National Park Service · GA

Sea Camp Campground

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Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
ClosedSea Camp Campground will be closed to all visitors and campers from Feb.
Right now
ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
A night
$22When it reopens, per site
Sites
18In the agency’s record
20 ftElevation
1,188 ftWater · Ocean · to the Atlantic Ocean
2.7 miE of St. Marys, GA
81%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 67th darkest of 96 in GA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Sea Camp Campground is located a half mile from the Sea Camp dock. All sites are walk-to, tent sites and campers are responsible for transporting all gear. Carts can be used. There are flush toilets, drinking water, cold showers, and a dish washing sink. Each site has a fire ring with grill, picnic table and food storage. It is common for this campground to fill up. Permits are $22 a night for individual sites good for up to 6 people. Group sites are $40 a night good for up to 20 people.

Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets - year round
Drinking water
Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records

Nothing to book until it reopens

Sea Camp Campground will be closed to all visitors and campers from Feb.

The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.

A night, when it reopens$22plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s fee record
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itNational Park ServiceBooked 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.

We’ll write once, when the agency reopens it.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Every line of the receipt · 10

What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
A night when it reopens, from$22
Sea Camp individual site$22
Sea Camp Group Site$40
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.
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 · 4
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
What the agency said · 1

Sea Camp Campground will be closed to all visitors and campers from Feb. 23 to Mar. 1 for construction work.

National Park Service · the source publishes no posting date

Filed as construction from the agency’s own words “construction”. That reading is ours.

Open within 150 miles · 4

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

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 17, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight68°Mostly Cloudy2% rain
Saturday73°Mostly Cloudy9% rain
Saturday Night60°Mostly Cloudy2% rain
Sunday70°Mostly Sunny10% rain

NWS forecast for St. Marys, GA

Typical weather

Typical October night 62°F, day 79°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 43°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°30°

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: BRUNSWICK 23 S, GA (USW00063856), 3 miles away and at about the same elevation

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

developing

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 28, 2026

Who answers for this land

Buddy Carter, official portrait

Sea Camp Campground is in Georgia’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Buddy Carter (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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How we know

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