U.S. Forest Service · Apalachicola National Forest · FL

Otter Hunt Camp

1Heads up1 fire 36 mi away
Wildfire
Iao fire · 36 mi away · 260 acres · updated Oct 2, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Drawn from the record · 60 ft · 0% tree cover · water within reach · Bortle 4 sky
60 ftElevation
1,822 ftWater · an unnamed pondOcean · 12.8 mi · to the Gulf of Mexico
5.8 miNW of Crawfordville, FL
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 15th darkest of 60 in FL

The place

the agency’s own description

In the agency’s own words

Get back to nature while enjoying primitive camping. Hunting This location is used primarily as a hunt camp during general gun season.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Free
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
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

This Afternoon73°Sunny
Tonight53°Mostly Clear
Sunday71°Sunny
Sunday Night53°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Crawfordville, FL

Typical weather

Typical October night 57°F, day 83°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 38°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°30°

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: TALLAHASSEE AP, FL (USC00088756), 14 miles away and at about the same elevation

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Clear Lake5,592 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Who answers for this land

Neal Dunn, official portrait

Otter Hunt Camp is in Florida’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Neal Dunn (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.