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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · IL

Lone Point

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 20 opens May 20.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $16–$32Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 8061 on recreation.gov

Photos · USACE Ranger

80 ftLongest rig

650 ftElevation

300 ftWater · Lake Shelbyville

1.9 miNE of Shelbyville, IL

32%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices

In the agency’s own words

Lone Point is a secluded campground that sits on the western shore of Lake Shelbyville in the heart of central Illinois. This facility has a variety of campsites that can accommodate large and small groups, as well as individuals. The lake and surrounding land offer outdoor activities for people of all ages, including fishing, swimming, picnicking and simply relaxing. Visit the Lake Shelbyville, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for News Releases, Event Information, & Emergency Updates. https://www.facebook.com/LakeShelbyvilleUSACE Visit it our USACE Lake Shelbyville Website for more information on Lake Shelbyville. Keep reading

https://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Lake-Shelbyville/ 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 is 100% reservable. All campsites are equipped with electricity. The facility provides amenities like flush toilets, showers, a playground, dump station and boat ramp. It offers a separate area of camping for large groups of up to 80 people. The group camp area consists of 10 paved electric sites which can accommodate a total of 10 RVs and 30 tents, or 40 tents alone. The group area also provides a picnic shelter and water hydrant.

Natural Features

The Lone Point 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

Eagle Creek State Park, Little Illini & Chief Illini Hiking Trails, Hide N Seek at Coon Creek Trail, the city of Findlay, and Forrest Park in Shelbyville all provide great opportunities to explore Lake Shelbyville. The nearby Hunter & Fishermen Parking Lots, Woods Lake Waterfowl Refuge and Okaw Bluff Wetlands Complex are popular locations for wildlife watching, birding, and hunting near Lake Shelbyville.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Attention – Customers who do not arrive at the campground by 4 p.m. on the day after scheduled arrival date will be No Showed. Please Review the R1S No Show policy for complete details.

Rule

Must have a reservation prior to setting up on site.

Rule

Must check-in at fee booth during normal operation hours.

Everything else this campground posts · 7

Rule

One RV and three tents or four tents per campsite

Rule

Tent camping is permitted, but not recommended for some sites

Rule

The adjacent Lone Point Day Use Area has individual picnic sites as well as a picnic shelter which is available on a first come, first served basis.

Rule

The banks are steep and it may be difficult to get to the water from many sites

Rule

Hikers may want to call the park for Chief Illini Trail status prior to planning a trip; trail is occasionally closed for repairs

Rule

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; learn more

Rule

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 80
Hookups: 61 electric, 30 water, 30 sewer
Longest rig: 80 ft
Paved pads: 37 of 80
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

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.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…area also provides a picnic shelter and water hydrant. Natural Features The Lone Point area is heavily…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, Creek; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Picnicking; Visitor center
Night sky · 5th darkest of 30 in IL: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 61 of the 80 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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 20, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 20, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record

A night$16–$32plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$40–$72DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 17

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$16–$32

Standard Electric$16

Tent Only Nonelectric$16

Full Hookup$24

Buddy Site$32

Group area, a night$240

These are next season’s rates, May 20, 2027 to Sep 5, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$24–$40

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$40–$72

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$32 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026

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: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

80 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 61 mapped sites

66 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop LPOI 42 205 ftLoop LPOI 31 176 ftLoop LPOI 53 176 ftLoop LPOI 32 160 ftLoop LPOI 33 153 ft

Least roomLoop LPOI 29 37 ftLoop LPOI 30 37 ftLoop LPOI 68 45 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 80 sites

80 of 80 sites located

RV / electric61Type not stated19

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 GC1 W1 W10 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

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The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 61 of the 80 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.


