Jennings Ferry
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:37 UTC
- A night
- $28When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 52In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Jennings Ferry Campground is situated between the Black Warrior River and Clear Creek on the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway in Alabama. With a boat ramp and gently sloping shoreline, this facility offers a quiet and convenient getaway for fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing is the most popular activity on the waterway. Whether fishing by boat or along the shore of the park, anglers can fish for bass, crappie, bream, catfish and other species. Visitors can also enjoy walking along a half-mile nature trail that runs through the woods following the water's edge.
Facilities
Jennings Ferry has 52 campsites with 50-amp electrical and water hookups and picnic areas. Campsites are spacious, private and located near or close to the water. A shower and restroom building, as well as a playground and a boat ramp with security lighting that are provided for camper convenience.
Natural Features
The campground is surrounded by the scenic woodlands of the Tombigbee River. Deer, squirrel, wild turkey, migratory birds and blue birds live among the calm waters and hardwood forests of the area. Temerature range from the 80s to 90s from April to September, and annual rainfall averages about 60 inches. The facility is located 100 feet above sea level. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (334) 402-1606.
Charges & Cancellations
USACE Reserves the right to modify/cancel reservations due to site closures.
What the agency tells you
Jennings Ferry Campground Map
ATTENTION: Must Download & Read Reservation Cancellation, Modification & Fee Information before Reserving
ATTENTION: Must Download & Read Park Regulations before Reserving
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 52
- Hookups
- 50 electric, 52 water
- Longest rig
- 168 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- 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
- River, Creek, Beach
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 14th darkest of 41 in AL
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:37 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
“USACE Reserves the right to modify/cancel reservations due to site closures.” · this campground’s own terms
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Jennings Ferry closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 1
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Payne Lake Recreation AreaTalladega National Forest · 22 mi
recreation.gov availability, read 16:37 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 50 mapped sitesAll 52 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. 50 of the 52 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.
| JF | 001 | standard electric | 76 ft | 50 amp | 115 ft | 431 ft | $28 |
| JF | 002 | standard electric | 137 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 465 ft | $28 |
| JF | 003 | standard electric | 89 ft | 50 amp | 117 ft | 429 ft | $28 |
| JF | 004 | standard electric | 92 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 372 ft | $28 |
| JF | 005 | standard electric | 140 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 381 ft | $28 |
| JF | 006 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 321 ft | $28 |
| JF | 007 | standard electric | 82 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 284 ft | $28 |
| JF | 008 | standard electric | 89 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 295 ft | $28 |
| JF | 009 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 286 ft | $28 |
| JF | 010 | standard electric | 124 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 219 ft | $28 |
| JF | 011 | standard electric | 82 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 284 ft | $28 |
| JF | 012 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 186 ft | $28 |
| JF | 013 | standard electric | 91 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 86 ft | $28 |
| JF | 014 | standard electric | 79 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 222 ft | $28 |
| JF | 015 | standard electric | 129 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 105 ft | $28 |
| JF | 016 | standard electric | 105 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 71 ft | $28 |
| JF | 017 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 172 ft | $28 |
| JF | 018 | standard electric | 104 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 52 ft | $28 |
| JF | 019 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 86 ft | $28 |
| JF | 020 | standard electric | 84 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 183 ft | $28 |
| JF | 021 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 47 ft | $28 |
| JF | 022 | standard electric | 88 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 194 ft | $28 |
| JF | 023 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 34 ft | $28 |
| JF | 024 | standard electric | 148 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 51 ft | $28 |
| JF | 025 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 240 ft | $28 |
| JF | 026 | standard electric | 96 ft | 50 amp | 116 ft | 354 ft | $28 |
| JF | 027 | standard electric | 140 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 83 ft | $28 |
| JF | 028 | standard electric | 168 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 111 ft | $28 |
| JF | 029 | standard electric | 115 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 118 ft | $28 |
| JF | 030 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 80 ft | $28 |
| JF | 031 | standard electric | 74 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 193 ft | $28 |
| JF | 032 | standard electric | 78 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 80 ft | $28 |
| JF | 033 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 188 ft | $28 |
| JF | 034 | standard electric | 116 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 68 ft | $28 |
| JF | 035 | standard electric | 92 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 73 ft | $28 |
| JF | 036 | standard electric | 101 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 41 ft | $28 |
| JF | 037 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 164 ft | $28 |
| JF | 038 | standard electric | 79 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 48 ft | $28 |
| JF | 039 | standard electric | 76 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 41 ft | $28 |
| JF | 040 | standard electric | 167 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 217 ft | $28 |
| JF | 041 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 31 ft | $28 |
| JF | 042 | standard electric | 76 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 75 ft | $28 |
| JF | 043 | standard electric | 102 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 89 ft | $28 |
| JF | 044 | standard electric | 96 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 406 ft | $28 |
| JF | 045 | standard electric | 144 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 457 ft | $28 |
| JF | 046 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 106 ft | 499 ft | $28 |
| JF | 047 | standard electric | 138 ft | 50 amp | 125 ft | 455 ft | $28 |
| JF | 048 | standard electric | 149 ft | 50 amp | 125 ft | 373 ft | $28 |
| JF | 049 | type not stated | 128 ft | 50 amp | 402 ft | ||
| JF | 050 | standard electric | 86 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 364 ft | $28 |
| JF | 051 | standard electric | 82 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 358 ft | $28 |
| JF | 052 | type not stated | 89 ft | 50 amp | 426 ft |
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 52 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Finches Ferry2.8 mi
Lock 86.3 mi
Lock 66.9 mi
Forkland13 mi
Belmont Park18 mi
Foscue Creek20 miFrom Demopolis, Alabama, take Highway 43 north towards Eutaw. At Highway 14, take a right. Proceed for approximately seven miles 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 Eutaw, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 53°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 35°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 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
Jennings Ferry is in Alabama’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Terri Sewell (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →