Lock 6
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- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:23 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lock 6 Park is located on what once was a working lock and dam on the Black Warrior River. The boat ramp provides access to fishing and other recreation opportunities. Visitors will appreciate the group shelter and pit toilet conveniently located on the grounds. An artesian well flows naturally on the property. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, boating, picnicing, family gatherings and wildlife watching are recreational activities that can be enjoyed at Lock 6.
Natural Features
Running artesian well on-site
What the agency tells you
The rental of this shelter is subject to the following conditions:
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.
Items that can use excessive water, such as water slides, are prohibited.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
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.
Confetti and/or water balloons are prohibited.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…will appreciate the group shelter and pit toilet conveniently located on the grounds. An artesian…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Picnicking
- Water access
1 of 1 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:23 UTC
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
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What you actually pay
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 15:23 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 6 | Lock 6 Shelter | day use | 637 ft | $25 |
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 Forkland, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 53°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 35°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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Lock 6 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 →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyTerri A. SewellU.S. Representative · Alabama’s 7th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationKatie Boyd BrittU.S. Senator · Alabama
- Your senator, on the same appropriationTommy TubervilleU.S. Senator · Alabama
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Lock 6 has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Terri A. Sewell, I’m a constituent in Alabama’s 7th district. Lock 6, Alabama carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Lock 6 (Alabama) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Lock 6 has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Katie Boyd Britt, I’m a constituent in Alabama. Lock 6, Alabama carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Lock 6 (Alabama) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Lock 6 has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Tommy Tuberville, I’m a constituent in Alabama. Lock 6, Alabama carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Lock 6 (Alabama) via campanac.com