LPOI	01	type not stated	65 ft	50 amp		768 ft
LPOI	02	type not stated	60 ft	50 amp		745 ft
LPOI	03	type not stated	45 ft	50 amp		737 ft
LPOI	04	type not stated	60 ft	50 amp		749 ft
LPOI	05	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	61 ft	682 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	06	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	61 ft	644 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	07	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	61 ft	610 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	08	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	68 ft	561 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	09	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	66 ft	512 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	10	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	66 ft	471 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	11	type not stated	65 ft	30 amp		360 ft
LPOI	12	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	83 ft	359 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	13	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	64 ft	346 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	14	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	64 ft	377 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	15	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	65 ft	390 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	24	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	82 ft	474 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	25	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	63 ft	469 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	26	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	63 ft	465 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	27	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	82 ft	497 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	28	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	50 ft	511 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	29	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	37 ft	461 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	30	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	37 ft	472 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	31	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	176 ft	267 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	32	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	160 ft	182 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	33	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp	153 ft	175 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	34	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	106 ft	244 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	35	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	100 ft	311 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	36	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	53 ft	352 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	37	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	50 ft	375 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	38	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	50 ft	367 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	42	standard electric	80 ft	30 amp	205 ft	340 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	43	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	89 ft	393 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	44	type not stated				174 ft
LPOI	45	type not stated		30 amp		154 ft
LPOI	46	type not stated	55 ft	30 amp		72 ft
LPOI	47	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	140 ft	125 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	48	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	97 ft	212 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	49	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	97 ft	153 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	50	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	153 ft	70 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	51	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	152 ft	110 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	52	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	152 ft	121 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	53	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	176 ft	111 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	54	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	69 ft	265 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	55	standard electric	80 ft	30 amp	69 ft	300 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	56	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp	92 ft	199 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	57	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp	73 ft	280 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	58	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	73 ft	346 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	59	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	49 ft	540 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	60	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	49 ft	540 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	61	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	58 ft	556 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	62	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	56 ft	603 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	63	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	52 ft	657 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	64	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	49 ft	708 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	65	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	49 ft	756 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	66	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	82 ft	755 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	67	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	79 ft	672 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	68	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp	45 ft	651 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	69	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	45 ft	608 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	70	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	52 ft	556 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	71	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	59 ft	506 ft	$16–$32
LPOI	72	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	66 ft	446 ft	$16–$32
MAYA	16	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	53 ft	400 ft	$16–$32
MAYA	17	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	53 ft	365 ft	$16–$32
MAYA	18	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	62 ft	345 ft	$16–$32
MAYA	19	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	64 ft	324 ft	$16–$32
MAYA	20	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	92 ft	345 ft	$16–$32
MAYA	21	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	92 ft	334 ft	$16–$32
MAYA	22	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	97 ft	369 ft	$16–$32
MAYA	23	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp	94 ft	438 ft	$16–$32
WALL	GC1	type not stated	60 ft	30 amp		272 ft
WALL	W1	type not stated	80 ft	30 amp		441 ft
WALL	W10	type not stated	80 ft	30 amp		390 ft
WALL	W2	type not stated	60 ft	30 amp		395 ft
WALL	W3	type not stated	55 ft	30 amp		366 ft
WALL	W4	type not stated	70 ft	30 amp		374 ft
WALL	W5	type not stated	80 ft	30 amp		346 ft
WALL	W6	type not stated	40 ft	30 amp		292 ft
WALL	W7	type not stated	60 ft	30 amp		313 ft
WALL	W8	type not stated	50 ft	30 amp		332 ft
WALL	W9	type not stated	60 ft	30 amp		376 ft

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

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 80 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate39.45222, -88.74028

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone217-774-3951

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Lone Point Group Camp0.1 mi

Coon Creek (IL)1.2 mi

Lithia Springs1.6 mi

Opossum Creek1.8 mi

Wilborn Creek (Group Camp)8.7 mi Sullivan Marina and Campground9.3 mi

Getting there

From Shelbyville, Illinois, go 4.5 miles north on State Route 128 to County Road 1750 N. Turn right and drive 0.9 miles to County Road 1900 E, then make a left and go 0.35 mile. Turn right onto County Road 1785 N and continue 2.5 miles to County Road 2150 E. Turn right and go 0.7 mile to County Road 1725 N, then take a left and travel 0.25 mile to County Road 2175 E. Turn right and continue 0.7 mile to the campground.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight37°Chance Rain Showers then Partly Cloudy28% rain

Saturday59°Patchy Frost then Sunny

Saturday Night33°Clear then Areas Of Frost

Sunday66°Widespread Frost then Sunny

NWS forecast for Shelbyville, IL

Source: National Weather Service, ILX forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

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.

90°32°10°

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: SHELBYVILLE DAM, IL (USC00117876), 4 miles away and at about the same elevation

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Lone Point 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 61 of the 80 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

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, taken as the median across the 80 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.57 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 30 rated federal campgrounds in Illinois · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’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 town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026