Lake Sinclair Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $9–$15Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 44All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
The majestic Lake Sinclair was created when the waters of the Oconee River were impounded by Georgia Power Company in 1953 to operate a hydro-electric generating station. The Lake Sinclair recreational area is located in the heart of Georgia. This 15,330 acre lake (with 417 miles of shoreline!), ideal for families, scout troup meetings, or church gatherings. Lake Sinclair Recreation Area is a great place for picnicking, hiking, boating, fishing and swimming. and offers 33 campsites, with 5 campsites for campers with electric and water being available. Keep reading
Recreation
Access to Lake Sinclair Fishing Hiking Trails Swim Beach Facilities Bath House with toilets and showers RV Dump Station Boat Ramp Boat Dock Swim Beach Picnic Area with Grill Natural Features Lake Sinclair Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (706) 485-7110.
Nearby Attractions
Murder Creek Falls - 5 miles Dennis Station Boat Ramp - 9 miles Downtown Eatonton - 12 miles Milledgeville- 15 miles
What the agency tells you
5 sites with electric and water hookups are for RV/Trailers ONLY and are not lake view Tent sites DO NOT have electric or water hook ups, but have access to bath houses and drinking water provided by faucets located on each loop Generators are NOT permitted Quiet hours are from 10pm to 7am Alcohol not allowed in day use area Camp site ccupancy limited to 5 persons or immediate family. No Fireworks on the National Forest! Possessing, discharging or using any kind of fireworks or other pyrotecnic or explosive device. 36 CFR 261.52 (f)
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 44 · 39 tent-only
- Hookups
- 5 electric, 5 water
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Facilities Bath House with toilets and showers RV Dump Station Boat Ramp Boat Dock Swim Beach Picnic Area with Grill”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Water access
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:52 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $9–$15 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 15:52 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
44 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 44 mapped sitesAll 44 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. 44 of the 44 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.
| A | 1 | standard electric | 80 ft | 550 ft | $15 |
| A | 2 | standard electric | 99 ft | 452 ft | $15 |
| A | 3 | standard electric | 52 ft | 591 ft | $15 |
| A | 4 | standard electric | 44 ft | 618 ft | $15 |
| A | 5 | standard electric | 44 ft | 654 ft | $15 |
| B | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 104 ft | 201 ft | $9 |
| B | 11 | tent only nonelectric | 170 ft | 57 ft | $9 |
| B | 12 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 160 ft | $9 |
| B | 13 | tent only nonelectric | 62 ft | 241 ft | $9 |
| B | 14 | tent only nonelectric | 62 ft | 282 ft | $9 |
| B | 15 | tent only nonelectric | 73 ft | 328 ft | $9 |
| B | 6 | tent only nonelectric | 27 ft | 341 ft | $9 |
| B | 7 | tent only nonelectric | 125 ft | 300 ft | $9 |
| B | 8 | tent only nonelectric | 27 ft | 314 ft | $9 |
| B | 9 | tent only nonelectric | 158 ft | 142 ft | $9 |
| C | 16 | tent only nonelectric | 144 ft | 533 ft | $9 |
| C | 17 | tent only nonelectric | 103 ft | 676 ft | $9 |
| C | 18 | tent only nonelectric | 89 ft | 708 ft | $9 |
| C | 19 | tent only nonelectric | 89 ft | 638 ft | $9 |
| C | 20 | tent only nonelectric | 96 ft | 750 ft | $9 |
| C | 21 | tent only nonelectric | 112 ft | 599 ft | $9 |
| C | 22 | tent only nonelectric | 80 ft | 747 ft | $9 |
| C | 23 | tent only nonelectric | 80 ft | 714 ft | $9 |
| C | 24 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 580 ft | $9 |
| C | 25 | tent only nonelectric | 136 ft | 694 ft | $9 |
| C | 26 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 549 ft | $9 |
| D | 27 | tent only nonelectric | 73 ft | 274 ft | $9 |
| D | 28 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 221 ft | $9 |
| D | 29 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 185 ft | $9 |
| D | 30 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 120 ft | $9 |
| D | 31 | tent only nonelectric | 66 ft | 56 ft | $9 |
| D | 32 | tent only nonelectric | 69 ft | 50 ft | $9 |
| D | 33 | tent only nonelectric | 69 ft | 136 ft | $9 |
| D | 34 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 58 ft | $9 |
| D | 35 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 49 ft | $9 |
| D | 36 | tent only nonelectric | 96 ft | 61 ft | $9 |
| D | 37 | tent only nonelectric | 96 ft | 87 ft | $9 |
| D | 38 | tent only nonelectric | 117 ft | 194 ft | $9 |
| D | 39 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 264 ft | $9 |
| D | 40 | tent only nonelectric | 88 ft | 157 ft | $9 |
| D | 41 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 219 ft | $9 |
| D | 42 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 187 ft | $9 |
| D | 43 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 221 ft | $9 |
| D | 44 | tent only nonelectric | 83 ft | 299 ft | $9 |
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 44 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Oconee River CampgroundOconee National Forest · 36 mi
Amity Recreation Area62 mi
Winfield64 mi
Gill Point69 mi
Bussey Point Campground72 miFrom I-20 Exit 114 in Madison Ga Take US 441/129 south 23 miles to the intersection of US 129 south., also known as the Gray Rd. Turn right at the light and travel 8 miles to the intersection of GA- 212,turn left onto GA 212 and travel 1 mile turn left onto Twin Bridges Rd. travel 1.1 miles then turn left 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 Eatonton, GA
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°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 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
Lake Sinclair Campground is in Georgia’s 10th congressional district. Its representative, Mike Collins (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →