Horseshoe Point
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $26–$34Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 49All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Horseshoe Point Campground is nestled on the shores of Philpott Lake in the rugged foothills of Virgina's Blue Ridge Mountains. The park is located in a rural and sparsely populated part of Franklin County near the small community of Henry. Philpott Lake's clear water and natural shoreline make it a unique place for visitors to enjoy boating, fishing, hiking, picnicking and camping. Click here for the Philpott Lake Virtual Tour: https://corpslakes.erdc.dren.mil/visitors/virtual/philpott/tour.html Recreation The lake provides visitors with great boating and swimming opportunities. Anglers enjoy fishing for large and smallmouth bass, walleye, bluegill, crappie and catfish. Many miles of hiking and biking trails surround Philpott Lake, allowing visitors to get out and explore this scenic area. Keep reading
Facilities
The park offers both camping and day-use facilities: 15 campsites with electric and water hookups are available, as well as 34 primitive sites without hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. For additional family-friendly entertainment, a beach, boat ramp, dock, picnic shelter and playground are also on-site.
Natural Features
Philpott Lake covers 2,900 acres and has 100 miles of shoreline. The lake's steep, rocky banks meet beautiful mixed forests of oak, maple, hickory, pine and cedar. Wildlife is abundant throughout the area: Deer, turkeys, squirrels, raccoons, and a variety of songbirds and waterfowl are commonly viewed.
Nearby Attractions
The lake is adjacent to Fairystone State Park and Fairystone Farms Wildlife Management Area, which includes 5,300 acres of public recreational lands.
What the agency tells you
Two vehicles are allowed per campsite.
A fee of $7/day will be collected for extra vehicles at the campground.
Park gates closed 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
No alcohol allowed.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 49
- Hookups
- 15 electric, 15 water
- Longest rig
- 38 ft
- Paved pads
- 12 of 49
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…sites without hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. For…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. For additional family-friendly…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Swimming
- Night sky · 59th darkest of 88 in VA
- Bortle 4
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“A fee of $7/day will be collected for extra vehicles at the campground.” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $26–$34 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
49 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 49 mapped sitesAll 49 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. 49 of the 49 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| HPOI | 01 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 155 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 02 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 150 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 03 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 179 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 04 | standard electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 248 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 05 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 267 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 06 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 277 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 07 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 217 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 08 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 213 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 09 | standard electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 269 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 10 | standard electric | 21 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 217 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 11 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 194 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 12 | standard electric | 24 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 147 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 13 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 116 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 14 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 100 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 15 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 168 ft | $34 |
| HPOI | 16 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 72 ft | 92 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 17 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 67 ft | 104 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 18 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 67 ft | 108 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 19 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 79 ft | 96 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 20 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 69 ft | 93 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 21 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 54 ft | 123 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 22 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 62 ft | 193 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 23 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 54 ft | 108 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 24 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 59 ft | 186 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 25 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 73 ft | 94 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 26 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 59 ft | 169 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 27 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 84 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 28 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 79 ft | 179 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 29 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 81 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 30 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 94 ft | 118 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 31 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 218 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 32 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 85 ft | 263 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 33 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 97 ft | 166 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 34 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 98 ft | 191 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 35 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 85 ft | 294 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 36 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | 75 ft | 225 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 37 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 75 ft | 299 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 38 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 100 ft | 283 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 39 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 79 ft | 366 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 40 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 88 ft | 208 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 41 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | 46 ft | 166 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 42 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 46 ft | 205 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 43 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 86 ft | 269 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 44 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 292 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 45 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | 62 ft | 227 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 46 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | 60 ft | 224 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 47 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 300 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 48 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 58 ft | 293 ft | $26–$34 | |
| HPOI | 49 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 58 ft | 236 ft | $26–$34 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 49 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Salthouse Branch1.9 mi
Goose Point2.0 mi
Deer Island2.2 mi
Philpott Park4.2 mi
Rock Castle Gorge Backcountry CampingBlue Ridge Parkway · 15 mi
Rocky Knob CampgroundBlue Ridge Parkway · 16 miFrom HWY 220, turn onto Henry Road (SR-605) and go 8 miles. Turn left onto Horseshoe Point Road and follow signs to the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ferrum, VA
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Horseshoe Point is in Virginia’s 9th congressional district. Its representative, H. Morgan Griffith (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →