Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 29 of the next 30 nights read 15:28 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin is approximately 17 miles north of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. It sits at an elevation of 3,162 feet. Guests enjoy the area for its magnificent views, animal watching, hunting and historic background. The Hopkins Mountain Fireman’s Cabin and Fire Tower site were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1935. Also on the property is a logging tramway, in use from about 1908 to the 1920s, and the Civil War Trail, used in 1863 for the rapid retreat of the 64th Virginia Battalion after the Battle of Droop Mountain. The fireman’s residence, measures 14 feet by 20 feet and has been virtually unaltered since construction. Keep reading
Recreation
Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin provides beautiful overlooks, hiking trails, animal watching and hunting.
Facilities
Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin is available for reservations Spring through Fall. The cabin can comfortably accommodate 4 people on two twin single beds (bunk bed) each with mattresses and a full/double bed. There is a tent pad located on site for sleeping another 8 guests. The group size is limited to 12. Guests and campers need to bring their own food, toiletries, towels, bedding and trash bags. A vault toilet is located at the cabin site. The cabin is equipped with electricity, refrigerator and heat. Be prepared to cook meals on the outside grill. Firewood is limited to what is dead and down within the area. Two picnic tables are provided along with a lantern post, fire ring, firewood shed and sawbuck. There is no water available on the site but drinking water, flush toilets, and showers can be obtained at Blue Bend Recreation Area from May to October.
Natural Features
Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin is located a short distance from Blue Bend Recreation Area where Anthony Creek provides opportunities for picnicking, swimming, trout fishing and hunting. The Blue Bend Recreation Area provides access to BIg Draft WIlderness, a beautiful wilderness hiking experience. Blue Bend Loop Trail is a 5 mile trail with 3 scenic overlooks and connects to Anthony Creek Trail which winds its way along Anthony Creek for 3.8 miles and provides access to the South Boundary trail a 4.8 mile though hike.
Nearby Attractions
Blue Bend Recreation Area and Campground, Big Draft Wilderness, Greenbrier River Trail, Lake Sherwood campground and Day Use area, Historic towns of Lewisburg and White Sulphur Springs.
What the agency tells you
Check Out time is 11:00 am and Check In time is 3:00 pm
Walk-in use is not allowed; reservations must be made via the Recreation.gov website or call center prior to arrival
No water available; campers must bring their own. Water and showers will be available at Blue Bend campground May to October.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Entry is by combination lock at gate and one at the cabin; confirm combination on your confirmation letter prior to arrival.
No pets allowed inside the cabin. If you bring a pet please clean up after them.
Cell phone is unreliable unless you are close to town.
Limit 12 people at site (4 in cabin 8 at campsite) and 4 vehicles.
No smoking allowed inside the cabin.
The cabin, because of the historical nature, does not meet accessibility standards. The outside amenities are accessibile.
Be prepared for emergencies. Note where the closest hospital is located and bring basic first aid supplies.
Snow and ice are possible on the access road in the spring and fall. Please check the forecast prior to your arrival or call the White Sulphur Ranger District for a weather updates at (304) 536-2144.
Don't Transport Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org
Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- 1 electric
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…towels, bedding and trash bags. A vault toilet is located at the cabin site. The cabin is equipped… / …on the site but drinking water, flush toilets, and showers can be obtained at Blue Bend…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…fire ring, firewood shed and sawbuck. There is no water available on the site but drinking water, flush…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Fire Lookouts/Cabins Overnight
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Observation Site
- Picnicking
- Rafting
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 22 km away
- Peak color
Full this Saturdayread 15:28 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
2 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:38 UTC. See them
OpenBookedClosed
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Thu, Oct 22. read 15:28 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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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
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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 2
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:38 UTC
- Morris Hill CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 15 mi · 74 of 110 site-nights open
- Craig Creek Recreation AreaGeorge Washington & Jefferson National Forest · 27 mi · 1 of 1 site-night open
recreation.gov availability, read 15:28 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Hopkins Mountain Fireman Cabin | cabin electric | $75 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Blue Meadow1.4 miBlue Bend Recreation Area and CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 1.8 mi
Blue Bend Rec AreaMonongahela National Forest · 2.1 mi
Lake Sherwood Recreation Area and CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 14 mi
Lake SherwoodMonongahela National Forest · 14 mi
Morris Hill CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 15 miThe Hopkins Mountain Fireman’s residence is located approximately 15-miles north of the town of White Sulphur, WV. From White Sulphur, travel on State Highway 92 for approximately 9-miles. Turn west (left) onto State Route 16 and travel approximately 4-miles. Across from the entrance to Blue Bend Recreation Area, turn onto Forest Road 139 (Hopkins Mountain Road) and travel approximately 4-miles to the circular turnaround and the fireman’s residence. The cabin is accessed by a single lane, steep Forest Service Road; while the road can be travelled by car, conditions can change quickly during adverse weather. Four Wheel drive vehicle are recommended.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Falling Spring, WV
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°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 · a letter you can send
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyCarol D. MillerU.S. Representative · West Virginia’s 1st district
No contact form we could verify, so that link is their own site. Contact is inside it. Washington office: 202-225-3452.
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJames C. JusticeU.S. Senator · West Virginia
- Your senator, on the same appropriationShelley Moore CapitoU.S. Senator · West Virginia
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia
Dear Carol D. Miller, I’m a constituent in West Virginia’s 1st district. I tried to camp at Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin (Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia
Dear James C. Justice, I’m a constituent in West Virginia. I tried to camp at Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin (Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia
Dear Shelley Moore Capito, I’m a constituent in West Virginia. I tried to camp at Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin (Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia) via campanac.com