National Park Service · Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area · NJ
Mohican Outdoor Center
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Park Closure
Dingmans Falls Trail, Road, and Access Closed for Bridge Replacement Dingmans Falls site is closed for a bridge replacement project and trail rehabilitation. All traffic, including pedestrian, cyclist, and vehicle traffic, is prohibited on the road and trail during construction.
Information
Main Street Walpack Bridge Closed Until Further Notice Main Street in Walpack Center is closed at the Flatbrook Bridge due to structural damage to the bridge.
Park Closure
Old Mine Road North Construction Closure Begins April 6, 2026 Old Mine Road between Jager Road and Route 206 will close to all traffic beginning on April 6, 2026. Contractors will work to rehabilitate a 3.5-mile stretch of road. The construction area will be closed to all traffic for the safety of…
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
Reservable, and some sites walk-up7 of the 16 sites are kept for whoever pulls in first; the rest are booked ahead.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 167 of them walk-up
1,190 ftElevation
469 ftWater · Yards Creek
4.9 miSE of Saw Creek, PA
7Walk-up sites
46%Tree cover
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Primitive group campsites in a wooded setting adjacent to the Appalachian National Scenic Trail in New Jersey; Drinking water available; Call 603-466-2727 for additional information regarding lodge or cabin rentals.
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round · Portable Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records
Around the campground
- Night sky · 1.5 mcd/m²
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, 29 km away
- Peak color
Source: 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
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (29 km) · Oct 15, 2026
Some sites book, the rest walk up
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Book on recreation.gov
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
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: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate41.03501, -75.00157
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The phone(908) 362-5670
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
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Valley View Group CampgroundDelaware Water Gap National Recreation Area · 5.9 mi
Middle Delaware National Scenic & Recreational River Primitive CampsitesDelaware Water Gap National Recreation Area · 9.9 mi
River CampingDelaware Water Gap National Recreation Area · 2.6 miAlosa CampsitesDelaware Water Gap National Recreation Area · 3.6 miRivers Bend Group CampgroundDelaware Water Gap National Recreation Area · 4.6 miWorthington State Forest Campground4.6 miValley View Group CampgroundDelaware Water Gap National Recreation Area · 5.9 miMiddle Delaware National Scenic & Recreational River Primitive CampsitesDelaware Water Gap National Recreation Area · 9.9 miSource: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 63°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: E STROUDSBURG, PA (USC00368596), 11 miles away and 719 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Mohican Outdoor Center is in New Jersey’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Thomas Kean (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: National Park Service 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.
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 · Sep 9, 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: 1.5 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow · Sep 8, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (29 km) · Oct 15, 2026
Reported by: Pennsylvania DCNR, reported peak color · Oct 15, 2026
Cell signal: the Park Service’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: Blairstown, NJ, 3.8 mi NW (a census designated place). Straight line.