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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · VA

Salthouse Branch

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:16 UTC

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:16 UTC
A night: $26–$52When it reopens, per site
Sites: 111In the agency’s record

Photos · USACE

90 ftLongest rig

980 ftElevation

70 ftWater · Philpott Lake

3.6 miNW of Bassett, VA

72%Tree cover

The place

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

In the agency’s own words

Salthouse Branch Campground is nestled on the shores of Philpott Lake in the rugged foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. The park is located in a rural and sparsely populated part of Franklin County near the small community of Henry. Philpott Lake's clear water and natural shoreline make it a unique place for visitors to enjoy boating, fishing, hiking, picnicking and camping. Click here for the Philpott Lake Virtual Tour: https://corpslakes.erdc.dren.mil/visitors/virtual/philpott/tour.html Recreation The lake provides visitors with great boating and swimming opportunities. Keep reading

Anglers enjoy fishing for large and smallmouth bass, walleye, bluegill, crappie and catfish. There are two hiking trails accessible from the park. The Dogwood Glen trail is a 4.5 mile out-and-back, multi-use trail open to hikers, mountain bikers, and equestrians. The trail is moderate to strenuous in difficulty and connects Salthouse Branch Park to the Philpott Dam Tailrace. The Laurel Ridge trail is 2.25 miles out-and-back trail open to hikers and mountain bikers. It is moderate in difficulty and connects Salthouse Branch Park to Twin Ridge Park.

Facilities

The park offers both camping and day-use facilities, including 44 family sites with electric and water hookups and one group picnic shelter with electric and water. Also available are 46 primitive sites without utilities. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A beach, boat ramp, dock, playground, and amphitheater are also on-site.

Natural Features

Philpott Lake covers 2,900 acres and has 100 miles of shoreline. The lake's steep, rocky banks meet beautiful mixed forests of oak, maple, hickory, pine and cedar. Wildlife is abundant throughout the area. Deer, turkeys, squirrels, raccoons, and a variety of songbirds and waterfowl are commonly viewed.

Nearby Attractions

The lake is adjacent to Fairystone State Park and Fairystone Farms Wildlife Management Area, which includes 5,300 acres of public recreational lands.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Two vehicles are allowed per campsite.

Rule

A fee of $7/day will be collected for extra vehicles at the campground.

Rule

Park gates closed 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Everything else this campground posts · 3

Rule

No alcohol allowed.

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

STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 111 · 32 tent-only, 21 boat-in
Hookups: 43 electric, 44 water
Longest rig: 90 ft
Paved pads: 1 of 111
Accessible sites: 1
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…without utilities. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A beach, boat ramp, dock,…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: 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, Beach; Boating; Hiking; Picnicking; Swimming
Night sky · 68th darkest of 88 in VA: 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

Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:16 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.

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$26–$52plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

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

What’s open near here

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, when it reopens$26–$52

Standard Nonelectric$26

Tent Only Nonelectric$26

Standard Electric$34

Nonelectric Double Site$52

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 1, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026.

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 this campground addsits own record

Extra vehicle$7

“A fee of $7/day will be collected for extra vehicles at the campground.” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice

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 · Sep 10, 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

What this campground adds: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · 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

Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Salthouse Branch 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.

Closure: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers status record · Oct 16, 2026

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 · 4

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

Caldwell Fields Group CampgroundJefferson National Forest · 39 mi · 2 sites
Boley Field Group CampgroundJefferson National Forest · 40 mi · 1 site
White Rocks CampgroundJefferson National Forest · 49 mi · walk-up
Walnut Flats CampgroundJefferson National Forest · 54 mi · walk-up

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 16, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

111 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 110 mapped sites

53 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

99%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most roomLoop SBRA 048 132 ftLoop SBRA 049 131 ftLoop SBRA 050 111 ftLoop SBRA 051 111 ftLoop HILL 071 103 ft

Least roomLoop DISL 1D-21D6 23 ftLoop DISL 1D-21D7 23 ftLoop DISL 1D-21D2 24 ft

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

All 111 sites

111 of 111 sites located

Standard14Tent only32RV / electric43Walk, hike or boat in21Type not stated1

1D-21D1 1D-21D10 1D-21D11 1D-21D12 1D-21D13 1D-21D14 1D-21D15 1D-21D16 1D-21D17 1D-21D18 1D-21D19 1D-21D2 1D-21D20 1D-21D21 1D-21D3 1D-21D4 1D-21D5 1D-21D6 1D-21D7 1D-21D8 1D-21D9 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

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

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 110 of the 111 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.


