Seven Points (TN)
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 30 nights read 16:10 UTC
- A night
- $32–$36Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 59All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Seven Points Campground is a lakeside oasis in the green hills of Tennessee, providing visitors with countless recreational activities on the lake and the surrounding miles of woods and grasslands. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake provides a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities for millions of visitors each year. Because of the temperate climate and relatively long recreation season, visitors have numerous activities to choose from, including fishing, hunting, picnicking, boating, canoeing, hiking, horseback riding and wildlife viewing. Fishing opportunities abound at J. Percy Priest Lake, with a wide variety of species available, including largemouth and smallmouth bass, crappie, striped bass, Cherokee bass, and white bass. Other species such as catfish, bluegill, bream and trout provide excellent opportunities for younger anglers. The Three Hickories Nature Trail is located in nearby Cook Recreation Area and features a 1.6 miles of nature trail through the wooded area.
Facilities
Seven Points Campground offers 59 shady and spacious campsites, along with two large group picnic shelters. The campground features drinking water, a dump station, flush toilets and hot showers, creating a comfortable camping experience. A boat ramp and swimming beach are provided, allowing guests to take advantage of the vast, sparkling lake. The group picnic shelters are located in the Day Use Area and can accommodate more than 100 guests each, making Seven Points an ideal spot for large parties and family functions.
Natural Features
J. Percy Priest Dam and Lake was one of the first Corps of Engineers lakes to have recreation as part of its justification. The dam, completed in 1968, impounds 42 miles, with 14,200 surface acres of water. In soothing contrast to the sparkling waters of the lake are the adjacent 19,087 acres of grasslands and woodlands. A highlight of the region, Couchville Cedar Glade Natural Area, is home to wildlife and rare plant species, including the Tennessee coneflower.
Nearby Attractions
J. Percy Priest Lake is conveniently located about 10 miles east of downtown Nashville, offering visitors countless cultural activities in addition to the conveniences of a metro area.
What the agency tells you
No off-road vehicles permitted.
Two tents or one tent and one RV are permitted per campsite.
Two vehicles allowed per site.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Skunks frequent the area; store food in approved containers.
$5 fee per vehicle for guests of campers.
Activities other than picnicking in the group shelters must be pre-approved by the Resource Manager.
Firewood quarantines are in effect. Firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Help protect our forests by purchasing certified/heat treated firewood, or collecting firewood at your camping destination. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Camping limit is 14 days in any 30-consecutive-day period on J. Percy Priest Lake. This rule applies to all campgrounds combined.
No drive-thrus on Friday, Saturday & Sunday.
Wifi is NOT provided at this campground.
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 https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 59
- Hookups
- 58 electric, 59 water
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 5
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…features drinking water, a dump station, flush toilets and hot showers, creating a comfortable camping…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The campground features drinking water, a dump station, flush toilets and hot showers, creating a comfortable camping experience.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…picnic shelters. The campground features drinking water, a dump station, flush toilets and hot showers,…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 91st darkest of 95 in TN
- Bortle 6
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 30 km away
- No change
Full this Saturdayread 16:10 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedClosed
Every one of the 58 sites on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 6 are free on Tue, Oct 20. read 16:10 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $32–$36 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.
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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:10 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
61 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 60 mapped sitesAll 61 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 58 of the 61 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SPOI | 01 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 189 ft | 585 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 03 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 404 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 04 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 128 ft | 542 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 05 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 288 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 06 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 429 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 07 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 222 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 08 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 351 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 09 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 201 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 10 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 329 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 11 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 150 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 12 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 37 ft | 315 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 13 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 130 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 14 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 37 ft | 298 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 15 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 107 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 16 | type not stated | 20 ft | 50 amp | yes | |||
| SPOI | 17 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 136 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 18 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 270 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 19 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 188 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 20 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 319 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 21 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 153 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 22 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 325 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 23 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 199 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 24 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | yes | 103 ft | 307 ft | $32–$36 |
| SPOI | 25 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 113 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 26 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | yes | 103 ft | 292 ft | $32–$36 |
| SPOI | 27 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 60 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 28 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 289 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 29 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 20 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 30 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 233 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 31 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 145 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 32 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 102 ft | 225 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 33 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 196 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 34 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 254 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 35 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 251 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 36 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 310 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 37 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 72 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 38 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 385 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 39 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 75 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 40 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 385 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 41 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 109 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 42 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 330 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 43 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 190 ft | 304 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 44 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 279 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 45 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 490 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 46 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 257 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 47 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | yes | 78 ft | 591 ft | $32–$36 |
| SPOI | 48 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 138 ft | 259 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 49 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | yes | 78 ft | 662 ft | $32–$36 |
| SPOI | 50 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 448 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 51 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 730 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 52 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 556 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 53 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 723 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 54 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 568 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 55 | standard electric | 10 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 691 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 56 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 517 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 57 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 643 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 58 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 510 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 59 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 674 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | 60 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 114 ft | 560 ft | $32–$36 | |
| SPOI | SP1 | day use | yes | 518 ft | 100 ft | |||
| SPOI | SP2 | day use | yes | 518 ft | 284 ft | $50 |
The agency files 2 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.
25 of 61 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Anderson Road Campground2.6 mi
Smith Springs3.2 mi
Poole Knobs6.6 mi
Shutes Branch7.9 mi
Cedar Creek (TN)11 mi
Jefferson Springs11 miFrom downtown Nashville, TN, take I-40 east for 7 miles and to exit 221B. Turn right onto Old Hickory Boulevard, then left on Bell Road, right on New Hope Road and left on Stewarts Ferry Pike. Follow the signs to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance), TN
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Seven Points (TN) is in Tennessee’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Andy Ogles (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyAndrew OglesU.S. Representative · Tennessee’s 5th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationBill HagertyU.S. Senator · Tennessee
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMarsha BlackburnU.S. Senator · Tennessee
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Seven Points (TN), Tennessee
Dear Andrew Ogles, I’m a constituent in Tennessee’s 5th district. I tried to camp at Seven Points (TN), Tennessee, and couldn’t. All 59 sites at Seven Points (TN) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 58 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Seven Points (TN) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Seven Points (TN). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Seven Points (TN) (Tennessee) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Seven Points (TN), Tennessee
Dear Bill Hagerty, I’m a constituent in Tennessee. I tried to camp at Seven Points (TN), Tennessee, and couldn’t. All 59 sites at Seven Points (TN) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 58 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Seven Points (TN) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Seven Points (TN). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Seven Points (TN) (Tennessee) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Seven Points (TN), Tennessee
Dear Marsha Blackburn, I’m a constituent in Tennessee. I tried to camp at Seven Points (TN), Tennessee, and couldn’t. All 59 sites at Seven Points (TN) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 58 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Seven Points (TN) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Seven Points (TN). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Seven Points (TN) (Tennessee) via campanac.com