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Hickory Landing

ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks March 16. Season not published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Sites
111 on recreation.gov

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Hickory Landing is a picturesque, 10-site campground among cypress stands along the bank of Owl Creek and provides easy access to the Apalachicola River. From Sumatra, take SR 65 south for 1.6 miles. Turn right (west) on Forest Road 101 and go 1.5 miles. Turn Left (south) on Forest Road 101B and go one mile to campground entrance. Keep reading

Recreation

Boating For canoe enthusiasts, the trip from Cotton Landing , on Kennedy Creek, to Hickory Landing on Owl Creek via the Apalachicola River is a favorite full-day paddle. Hickory Landing , on Owl Creek, is another excellent put-in for the two-mile trip to the Apalachicola River. Owl Creek is deep and wide, lined by the beautiful river swamp habitat of the Apalachicola floodplain. Hiking Hikers will enjoy access to the Wright Lake Trail , a 4.6-mile loop. The birding here is excellent and nearby pitcher plant bogs bloom in March and April. Hunting Site is open to ALL campers year round. During hunting season, be aware of the hunting environment.

Facilities

Hickory Landing is a picturesque, 10-site campground among cypress stands along the bank of Owl Creek and provides easy access to the Apalachicola River. Hikers will enjoy access to the Wright Lake Trail , a 4.6-mile loop. The birding here is excellent and nearby pitcher plant bogs bloom in March and April.

Natural Features

Hickory Landing is a picturesque, 10-site campground among cypress stands along the bank of Owl Creek and provides easy access to the Apalachicola River.

Nearby Attractions

Hickory Landing is a picturesque, 10-site campground among cypress stands along the bank of Owl Creek and provides easy access to the Apalachicola River. Hikers will enjoy access to the Wright Lake Trail , a 4.6-mile loop. The birding here is excellent and nearby pitcher plant bogs bloom in March and April.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Sep 16, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
11
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Sep 16, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, River, Creek
Boating
Canoeing
Fishing
Hiking
Hunting
Kayaking
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Sep 16, 2026

Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:25 UTC

recreation.gov lists 1 of the 11 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through March 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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Every line of the receipt · 9

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
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
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
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 · 4
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 · Sep 16, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 15:25 UTC · record Sep 16, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

11 sites

All 11 sites

Hickory LandingHickory Landingstandard nonelectric
Hickory LandingHickory Landing 1standard nonelectric
Hickory LandingHickory Landing 10standard nonelectric
Hickory LandingHickory Landing 2standard nonelectric
Hickory LandingHickory Landing 3standard nonelectric
Hickory LandingHickory Landing 4standard nonelectric
Hickory LandingHickory Landing 5standard nonelectric
Hickory LandingHickory Landing 6standard nonelectric
Hickory LandingHickory Landing 7standard nonelectric
Hickory LandingHickory Landing 8standard nonelectric
Hickory LandingHickory Landing 9standard nonelectric
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Sep 16, 2026

Getting there

the phone number
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

The weather

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

The land, and who answers for it

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service 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, counted from the nightly snapshot: it named 1 campsites. The per-campsite read hasn’t reached this campground, so no campsite here is recorded as one recreation.gov doesn’t list. · Sep 16, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’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.