DISL	1D-21D1	boat in				27 ft	88 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D10	boat in				29 ft	11 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D11	boat in				34 ft	14 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D12	boat in				29 ft	11 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D13	boat in				29 ft	12 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D14	boat in				38 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D15	boat in				40 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D16	boat in				37 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D17	boat in				37 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D18	boat in				42 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D19	boat in				45 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D2	boat in				24 ft	14 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D20	boat in				40 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D21	boat in				40 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D3	boat in				24 ft	13 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D4	boat in				25 ft	12 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D5	boat in				25 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D6	boat in				23 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D7	boat in				23 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D8	boat in				26 ft	under 10 ft	$26
DISL	1D-21D9	boat in				26 ft	under 10 ft	$26
HILL	055	tent only nonelectric	44 ft			42 ft	379 ft	$26
HILL	056	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			72 ft	361 ft	$26
HILL	057	tent only nonelectric	90 ft			68 ft	431 ft	$26
HILL	058	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			68 ft	463 ft	$26
HILL	059	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			54 ft	481 ft	$26
HILL	060	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			102 ft	645 ft	$26
HILL	061	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			77 ft	801 ft	$26
HILL	062	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			77 ft	725 ft	$26
HILL	063	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			82 ft	700 ft	$26
HILL	064	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			46 ft	626 ft	$26
HILL	065	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			77 ft	637 ft	$26
HILL	066	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			73 ft	557 ft	$26
HILL	067	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			93 ft	556 ft	$26
HILL	068	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			82 ft	703 ft	$26
HILL	069	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			46 ft	602 ft	$26
HILL	070	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			82 ft	522 ft	$26
HILL	071	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			103 ft	538 ft	$26
HILL	072	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			80 ft	538 ft	$26
HILL	073	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			73 ft	499 ft	$26
HILL	074	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			78 ft	478 ft	$26
HILL	075	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			78 ft	415 ft	$26
HILL	076	tent only nonelectric	76 ft			56 ft	387 ft	$26
HILL	077	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			54 ft	432 ft	$26
HILL	078	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			90 ft	277 ft	$26
HILL	079	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			58 ft	382 ft	$26
HILL	080	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			66 ft	274 ft	$26
HILL	081	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			58 ft	324 ft	$26
HILL	082	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			99 ft	224 ft	$26
HILL	083	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			69 ft	286 ft	$26
HILL	084	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			69 ft	231 ft	$26
HILL	085	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			42 ft	337 ft	$26
HILL	086	tent only nonelectric	30 ft			79 ft	270 ft	$26
RBRA	022	standard electric	38 ft	30 amp		38 ft	301 ft	$34
RBRA	023	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp		56 ft	397 ft	$34
RBRA	024	standard electric	43 ft	30 amp		38 ft	338 ft	$34
RBRA	025	standard electric	39 ft	30 amp		43 ft	384 ft	$34
RBRA	026	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp		45 ft	452 ft	$34
RBRA	027	standard electric	37 ft	30 amp		43 ft	426 ft	$34
RBRA	028	standard electric	36 ft	30 amp		45 ft	496 ft	$34
RBRA	029	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp		43 ft	463 ft	$34
RBRA	030	standard electric	43 ft	30 amp		78 ft	644 ft	$34
RBRA	031	standard electric	58 ft	30 amp		58 ft	600 ft	$34
RBRA	032	standard electric	34 ft	30 amp		61 ft	678 ft	$34
RBRA	033	standard electric	56 ft	30 amp	yes	58 ft	552 ft	$34
RBRA	034	standard electric	37 ft	30 amp		46 ft	678 ft	$34
RBRA	035	standard electric	43 ft	30 amp		46 ft	641 ft	$34
RBRA	036	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		51 ft	605 ft	$34
RBRA	037	standard electric	31 ft	30 amp		72 ft	498 ft	$34
RBRA	038	standard electric	34 ft	30 amp		50 ft	423 ft	$34
RBRA	039	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp		55 ft	428 ft	$34
RBRA	040	standard electric	36 ft	30 amp		40 ft	346 ft	$34
RBRA	041	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp		55 ft	374 ft	$34
RBRA	042	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		40 ft	307 ft	$34
RBRA	043	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp		56 ft	310 ft	$34
RBRA	044	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp		45 ft	262 ft	$34
RBRA	045	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		56 ft	256 ft	$34
RBRA	046	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		60 ft	204 ft	$34
RBRA	047	standard electric	38 ft	30 amp		73 ft	182 ft	$34
SBRA	048	standard nonelectric	20 ft			132 ft	211 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	049	standard nonelectric	20 ft			131 ft	176 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	050	standard nonelectric	20 ft			111 ft	143 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	051	standard nonelectric	20 ft			111 ft	136 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	052	standard nonelectric	20 ft			65 ft	98 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	053	standard nonelectric	20 ft			65 ft	131 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	054	standard nonelectric	20 ft			94 ft	209 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	087	standard nonelectric	30 ft			53 ft	134 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	088	standard nonelectric	32 ft			95 ft	196 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	089	standard nonelectric	20 ft			53 ft	187 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	090	standard nonelectric	30 ft			66 ft	161 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	091	standard nonelectric	30 ft			66 ft	118 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	092	standard nonelectric	35 ft			83 ft	110 ft	$26–$52
SBRA	093	standard nonelectric	30 ft			101 ft	143 ft	$26–$52
Standard electric 1 -18	001	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		27 ft	84 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	002	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		38 ft	77 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	003	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		38 ft	79 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	004	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		57 ft	122 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	005	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp		43 ft	152 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	006	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		43 ft	191 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	007	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		38 ft	242 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	008	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		33 ft	280 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	009	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp		29 ft	347 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	010	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		29 ft	360 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	011	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		55 ft	499 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	012	standard electric	43 ft	50 amp		55 ft	497 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	013	standard electric	76 ft	50 amp		63 ft	467 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	014	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp		36 ft	382 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	015	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		36 ft	349 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	016	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		38 ft	316 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	017	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		33 ft	274 ft	$34
Standard electric 1 -18	018	type not stated	45 ft	50 amp			229 ft

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 · Sep 11, 2026

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 111 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

Coordinate36.81361, -80.04000

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone(540) 365-7005

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Deer Island0.5 mi

Goose Point1.2 mi

Horseshoe Point1.9 mi

Philpott Park2.6 mi

Rock Castle Gorge Backcountry CampingBlue Ridge Parkway · 16 mi

Rocky Knob CampgroundBlue Ridge Parkway · 17 mi

Getting there

From US 220, turn onto Henry Road (SR-605), go 6 miles; turn left onto Knob Church Road and go 2 miles. Turn left onto Salthouse Branch Road and follow signs to the entrance.

GPS Users: Do not use SR-727 (Stoney Brook Lane) or SR-894 (Johnson Hill Road).

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

This Afternoon83°Mostly Sunny14% rain

Tonight49°Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms54% rain

Saturday56°Rain Showers then Partly Sunny82% rain

Saturday Night39°Clear

NWS forecast for Bassett, VA

Source: National Weather Service, RNK forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 46°F, day 71°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°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: PHILPOTT DAM 2, VA (USC00446692), 3 miles away and 143 ft higher

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

Salthouse Branch is in Virginia’s 9th congressional district. Its representative, H. Morgan Griffith (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

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: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 16:16 UTC). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 89 of the 111 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 11, 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 111 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: 0.74 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

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 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