Lock 1
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:39 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lock 1 Park is situated on the historical Tombigbee River cut off. The park offers a boat ramp, picnic shelter, flush tiolets, primitive campsites and parking lot. An interesting feature is the reminance of Old Lock 1 completed around 1897. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, picnicing and wildlife watching are just a few outdoor activities that can be done at the park.
Facilities
Block restrooms with flush toilets and shelter with electricity Charges & Cancellations NO REFUNDS OR RAIN CHECKS OF RESERVATION FEE. Cancellation due to inclement weather may be rescheduled on another open day within 6 months of original reservation date. The reservation holder must show original reservation receipt and this completed page at time of rescheduling reservation.
What the agency tells you
The rental of this shelter is subject to the following conditions:
Day users may rent the picnic shelters for a fee of $40. It reserves the shelter for the day. It does not guarantee entry into the park nor special treatment so customers are urged to show up early.
Excessive noise is PROHIBITED. This includes the operation or use of any audio or other noise producing device including, but not limited to: radios, televisions, stereos, musical instruments, and motorized equipment in a loud and disruptive manner.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
Items that can use excessive water, such as water slides, are prohibited.
The use of water balloons is prohibited.
Boisterous, rowdy and/or disorderly actions by individuals are prohibited.
The group/sponsor will not charge the public a fee to enter the shelter or for items the group/sponsor possesses (i.e., selling of food plates).
All vehicles must be parked in designated parking spaces. Vehicles should not be parked off pavement or gravel area without special written permission.
Park closes at 10:00 p.m.
Shelter should be cleaned, lights turned off, and area vacated by closing time.
All trash at shelter and surrounding area (including parking lot) should be picked up and placed in garbage cans. If garbage cans become full, excess trash should be placed in bags and stacked next to garbage cans. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR LEAVING THE SHELTER THE WAY YOU FOUND IT.
Group size will be limited to seating and parking capacity of shelter and parking area.
NO REFUNDS OR RAIN CHECKS OF RESERVATION FEE. Cancellation due to inclement weather may be rescheduled on another open day within 6 months of original reservation date. The reservation holder must show original reservation receipt and this completed page at time of rescheduling reservation.
The use of confetti and/or water balloons are prohibited.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…be done at the park. Facilities Block restrooms with flush toilets and shelter with electricity Charges &…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:39 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
“NO REFUNDS OR RAIN CHECKS OF RESERVATION FEE. Cancellation due to inclement weather may be rescheduled on another open day within 6 months of original reservation date. The reservation holder must show original reservation receipt and this completed page at time of rescheduling reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Lock 1 closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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.
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 150 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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recreation.gov availability, read 15:39 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
| Lock 1 | Lock 1 | day use | 54 ft | $40 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for St. Stephens, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 53°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 36°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
Lock 1 is in Alabama’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Terri Sewell (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →