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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · WV

Robert W Craig

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 1 opens May 1.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $22–$26Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 68All of them booked ahead

Photos · USACE

4 ftLongest rig

2,060 ftElevation

2,139 ftWater · Jennings Randolph Lake

5.7 miSW of Westernport, MD

50%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices

In the agency’s own words

The Robert W. Craig Campground is located off West Virginia State Highway Route 46, five miles from Elk Garden, West Virginia. The campground is located very close to Jennings Randolph Lake which provides many recreational opportunities including boating, swimming, picnicking, scenic overlooks and fishing. The resident bald eagles have been breeding at Jennings Randolph Lake for over 10 years. Bring binoculars for the opportunity to spot an eagle's nest. Keep reading

Recreation

During your stay at the campground, enjoy playing a game of horse shoes or hiking the Sunset Trail, High Timber Trail or the 3D Archery Trail. There is also a playground, sandbox, and a swing set available for kids to play on. Located behind the Campground Store, the Kalbaugh Pond appeals to anglers for its stocked largemouth and small mouth bass, blue gill, and catfish. At the pavilion, shoot some hoops on the basketball court or play a game of horse shoes. Birders will love the Songbird Trail and the High Timber Trail provides 28 varieties of labeled tree species. With the trailhead adjacent to the pavilion, visitors can try out the new 3D Archery Range. Hiking trails can be accessed from the campground.

Facilities

The pavilion includes a 30' by 40' canopy to protect you from the weather and is equipped with lights, electrical outlets, running water and approximately nine picnic tables. A handicap accessible portable toilet is also located nearby. There is a shower house and full bathroom located in the front loop of the campground, as well as a bathroom with no showers located at the back loop of the campground. The electric sites offer up to 50 AMP service and there is a water fill-up station located near the entrance station after you check into the campground. Before you leave, there is also a dump station available for you to empty the sewage tank of your camper.

Natural Features

The lake spans 952 acres in the rugged hills of West Virginia's Allegheny Mountains. The pavilion is located inside of the Robert W. Craig Campground in a nice grassy field where your group can be semi-isolated for a nice reunion or picnic away from the rest of the campground.

Nearby Attractions

A short mile away from the campground is the North Branch of the Potomac River, renowned as one of the finest trout fisheries on the East Coast. The river is also an excellent location for whitewater rafting. The city of Cumberland, with pleasant cobblestone pedestrian streets and boutique shops, makes for a nice visit.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

The pavilion will be available from 7:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. on the date of reservation.

Rule

The pavilion must be vacated by 8:00 p.m.

Rule

One person shall be designated as the event leader and as such is responsible for the actions of the attendees and is responsible for insuring the conditions listed in the permit are adhered to during and after the event.

Everything else this campground posts · 3

Rule

No campground drive-throughs on holiday weekends.

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.

Rule

Two camping units are permitted at each site, with the second one being a tent.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 68
Hookups: 68 electric
Longest rig: 4 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Portable Toilets; “…picnic tables. A handicap accessible portable toilet is also located nearby. There is a shower house and…”
Dump station: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Coast; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Other Recreation Concession Site; Water sports
Night sky · 52nd darkest of 69 in WV: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 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 · Sep 8, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 1, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 1, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$22–$26plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$52–$60DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

Watch for a cancellation

Full? Watch it.

One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.

Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Tell me when the season opens

Watch for the season to open

One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.

Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$22–$26

Standard Electric$22

Standard Electric$26

Group area, a night$60

These are next season’s rates, May 1, 2027 to Sep 30, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$30–$34

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$52–$60

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$26 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 5

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

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 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

69 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 69 mapped sites

74 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomRWCC Pavilion 526 ftLoop BACK 048 148 ftLoop FRON 007 143 ftLoop BACK 053 112 ftLoop BACK 068 111 ft

Least roomLoop BACK 043 49 ftLoop BACK 045 49 ftLoop BACK 059 52 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 69 records

69 of 69 records located

RV / electric68Day use1

031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 RWCC Pavilion

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 69 of the 69 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 68 of the 69 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.


BACK	031	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		69 ft	2,369 ft	210 ft	$22–$26
BACK	032	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		69 ft	2,311 ft	185 ft	$22–$26
BACK	033	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		80 ft	2,249 ft	197 ft	$22–$26
BACK	034	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		75 ft	2,193 ft	239 ft	$22–$26
BACK	035	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		83 ft	2,181 ft	70 ft	$22–$26
BACK	036	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		75 ft	2,121 ft	262 ft	$22–$26
BACK	037	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		83 ft	2,118 ft	139 ft	$22–$26
BACK	038	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		55 ft	2,011 ft	280 ft	$22–$26
BACK	039	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		55 ft	1,984 ft	261 ft	$22–$26
BACK	040	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		70 ft	1,984 ft	214 ft	$22–$26
BACK	041	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		70 ft	2,004 ft	179 ft	$22–$26
BACK	042	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		57 ft	2,047 ft	154 ft	$22–$26
BACK	043	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		48 ft	2,034 ft	197 ft	$22–$26
BACK	044	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		82 ft	2,115 ft	157 ft	$22–$26
BACK	045	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		48 ft	2,013 ft	242 ft	$22–$26
BACK	046	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		90 ft	2,094 ft	247 ft	$22–$26
BACK	047	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		57 ft	1,993 ft	297 ft	$22–$26
BACK	048	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		148 ft	1,949 ft	481 ft	$22–$26
BACK	049	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		83 ft	2,032 ftHowell Run	579 ft	$22–$26
BACK	050	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		69 ft	2,079 ftHowell Run	460 ft	$22–$26
BACK	051	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		83 ft	1,959 ftHowell Run	597 ft	$22–$26
BACK	052	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		69 ft	2,054 ftHowell Run	438 ft	$22–$26
BACK	053	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		111 ft	1,975 ftHowell Run	466 ft	$22–$26
BACK	054	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		70 ft	2,116 ftHowell Run	365 ft	$22–$26
BACK	055	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		75 ft	2,079 ftHowell Run	356 ft	$22–$26
BACK	056	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		68 ft	2,164 ftHowell Run	298 ft	$22–$26
BACK	057	standard electric				75 ft	2,128 ftHowell Run	301 ft	$22–$26
BACK	058	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		68 ft	2,197 ft	236 ft	$22–$26
BACK	059	standard electric				52 ft	2,183 ftHowell Run	253 ft	$22–$26
BACK	060	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		90 ft	2,240 ft	151 ft	$22–$26
BACK	061	standard electric				52 ft	2,212 ftHowell Run	240 ft	$22–$26
BACK	062	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		90 ft	2,284 ft	118 ft	$22–$26
BACK	063	standard electric				77 ft	2,244 ftHowell Run	243 ft	$22–$26
BACK	064	standard electric				63 ft	2,281 ftHowell Run	295 ft	$22–$26
BACK	065	standard electric				63 ft	2,304 ftHowell Run	338 ft	$22–$26
BACK	066	standard electric				66 ft	2,337 ftHowell Run	382 ft	$22–$26
BACK	067	standard electric				94 ft	2,380 ftHowell Run	459 ft	$22–$26
BACK	068	standard electric				111 ft	2,301 ft	561 ft	$22–$26
FRON	001	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		94 ft	2,361 ft	520 ft	$22–$26
FRON	002	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		60 ft	2,455 ft	434 ft	$22–$26
FRON	003	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		60 ft	2,484 ft	431 ft	$22–$26
FRON	004	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		90 ft	2,442 ft	436 ft	$22–$26
FRON	005	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		61 ft	2,364 ft	407 ft	$22–$26
FRON	006	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		61 ft	2,325 ft	356 ft	$22–$26
FRON	007	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		143 ft	2,189 ft	211 ft	$22–$26
FRON	008	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		102 ft	2,062 ft	115 ft	$22–$26
FRON	009	standard electric	4 ft	15/30/50 amp		64 ft	1,972 ft	127 ft	$22–$26
FRON	010	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		64 ft	1,922 ft	178 ft	$22–$26
FRON	011	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		74 ft	1,865 ft	243 ft	$22–$26
FRON	012	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		79 ft	1,810 ft	319 ft	$22–$26
FRON	013	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		62 ft	1,773 ft	398 ft	$22–$26
FRON	014	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		62 ft	1,751 ft	460 ft	$22–$26
FRON	015	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		77 ft	1,735 ft	535 ft	$22–$26
FRON	016	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		83 ft	1,758 ft	645 ft	$22–$26
FRON	017	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		79 ft	1,712 ft	722 ft	$22–$26
FRON	018	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		79 ft	1,634 ft	753 ft	$22–$26
FRON	019	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		91 ft	1,572 ft	682 ft	$22–$26
FRON	020	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		91 ft	1,615 ft	591 ft	$22–$26
FRON	021	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		95 ft	1,642 ft	501 ft	$22–$26
FRON	022	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		94 ft	1,682 ft	398 ft	$22–$26
FRON	023	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		94 ft	1,716 ft	317 ft	$22–$26
FRON	024	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		88 ft	1,782 ft	221 ft	$22–$26
FRON	025	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		88 ft	1,849 ft	136 ft	$22–$26
FRON	026	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		78 ft	2,218 ft	281 ft	$22–$26
FRON	027	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		72 ft	2,277 ft	355 ft	$22–$26
FRON	028	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		72 ft	2,322 ft	321 ft	$22–$26
FRON	029	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		69 ft	2,367 ft	298 ft	$22–$26
FRON	030	standard electric		15/30/50 amp		69 ft	2,416 ft	302 ft	$22–$26
PAVILION	RWCC Pavilion	day use			yes	526 ft	2,238 ft	790 ft

The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 69 listed

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

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate39.41677, -79.11611

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone304-355-2346

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

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Getting there

From Cumberland, MD: Take US 220 south to US 50W, go west to WV 42N, go north to WV 46E. Follow the signs to the Robert W. Craig Campground.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

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

Overnight41°Chance Rain Showers38% rain

Saturday52°Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny19% rain

Saturday Night30°Clear then Widespread Frost

Sunday57°Widespread Frost then Sunny

NWS forecast for Elk Garden, WV

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 41°F, day 62°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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: SAVAGE RVR DAM, MD (USC00188065), 7 miles away and 565 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

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Robert W Craig 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 →

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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: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 69 of the 68 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 69 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 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: 0.44 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 69 rated federal campgrounds in West 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

Cell signal: the Army Corps’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 place of any size: Elk Garden, WV, 2.7 mi NE. Straight line.

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