Tea Creek Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Season
- April 1 – November 30Open April 1 through November 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Tea Creek Campground is a spacious 28-site campground is tucked away at the intersection of the Williams River and Tea Creek. This campground is a recreational hub of the area. There are four trailheads located within the campground and walking distance to most of the T ea Creek Trail System . Each camping site is equipped with a parking spur, picnic table, fire ring with a grill, waste receptacle and a lantern hookup. V isitors are encouraged to use the three bear-proof trash cages located throughout the campground during their visit.
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Picnicking
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 24 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Highland Scenic HighwayMonongahela National Forest · 7.8 mi
Cranberry Glades Botanical AreaCranberry Glades National Natural Landmark · 9.8 miCranberry CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 12 miDay Run CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 12 miSummit Lake CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 13 miBishop Knob CampgroundMonongahela National Forest · 14 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Marlinton, WV
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 62°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical November 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 moreOutside the published season
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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Tea Creek Campground is in West Virginia’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Carol Miller (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →