Pocahontas Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Season
- April 1 – November 30Open April 1 through November 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
With a convenient location just off State Route 92 this campground is great for families and outdoor enthusiasts. Two Lick Trailhead is located within the campground and providing easy and accessible access. Also each campsite is furnished with a fire ring, picnic table, and lantern ring.
Around the campground
- Hiking
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 19 km away
- Peak color
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Blowing SpringsGeorge Washington National Forest · 5.1 miMcClintic Point CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 6.5 mi
Lake Sherwood Recreation Area and CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 7.0 mi
Lake SherwoodMonongahela National Forest · 7.0 miHidden Valley Recreation AreaGeorge Washington National Forest · 7.9 miHidden Valley CampgroundGeorge Washington National Forest · 7.9 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Huntersville, WV
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 64°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical November night 31°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Pocahontas Campground is in West Virginia’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Carol Miller (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →