R Shaefer Heard
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:06 UTC
- A night
- $36–$72Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 117All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
R. Shaefer Heard Campground is a waterfront facility on the southern shore of West Point Lake, which spans parts of Alabama and Georgia. This man-made lake has 525 miles of shoreline that provide excellent opportunities for fishing, camping, boating and other recreational activities. Keep reading
Recreation
Whether sailing or power boating, West Point Lake is a boater's paradise. There are boat ramps in 34 public recreation areas around the lake, including R. Shaefer Heard, as well as two privately owned full-service marinas. Fishing is one of the most popular activities on the lake. A dozen creeks and more than 40 square miles of lake provide plenty of good fishing spots for the thousands of anglers who fish here regularly. The lake abounds with bass, catfish, crappie and bream. Bank fishing is excellent at many locations, including public fishing piers at Hardley Creek, Rocky Point and McGee Bridge parks. Several trails wind along the lake and through the landscape, including the Lakeside Trail, which is perfect for mountain biking. A wildlife management area of nearly 10,000 acres, located at the upper end of the lake, provides habitat for many types of wildlife. This area offers excellent hunting opportunities.
Facilities
R. Shaefer Heard Campground offers 117 sites with electricity and water hookups. Other amenities include a dump station, coin laundry facilities, hot showers, a boat ramp, and hiking trails.
Natural Features
Surrounded by rolling fields and deep forests that display outstanding fall foliage, West Point Lake extends 35 miles along the Chattahoochee River on the Alabama-Georgia state line. The campground is forested and overlooks the 25,900-acre lake.
Nearby Attractions
The lake offers 25 day-use parks. While many people visit the lake to boat and camp, the parks offer a variety of other recreation facilities including tennis courts, ball fields, basketball courts, fishing piers with fish attractors, hiking trails and picnic shelters for individuals or large groups.
Charges & Cancellations
Changes and Cancellations: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see NRRS Reservation Policy
What the agency tells you
CHECK-IN TIME is guaranteed for reservations after 4:00 p.m. CHECK-OUT TIME is 3:00 p.m. Campers and their guests are required to depart the campground and remove their camping equipment prior to check-out time.
There is a four (4) vehicle per campsite limit in the campground. This includes cars, trucks, campers, RVs, boat trailers, and utility trailers. There is no overflow parking.
PARKING: Vehicles should be parked in campsite driveways and designated parking spaces. Vehicles may be parked two-wide in most driveways. If spaces are unavailable, park on the shoulder of the road with the direction of traffic. All four wheels should be off the pavement with the vehicle parallel to the roadway. Trailers may be parked at the boat ramp.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
GATES are locked from 10:00 p.m. EST to 7:00 a.m. EST and will only be opened in emergencies. For emergency exit, see the park attendant contractors at their campsite located near the gatehouse or call 706-645-2404
PETS: Wild, exotic or aggressive pets and livestock are not permitted in the campground. All pets must be penned, caged, or restrained on a leash no longer than six (6) feet. Invisible fences or wireless collars are not sufficient. Pet owners must dispose of all pet waste. Pens and cages should not be placed on graveled impact pads due to sanitary concerns. Pets are not allowed in restrooms, shower houses or on playgrounds.
West Point Lake campgrounds accept payment by credit card, debit card, or prepaid credit card only. No other form of payment is accepted.
The primary occupant must check-in before guests of the primary occupant are allowed to visit a reserved campsite. Those providing rental campers will not be allowed to set-up prior to the arrival of the primary occupant.
Visit www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Recreation/West-Point-Lake/Camping/ for additional information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 117
- Hookups
- 117 electric, 117 water
- Longest rig
- 100 ft
- Paved pads
- 96 of 117
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Other amenities include a dump station, coin laundry facilities, hot showers, a boat ramp, and hiking trails.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 84th darkest of 96 in GA
- Bortle 4
Full this Saturdayread 16:06 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
1 campground has sites open within 30 miles, read 16:07 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 117 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 57 are free on Wed, Oct 21. read 16:06 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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Every line of the receipt · 18
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $36–$72 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.
