 011 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 59 ft | 735 ftFlood Brook | 923 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 59 ft | 677 ftFlood Brook | 920 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 013 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 50 ft | 634 ftFlood Brook | 987 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 014 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 50 ft | 594 ftFlood Brook | 963 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 015 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 116 ft | 480 ftFlood Brook | 1,008 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 016 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 132 ft | 432 ftFlood Brook | 885 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 017 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 30 ft | 262 ftFlood Brook | 692 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 018 | walk to | 78 ft | 172 ftFlood Brook | 676 ft | $20 | |
| HAPG | 019 | walk to | 92 ft | 114 ftFlood Brook | 624 ft | $20 | |
| HAPG | 020 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 30 ft | 249 ftFlood Brook | 663 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 021 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 42 ft | 479 ftFlood Brook | 755 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 022 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 42 ft | 507 ftFlood Brook | 732 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 023 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 50 ft | 480 ftFlood Brook | 683 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 024 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 50 ft | 521 ftFlood Brook | 670 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 025 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 68 ft | 460 ftFlood Brook | 592 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 026 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 68 ft | 501 ftFlood Brook | 543 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 027 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 130 ft | 482 ft | 441 ft | $20 |
| HAPG | 028 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 130 ft | 458 ft | 354 ft | $20 |
| PIC1 | PS1 | day use | 46 ft | 109 ft | |||
| PIC2 | PS2 | day use | 85 ft | 298 ft | |||
| S&P | S&P Standard Nonelectric | type not stated | 20 ft | $20 | |||
| S&P | S&P Walk To | type not stated | 20 ft | $20 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Winhall Brook Camping Area7.5 mi
Greendale CampgroundGreen Mountain National Forest · 7.6 miLittle Rock Pond/Green Mountain LoopRobert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area · 11 mi
Grout Pond CampgroundGreen Mountain National Forest · 15 miGrout Pond Recreation AreaGreen Mountain National Forest · 15 mi
Townshend Lake Recreation Area16 miFrom Manchester, take Route 11 6 miles east and go left into Peru. Continue 2 miles north on Hapgood Pond Road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Londonderry, VT
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°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
Hapgood Pond 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 →