Meriwether Lewis Campground, Milepost 385.9
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This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 3132 of them walk-up
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The Meriwether Lewis Campground at milepost 385.9, on the northern end of the parkway, includes a 31-sites campground, flush toilets, hiking trails, a section of the Old Trace, picnic areas, and exhibits. Campground sites are on a first-come, first-serve basis, no reservations. Pull-through and back-in sites are available. Campgrounds are typically busiest during the spring and fall, especially during holiday weekends.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
Around the campground
- Night sky · 25th darkest of 95 in TN
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
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 Hohenwald, TN
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 72°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Meriwether Lewis Campground, Milepost 385.9 is in Tennessee’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Andy Ogles (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →