Lone Point Group Camp
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 122 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lone Point Group Camp is a secluded group camp that sits on the western shore of Lake Shelbyville in the heart of central Illinois. This facility has 10 full-hookup 30 AMP sites that can accommodate large and small groups. The lake and surrounding land offer outdoor activities for people of all ages, including fishing, swimming, picnicking and simply relaxing. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Shelbyville offers a multitude of fishing opportunities for catfish, crappie, largemouth bass, muskie, walleye, white bass and bluegill. Visitors have access to a multi-lane boat ramp and courtesy dock at the adjacent Lone Point Day Use Area. For those without a boat, several ponds with farmed fish are available around the lake. Hunting areas located within a short drive offer numerous game species, including quail, rabbit, pheasant, deer, dove, turkey, waterfowl and woodcock. Hikers can explore the lake shore using a number of trails, including the 11-mile Chief Illini backpacking trail, which begins nearby and runs along the edge of the lake.
Facilities
Lone point Group Camp consists of 10 full-hookup 30 AMP sites which can accommodate a total of 10 RVs and 30 tents, or 40 tents alone. The group area also provides a picnic shelter, group firepit, and swings. The facility provides amenities like flush toilets, showers, a playground, dump station and boat ramp.
Natural Features
The Lone Point Group Camp area is heavily forested with plenty of shade. Oak and hickory are the lake region's dominant tree species. Foliage turns a variety of red, orange, purple and yellow each fall, while prairie flowers dot the landscape in spring and summer. Numerous species of songbirds, shorebirds, waterfowl and raptors inhabit the lake area, as do mammals such as cottontail rabbit, white-tail deer, gray and fox squirrel, muskrat and mink.
Nearby Attractions
Wolf Creek State Park, Woods Lake Waterfowl Refuge and Okaw Bluff Wetlands Complex are popular locations for wildlife watching, birding and hunting near Lake Shelbyville.
What the agency tells you
Group Leader is responsible for checking in at the Lone Point Campground fee booth during operating hours to receive tags and information.
The banks are steep and it may be difficult to get to the water from many sites
Hikers may want to call the park for Chief Illini Trail status prior to planning a trip; trail is occasionally closed for repairs
Everything else this campground posts · 3
No outside firewood allowed; obtain or purchase firewood at or near your camping destination and burn it on-site; firewood can carry invasive insects and diseases that destroy forests
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Group Campsite Dimensions Site 1: 10 x 80 Site 2: 10 x 63 Site 3: 10 x 60 Site 4: 10 x 74 Site 5: 10 x 80 Site 6: 12 x 45 Site 7: 10 x 66 Site 8: 10 x 50 Site 9: 10 x 63 Site 10: 10 x 80 *Note: Dimensions do not include picnic area pad*
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 12 electric, 2 water, 2 sewer
- Paved pads
- 2 of 12
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…The facility provides amenities like flush toilets, showers, a playground, dump station and boat ramp.…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The facility provides amenities like flush toilets, showers, a playground, dump station and boat ramp.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 2 of the 12 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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 · 12
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 sites · the site map
All 12 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. 1 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Walleye | Group Camp | group standard electric | 30 amp | 272 ft | $240 |
| Walleye | Single Campsite | standard electric | 50 amp | ||
| Walleye | Single Campsite 1 | standard electric | |||
| Walleye | Single Campsite 10 | standard electric | |||
| Walleye | Single Campsite 2 | standard electric | |||
| Walleye | Single Campsite 3 | standard electric | |||
| Walleye | Single Campsite 4 | standard electric | |||
| Walleye | Single Campsite 5 | standard electric | |||
| Walleye | Single Campsite 6 | standard electric | |||
| Walleye | Single Campsite 7 | standard electric | |||
| Walleye | Single Campsite 8 | standard electric | |||
| Walleye | Single Campsite 9 | standard electric |
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
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 Shelbyville, IL
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
Lone Point Group Camp is in Illinois’s 15th congressional district. Its representative, Mary Miller (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →