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U.S. Forest Service · Monongahela National Forest · WV

Lake Sherwood

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 14:40 UTC

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 14:40 UTC
A night: $20–$50When it reopens, per site
Sites: 151In the agency’s record

Photos · U.S. Forest Service

55 ftLongest rig

2,710 ftElevation

357 ftWater · Lake Sherwood

13.4 miN of Covington, VA

76%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices

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 in the Monongahela National Forest. Swimming beaches, a picnic area, boat ramp and several hiking trails are among the features of the area. Keep reading

Recreation

Anglers seek tiger muskie, channel catfish, bullhead, bluegill and largemouth bass. Boating is a big draw as well. Hikers have the option of exploring Lake Sherwood Trail, Upper Meadow Trail, Meadow Mountain Trail and Meadow Creek.

Facilities

Each campsite has a parking spur, tent pad, picnic table, fire ring and lantern post. Showers are accessible. All camping areas are served by restrooms with running water, flush toilets, hot showers and electricity (available during the summer season only). In the spring and fall, vault toilets and a hand pump well are available. The parking aprons are gravel and some are up to 20 feet wide. No electrical, sewage or water hook-ups are available, but there is a dump station on-site. Other amenities include a playground, picnic shelters and volleyball courts.

Natural Features

At an elevation of 2,600 feet, Lake Sherwood spans 156 acres. The recreation area is part Monongahela National Forest, which comprises about a million acres of forest in West Virginia, and attracts 1.3 million visitors each year. 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. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (681) 368-0663.

Nearby Attractions

The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia is a 15 minute drive. The West Virginia State Fair, held in August each year, is located 30 minutes away in Lewsiburg, West Virginia.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating

Rule

No RV hookups are available

Rule

Only boats with electric outboard motors are allowed on the lake

Everything else this campground posts · 6

Rule

There is a $5 vehicle fee for day use during peak season

Rule

Limit 2 vehicles per campsite; a $5 fee is charged for additional vehicles

Rule

For more information on Monongahela National Forest, click here

Rule

Check out the forest's campground description for specific information to Fish Your National Forest

Rule

Don't move firewood: To limit the spread of invasive tree-killing pests, firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Some states have quarantines and may confiscate your firewood. Please help protect our forests from invasive species by obtaining your firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Visit dontmovefirewood.org for more information.

Rule

Electric is only available at campsite #11. No other sites can access electricity. It is prohibited to run electric cords from campsites to host sites, restrooms, or other areas to hook into electric for public safety. Please use self -contained battery powered equipment for C-Pap or other electric needs. Generators can only be operated between 10am and 6pm.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 151 · 13 tent-only, 1 group
Hookups: 1 electric
Longest rig: 55 ft
Accessible sites: 14
Pets: Allowed
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets; “…served by restrooms with running water, flush toilets, hot showers and electricity (available during the… / …season only). In the spring and fall, vault toilets and a hand pump well are available. The parking…”
Showers: Accessible Showers · Seasonal Showers; “Showers are accessible. All camping areas are served by restrooms with running water, flush toilets, hot showers and electricity (available during the summer season only).”
Drinking water: Yes; “…the spring and fall, vault toilets and a hand pump well are available. The parking aprons are gravel…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, Creek, Beach, Meadow; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Swimming; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 20th darkest of 69 in WV: Bortle 3
Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 20 km away: Peak color

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 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 · Sep 8, 2026

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (20 km) · Oct 7, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 14:40 UTC

recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$20–$50plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

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

What’s open near here

Tell me when it reopens

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Every line of the receipt · 26

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night, when it reopens$20–$50

No Water price$20

Tent Only Nonelectric$20

Site 11$24

Standard Nonelectric$25

Site 11 N$35

No Water price-double$40

Standard Nonelectric$50

Group areas, a night$50–$100

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Sep 8, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026.

West Shore Loop (campsites 1-26) $25/night

Night for double site$50

For electric site Pine Run Loop (campsites 27-61) $25/night Meadow Creek Loop (campsites 62-97) $25/night Cales Knoll Loop (campsites 98-108) $20/night.$35

Cales Knoll is tent only and is not reservable Group Camping $100/night Picnic Shelter $50/day

this permits one vehicle a parking pass at no additional cost, all other in party must pay the $8/day use pass upon entry Note: West Shore Loop is the only camping loop open in Spring and Fall and sites are not reservable during this time.

Call to find status of these sites.

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 this campground addsits own record

Extra vehicle$5

“a $5 fee is charged for additional vehicles” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice

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

What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · 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

Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Lake Sherwood closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service 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.

Closure: U.S. Forest Service status record · Oct 17, 2026

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 · 4

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

Greenwood Point CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 4.1 mi · walk-up
Pocahontas CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 7.0 mi · walk-up
Hidden Valley Recreation AreaGeorge Washington National Forest · 12 mi · walk-up
Tea Creek CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 26 mi · walk-up

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 17, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 14:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

158 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 107 mapped sites

62 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

98%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most roomLoop WSHR 026 169 ftLoop PINE 058 140 ftLoop MEAD 086 136 ftLoop MEAD 072 136 ftLoop MEAD 070 123 ft

Least roomLoop PINE 029 25 ftLoop PINE 030 25 ftLoop PINE 056 27 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 158 records

107 of 158 records located

Standard91Tent only13RV / electric1Group1Day use1

098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 001 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 001 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 016 001 002 003 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 014 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 83 of the 158 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 151 of the 158 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


KNOL	098	tent only nonelectric	29 ft		117 ft	238 ft	305 ft	$20
KNOL	099	tent only nonelectric	17 ft		113 ft	253 ft	317 ft	$20
KNOL	100	tent only nonelectric	35 ft		114 ft	310 ft	166 ft	$20
KNOL	101	tent only nonelectric	29 ft		113 ft	366 ft	262 ft	$20
KNOL	102	tent only nonelectric	47 ft		102 ft	365 ft	69 ft	$20
KNOL	103	tent only nonelectric	34 ft		102 ft	436 ft	82 ft	$20
KNOL	104	tent only nonelectric	35 ft		119 ft	449 ft	91 ft	$20
KNOL	105	tent only nonelectric	28 ft		86 ft	480 ft	223 ft	$20
KNOL	106	tent only nonelectric	30 ft		107 ft	470 ft	157 ft	$20
KNOL	107	tent only nonelectric	33 ft		63 ft	541 ft	258 ft	$20
KNOL	108	tent only nonelectric	23 ft		63 ft	546 ft	306 ft	$20
LAKE	001	group standard nonelectric			75 ft	476 ft	1,505 ft	$100
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X	type not stated	25 ft					$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X1	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X10	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X11	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X12	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X13	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X14	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X15	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X16	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X17	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X18	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X19	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X2	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X20	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X21	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X22	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X23	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X24	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X25	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X26	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X27	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X3	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X4	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X5	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X6	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X7	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X8	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES1	X9	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX	type not stated	30 ft					$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX1	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX10	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX11	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX12	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX13	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX14	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX15	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX16	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX2	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX3	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX4	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX5	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX6	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX7	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX8	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES2	XX9	type not stated						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES3	XXX	unnamed record	40 ft	yes				$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES4	XXXX	unnamed record	25 ft					$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES4	XXXX1	unnamed record						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES4	XXXX2	unnamed record						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES4	XXXX3	unnamed record						$33.97
MANAGEMENT SITES4	XXXX4	unnamed record						$33.97
MEAD	062	standard nonelectric	55 ft		62 ft	837 ft	3,235 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	063	standard nonelectric	40 ft		70 ft	785 ft		$20–$50
MEAD	064	standard nonelectric	25 ft		62 ft	427 ft	3,250 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	065	standard nonelectric	30 ft		120 ft	686 ft	3,224 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	066	standard nonelectric	40 ft	yes	43 ft	568 ft	3,168 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	067	standard nonelectric	40 ft	yes	43 ft	543 ft	3,208 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	068	standard nonelectric	35 ft		62 ft	388 ft	3,106 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	069	standard nonelectric	35 ft		62 ft	352 ft	3,166 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	070	standard nonelectric	30 ft		123 ft	157 ft	2,936 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	071	standard nonelectric			123 ft	42 ft	2,952 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	072	standard nonelectric	35 ft		136 ft	24 ft	3,036 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	073	standard nonelectric	30 ft	yes	62 ft	369 ft	3,234 ft	$20–$50
