Somerfield North Recreation Area
This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Reservable Pavillion that has picnic tables, grills, close to the restrooms and located on the lake. There is also a launch ramp and courtesy dock. Keep reading
Recreation
Swimming, boating, kayaking, and paddle boarding Natural Features The pavillion is lakeside Nearby Attractions Yough Lake Marina offers rentals of paddle boards, kayaks and pontoon boats
What the agency tells you
Ths is a non-electric picnic shelter. There are grills available for use at the shelter. Alcohol is not permitted on site.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 1 of 1 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, in Somerset County
- Peak color
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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 · 11
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
| Somerfield North Recreation Area | day use | 132 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t 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
Mill Run Recreation Area2.9 mi
Youghiogheny Recreation Area3.1 mi
Outflow Camping3.6 mi
Robert W Craig28 mi
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Irons Mountain Hiker-Biker CampsiteChesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park · 37 miLatitude 39.7564, Longitude -79.3935
Located on Rt 40 in Addison across the road from Yough Lake Marina
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Addison, PA
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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
Somerfield North Recreation Area is in Pennsylvania’s 14th congressional district. Its representative, Guy Reschenthaler (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
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyGuy ReschenthalerU.S. Representative · Pennsylvania’s 14th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationDavid McCormickU.S. Senator · Pennsylvania
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn FettermanU.S. Senator · Pennsylvania
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Somerfield North Recreation Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Guy Reschenthaler, I’m a constituent in Pennsylvania’s 14th district. Somerfield North Recreation Area, Pennsylvania carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Somerfield North Recreation Area (Pennsylvania) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Somerfield North Recreation Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear David McCormick, I’m a constituent in Pennsylvania. Somerfield North Recreation Area, Pennsylvania carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Somerfield North Recreation Area (Pennsylvania) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Somerfield North Recreation Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear John Fetterman, I’m a constituent in Pennsylvania. Somerfield North Recreation Area, Pennsylvania carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Somerfield North Recreation Area (Pennsylvania) via campanac.com