Lake Sherwood Recreation Area and Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $16From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Lake Sherwood Recreation Area is a complete family destination offering a wide variety of activities and camping options. Standard, tent-only and group camping facilities are perched along Lake Sherwood, the largest lake on Monongahela National Forest. Swimming beaches, a picnic area, boat ramp and several hiking trails are among the features of the area. At an elevation of 2,600 feet, Lake Sherwood spans 156 acres. A variety of animals make their home here, including black bear, coyote, wild turkey, white-tailed deer, red and gray fox, bobcat, fisher, otter and mink.
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 20 km away
- Peak color
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 8
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($16), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Lake SherwoodMonongahela National Forest · 0.1 mi
Bolar Mountain Recreation AreaGeorge Washington National Forest · 3.0 mi
McClintic PointGeorge Washington National Forest · 3.0 miGreenwood Point CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 4.2 mi
Coles PointGeorge Washington National Forest · 4.8 miMcClintic Point CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 5.0 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hot Springs, VA
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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
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
Lake Sherwood Recreation Area and Campground 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 →