Station Camp Campground
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- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $30–$35Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Station Camp Campground (also known as Station Camp Horse Camp) is located on the Tennessee side of the park. Keep reading
Recreation
Numerous trails snake through the recreation area, offering mountain biking, hiking and horseback riding for visitors. The Big South Fork River provides opportunities for all water-sports.
Facilities
Station Camp Campground combines the experience of traditional woods camping with the modern conveniences of flush toilets, hot showers and electrick hookups. Sites can accomodate both RV and tent camping. Tie-stalls are available on each site.
Natural Features
Big South Fork is located in north-central Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky in some of the most rugged terrain of the Cumberland Plateau. The park encompasses approximately 125,000 acres including rocky gorges and forested plateaus.
Nearby Attractions
Just a few miles down the road is the Station Camp River Access where most horseback riders cross the river to access numerous trails. The river access has a picnic area and vault toilets. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (423) 569-9778.
What the agency tells you
Black bears and other wildlife frequent this campground. Please keep in mind that “food” to a bear includes any item with a scent, regardless of packaging. This may consist of items that you do not consider food, such as canned goods, horse feed, bottles, drinks, soaps, cosmetics, toiletries, trash, ice chests (even when empty), and unwashed items used for preparing or eating meals. All these items must be stored properly. --Secure coolers, grills, cooking utensils, horse feed, any food not in use, and anything with food odors inside the locked compartment of a vehicle or trailer or a bear proof storage locker if available. Food storage lockers each measure approximately 29" deep x 38" wide x 43" tall. --Wipe off picnic tables and grills. Properly discard aluminum foil used for cooking. --Avoid burning garbage in fire rings because it will leave behind grease and food scraps. --Always discard all garbage in wildlife proof trash cans or dumpsters. Keep a clean campsite. --Do not hang garbage from lantern poles. Following these guidelines will keep you from getting your property confiscated from your campsite. We appreciate your cooperation.
Dipose of garbage immediately in bear-proof garbage receptacles. This rule is strictly enforced!
Firewood Quarantine: The possession of any firewood originating from any location for which a federal or state firewood quarantine is in effect is prohibited. The movement of firewood into the park from counties adjacent to the park for which a federal or state quarantine is in place is permitted.Firewood which bears a USDA or a state certificate is allowed. The National Park Service STRONGLY discourages the movement of firewood from one location to another. Help protect the park and chose to bring only heat-treated wood on your next visit!
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Horses or other members of the Equidae family being transported into or through the park from out of state shall be accompanied by a negative test for Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) (Coggins) conducted not more than twelve (12) months prior to entering the state as well as proof of veterinary inspection. These forms must be in possession of the horse handler at all times.
Any group larger than 25 persons wishing to participate in any activity in the park in which members of the group will depart from an established road and/or parking area must first obtain a permit for such activity. More information can be found online at www.nps.gov/biso/planyourvisit/special-use-permits.htm.
Please be advised that an approved Permit or Authorization by the superintendent is required before providing business services within Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. This includes services such as RV or tent delivery and setup, firewood sales and delivery, shuttle and transportation services, guided hikes, guided floats, and similar activities. To apply for a permit, please visit our website at www.nps.gov/biso and navigate to the "Doing Business With the Park" section. There you will find application forms, instructions, and contact information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- 24 electric, 24 water
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Facilities Station Camp Campground combines the experience of traditional woods camping with the modern conveniences of flush toilets, hot showers and electrick hookups.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Stay limit
- 30 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 15th darkest of 95 in TN
- Bortle 4
2 of 44 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:34 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$35 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 15:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 23 mapped sitesAll 24 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 24 of the 24 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.
| 1 (With Two 12' x 12' Corral-Panel Horse Stalls) | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 3,690 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 10 (With Two 12' x 12' Corral-Panel Horse Stalls) | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 4,314 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 11 (With Two 12' x 12' Corral-Panel Horse Stalls) | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 29 ft | 4,392 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 12 (With Two 12' x 12' Corral-Panel Horse Stalls) | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 29 ft | 4,419 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 13 (With Two 12' x 12' Corral-Panel Horse Stalls) | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 4,446 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 14 (With Two 12' x 12' Corral-Panel Horse Stalls) | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 4,420 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 15 (With One 12' x 12' Corral-Panel Horse Stall) | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 4,389 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 16 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 4,370 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 17 (With Two 12' x 12' Corral-Panel Horse Stalls) | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 4,356 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 18 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 4,236 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 19 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 4,175 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 2 (With Two 12' x 12' Corral-Panel Horse Stalls) | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 3,748 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 20 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 4,093 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 21 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 4,018 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 22 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 3,944 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 23 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 3,849 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 24 | standard electric | 56 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 3,781 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 3 (With Two 12' x 12' Corral-Panel Horse Stalls) | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 3,881 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 4 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 48 ft | 3,997 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 5 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 48 ft | 4,044 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 6 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | $30–$35 | |||
| 7 | standard electric | 37 ft | 30 amp | yes | 73 ft | 4,196 ft | $30–$35 |
| 8 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 4,230 ft | $30–$35 | |
| 9 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 4,270 ft | $30–$35 |
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
Bandy CreekBig South Fork National River and Recreation Area · 5.3 mi
Great Meadows CampgroundDaniel Boone National Forest · 7.5 mi
Bear Creek Campground - KYBig South Fork National River and Recreation Area · 9.0 mi
Blue Heron CampgroundBig South Fork National River and Recreation Area · 11 mi
Alum Ford CampgroundBig South Fork National River and Recreation Area · 16 mi
Fall Creek Campground29 miFor detailed directions, please visit: http://www.nps.gov/biso/planyourvisit/directions.htm
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Oneida, TN
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 69°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 25°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
Who answers for this land
Station Camp Campground is in Tennessee’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, John Rose (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →