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National Park Service · Prince William Forest Park · VA

Prince William Forest RV Park

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Park Closure
Parking Lot E Closed for Construction Parking Lot E is closed for construction. The park is currently working to expand this parking area, and the lot will be closed while the expansion is being built. Visitors can still access the Mary Byrd Branch Trail and Quantico Cascades…
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 72 sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

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Right now
OpenThe agency lists it open
Sites
7270 of them walk-up
Season
Year-roundOpen year-round
Photos · Prince William Forest RV Park
270 ftElevation
2,096 ftWater · Lake MontclairTidal flat · 4.1 mi
0.1 miSW of Montclair, VA
70Walk-up sites
38%Tree cover
Open year-roundToday

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Prince William RV Park is a concessioner-operated campground within Prince William Forest Park, offering year-round RV camping with full-hookup and water-and-electric sites. Facilities include restrooms with showers, laundry facilities, and a seasonal swimming pool. For current rates, site information, and reservations, call (703) 221-2474. Reservations are handled directly by the concessioner. It is Virginia's closest RV camping to Washington, D.C. Open year-round.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets - year round
Showers
Seasonal Showers
“Facilities include restrooms with showers, laundry facilities, and a seasonal swimming pool.”
Drinking water
Yes
Dump station
Yes
Store
Nearby
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Oct 1, 2026

Around the campground

Night sky · 86th darkest of 88 in VA
Bortle 5
Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 35 km away
Near peak
Source: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (35 km) · Oct 10, 2026
Official page →Official page →Reservation →Reservation →

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 agency’s record
Runs itNational Park Servicethe agency’s record
Directions
Every line of the receipt · 3

What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park 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.
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
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate38.60393, -77.35090
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today55°Rain Showers Likely then Partly Sunny59% rain
Tonight36°Mostly Clear
Sunday58°Areas Of Frost then Sunny
Sunday Night39°Mostly Clear1% rain

NWS forecast for Montclair, VA

Source: National Weather Service, LWX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 50°F, day 69°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°20°

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: QUANTICO MCAS, VA (USW00013773), 8 miles away and 260 ft lower
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Watch

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

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 28, 2026

Who answers for this land

Eugene Vindman, official portrait

Prince William Forest RV Park is in Virginia’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Eugene Vindman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: B. See every public-lands vote →

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Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now.
Season: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 4.7 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 88 rated federal campgrounds in Virginia · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (35 km) · Oct 10, 2026
Reported by: USA National Phenology Network (Nature's Notebook), reported near peak · Oct 10, 2026
Cell signal: the Park 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.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026