“Changes and Cancellations: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 1
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:07 UTC
- Whitetail RidgeWest Point Lake · 6.7 mi · 4 of 116 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:06 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
117 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 117 mapped sitesAll 117 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. 117 of the 117 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.
| LOOA | 001 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 29 ft | 174 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 002 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 29 ft | 175 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 003 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 192 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 004 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 199 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 005 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 178 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 006 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 151 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 007 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 145 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 008 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 136 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 009 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 129 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 010 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 197 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 011 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 102 ft | 291 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 012 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 122 ft | 330 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 013 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 109 ft | 223 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 014 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 184 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 015 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 189 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOA | 016 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 218 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 017 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 114 ft | 186 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 018 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 189 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 019 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 226 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 020 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 191 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 021 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 170 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 022 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 154 ft | 224 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 023 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 117 ft | 182 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 024 | standard electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 117 ft | 151 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 025 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 114 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 026 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 84 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 027 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 84 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 028 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 94 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 029 | standard electric | 90 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 104 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 030 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 131 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 031 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 140 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 032 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 89 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 033 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 70 ft | 89 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 034 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 99 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 035 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 125 ft | 177 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 036 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 125 ft | 211 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 037 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 138 ft | 174 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 038 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 182 ft | 142 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOB | 039 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 182 ft | 210 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 040 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 156 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 041 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 117 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 042 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 149 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 043 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 101 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 044 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 129 ft | 99 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 045 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 111 ft | 89 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 046 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 70 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 047 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 78 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 048 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 99 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 049 | standard electric | 28 ft | 30 amp | 126 ft | 113 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 050 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 126 ft | 150 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 051 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 128 ft | 157 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 052 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 120 ft | 168 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 053 | standard electric | 29 ft | 30 amp | 120 ft | 81 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOC | 054 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 130 ft | 112 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 055 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 140 ft | 663 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 056 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 140 ft | 543 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 057 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 151 ft | 392 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 058 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 258 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 059 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 187 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 060 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 128 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 061 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 111 ft | 175 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 062 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 158 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 063 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 113 ft | 87 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 064 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 107 ft | 92 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOD | 065 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 107 ft | 147 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 066 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 261 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 067 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 171 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 068 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 155 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 069 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 152 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 070 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 133 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 071 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 114 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 072 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 106 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 073 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 114 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 074 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 95 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 075 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 94 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 076 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 104 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 077 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 97 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 078 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 85 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 079 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 115 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 080 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 123 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 081 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 121 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 082 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 102 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 083 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 98 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOE | 084 | standard electric | 37 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 139 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 085 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 271 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 086 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 202 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 087 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 129 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 088 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 143 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 089 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 136 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 090 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 117 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 091 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 153 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 092 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | 92 ft | 171 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOF | 093 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 141 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 094 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 104 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 095 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 101 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 096 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 70 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 097 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 67 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 098 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 79 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 099 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 81 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 100 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 91 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 101 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 108 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 102 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 103 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 103 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 81 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 104 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 76 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 105 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 91 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOF | 106 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 95 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 107 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30/50 amp | 92 ft | 201 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 108 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30/50 amp | 90 ft | 132 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 109 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30/50 amp | 90 ft | 81 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 110 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | 103 ft | 129 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 111 | standard electric | 43 ft | 30/50 amp | 82 ft | 101 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 112 | standard electric | 44 ft | 30/50 amp | 82 ft | 81 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 113 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30/50 amp | 72 ft | 102 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 114 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30/50 amp | 72 ft | 123 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 115 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30/50 amp | 73 ft | 141 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 116 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30/50 amp | 73 ft | 98 ft | $36–$72 | |
| LOOG | 117 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30/50 amp | 73 ft | 109 ft | $36–$72 |
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.
25 of 117 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Eagleview Park1.2 mi
Hardley Creek Park1.9 mi
Anderson Park2.4 mi
Earl Cook Recreation Area4.3 mi
Amity4.5 mi
Rocky Point Recreation Area5.1 miFrom West Point, Georgia, take U.S. Highway 29 north for 4 miles, then turn left The West Point Project sign and then travel a short distance to a right turn, into the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for West Point, GA
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 32°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
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
R Shaefer Heard is in Georgia’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Brian Jack (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyBrian JackU.S. Representative · Georgia’s 3rd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJon OssoffU.S. Senator · Georgia
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRaphael G. WarnockU.S. Senator · Georgia
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at R Shaefer Heard, Georgia
Dear Brian Jack, I’m a constituent in Georgia’s 3rd district. I tried to camp at R Shaefer Heard, Georgia, and couldn’t. All 117 sites at R Shaefer Heard are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 117 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. R Shaefer Heard keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run R Shaefer Heard. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about R Shaefer Heard (Georgia) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at R Shaefer Heard, Georgia
Dear Jon Ossoff, I’m a constituent in Georgia. I tried to camp at R Shaefer Heard, Georgia, and couldn’t. All 117 sites at R Shaefer Heard are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 117 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. R Shaefer Heard keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run R Shaefer Heard. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about R Shaefer Heard (Georgia) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at R Shaefer Heard, Georgia
Dear Raphael G. Warnock, I’m a constituent in Georgia. I tried to camp at R Shaefer Heard, Georgia, and couldn’t. All 117 sites at R Shaefer Heard are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 117 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. R Shaefer Heard keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run R Shaefer Heard. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about R Shaefer Heard (Georgia) via campanac.com