Oconee River Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $5From, per site
- Sites
- 5All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located along the bank of the Oconee River, this recreation area offers camping, picnicking, hiking, boating and fishing. Five campsites with tables, tent pads and grills are available to campers. Main road through campground is paved. Some of the campsites are accessible to people with disabilities, as are the restrooms. Drinking water is not available at this time. Please be-aware of the possibility of flooding Recreation Fishing Walking Boating Facilities Boat Ramp Dock Vault Toilet Natural Features Oconee River Lake Oconee Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (706) 485-7110. Keep reading
Nearby Attractions
Scull Shoals Historic Site - 6 miles Dyar Pasture - 10 miles Town Creek OHV - 13 miles Athens- 25 miles
What the agency tells you
No electric or water available Bring your own water Area prone to flooding
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 5 · 5 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Boating Facilities Boat Ramp Dock Vault Toilet Natural Features Oconee River Lake Oconee Contact…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…with disabilities, as are the restrooms. Drinking water is not available at this time. Please be-aware of the possibility of…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Wilderness access
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:39 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
Watch for a cancellation
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We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $5 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 15:39 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
5 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 5 mapped sitesAll 5 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 5 of the 5 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.
| A | 1 | tent only nonelectric | 71 ft | 280 ft | $5 |
| A | 2 | tent only nonelectric | 71 ft | 329 ft | $5 |
| A | 3 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 361 ft | $5 |
| A | 4 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 342 ft | $5 |
| A | 5 | tent only nonelectric | 95 ft | 283 ft | $5 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Lake Sinclair CampgroundOconee National Forest · 36 mi
Gill Point43 mi
Amity Recreation Area48 mi
Watsadler50 mi
Big Oaks50 miFrom I-20 exit 130,drive north on GA-44 into downtown Greensboro Ga. Turn left onto US-278 west travel approximately one third of a mile and turn right onto GA-15 north for 11.8 miles,entrance in on right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Maxeys, GA
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Oconee River Campground is in Georgia’s 10th congressional district. Its representative, Mike Collins (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →