Six Mile Creek
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:59 UTC
- A night
- $26When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 31In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Six Mile Creek Campground is located on its namesake at scenic Dannelly Reservoir in Alabama's Black Prairie Belt. The reservoir sits on the Alabama River and covers roughly 27 square miles, boasting more than 500 miles of shoreline. Boating, fishing, hunting and hiking are popular activities. Keep reading
Recreation
The creek offers excellent fishing for bass, crappie, bluegill and catfish, and numerous fishing tournaments and annual festivals are held in the immediate area. Whitetail deer and wild turkeys roam the park, creating excellent bow-hunting opportunities.
Facilities
This peaceful waterfront campground is open from April - Labor Day and offers 31 family sites with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat dock.
Natural Features
The Black Prairie Belt is characterized by rich, dark soils and a mosaic of rolling grasslands and dense hardwood and pine forests.
What the agency tells you
Park phone number is 334-875-6228
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. Shelters are reservable or first come first serve.
Day Use Area open 8:00am- 7:00pm Shelter reservations must be made in advance Clean area before leaving No amplified audio devices Park in designated areas only Activities above and beyond a routine picnic will require a special events permit If you have questions please call 334-872-9554
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 31
- Hookups
- 30 electric, 31 water
- Longest rig
- 123 ft
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat dock.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat dock. Natural Features The…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Night sky · 24th darkest of 41 in AL
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:59 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 · 12
What you actually pay
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Six Mile Creek 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 · 1
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Payne Lake Recreation AreaTalladega National Forest · 46 mi
recreation.gov availability, read 15:59 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
33 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 33 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. 30 of the 33 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| OAKV | 01 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 106 ft | 229 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 02 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 145 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 03 | standard electric | 82 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 111 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 04 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 71 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 05 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 34 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 06 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 15 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 07 | standard electric | 110 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 27 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 08 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 86 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 09 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 73 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 10 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 80 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 11 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 121 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 12 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 104 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 13 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 103 ft | $26 | |
| OAKV | 14 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 77 ft | $26 | |
| PINE | 15 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 191 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 16 | standard electric | 94 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 99 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 17 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 42 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 18 | standard electric | 74 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | under 10 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 19 | standard electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | under 10 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 20 | type not stated | 123 ft | 50 amp | under 10 ftAlabama River | |||
| PINE | 21 | standard electric | 123 ft | 50 amp | 125 ft | 46 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 22 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 135 ft | 149 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 23 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 81 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 24 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 74 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 25 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 73 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 26 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 153 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 27 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 83 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 28 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 152 ftAlabama River | $26 | |
| PINE | 29 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | yes | 60 ft | 111 ft | $26 |
| PINE | 30 | standard electric | 84 ft | 50 amp | yes | 60 ft | 131 ft | $26 |
| PINE | 31 | standard electric | 76 ft | 50 amp | yes | 88 ft | 191 ft | $26 |
| Six Mile Creek | Shelter Large (A090) | day use | 99 ft | $60 | ||||
| Six Mile Creek | Shelter Small (053) | day use | 99 ft | $60 |
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 33 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Elm Bluff Campground13 mi
Prairie Creek (AL)14 miPaul Grist State Park18 mi
Chilatchee Creek20 mi
Gees Bend Park25 mi
Millers Ferry Campground26 miFrom Selma, Alabama, follow US-41 south for 9 miles. Turn right on County Road 139 and follow the signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Selmont-West Selmont, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Six Mile Creek is in Alabama’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Terri Sewell (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →