Isaac Creek
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 14:47 UTC
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 60All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Isaac Creek Campground is located on Claiborne Lake in Alabama's southwest Hill Country. The lake encompasses more than 60 miles of the Alabama River, and Isaac Creek has great appeal to sportsmen, birders, naturalists or those simply wanting to relax in the outdoors. Keep reading
Recreation
The area's waterways offer anglers the opportunity to fish for largemouth bass, crappie, bluegill and catfish. Boating and water sports are also a main draw to the lake, and a boat ramp is provided for easy water access. The vast expanse of surrounding land allows for bow and shotgun hunting for game like whitetail deer, wild turkey and hog.
Facilities
This year-round campground offers 60 sites with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and laundry facilities. A boat ramp, dock, fish cleaning stations, basketball court, playground and picnic shelter offer countless recreation opportunities for visitors.
Natural Features
The campground is situated between Isaac Creek and Claiborne Lake, in a forest of hardwood and pine.
What the agency tells you
Campground direct phone number is 251-282-4254
Alcohol is prohibited
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Check-in time is 4 p.m. and check-out time is 3 p.m.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 60
- Hookups
- 60 electric, 60 water
- Longest rig
- 85 ft
- Paved pads
- 49 of 60
- Accessible sites
- 60
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and laundry facilities.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and laundry facilities. A boat…”
- 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, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Water sports
- Night sky · 11th darkest of 41 in AL
- Bortle 4
42 of 53 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:47 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $26 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
recreation.gov availability, read 14:47 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
60 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 60 mapped sitesAll 60 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. 60 of the 60 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.
| ICRE | 01 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | yes | 96 ft | 201 ft | $26 |
| ICRE | 02 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | yes | 95 ft | 297 ft | $26 |
| ICRE | 03 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | yes | 87 ft | 368 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 04 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | yes | 78 ft | 470 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 05 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | 78 ft | 516 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 06 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | yes | 83 ft | 529 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 07 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | yes | 145 ft | 83 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 08 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | yes | 141 ft | 47 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 09 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | 111 ft | 41 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 10 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | yes | 98 ft | 54 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 11 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | yes | 85 ft | 116 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 12 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | yes | 76 ft | 86 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 13 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | yes | 76 ft | 82 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 14 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 109 ft | 108 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 15 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | yes | 111 ft | 65 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | yes | 120 ft | 83 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 17 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 101 ft | 116 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 18 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | yes | 101 ft | 65 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 19 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | yes | 100 ft | 112 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 20 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | yes | 100 ft | 109 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 21 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | yes | 94 ft | 79 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 22 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | yes | 61 ft | 90 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 23 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | yes | 61 ft | 95 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 24 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | yes | 69 ft | 81 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 25 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | yes | 69 ft | 91 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 26 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | yes | 78 ft | 130 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 27 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 188 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 28 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 167 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 29 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | 61 ft | 110 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 30 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | yes | 61 ft | 150 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 42 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | yes | 87 ft | 287 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 43 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | yes | 87 ft | 289 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 44 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | yes | 86 ft | 335 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 45 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | yes | 81 ft | 322 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 46 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | yes | 80 ft | 322 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 47 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | yes | 80 ft | 269 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 48 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | yes | 64 ft | 210 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 49 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | yes | 64 ft | 236 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 50 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | 87 ft | 290 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 51 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | 141 ft | 208 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 52 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | 134 ft | 249 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 53 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | yes | 115 ft | 214 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 54 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | yes | 139 ft | 212 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 55 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | yes | 126 ft | 180 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 56 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | yes | 97 ft | 557 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 57 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | yes | 93 ft | 499 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 58 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | yes | 78 ft | 407 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ICRE | 59 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | yes | 78 ft | 329 ft | $26 |
| ICRE | 60 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | yes | 84 ft | 246 ft | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 31 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | yes | 83 ft | 117 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 32 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 111 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 33 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 123 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 34 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 68 ft | 167 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 35 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 62 ft | 162 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 36 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 62 ft | 143 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 37 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 66 ft | 113 ft | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 38 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 66 ft | 110 ft | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 39 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 81 ft | 111 ft | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 40 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 103 ft | 100 ft | $26 |
| ISAAC CREEK | 41 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 87 ft | 376 ftIsaac Creek | $26 |
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.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lock 129 mi
Gees Bend Park33 mi
Training Dike Park35 mi
Millers Ferry Campground35 mi
Service36 mi
Chilatchee Creek39 miFrom Monroeville, Alabama, take State Route 41 north for 8 miles. Turn west onto County Road 17 and follow signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Whatley, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 53°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Isaac Creek is in Alabama’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Shomari Figures (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →