Rocky Point Recreation Area
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:21 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Rocky Point Recreational Area includes one of three designated swim areas on West Point Lake, operated from May through Labor Day each year. Picnic sites, boat launch facilities, and a fishing pier are open year-round. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (706) 645-2937. Keep reading
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations must be made 14 days prior to the reservation date in order to receive a refund. No refunds will be issued after the date of the reservation. Reservations will not be refunded due to weather related issues.
What the agency tells you
Shelter rentals that are for activities such as weddings, fishing tournaments, races or anticipate a large number of people in attendance, might require a Special Event Permit. Please contact the West Point Project Management office at 706.645.2937 to inquire if a special permit will be required in addition to the shelter reservation.
Parking is first come first serve.
It is the responsibility of the party host to communicate with their party members to purchase individual day-use fee passes for their vehicles at the self-service fee station located near the gatehouse. These passes are $5 per vehicle and $20 per bus or commercial vehicle; please bring a credit or debit card. The reservation fees do not exempt vehicles/groups from paying these vehicle fees; vehicle fees cannot be combined into the total reservation cost. Please assist us in making your visit safe and enjoyable. The following guidelines are intended to ensure orderly park operation, visitor safety and protection of public property: • Vehicles should only be parked in designated parking spaces. • Golf carts and off-road vehicles including UTV, ATV and dirt bikes are prohibited. • Alcohol is prohibited in this park. • Please keep the area clean. Trash cans are conveniently located around the shelter. • Commercial activities are prohibited. Fees may not be collected. • Roadways shall be kept clear and the normal flow of traffic should not be impeded. Objects such as grills, trailers, inflatable toys and other recreation items will not be placed in the roadways. • Pets should be kept on a leash under six feet in length. Pets are not allowed on the beach. • Excessive noise that unreasonably disturbs others is prohibited. • Please wear your life jacket when engaging in water related activities. • Reservations will not be refunded due to weather related issues.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 3 of 3 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 3 of 3 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:21 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
“Cancellations must be made 14 days prior to the reservation date in order to receive a refund. No refunds will be issued after the date of the reservation. Reservations will not be refunded due to weather related issues.” · 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 · 5
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Rocky Point Recreation Area closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 3
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Turnipseed CampgroundTalladega National Forest · 48 mi · walk-up
- Pine Glen Recreation AreaTalladega National Forest · 55 mi
- Coleman Lake Recreation AreaTalladega National Forest · 58 mi
recreation.gov availability, read 15:21 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
3 records · the site map
All 3 records
| A | Rocky Point Shelter #1 | day use | 15 amp | 711 ft | $150 |
| A | Rocky Point Shelter #2 | day use | |||
| B | Rocky Point Shelter #3 | day use |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Long Cane Recreation Area0.2 mi
Veasey Creek Park1.6 mi
Amity1.6 mi
Whitetail Ridge2.3 mi
Earl Cook Recreation Area2.4 miGlass Bridge Park2.6 miTake Alabama County Road 266 approximately six miles north of West Point to the T-intersection. Turn right and follow the road to the entrance of the park. The shelter is near the beach.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fredonia, AL
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
Who answers for this land
Rocky Point Recreation Area 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 →