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Millers Ferry Campground

ReservableBookable through April 17; tomorrow opens April 18.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 14:52 UTC
A night: $26From, per site
Sites: 66All of them booked ahead

Photos · USACE

100 ftLongest rig

80 ftElevation

80 ftWater · an unnamed pond

8.4 miNW of Camden, AL

64%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices

In the agency’s own words

Millers Ferry Campground, also known as East Bank, is located on scenic Dannelly Reservoir in Alabama's Black Prairie Belt. The reservoir sits on the Alabama River and covers roughly 27 square miles, boasting more than 500 miles of shoreline. Boating, fishing, hunting and hiking are popular activities. Keep reading

Recreation

The park offers excellent fishing for bass, crappie, bluegill and catfish, and numerous fishing tournaments and annual festivals are held in the immediate area. Whitetail deer and wild turkeys roam the park, creating excellent bow-hunting opportunities.

Facilities

This campground offers 66 family sites with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a dump station. A fishing dock, boat ramp, fish cleaning stations and playground provide additional recreation opportunities for guests.

Natural Features

The Black Prairie Belt is characterized by rich, dark soils and a mosaic of rolling grasslands and dense hardwood and pine forests.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Visitors are expected to be aware of park general rules

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.

Rule

Check-in time is 4 p.m. and check-out time is 3 p.m.

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 66
Hookups: 66 electric, 66 water
Longest rig: 100 ft
Paved pads: 43 of 66
Accessible sites: 66
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a dump station.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a dump station. A fishing…”
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: Reservoir, River, Beach; Boating; Fishing; Hunting; Swimming
Night sky · 4th darkest of 41 in AL: 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

38 of 64 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:52 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBooked

Booking window6 months outBookable now through April 17, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 18, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$26plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$60DerivedFriday 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

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night$26

Standard Electric$26

The agency has already scheduled a change from Jan 1, 2027: $28 a night.

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.

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$34

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$60

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $26 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

recreation.gov availability, read 14:52 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

67 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 66 mapped sites

89 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop MILL 40 233 ftLoop MILL 60 141 ftLoop MILL 37 132 ftLoop MILL 51 129 ftLoop MILL 45 122 ft

Least roomLoop MILL 12 45 ftLoop MILL 13 45 ftLoop MILL 11 54 ft

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

All 67 records

66 of 67 records located

RV / electric66

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 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

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

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

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 66 of the 67 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.


MILL	01	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp	yes	104 ft	73 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	02	standard electric	69 ft	50 amp	yes	104 ft	93 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	03	standard electric	73 ft	50 amp	yes	94 ft	84 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	04	standard electric	76 ft	50 amp	yes	93 ft	97 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	05	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp	yes	93 ft	73 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	06	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	yes	91 ft	98 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	07	standard electric	100 ft	50 amp	yes	91 ft	48 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	08	standard electric	89 ft	50 amp	yes	87 ft	41 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	09	standard electric	72 ft	50 amp	yes	86 ft	61 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	10	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp	yes	86 ft	97 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	11	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp	yes	54 ft	69 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	12	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp	yes	45 ft	53 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	13	standard electric	83 ft	50 amp	yes	45 ft	30 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	14	standard electric	83 ft	50 amp	yes	77 ft	50 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	15	standard electric	90 ft	50 amp	yes	58 ft	67 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	16	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	yes	58 ft	79 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	17	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp	yes	65 ft	60 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	18	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	yes	66 ft	77 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	19	standard electric	39 ft	50 amp	yes	65 ft	91 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	20	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	yes	65 ft	71 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	21	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp	yes	71 ft	34 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	22	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp	yes	85 ft	45 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	23	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp	yes	81 ft	43 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	24	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp	yes	78 ft	66 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	25	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp	yes	69 ft	66 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	26	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp	yes	109 ft	171 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	27	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes	89 ft	189 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	28	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	89 ft	184 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	29	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	65 ft	34 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	30	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	yes	65 ft	under 10 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	31	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp	yes	88 ft	56 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	32	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes	81 ft	54 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	33	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes	81 ft	25 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	34	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes	89 ft	52 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	35	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes	116 ft	51 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	36	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes	120 ft	53 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	37	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes	132 ft	75 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	38	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes	117 ft	113 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	39	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	yes	117 ft	180 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	40	standard electric	33 ft	50 amp	yes	233 ft	313 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	41	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp	yes	103 ft	226 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	42	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	85 ft	214 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	43	standard electric	68 ft	50 amp	yes	85 ft	233 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	44	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	yes	119 ft	201 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	45	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	yes	122 ft	190 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	46	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	yes	66 ft	136 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	47	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	yes	66 ft	169 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	48	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	yes	57 ft	199 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	49	standard electric	41 ft	50 amp	yes	57 ft	175 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	50	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp	yes	58 ft	177 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	51	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp	yes	129 ft	305 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	52	standard electric	41 ft	50 amp	yes	84 ft	337 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	53	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp	yes	84 ft	377 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	54	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	yes	97 ft	187 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	55	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	yes	97 ft	257 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	56	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	yes	105 ft	285 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	57	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp	yes	95 ft	369 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	58	standard electric	74 ft	50 amp	yes	95 ft	382 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	59	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp	yes	109 ft	416 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	60	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	yes	141 ft	486 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	61	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	yes	100 ft	86 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	62	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	yes	100 ft	105 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	63	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	yes	114 ft	61 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	64	standard electric	25 ft	50 amp	yes	114 ft	50 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	65	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp	yes	110 ft	81 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	66	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp	yes	110 ft	100 ftWilliam 'Bill' Dannelly Reservoir	$26
MILL	SHEL	day use		50 amp	yes

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.

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 67 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

Coordinate32.11583, -87.38972

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone334-682-4191

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Training Dike Park0.1 mi

Gees Bend Park6.2 mi

Chilatchee Creek7.0 mi

Elm Bluff Campground16 mi

Six Mile Creek26 mi

Isaac Creek35 mi

Getting there

From Camden, Alabama, take State Route 28 northwest for 12 miles. Turn right before the Lee Long Bridge and follow signs into 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

Today68°Sunny

Tonight46°Clear

Sunday69°Sunny

Sunday Night43°Clear

NWS forecast for Catherine, AL

Source: National Weather Service, MOB forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 55°F, day 79°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°30°

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.

Measured at: THOMASVILLE, AL (USC00018178), 24 miles away and 310 ft higher

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

Millers Ferry Campground 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 →

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: recreation.gov is offering sites on 30 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

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 66 of the 66 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 66 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: 0.3 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 41 rated federal campgrounds in Alabama · 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 place of any size: Catherine, AL, 5.7 mi SE (a census designated place). Straight line.

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