U.S. Forest Service · Wayne National Forest · OH

Oak Hill Campground

The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$20From, per site
Drawn from the record · 860 ft · 69% tree cover · Lake Vesuvius within reach · Bortle 4 sky
860 ftElevation
1,127 ftWater · Lake Vesuvius
5 miNE of Ironton, OH
69%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 13th darkest of 20 in OH

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

The new campground is beautifully designed with 27 RV (includes Pine Knob Loop ) sites and one group site ( Two Points Group Camp ). All campsites are fully accessible with water and electrical hook-ups. Two new flush restrooms with showers and one new vault restroom were installed. Campsites 2, 11, 19, 20, and 21 are not reservable. The sites have been designated for hosts or volunteers. This family campground is located on a ridge on the west side of Lake Vesuvius. There are 4 hiking trails that connect to different parts of this campground and boat dock. Keep reading

The Rock House, Black Oak, Old Beach, and Scarlet Oak Trails form a 1.5 mile loop with a 200-foot elevation change. Black Oak Trail starts along the Rock House Trail and leads to Oak Hill Campground at the Black Oak parking area. The elevation change is 140 feet from the bottom to top of this 0.34 mile trail. White Oak Trail is 0.14 miles and is a short cut between the Black Oak Trail and the White Oak Camping Loop. Old Beach Trail is 0.61 miles long and starts at the Black Oak parking area in Oak Hill Campground. The trail follows the scenic old beach road to the Scarlet Oak Loop of Oak Hill campground. Scarlet Oak Trail is 0.45 miles long and starts at the Scarlet Oak Loop of the Oak Hill Campground and ends at the boat dock. The elevation change in this trail is approximately 200 feet. Chart on Oak Hill Campground Trails.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
“…water and electrical hook-ups. Two new flush restrooms with showers and one new vault restroom were…”
Showers
Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
“Two new flush restrooms with showers and one new vault restroom were installed.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Beach
Source: Stated in the agency description

Phone before you drive

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 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$20Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$40DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 7

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$20
Camping fees: $20/night for full service electric sites (27 available) Senior Pass and Access Pass (formerly Golden Age and Golden Access Passports) are accepted at this campground.
The fee for Pass-holders is $12.50/night.
Night for the Two Points Group Campground .$35
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
One night, fromDerived$20
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$40

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($20), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight42°Chance Rain Showers39% rain
Saturday56°Mostly Sunny7% rain
Saturday Night32°Clear then Widespread Frost
Sunday62°Widespread Frost then Sunny

NWS forecast for Ironton, OH

Typical weather

Typical October night 40°F, day 68°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°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: WATERLOO, OH (USC00338810), 11 miles away and 235 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

developing
Wayne National Forestdrilling, pollution

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 5, 2026

Who answers for this land

Dave Taylor, official portrait

Oak Hill Campground is in Ohio’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Dave Taylor (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest 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.
Cell signal: the Forest 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.