Old Virginia Group Horse Camp
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 26 of the next 30 nights read 16:31 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Old Virginia Group Horse Camp provides group equestrian camping just minutes from a large network of horse trails in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area. Old Virginia is a secluded, picturesque campground that can accommodate up to 25 guests and 25 horses. The picturesque views of the mountains and the trickling sounds of the stream create a relaxing, serene vibe for visitors at the primitive camping site. Keep reading
Recreation
Old Virginia offers easy access to the Virginia Highlands Horse Trail, which connects to the Iron Mountain Trail. From the Iron Mountain Trail, riders can also access the Virginia Creeper Trail to the west or the New River Trail to the east. The Virginia Creeper Trail boasts 33.4 miles of scenery with about 100 trestles and bridges.
Facilities
No drinking water is provided. Please bring plenty of water and tools for manure removal. The campground is easily accessed from a paved road and two portable toilets are provided. Horses may drink from the stream.
Natural Features
The campground sits in the Fairwood Valley along a stream that flows into Fox Creek. The valley is part of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in western Virginia. The forests span 1.8 million acres of rugged Appalachians through Virginia and parts of West Virginia and Kentucky.
Nearby Attractions
Mount Rogers National Recreation Area high country trails, Virginia Creeper Trail, Grayson Highlands State Park, Hungry Mother State Park
What the agency tells you
This horse camp is not available for walk-up reservations at the facility. The camp does not take reservations at the facility.
Check-in is at 2pm and check-out is at 12pm.
No potable water
Everything else this campground posts · 3
No cell phone coverage or pay phone available
For more information on the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, click here
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Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group, 1 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Portable Toilets
- “…accessed from a paved road and two portable toilets are provided. Horses may drink from the stream.…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…100 trestles and bridges. Facilities No drinking water is provided. Please bring plenty of water and tools…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Fishing
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 20th darkest of 88 in VA
- Bortle 4
Something open on 18 of the next 26 bookable nightsread 16:31 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBookedNot reservable
The one site on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 26. read 16:31 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
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 16:31 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| OVGHC | 001 | group equestrian | 80 ft | 213 ft | $50 |
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 · the phone number
Where it is
Fox Creek Horse CampMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 0.9 mi
Hurricane CampgroundMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 1.9 mi
GrindstoneMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 3.0 mi
Raccoon Branch CampgroundMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 5.0 mi
BeartreeMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 8.9 miBeartree Recreation AreaMount Rogers National Recreation Area · 11 miTake exit 45 off I-81 at Marion ,Virginia. Take Rt.16 south for approximately 17 miles to VA 603 at Troutdale. Turn right onto VA 603 and drive for about 3 miles to the campground on the right. Follow signs.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Troutdale, VA
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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
Old Virginia Group Horse Camp is in Virginia’s 9th congressional district. Its representative, H. Morgan Griffith (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →