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Modoc

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:58 UTC

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:58 UTC
A night: $22–$64When it reopens, per site
Sites: 70In the agency’s record

Photos · USACE M. FAIR

48 ftLongest rig

340 ftElevation

95 ftWater · J. Strom Thurmond Reservoir

8.7 miNW of Evans, GA

53%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices

In the agency’s own words

Modoc Campground is located on J. Strom Thurmond Lake, only five miles away from the Lake Thurmond Visitor Center and Dam. Camping at Modoc is ripe with many different opportunities for relaxation, skill-building, family bonding, and nature appreciation. The 70,000+ acre lake and 1,000+ miles of shoreline are prime for activities that facilitate such opportunities such as boating, water skiing, swimming, fishing, kayaking, hiking, biking, bird watching, and so much more of course! Keep reading

Recreation

Thurmond Lake provides some of the best fishing, hunting, and water sports in the southeastern United States. Anglers fish for largemouth bass, bream, crappie, catfish and striped bass. The large lake offers great conditions for exciting activities such as boating, water skiing, jet skiing, canoeing and swimming. When recreating at Thurmond Lake, we hope to give our visitors opportunities to bond, appreciate nature, relive stress, improve skills, and improve physical fitness.

Facilities

Modoc Campground has many facilities that every camper can enjoy! The gatehouse has friendly camp hosts and information about the campground and local area. There are four bathhouses spread throughout the campground that have flush toilets and showers. The boat ramp and courtesy dock are conveniently placed with lots of parking. For the young campers, there is a playground on the first loop with a bathhouse conveniently next to it. For campers of all ages, there is a shaded hiking trail that winds through the campground showcasing the beautiful pine and hardwood trees. For camper convenience, there is a dump station and dumpsters located in the campground.

Natural Features

Water/ Land: Modoc Campground is on the shoreline of the J Strom Thurmond Lake that is over 70,000 acres, and surrounded with a mix of pine and hardwood trees which offer shade and visual interest. Wildlife: Wildlife is abundant around the lake. Visitors regularly see southern bald eagles, migratory waterfowl, neo-tropical birds, wild turkeys, and whitetail deer. Weather/ Climate: Average temperatures during the camping season starts out at 76 degrees Fahrenheit and peaks in July at 91 degrees Fahrenheit. May receives the least amount of rainfall on average, but increased rainfall for June, July, and August.

Nearby Attractions

Numerous parks and recreation areas lie around Thurmond Lake, providing additional settings for outdoor activities such as, boating, swimming, hunting, and hiking. There are many USACE managed day-use areas within 10 miles where registered campers may enter for free by displaying their campground hangtag pass. Within five miles, campers may visit the dam, Visitor Center, and various USACE trails. Nearby cities house museums, art galleries, zoos, restaurants, and shopping areas. The Augusta National Golf Club hosts the Masters Golf Tournament annually the first week of April.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Gates open at 7:00am and close at 10:00pm. Combination lock codes will be issued to registered campers at check-in. If you need to leave due to an emergency and have trouble opening the gate, please notify the on-duty camp host.

Rule

Check out time is 2 p.m. Starting on January, 1, 2025 check out time is 1 p.m. Check in time is 3 p.m. Please call ahead to confirm early check in.

Rule

No more than 12 campers allowed per site, and 4 vehicles per site if space allows. If vehicles do not fit, vehicles must be parked at the overflow lot.

Everything else this campground posts · 12

Rule

One wheeled camping unit (RV, Camper, Camper van/truck, etc) per single site and must be parked on impact pad. Tents are restricted to impact pad.

Rule

Scooters, UTVs, and ATVs are prohibited; however, golf carts are allowed per campground rules. See Park Attendant at the campground gatehouse for more information.

Rule

Maximum stay is 14-days within 30 day period. Changing names on a reservation, changing campsites, or making multiple reservations in order to stay over 14-days is prohibited and applicable across USACE campgrounds. Violaters may have reservations cancelled.

Rule

Alcohol is prohibited

Rule

Keep your campsite and campground clean. Keep your trash contained and frequently remove trash from campsite (dumpsters located within campground). Do not leave litter in fire ring or on campsite upon check out.

Rule

Gray water (any wastewater from sinks, dishwashing, bathing, etc) or other waste water such as black water must be disposed of properly at campground dump station.

Rule

All pets must be penned, caged, or on a leash no longer than 6 feet; pets are prohibited on swim beaches, playgrounds, and in restrooms. You MUST clean up after your pet!

Rule

Fireworks and firearms are prohibited.

Rule

All shorelines adjacent to campsites are public property.

Rule

For current lake conditions, call 1-800-533-3478 ext. 1147

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

For a complete set of rules and regulations concerning, please refer to Title 36, Chapter III, Part 327 - Rules and Regulations Governing Public Use of Corps of Engineers Water Resources Development Projects.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Oct 1, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 70
Hookups: 66 electric, 70 water
Longest rig: 48 ft
Accessible sites: 2
Pets: Allowed
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…throughout the campground that have flush toilets and showers. The boat ramp and courtesy dock are…”
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, Beach; Biking; Birding; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Kayaking; Swimming; Water access; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 21st darkest of 37 in SC: 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

Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:58 UTC

recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$22–$64plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

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

What’s open near here

Tell me when it reopens

Watch for it to come back

One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.

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.

Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, when it reopens$22–$64

Standard Nonelectric$22

Standard Electric$26

Standard Electric$28

Standard Electric$32

Standard Electric$64

These are next season’s rates, Apr 2, 2027 to Sep 11, 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.

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 · 4

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 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

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

Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Modoc closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.

Closure: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers status record · Oct 16, 2026

There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.

Open within 60 miles · 2

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

Lick Fork Lake Recreation AreaSumter National Forest · 11 mi
Brick House Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 58 mi · 24 sites

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 16, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 15:58 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

70 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 67 mapped sites

104 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop MOD1 011 357 ftLoop MOD1 020 355 ftLoop MOD1 029 325 ftLoop MOD1 015 235 ftLoop MOD1 043 207 ft

Least roomLoop MOD1 038 58 ftLoop MOD1 039 58 ftLoop MOD1 027 59 ft

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

All 70 sites

70 of 70 sites located

Standard1RV / electric66Type not stated3

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

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

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 70 of the 70 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 67 of the 70 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.


MOD1	001	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp		112 ft	302 ft	184 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	002	standard electric	25 ft	30 amp		112 ft	263 ft	261 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	003	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp		108 ft	169 ft	377 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	004	standard electric	28 ft	30 amp		125 ft	166 ft	481 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	005	standard electric	34 ft	30 amp		145 ft	141 ft	521 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	006	standard electric	28 ft	30 amp		108 ft	267 ft	335 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	007	standard electric	34 ft	30 amp		99 ft	67 ft	954 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	008	standard electric	36 ft	30 amp		99 ft	80 ft	1,049 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	009	standard electric	36 ft	30 amp		104 ft	36 ft	1,089 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	010	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		112 ft	67 ft	965 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	011	standard nonelectric	32 ft			357 ft	53 ft	939 ft	$22
MOD1	012	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		112 ft	55 ft	877 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	013	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		150 ft	55 ft	912 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	014	standard electric	36 ft	30 amp		104 ft	72 ft	1,025 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	015	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		235 ft	38 ft	767 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	016	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		115 ft	184 ft	452 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	017	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		115 ft	122 ft	512 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	018	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		116 ft	68 ft	429 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	019	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		116 ft	174 ft	323 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	020	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp		355 ft	54 ft	718 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	021	type not stated	32 ft	50 amp			84 ft	643 ft
MOD1	022	type not stated	42 ft	50 amp			53 ft	563 ft
MOD1	023	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		106 ft	57 ft	305 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	024	standard electric	28 ft	50 amp		87 ft	173 ft	101 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	025	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		87 ft	124 ft	114 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	026	standard electric	24 ft	50 amp	yes	76 ft	74 ft	141 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	027	standard electric	34 ft	50 amp		59 ft	77 ft	168 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	028	standard electric	25 ft	50 amp		59 ft	46 ft	136 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	029	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		325 ft	61 ft	969 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	030	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		136 ft	31 ft	1,364 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	031	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		136 ft	57 ft	1,246 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	032	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		143 ft	80 ft	1,103 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	033	standard electric	25 ft	50 amp		115 ft	64 ft	278 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	034	standard electric	25 ft	50 amp	yes	115 ft	86 ft	238 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	035	standard electric	32 ft	50 amp		96 ft	97 ft	152 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	036	standard electric	24 ft	50 amp		106 ft	29 ft	262 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	037	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		123 ft	58 ft	688 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	038	standard electric	32 ft	50 amp		58 ft	44 ft	794 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	039	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		58 ft	71 ft	818 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	040	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		78 ft	77 ft	887 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	041	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		82 ft	66 ft	1,014 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	042	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		82 ft	53 ft	1,082 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	043	standard electric	24 ft	50 amp		207 ft	64 ft	953 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	044	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		162 ft	269 ft	829 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	045	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		133 ft	110 ft	954 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	046	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		133 ft	45 ft	1,069 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	047	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		80 ft	115 ft	977 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	048	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		80 ft	111 ft	973 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	049	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		85 ft	107 ft	920 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	050	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		104 ft	87 ft	816 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	051	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		91 ft	63 ft	708 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	052	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		83 ft	98 ft	682 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	053	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		77 ft	132 ft	654 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	054	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		77 ft	133 ft	616 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	055	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		92 ft	93 ft	549 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	056	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		103 ft	66 ft	507 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	057	standard electric	32 ft	50 amp		114 ft	65 ft	479 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	058	standard electric	26 ft	50 amp		121 ft	58 ft	459 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	059	type not stated	20 ft	50 amp			52 ft	430 ft
MOD1	060	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		125 ft	105 ft	173 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	061	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		125 ft	93 ft	219 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	062	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		98 ft	66 ft	261 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	063	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		90 ft	89 ft	224 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	064	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		90 ft	66 ft	172 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	065	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		73 ft	60 ft	148 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	066	standard electric	25 ft	50 amp		73 ft	77 ft	161 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	067	standard electric	25 ft	50 amp		71 ft	77 ft	216 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	068	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		62 ft	60 ft	260 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	069	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		62 ft	62 ft	303 ft	$26–$64
MOD1	070	standard electric	28 ft	50 amp		98 ft	97 ft	377 ft	$26–$64

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 · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 70 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

Coordinate33.71917, -82.22417

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone864-333-2272

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Ridge Road3.4 mi

Lake Springs3.7 mi

Clarks Hill3.8 mi

West Dam4.3 mi

Below Dam South Carolina4.3 mi

Petersburg4.5 mi

Getting there

296 MODOC CAMP ROAD MODOC, SC 29838

From I-20, take Exit 200 (River Watch Parkway). Turn right, drive 2 miles to Furys Ferry Road (HWY 28 West). Turn right, drive 13 miles to Clarks Hill, SC. Continue northwest on HWY 221 for approximately 4 miles to campground entrance.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Oct 1, 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

This Afternoon85°Sunny

Tonight57°Partly Cloudy8% rain

Saturday66°Sunny13% rain

Saturday Night48°Clear2% rain

NWS forecast for Modoc, SC

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 58°F, day 78°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 40°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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: AUGUSTA DANIEL FLD AP, GA (USW00013837), 20 miles away and 83 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

Modoc is in South Carolina’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Sheri Biggs (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: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 15:58 UTC). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.

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 67 of the 70 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 70 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: 1.1 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 37 rated federal campgrounds in South Carolina · 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: inside Modoc, SC (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