Morris Hill Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 13 of the next 13 nights; a database flag says not open read 15:51 UTC
- A night
- $18From, per site
- Sites
- 55All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Morris Hill is a peaceful, rustic campground for groups of family and friends. The family campground is a family-friendly destination perched on a ridge above Lake Moomaw. Kids can have fun at the playground while older generations sit back and relax in the shade. The group sites accommodate up the 25 guests with space for up to eight tents. Campers can enjoy the wonders of camping with simple pleasures like s'mores on the campfire, berry picking in the woods, and watching for waterfowl and wildlife like deer. The convenient location near Lake Moomaw and sandy swim beaches, a fishing pier, boat ramp, and hiking and biking trails makes Morris Hill a popular spot. Keep reading
Recreation
An inviting swimming beach at Coles Point attracts many visitors. About less than a mile from the campground is a fishing pier where anglers seek brown and rainbow trout, bass and crappie. Back Creek is also nice for trout fishing. Hikers enjoy the Morris Hill Bike Trail and Fortney Loop Trail.
Facilities
Family Campground: Most sites will fit any size RV. Campsite amenities include flush toilets, hot showers, a playground and drinking water. Group Sites: There is no water or electricity. Two fully accessible vault toilets, picnic tables and a group grill are on each group site. Coles Point Boat Ramp, the nearest boat ramp to Morris, is less than two miles away.
Natural Features
The campground sits on a ridge overlooking Lake Moomaw. It is about a half-mile from the south end of the lake. Lake Moomaw, which flows from the Jackson River, is a cold-water 2,530-acre lake with an inviting swimming beach. Morris Hill is part of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests which spans across Virginia and parts of West Virginia and Kentucky. These forests protect 40 species of trees that are mostly Appalachian hardwood and mixed pine-hardwood forests, 60 species of mammals and 200 species of birds.
Nearby Attractions
Head downstream of the Jackson River for fly fishing, canoeing, rafting and kayaking. A half hour east of the lake is Hot Springs, Virginia, a quaint village known as a rural resort town.
Charges & Cancellations
Due to Covid-19 restrictions group camping will not be open this season. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please visit www.cdc.gov for the latest information on the virus.
What the agency tells you
Additional parking is remote
No livestock allowed. Leashed pets are permitted.
The Family Campground has first-come, first-served sites.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
No chainsaws allowed.
Vehicles must park on the spurs and not extend into the roadway.
For more information on George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, click here
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 55 · 4 tent-only, 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 2 of 55
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…any size RV. Campsite amenities include flush toilets, hot showers, a playground and drinking water.… / …or electricity. Two fully accessible vault toilets, picnic tables and a group grill are on each group…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Campsite amenities include flush toilets, hot showers, a playground and drinking water.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…toilets, hot showers, a playground and drinking water. Group Sites: There is no water or electricity. Two…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 9th darkest of 88 in VA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 29 km away
- Peak color
74 of 110 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:51 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $18 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.
“Due to Covid-19 restrictions group camping will not be open this season. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please visit www.cdc.gov for the latest information on the virus.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:51 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
57 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 55 mapped sitesAll 57 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. 55 of the 57 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.
| Group Sites | Morris Hill Group #1 | group tent only area nonelectric | 25 ft | 152 ft | 793 ft | $65 |
| Group Sites | Morris Hill Group #2 | group tent only area nonelectric | 25 ft | 152 ft | 735 ft | $65 |
| MORR | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 89 ft | 1,835 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 89 ft | 1,775 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 022 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 107 ft | 1,711 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 023 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 115 ft | 1,661 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 024 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 128 ft | 1,630 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 025 | tent only nonelectric | 91 ft | 1,676 ft | $18 | |
| MORR | 026 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 91 ft | 1,593 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 027 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 84 ft | 1,665 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 028 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 84 ft | 1,581 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 029 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 118 ft | 1,621 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 030 | tent only nonelectric | 120 ft | 1,545 ft | $18 | |
| MORR | 031 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 139 ft | 1,601 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 032 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 118 ft | 1,515 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 033 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 128 ft | 1,492 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 147 ft | 1,452 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 035 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 156 ft | 1,559 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 154 ft | 1,683 ft | $18 |
| MORR | 037 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 154 ft | 1,832 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 1,992 ft | $18 | |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 116 ft | 1,876 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 74 ft | 2,015 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 102 ft | 1,922 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 88 ft | 2,045 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 102 ft | 1,938 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 88 ft | 2,054 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 86 ft | 1,977 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 85 ft | 2,064 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 98 ft | 1,989 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 85 ft | 2,073 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 118 ft | 1,993 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 98 ft | 2,106 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 128 ft | 1,973 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 98 ft | 2,107 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 96 ft | 1,938 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 109 ft | 2,112 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 109 ft | 2,068 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 96 ft | 2,002 ft | $18 |
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | XXX38 | unnamed record | 45 ft | 1,886 ft | ||
| MORRIS HILL CAMPGROUND | XXX39 | unnamed record | 45 ft | 1,930 ft | ||
| Spur | 040 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 118 ft | 1,901 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 041 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 136 ft | 1,964 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 042 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 107 ft | 2,012 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 043 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 107 ft | 2,043 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 044 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 114 ft | 2,104 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 045 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 103 ft | 2,061 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 046 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 146 ft | 1,986 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 047 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 99 ft | 1,986 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 048 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 99 ft | 1,933 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 049 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 110 ft | 1,916 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 050 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 1,849 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 051 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 88 ft | 1,734 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 052 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 79 ft | 1,806 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 053 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 81 ft | 1,693 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 054 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 79 ft | 1,778 ft | $18 |
| Spur | 055 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 81 ft | 1,667 ft | $18 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is 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.
25 of 57 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Coles PointGeorge Washington National Forest · 1.4 miGreenwood Point CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 2.0 mi
Bolar Mountain Recreation AreaGeorge Washington National Forest · 3.6 mi
McClintic PointGeorge Washington National Forest · 3.6 mi
Lake SherwoodMonongahela National Forest · 5.6 mi
Lake Sherwood Recreation Area and CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 5.8 miFamily Campground- From Covington, VA, take Exit 16A off Interstate 64 to US Rt. 220. Go north on Rt. 220 for 5.6 miles to State Rt. 687. Turn left onto Rt. 687 and go 3.2 miles to State Rt. 641. Turn left onto Rt 641/666 and go 4.2 miles to State Rt. 605. Then turn right onto Rt. 605 and proceed 2 miles to campground entrance on left.
Group Campsites- From Covington, VA, take Exit 16A or 16Boff I-64. Follow signs for US 220 and travel north on US 220 for about 5.5 miles. Turn left on State Road (SR) 687, (Jackson River Road) and travel about 3.2 miles. Turn left on SR 641 (Indian Draft Road). This shortly becomes SR 666. Travel about 4.2 miles on 641/666. You will come to a three-way intersection. Turn right onto SR 605 and travel about 2.5 miles, then turn left at the sign for the US Army Corps of Engineers Visitor's Center. Travel about 0.1 miles and there will be a heavy wooden gate on the left. Directions for entering the group area are on your confirmation letter. Open the gate and follow the signs to the group site you reserved.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hot Springs, VA
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Morris Hill Campground is in Virginia’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Ben Cline (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →