U.S. Forest Service · Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area · VT
Little Rock Pond/Green Mountain Loop
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
1,860 ftElevation
under 10 ftWater · Little Rock Pond
12.3 miSE of West Rutland, VT
40%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 6th darkest of 13 in VT
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
The Green Mountain Connector Trail, found across the road and slightly west of the parking lot, heads southwest for 0.6 miles to its junction with the Green Mountain Trail. Follow the blue blazes. From here the trail ascends, following old woods roads for the next mile and leads to the summit of Green Mountain at 2.5 miles. The trail continues along the ridgeline and passes several spur trails that lead to excellent views of the surrounding mountains and Little Rock Pond. Crossing ledges the trail descends steadily to its junction with the Little Rock Pond Loop Trail at the north end of the pond. Keep reading
This trail leads to the Appalachian/Long Trail, in either direction. At the south end of the pond is where the tenting area, shelter and a Green Mountain Club caretaker are found. Follow the AT/LT, blazed with white, south on the relatively flat 2-mile hike back to the parking area at Forest Road 10. Please practice Leave No Trace ethics, such as carry out what you carry in.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, in Rutland County
- Peak color
Source: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 14, 2026
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
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: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Greendale CampgroundGreen Mountain National Forest · 7.7 mi
Hapgood PondGreen Mountain National Forest · 11 mi
Winhall Brook Camping Area18 mi
Stoughton Pond Rec Area23 mi
Grout Pond CampgroundGreen Mountain National Forest · 25 miGrout Pond Recreation AreaGreen Mountain National Forest · 25 mi
Greendale CampgroundGreen Mountain National Forest · 7.7 miHapgood PondGreen Mountain National Forest · 11 miWinhall Brook Camping Area18 miStoughton Pond Rec Area23 miGrout Pond CampgroundGreen Mountain National Forest · 25 miGrout Pond Recreation AreaGreen Mountain National Forest · 25 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight31°Chance Rain Showers then Slight Chance Rain And Snow Showers53% rain
Saturday38°Slight Chance Snow Showers then Partly Sunny16% rain
Saturday Night23°Mostly Clear
Sunday49°Sunny
NWS forecast for Danby, VT
Source: National Weather Service, BTV forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
90°32°0°
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: SUNDERLAND 2, VT (USC00438160), 23 miles away and 960 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
developing
Roadless
Roadless
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 28, 2026
Who answers for this land
Little Rock Pond/Green Mountain Loop is in Vermont’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Becca Balint (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
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 · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 14, 2026
Reported by: Vermont Dept. of Forests, Parks and Recreation, reported peak color · Oct 14, 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: Danby, VT, 3.5 mi NNE (a census designated place). Straight line.