Hastings Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 14All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hastings Campground is located on Route 113 near the shore of Evans Brook in western Maine. It is situated in a rustic and remote part of White Mountain National Forest, not far from the towns of Gilead Me and Gorham, New Hampshire. Activities include fishing, hiking and mountain biking. The White Mountains boast pristine forests, clear mountain streams and rivers and the tallest peaks in the Northeast. The forest encompasses nearly 800,000 acres in New Hampshire and western Maine, and is one of the most popular in the country. Keep reading
Recreation
Within a short drive, campers can access numerous hiking trails of various levels, including a short, 2-mile trail that is great for families, as well as a more rigorous 9-mile trail on Mt. Hastings. Fishing is available in nearby streams and rivers, and the famous Appalachian Trail is about a half-hour drive from the campground. The area also hosts four alpine and five Nordic ski areas, which provide year-round recreation opportunities such as skiing, hiking, mountain biking, outdoor concerts, interpretive trails, special events and regional and national skiing and snowboarding races. Learn more about recreation in the national forest.
Facilities
Campsites are shaded and well-separated around a single loop. Accessible restrooms and a hand pump for water are provided within the facility. The campground also has a large, open play area for kids.
Natural Features
The campground sits in a mixed hardwood forest at the base of Mt. Hastings and a short distance from Evans Brook and the Wild River. The forest is home to many species of northern wildlife, including moose, white-tailed deer and black bear. Almost 200 species of birds, including the rare Bicknell's Thrush, live in the White Mountains.
Nearby Attractions
Campers enjoy a scenic day trip to the Presidential Range, which consists of the tallest mountains in the forest, including the 6,288-foot Mount Washington, the highest peak north of the Smoky Mountains and east of the Mississippi River. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (802) 289-0970.
What the agency tells you
Must bring confirmation to campground; post confirmation number and requested information on fee envelope
Maximum two vehicles per site
First-come, first-served sites may be available
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Campsite fee includes parking for ONE vehicle; additional fee of $6 per night will be collected upon arrival per additional vehicle(s) if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On. Vehicles must fit on the parking spur at your site.
Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside a hard-sided vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
Click here to learn more about the White Mountain National Forest
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
- 14
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- 14
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…single loop. Accessible restrooms and a hand pump for water are provided within the facility. The…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 23rd darkest of 24 in ME
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, in Oxford 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
“additional fee of $6 per night will be collected upon arrival per additional vehicle(s) if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
25 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 25 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 14 of the 25 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. 14 of the 25 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| HAST | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 165 ft | 509 ft | 274 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 249 ft | 607 ft | 189 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 187 ft | 361 ft | 148 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 163 ft | 104 ft | 122 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 102 ft | 236 ft | 82 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 131 ft | 135 ft | 188 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 102 ft | 291 ft | 180 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 120 ft | 304 ft | 292 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 019 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 127 ft | 185 ft | 335 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 020 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 140 ft | 132 ft | 392 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 021 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 157 ft | 311 ft | 151 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 022 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 140 ft | 156 ft | 278 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 115 ft | 372 ft | 131 ft | $24 |
| HAST | 024 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 115 ft | 345 ft | 246 ft | $24 |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 35 ft | $24 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | $24 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX10 | unnamed record | $24 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX2 | unnamed record | $24 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | $24 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX4 | unnamed record | $24 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX5 | unnamed record | $24 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX6 | unnamed record | $24 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX7 | unnamed record | $24 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX8 | unnamed record | $24 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX9 | unnamed record | $24 |
The agency files 11 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Basin CampgroundWhite Mountain National Forest · 6.1 mi
Cold RiverWhite Mountain National Forest · 6.2 miRattle River ShelterWhite Mountain National Forest · 6.4 miCrocker Pond CampgroundWhite Mountain National Forest · 8.5 mi
Barnes Field CampgroundWhite Mountain National Forest · 12 miFrom Gilead, Maine, take Highway 113 south for 3 miles to campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gorham, NH
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 5°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
Hastings Campground is in Maine’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Golden (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →