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U.S. Forest Service · Ocala National Forest · FL

Lake Delancy West Campground

1Heads up1 fire 18 mi away
Wildfire
Lynne fire · 18 mi away · 2 acres · updated Oct 13, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 13, 2026
ReservableBookable through April 16; tomorrow opens April 17.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
A night
$10From, per site
Sites
120All of them booked ahead
Season
October 1 – April 30Open October 1 through April 30, across the new year
Photos · Meghan Hitt
20 ftElevation
2,941 ftWater · Lake Delancy
3.2 miN of Lake Kerr, FL
45%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 32nd darkest of 60 in FL
Open October 1 through April 30, across the new yearToday

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices

In the agency’s own words

Overview ***Delancy Loops trailhead on State Road 19 will be closed for visitor safety during a logging operation starting December 5, 2025 – mid-April 2026.*** ***Delancy Loops trail will be closed east of NFR 21 December 5th – January 5th.*** Lake Delancy West is an OHV recreation area along Lake Delancy that houses OHV corrals, access to numerous marked OHV trails along the Ocala North OHV Trail System and camping along the lake. The recreation area also serves as a trailhead and designated campground along the hiking-only Florida Trail. Sites 14 - 120 are dispersed camping anywhere in the middle island. Keep reading

Tent and small trailer camping is available within the pine forest along the western shore of Lake Delancy. All sites are within close proximity to the OHV corral, the Ocala North OHV Trail System and the Florida Trail. Heads up: Bears do frequent this area. You are required to store your food in a bear-proof container or in your vehicle. 14 day stay limit in a 30 day period in ALL Ocala National Forest Campgrounds For reservations or refund request please call (877) 444-6777 Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (352) 625-2520 for general information.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Main entrance gate opens from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Rule

Check in- 3 p.m. Check out- 11 a.m.

Rule

Camping fee covers 2 vehicles maximum

Everything else this campground posts · 3
Rule

14 day stay limit

Rule

If it is your intent to rent an RV or trailer from a third party entity, please note that the USDA Forest Service does not allow RV or trailer rentals to be pre-placed and/or delivered to the recreation area. The Reservation holder must drive the RV or trailer to the recreation area as it is their sole responsibility and alleviates the FS from any liability.    Any commercial business that operates on federal land is required to have a special use permit. 36 CFR 261.10 (K)(L)

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.

Read them on the agency’s own page →
Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
120
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake
Fishing
Hiking
Off Road Vehicle Trails
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

229 of 240 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:46 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBooked

Booking window6 months outBookable now through April 16, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov
A night$10plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$28DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
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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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 12

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night$10
Standard Nonelectric$10
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.
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
One nightDerived$18
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$28

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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.

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 · 5
Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026
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 · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 15:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

120 sites

All 120 sites

Up to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 120 of the 120 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Lake Delancy1standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy10standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy100standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy101standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy102standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy103standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy104standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy105standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy106standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy107standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy108standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy109standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy11standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy110standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy111standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy112standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy113standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy114standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy115standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy116standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy117standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy118standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy119standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy12standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy120standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy13standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy14standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy15standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy16standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy17standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy18standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy19standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy2standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy20standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy21standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy22standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy23standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy24standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy25standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy26standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy27standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy28standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy29standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy3standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy30standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy31standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy32standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy33standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy34standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy35standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy36standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy37standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy38standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy39standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy4standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy40standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy41standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy42standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy43standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy44standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy45standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy46standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy47standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy48standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy49standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy5standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy50standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy51standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy52standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy53standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy54standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy55standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy56standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy57standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy58standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy59standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy6standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy60standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy61standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy62standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy63standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy64standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy65standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy66standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy67standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy68standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy69standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy7standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy70standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy71standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy72standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy73standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy74standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy75standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy76standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy77standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy78standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy79standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy8standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy80standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy81standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy82standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy83standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy84standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy85standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy86standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy87standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy88standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy89standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy9standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy90standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy91standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy92standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy93standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy94standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy95standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy96standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy97standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy98standard nonelectric$10
Lake Delancy99standard nonelectric$10
Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 120 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate29.42692, -81.78841
The phoneN/A
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today90°Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms25% rain
Tonight70°Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms23% rain
Saturday76°Chance Rain Showers27% rain
Saturday Night60°Partly Cloudy7% rain

NWS forecast for Lake Kerr, FL

Source: National Weather Service, JAX forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 60°F, day 83°F.

Coldest night of the open season: typical January night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°30°

Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season

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.

Measured at: ORANGE SPRINGS 2SSW, FL (USC00086618), 11 miles away and 30 ft higher
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Randy Fine, official portrait

Lake Delancy West Campground is in Florida’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Randy Fine (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: D-. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now. Its own recreation database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 120 of the 120 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026
Season: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.74 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 60 rated federal campgrounds in Florida · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
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.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026