Red Creek Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Season
- April 1 – December 31Open April 1 through December 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Red Creek Campground is a primitive, small campground that sits on top of the Allegheny Plateau and within the Dolly Sods Scenic Area. The climate and plant life here resembles Northern Canada. A stone’s throw from the campground is Dolly Sods Wilderness which offers a unique wilderness hiking opportunity for those looking for adventure. This area features unique scenery and unusual plant communities. Flowering laurel, rhododendron and azaleas highlight this area from May through June. Huckleberry picking is popular during the month of July. And for those looking for wildlife, bird banding is performed in late summer and during the fall. Located approximately 20 miles northwest from Petersburg, West Virginia and 24 miles north of Seneca Rocks.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Wildlife viewing
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
Jess JudySpruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area · 10 mi
Big Bend (WV)Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area · 10 mi
Big Bend CampgroundSpruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area · 11 miJess Judy Group CampgroundSpruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area · 11 mi
Seneca ShadowsSpruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area · 15 mi
Horseshoe Recreation AreaMonongahela National Forest · 18 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Davis, WV
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 57°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical December night 21°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
Red Creek Campground is in West Virginia’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Riley Moore (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →