Morganton Point
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:42 UTC
- A night
- $30–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4342 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Morganton Point Recreation Area is located in the Blue Ridge Ranger District, within the beautiful northeast Georgia mountains. Pristine water and scenic views draw visitors from around the state and region. Keep reading
Recreation
The Morganton Point Recreation Area offers visitors year-round recreation opportunities including camping, picnicking, boating, swimming and hiking, all centered around beautiful Lake Blue Ridge. The lake is open to motor boats and jet skis, as well as non-motorized watercraft. Fishing in the 3,290-acre lake is a popular activity for visitors to the Morganton Point Campground. Anglers can expect to catch a variety of bass and other fish. Visitors are encouraged to check with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources for a complete listing of freshwater fishing regulations for Lake Blue Ridge. Day-use hiking trails, including one that parallels the lakeshore, are ideal for short, relaxing strolls through the forest. The Appalachian and Benton MacKave trails pass through Fannin County and are easily accessed near the campground.
Facilities
The campground offers campsites available for tent and RV camping. Several walk-in sites are for tents only. Some sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible showers and drinking water are also provided. Beach access includes a designated swimming area, picnic tables, outdoor showers and trash collection bins.
Natural Features
The campground offers multiple sites adjacent to Lake Blue Ridge, in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Lake Blue Ridge is known for its aquamarine waters surrounded by the forested foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The 3,290-acre reservoir boasts over 60 miles of shoreline, with around 80% belonging to the Chattahoochee National Forest.
Nearby Attractions
The nearest convenience store and gas station are located in Morganton, about a mile north of the campground. The nearest full-service grocery stores and shopping villages are located in Blue Ridge, approximately 15 minutes west along U.S. Highway 76.
What the agency tells you
Maps of the forest can be obtained by calling the U.S. Forest Service office in Blairsville, Georgia, at 1-800-251-4800
Click here for more information on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Campers are able to utilize the day use area for free, but if you have a vehicle parked in the day use parking lot then you have to pay the day use fee. You can be dropped off at the day use area and park at your campsite if you like.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 43 · 8 tent-only, 3 group
- Hookups
- 33 electric, 35 water, 3 sewer
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- 2 of 43
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Accessible Showers
- “Accessible showers and drinking water are also provided.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grills. Accessible showers and drinking water are also provided. Beach access includes a…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 42nd darkest of 96 in GA
- Bortle 4
1 of 80 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:42 UTC
recreation.gov lists 42 of the 43 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$50 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.
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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:42 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
44 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 40 mapped sitesAll 44 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 38 of the 44 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LL | 01 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 280 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 02 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 274 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 03 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 223 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 04 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 175 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 05 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 150 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 06 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 142 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 07 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 172 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 08 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 153 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 09 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 102 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 10 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 174 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 11 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 1108 ft | under 10 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $30 | |
| LL | 12 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 177 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 13 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 109 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 14 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 49 ft | 133 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $30 | |
| LL | 15 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 177 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 16 - H | type not stated | 30 ft | 50 amp | 357 ftBlue Ridge Lake | ||
| LL | 17 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | $45–$50 | ||
| LL | 18 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 455 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 19 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 480 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| LL | 20 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 410 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| Pavilion | Morganton Point Pavilion | day use | 30 ft | $40 | |||
| UL | 21 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 373 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| UL | 22 | standard electric | 22 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 292 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| UL | 23 - H | type not stated | 30 ft | 50 amp | 430 ftBlue Ridge Lake | ||
| UL | 24 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 531 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| UL | 25 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 414 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| UL | 26 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 372 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| UL | 27 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 335 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| UL | 28 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 287 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| UL | 29 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 394 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| UL | 30 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30/50 amp | 127 ft | 514 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| UL | 31 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 190 ft | 670 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 | |
| UL | 32 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30/50 amp | 190 ft | 567 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 |
| UL | 33 | group standard electric | 20 ft | 30/50 amp | 147 ft | 205 ftBlue Ridge Lake | |
| UL | 34 | group standard electric | 20 ft | 30/50 amp | 140 ft | 316 ftBlue Ridge Lake | |
| UL | 35 | group standard electric | 20 ft | 30/50 amp | 60 ft | 327 ftBlue Ridge Lake | |
| UL | 36 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 60 ft | 384 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 | |
| UL | 37 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 201 ft | 179 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $45–$50 | |
| WI | A | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 24 ft | 125 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $30 | |
| WI | B | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 24 ft | 113 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $30 | |
| WI | C | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 24 ft | 95 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $30 | |
| WI | D | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 29 ft | 111 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $30 | |
| WI | E | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 25 ft | 101 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $30 | |
| WI | F | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 25 ft | 101 ftBlue Ridge Lake | $30 |
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.
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.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sandy Bottoms Recreation Area Campground (Clayton, GA)Chattahoochee National Forest · 6.1 mi
Toccoa River Sandy Bottoms CampgroundChattahoochee National Forest · 6.1 mi
Deep Hole Recreation AreaChattahoochee National Forest · 11 mi
Cooper Creek Campground (GA)Chattahoochee National Forest · 13 miCooper Creek Recreation AreaChattahoochee National Forest · 13 mi
Frank Gross CampgroundNoontootly National Game Refuge · 13 miTake U.S. Highway 515 north from Blue Ridge for 4 miles to Georgia Highway 60. Turn right (southwest) and continue 3 miles to the town of Morganton. In Morganton, turn right on County Road 616 (Lake Drive) and proceed for 1 mile. To enter the campground, take the first left after the Morganton Point entrance sign.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Morganton, GA
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 25°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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Morganton Point is in Georgia’s 9th congressional district. Its representative, Andrew Clyde (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →