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Tompkins

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 15 opens May 15.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $24–$46Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 122119 on recreation.gov

Photos · USACE

68 ftLongest rig

1,150 ftElevation

624 ftWater · Mapes Creek

5.3 miE of Elkland, PA

58%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices

In the agency’s own words

Tompkins Campground is on the north shore of Cowanesque Lake in the northern tier of Pennsylvania, less than one mile from the New York state border. Surrounded by lush forested ridges, the lake offers recreation for the entire family, including picnicking, swimming, boating, fishing, hiking, hunting and wildlife watching. The campground is a great place for kids of any age. Keep reading

Recreation

Cowanesque Lake offers a variety of outdoor activities. With a boat ramp and overnight mooring, campers can easily spend time on the water. There are a variety of indigenous fish that inhabit the area's streams and lakes, and fishing tournaments are held frequently. The North and South Tailrace areas provide access for fishing downstream of Cowanesque Dam. The fields and forests around the lakes are popular destinations for both local and out-of-state hunters looking for large and small game species native to the eastern hardwood forests. The 4 mile Moccasin Trail within the facility leads hikers on a trek through reclaimed farm fields and wood lots inhabited by a variety of watchable wildlife.

Facilities

Tompkins has a variety of shoreline sites, most of which have electric hookups. The campground includes 109 traditional campsites and, 16 tent only hike-in sites. A boat ramp, drinking water, hot showers, playgrounds and a dump station are also provided. There are two overlooks and two downstream fishing access points.

Natural Features

The partially forested campground sits in the pristine setting of the Endless Mountains region of Pennsylvania, along the Allegheny Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains. The surrounding land paints a scenic picture of rolling mountains and open fields.

Charges & Cancellations

Reservations to include any reservation changes, such as cancel, refund requests, site transfer, or date changes cannot be made at facility location.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

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.

Rule

All reservations must be made on www.recreation.gov or by calling (877) 444-6777 prior to arrival. Reservations to include any reservation changes, such as cancel, refund requests, site transfer, or date changes cannot be made at facility location.

Rule

Campers are limited to 3 camping units per site, 2 of which must be a tent or 3 tents in total. No more than 7 people per site or one family

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 122 · 16 walk-in
Hookups: 80 electric, 83 water, 49 sewer
Longest rig: 68 ft
Paved pads: 83 of 122
Accessible sites: 3
Pets: Allowed
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “A boat ramp, drinking water, hot showers, playgrounds and a dump station are also provided.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…16 tent only hike-in sites. A boat ramp, drinking water, hot showers, playgrounds and a dump station are…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, Creek, Beach; Boating; Fishing; Hiking
Night sky · 20th darkest of 48 in PA: Bortle 4
Fall color · reported 2 days ago, in Tioga County: Peak color

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 15, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 119 of the 122 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 15, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 15, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record

A night$24–$46plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$56–$100DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

Watch for a cancellation

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Tell me when the season opens

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 17

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$24–$46

Standard Nonelectric$24

RV Electric/Water$40

Standard Electric/Water$40

RV Electric/Water/Sewer$46

Standard Electric/Water/Sewer$46

These are next season’s rates, May 15, 2027 to Sep 6, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

All reservations must be made on www.recreation.gov or by calling (877) 444-6777 prior to arrival Shelter Weekdays-$40.00 (Reservations can be made as well as first come first served) Shelter Nonelectric Weekends $75.00 Shelter Electric Weekends $100.00 Boat mooring slips are first-come-first-served for campers only.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$32–$54

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$56–$100

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$46 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

“Reservations to include any reservation changes, such as cancel, refund requests, site transfer, or date changes cannot be made at facility location.” · this campground’s own terms

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 · 6

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

122 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 118 mapped sites

75 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop HIKE P13 165 ftLoop KNOL 18 163 ftLoop HIKE P01 148 ftLoop HIKE P14 145 ftLoop HIKE P07 139 ft

Least roomLoop KNOL 23 19 ftLoop KNOL 25 19 ftLoop BENC 54 35 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 122 sites

121 of 122 sites located

Standard23RV / electric79Walk, hike or boat in16Type not stated3

37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 P01 P02 P03 P04 P05 P06 P07 P08 P09 P10 P11 P12 P13 P14 P15 P16 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 A B C E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 103 of the 122 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.


BENC	37	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		75 ft	223 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	38	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		71 ft	219 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	39	standard electric	38 ft	50 amp		71 ft	182 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	40	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		75 ft	162 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	41	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		119 ft	65 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	42	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp		92 ft	205 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	43	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		109 ft	107 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	44	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp		92 ft	251 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	45	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		96 ft	280 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	46	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	yes	109 ft	125 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	47	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp		70 ft	269 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	48	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp	yes	107 ft	150 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	49	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		70 ft	258 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	50	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		92 ft	133 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	51	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		79 ft	260 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	52	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		90 ft	129 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	53	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		91 ft	236 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	54	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		35 ft	95 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
BENC	55	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		35 ft	109 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	56	type not stated	29 ft	30 amp			86 ft
COVE	57	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp		82 ft	219 ft	$40–$46
COVE	58	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp		67 ft	114 ft	$40–$46
COVE	59	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp		72 ft	237 ft	$40–$46
COVE	60	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp		67 ft	162 ft	$40–$46
COVE	61	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		72 ft	273 ft	$40–$46
COVE	62	standard electric	43 ft	30 amp		69 ft	225 ft	$40–$46
COVE	63	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp		71 ft	322 ft	$40–$46
COVE	64	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		65 ft	296 ft	$40–$46
COVE	65	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		71 ft	374 ft	$40–$46
COVE	66	standard electric	39 ft	50 amp		65 ft	332 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	67	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		76 ft	440 ft	$40–$46
COVE	68	standard electric	41 ft	50 amp		64 ft	329 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	69	standard electric	68 ft	50 amp		77 ft	492 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	70	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		64 ft	345 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	71	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		67 ft	369 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	72	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		69 ft	391 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	73	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		104 ft	550 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	74	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		66 ft	432 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	75	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		93 ft	601 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	76	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		66 ft	447 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	77	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp		87 ft	621 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	78	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		87 ft	627 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	79	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		91 ft	594 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	80	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		121 ft	518 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	81	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		83 ft	408 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	82	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		93 ft	337 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	83	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		118 ft	432 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	84	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp		93 ft	277 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	85	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp		118 ft	371 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
COVE	86	standard electric	44 ft	30 amp		117 ft	228 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
HIKE	P01	hike to				148 ft	128 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P02	hike to				135 ft	148 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P03	hike to				123 ft	144 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P04	hike to				59 ft	162 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P05	hike to				53 ft	105 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P06	hike to				53 ft	55 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P07	hike to				139 ft	221 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P08	hike to				73 ft	68 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P09	hike to				73 ft	83 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P10	hike to				130 ft	195 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P11	hike to				98 ft	65 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P12	hike to				98 ft	57 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P13	hike to				165 ft	244 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P14	hike to				145 ft	122 ft
HIKE	P15	hike to				114 ft	81 ftCowanesque Lake
HIKE	P16	hike to				114 ft	94 ftCowanesque Lake
KNOL	01	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		74 ft	143 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	02	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp		83 ft	244 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	03	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		71 ft	97 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	04	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp		83 ft	257 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	05	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		71 ft	90 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	06	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		81 ft	333 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	07	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp		78 ft	297 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	08	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		75 ft	129 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	09	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp		78 ft	370 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	10	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		87 ft	324 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	11	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		81 ft	283 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	15	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp				$40–$46
KNOL	16	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		65 ft	432 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	17	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		65 ft	489 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	18	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		163 ft	527 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	19	type not stated	42 ft	50 amp			680 ftCowanesque Lake
KNOL	20	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp		77 ft	703 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	21	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		64 ft	735 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	22	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp		64 ft	767 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	23	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		19 ft	721 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	24	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		82 ft	814 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	25	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		19 ft	705 ftCowanesque Lake	$40–$46
KNOL	26	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		84 ft	775 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	27	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		81 ft	660 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	28	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp		73 ft	697 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	29	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp		81 ft	587 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	30	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		73 ft	635 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	31	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		83 ft	566 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	32	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp		77 ft	501 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	33	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp		101 ft	473 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	34	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		73 ft	425 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	35	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		73 ft	354 ft	$40–$46
KNOL	36	type not stated	52 ft	50 amp			401 ft
MEAD	A	standard nonelectric	52 ft			77 ft	316 ft	$24
MEAD	B	standard nonelectric	54 ft			77 ft	294 ft	$24
MEAD	C	standard nonelectric	53 ft			65 ft	238 ft	$24
MEAD	E	standard nonelectric	46 ft			65 ft	173 ft	$24
MEAD	F	standard nonelectric	53 ft			56 ft	118 ft	$24
MEAD	G	standard nonelectric	54 ft			64 ft	181 ft	$24
MEAD	H	standard nonelectric	57 ft			56 ft	80 ft	$24
MEAD	I	standard nonelectric	47 ft			64 ft	165 ft	$24
MEAD	J	standard nonelectric	44 ft			72 ft	70 ft	$24
MEAD	K	standard nonelectric	49 ft			79 ft	173 ft	$24
MEAD	L	standard nonelectric	49 ft			72 ft	77 ft	$24
MEAD	M	standard nonelectric	47 ft			63 ft	99 ft	$24
MEAD	N	standard nonelectric	43 ft		yes	71 ft	186 ft	$24
MEAD	O	standard nonelectric	52 ft			63 ft	107 ft	$24
MEAD	P	standard nonelectric	49 ft			72 ft	198 ft	$24
MEAD	Q	standard nonelectric	54 ft			74 ft	132 ft	$24
MEAD	R	standard nonelectric	53 ft			52 ft	218 ft	$24
MEAD	S	standard nonelectric	26 ft			71 ft	170 ft	$24
MEAD	T	standard nonelectric	49 ft			69 ft	139 ftCowanesque Lake	$24
MEAD	U	standard nonelectric	50 ft			69 ft	150 ftCowanesque Lake	$24
MEAD	V	standard nonelectric	48 ft			68 ft	226 ftCowanesque Lake	$24
MEAD	W	standard nonelectric	48 ft			52 ft	255 ft	$24
MEAD	X	standard nonelectric	48 ft			71 ft	248 ft	$24

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

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 122 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions

Coordinate41.98083, -77.18944

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Lawrence Recreation Area1.1 mi

South Shore Recreation Area1.1 mi

Ives Run6.5 mi Lambs Creek Recreation Area12 mi

Backbone Horse CampgroundFinger Lakes National Forest · 40 mi

Blueberry Patch CampgroundFinger Lakes National Forest · 40 mi

Getting there

Take U.S. Highway 15 to the Lawrenceville/Route 49 exit. Go one mile east on Route 49 to Lawrenceville. At the traffic light turn left onto State Route 287. Cross the Cowanesque River Bridge at the edge of town and make an immediate left turn onto Bliss Road. Continue 5 miles to the campground entrance.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today45°Slight Chance Very Light Rain then Partly Sunny22% rain

Tonight26°Widespread Frost

Sunday59°Widespread Frost then Sunny

Sunday Night29°Clear then Widespread Frost

NWS forecast for Lawrenceville, PA

Source: National Weather Service, CTP forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 39°F, day 61°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: COWANESQUE DAM, PA (USC00361838), 2 miles away and at about the same elevation

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Tompkins is in Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district. Its representative, Glenn Thompson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 119 of the 122 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 121 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.31 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 48 rated federal campgrounds in Pennsylvania · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 15, 2026

Reported by: Pennsylvania DCNR, reported peak color · Oct 15, 2026

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Lawrenceville, PA, 2.5 mi WSW. Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026