Training Dike Park
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- Taking bookingsSites offered on 28 of the next 30 nights read 14:22 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Trainig Dike Park is located in Millers Ferry near Camden, Al. Training Dike offers a day use shelter, playground, picnic area and sports fields.
What the agency tells you
The rental of this shelter is subject to the following conditions: 1. Excessive noise is PROHIBITED. This includes the operation or use of any audio or other noise producing device including, but not limited to: radios, televisions, stereos, musical instruments, and motorized equipment in a loud and disruptive manner. 2. Items that can use excessive water, such as water slides, are prohibited. 3. The use of water balloons is prohibited. 4. Boisterous, rowdy and/or disorderly actions by individuals are prohibited. 5. The group/sponsor will not charge the public a fee to enter the shelter or for items the group/sponsor possesses (i.e., selling of food plates). 6. All vehicles must be parked in designated parking spaces. Vehicles should not be parked off pavement or gravel area without special written permission. 7. Park closes at 7:00 p.m. Shelter should be cleaned, lights turned off, and area vacated by closing time. 8. All trash at shelter and surrounding area (including parking lot) should be picked up and placed in garbage cans. If garbage cans become full, excess trash should be placed in bags and stacked next to garbage cans. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR LEAVING THE SHELTER THE WAY YOU FOUND IT. 9. Group size will be limited to seating and parking capacity of shelter and parking area. 10. NO REFUNDS OR RAIN CHECKS OF RESERVATION FEE. Cancellation due to inclement weather may be rescheduled on another open day within 6 months of original reservation date. The reservation holder must show original reservation receipt and this completed page at time of rescheduling reservation.
Full this Saturdayread 14:22 UTC
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. How full the weekend is nationally.
3 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:02 UTC. See them
OpenBookedNot reservable
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Tue, Oct 20. read 14:22 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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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 · 5
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 3
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:02 UTC
- Millers Ferry CampgroundAlabama River Lakes · 0.1 mi · 78 of 128 site-nights open
- Chilatchee CreekAlabama River Lakes · 7.1 mi · 68 of 88 site-nights open
- Elm Bluff CampgroundAlabama River Lakes · 17 mi · 20 of 22 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 14:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
| Training Dike Park | Shelter | day use | 15 amp | 403 ft | $60 |
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 phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Catherine, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 37°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Training Dike Park 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyTerri A. SewellU.S. Representative · Alabama’s 7th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationKatie Boyd BrittU.S. Senator · Alabama
- Your senator, on the same appropriationTommy TubervilleU.S. Senator · Alabama
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Training Dike Park, Alabama
Dear Terri A. Sewell, I’m a constituent in Alabama’s 7th district. I tried to camp at Training Dike Park, Alabama, and couldn’t. Every site at Training Dike Park is reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Training Dike Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Training Dike Park. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Training Dike Park (Alabama) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Training Dike Park, Alabama
Dear Katie Boyd Britt, I’m a constituent in Alabama. I tried to camp at Training Dike Park, Alabama, and couldn’t. Every site at Training Dike Park is reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Training Dike Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Training Dike Park. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Training Dike Park (Alabama) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Training Dike Park, Alabama
Dear Tommy Tuberville, I’m a constituent in Alabama. I tried to camp at Training Dike Park, Alabama, and couldn’t. Every site at Training Dike Park is reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Training Dike Park keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Training Dike Park. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Training Dike Park (Alabama) via campanac.com