MEAD	074	standard nonelectric	35 ft		58 ft	372 ft		$20–$50
MEAD	075	standard nonelectric	25 ft	yes	58 ft	428 ft		$20–$50
MEAD	076	standard nonelectric	40 ft		81 ft	414 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	077	standard nonelectric	30 ft		120 ft	372 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	078	standard nonelectric	30 ft		66 ft	741 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	079	standard nonelectric	40 ft		84 ft	911 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	080	standard nonelectric	35 ft		47 ft	851 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	081	standard nonelectric	20 ft	yes	116 ft	511 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	082	standard nonelectric	35 ft	yes	43 ft	639 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	083	standard nonelectric	25 ft		43 ft	605 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	084	standard nonelectric	40 ft		118 ft	422 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	085	standard nonelectric	25 ft	yes	89 ft	698 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	086	standard nonelectric	20 ft		137 ft	449 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	087	standard nonelectric	40 ft		118 ft	588 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	088	standard nonelectric	50 ft		41 ft	786 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	089	standard nonelectric	40 ft		41 ft	804 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	090	standard nonelectric	40 ft		114 ft	909 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	091	standard nonelectric	30 ft		52 ft	891 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	092	standard nonelectric	30 ft		52 ft	926 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	093	standard nonelectric	40 ft		47 ft	895 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	094	standard nonelectric	35 ft		45 ft	827 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	095	standard nonelectric	40 ft		45 ft	786 ftMeadow Creek		$20–$50
MEAD	096	standard nonelectric	40 ft		62 ft	756 ft		$20–$50
MEAD	097	standard nonelectric	40 ft		62 ft	883 ft	3,277 ft	$20–$50
PICN	001	day use		yes	79 ft	435 ft	391 ft
PINE	027	standard nonelectric	25 ft		30 ft	873 ft	2,813 ft	$20–$50
PINE	028	standard nonelectric	25 ft		30 ft	876 ft	2,843 ft	$20–$50
PINE	029	standard nonelectric	25 ft		25 ft	706 ft	2,814 ft	$20–$50
PINE	030	standard nonelectric	25 ft		25 ft	704 ft	2,839 ft	$20–$50
PINE	031	standard nonelectric	25 ft		40 ft	605 ft	2,882 ft	$20–$50
PINE	032	standard nonelectric	30 ft		98 ft	528 ft	2,971 ft	$20–$50
PINE	033	standard nonelectric	30 ft		77 ft	473 ft	3,040 ft	$20–$50
PINE	034	standard nonelectric	30 ft		71 ft	404 ft	2,989 ft	$20–$50
PINE	035	standard nonelectric	30 ft		60 ft	349 ft	2,933 ft	$20–$50
PINE	036	standard nonelectric	30 ft	yes	60 ft	340 ft	2,873 ft	$20–$50
PINE	037	standard nonelectric	30 ft	yes	60 ft	282 ft	2,792 ft	$20–$50
PINE	038	standard nonelectric	30 ft		60 ft	231 ft	2,767 ft	$20–$50
PINE	039	standard nonelectric	30 ft		81 ft	199 ft	2,685 ft	$20–$50
PINE	040	standard nonelectric	30 ft		48 ft	171 ft	2,604 ft	$20–$50
PINE	041	standard nonelectric	30 ft		55 ft	201 ft	2,550 ft	$20–$50
PINE	042	tent only nonelectric			48 ft	219 ft	2,604 ft	$20
PINE	043	standard nonelectric	30 ft		45 ft	257 ft	2,460 ft	$20–$50
PINE	044	tent only nonelectric			45 ft	282 ft	2,505 ft	$20
PINE	045	standard nonelectric	25 ft		81 ft	323 ft	2,452 ft	$20–$50
PINE	046	standard nonelectric	25 ft		122 ft	444 ft	2,483 ft	$20–$50
PINE	047	standard nonelectric	25 ft		34 ft	617 ft	2,520 ft	$20–$50
PINE	048	standard nonelectric	25 ft		34 ft	631 ft	2,553 ft	$20–$50
PINE	049	standard nonelectric	25 ft		116 ft	747 ft	2,595 ft	$20–$50
PINE	050	standard nonelectric	25 ft		40 ft	603 ft	2,843 ft	$20–$50
PINE	051	standard nonelectric	25 ft	yes	82 ft	521 ft	2,847 ft	$20–$50
PINE	052	standard nonelectric	30 ft		56 ft	376 ft	2,615 ft	$20–$50
PINE	053	standard nonelectric	30 ft		56 ft	408 ft	2,603 ft	$20–$50
PINE	054	standard nonelectric	25 ft		31 ft	662 ft	2,253 ft	$20–$50
PINE	055	standard nonelectric	25 ft		31 ft	653 ft	2,224 ft	$20–$50
PINE	056	standard nonelectric	25 ft		27 ft	520 ft	2,205 ft	$20–$50
PINE	057	standard nonelectric	25 ft		27 ft	524 ft	2,178 ft	$20–$50
PINE	058	standard nonelectric	30 ft		141 ft	394 ft	2,168 ft	$20–$50
PINE	059	standard nonelectric	25 ft		82 ft	279 ft	2,079 ft	$20–$50
PINE	060	standard nonelectric	20 ft		53 ft	219 ft	2,073 ft	$20–$50
PINE	061	standard nonelectric	25 ft		53 ft	185 ft	2,021 ft	$20–$50
WDBL	016	standard nonelectric	40 ft	yes	80 ft	195 ft	1,096 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	001	standard nonelectric	40 ft		79 ft	412 ft	463 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	002	standard nonelectric	25 ft		50 ft	444 ft	1,471 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	003	standard nonelectric	25 ft		50 ft	399 ft	1,497 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	005	standard nonelectric	25 ft		79 ft	320 ft	1,502 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	006	standard nonelectric	25 ft		87 ft	212 ft	1,494 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	007	standard nonelectric	25 ft		42 ft	144 ft	1,444 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	008	standard nonelectric	30 ft		42 ft	185 ft	1,423 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	009	standard nonelectric	25 ft	yes	46 ft	172 ft	1,348 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	010	standard nonelectric	25 ft		46 ft	127 ft	1,361 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	011	standard electric	30 ft	yes	38 ft	171 ft	1,248 ft	$24–$35
WSHR	012	standard nonelectric	25 ft	yes	38 ft	138 ft	1,252 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	014	standard nonelectric	25 ft		80 ft	150 ft	1,171 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	017	standard nonelectric	25 ft		90 ft	158 ft	1,024 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	018	standard nonelectric	25 ft		90 ft	173 ft	943 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	019	standard nonelectric	25 ft		33 ft	162 ft	909 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	020	standard nonelectric	25 ft		33 ft	194 ft	942 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	021	standard nonelectric	25 ft		30 ft	165 ft	929 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	022	standard nonelectric	25 ft		30 ft	190 ft	950 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	023	standard nonelectric	25 ft		84 ft	195 ft	987 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	024	standard nonelectric	25 ft		84 ft	224 ft	1,046 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	025	standard nonelectric	25 ft		86 ft	299 ft	1,132 ft	$20–$50
WSHR	026	standard nonelectric	25 ft		169 ft	455 ft	1,310 ft	$20–$50

The agency files 7 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it files as day use and 6 it types MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

The records with no site name: Derived by CAMPANAC from the agency’s own campsite records: recreation.gov files some overnight records with no site name, only a row of X characters. A block is read as the campground’s own sites, filed without names, only where the agency types those records as campsites rather than MANAGEMENT, gives each one a coordinate, and their numbering continues the campground’s own numbered sites with no gap. Everything else is left uncounted, and where the evidence doesn’t decide the record is counted as no kind of site rather than guessed at · Sep 12, 2026

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 158 listed

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

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions

Coordinate38.00667, -80.01056

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Lake Sherwood Recreation Area and CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 0.1 mi

Bolar Mountain Recreation AreaGeorge Washington National Forest · 2.9 mi

McClintic PointGeorge Washington National Forest · 2.9 mi Greenwood Point CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 4.1 mi

Coles PointGeorge Washington National Forest · 4.7 mi McClintic Point CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 4.9 mi

Getting there

From White Sulphur Springs, travel north on State Route 92 for 15 miles to Neola, West Virginia. Turn east (right) on State Route 14 and travel 11 miles to the lake.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

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

This Afternoon49°Sunny

Tonight32°Areas Of Frost

Sunday57°Areas Of Frost then Sunny

Sunday Night34°Clear then Patchy Frost

NWS forecast for Hot Springs, VA

Source: National Weather Service, RNK forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

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.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: GATHRIGHT DAM, VA (USC00443310), 5 miles away and 940 ft lower

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

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless

Middle Mountain19,020 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

Oliver Mountain13,090 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

Little Allegheny Mountain10,514 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

Lake Sherwood 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 →

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: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 14:40 UTC). U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 107 of the 151 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 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 107 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 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: 0.16 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 69 rated federal campgrounds in West Virginia · 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

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (20 km) · Oct 7, 2026

Reported by: USA National Phenology Network (Nature's Notebook), reported peak color · Oct 7, 2026

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 place of any size: Hot Springs, VA, 8.5 mi W (a census designated place). Straight line.

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