Victoria Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 2 of the next 2 nights read 16:15 UTC
- A night
- $24–$34Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7472 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Victoria Campground sits on the banks of Allatoona Lake, providing visitors with a variety of water activities in the green rolling hills of Georgia. Keep reading
Recreation
Allatoona Lake is one of the most frequently visited Corps of Engineers lakes in the nation. Nearly 7 million visitors each year enjoy picnicking, swimming, camping, hunting, fishing, boating and observing wildlife along the 270 miles of shoreline. The lake is annually stocked with bass, crappie, bream, gar and catfish, making it a popular destination for anglers. Fishing jetties are available at numerous shoreline fishing locations, and a dock is provided at the campground.
Facilities
Victoria Campground provides more than 70 spacious reservable campsites, conveniently located near the dock and swimming beach. Fire rings, picnic areas, drinking water, flush toilets and showers are all provided, creating a comfortable camping experience for visitor Natural Features Located only 35 miles from Atlanta, Allatoona Lake is situated on the Etowah River, a tributary of the Coosa River. The serene lake and peaceful surroundings offer visitors respite from the rush of city living. Contact Info This location is staffed. Please call (770) 928-8906 to speak with local staff.
Nearby Attractions
The city of Woodstock is nearby, offering restaurants, shopping, and a historic downtown area. Historic sites like the Etowah Indian Mounds and Booth Western Art Museum are a close drive to the city of Cartersville. The Visitor Center at Allatoona Lake Project Management Office features video exhibits and displays about the area’s history, ranging from the time of early Native Americans, to the Civil War and to present times. The Visitor Center overlooks the dam and offers many hiking trails. Red Top Mountain State Park has more than 15 miles of trails and offers interpretive programs. Eight marinas are located on Allatoona Lake that offer boat rentals and restaurants. Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield is located in Kennesaw and White Water Park is in Marietta. Zoo Atlanta and Georgia Aquarium are located in Atlanta.
Charges & Cancellations
Change and Cancellation Policies and Fees Overnight and Day Use Facilities: To ensure fairness, reservation arrival or departure dates may not be changed beyond the booking window until 18 days after booking the reservation. Camping / Day Use: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation (including campsites, cabins, lookouts, group facilities, etc.). The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amount. You can cancel or change reservations through Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. Late Cancellations Overnight and Day Use Facilities: Late cancellations are those cancelled between 12:01 a.m. (Eastern) on the day before arrival and check out time on the day after arrival. Individual Campsites: If a customer cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival they will be charged a $10.00 service fee and will also forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a single night's reservation will forfeit the entire use fee but no cancellation fee will apply. Cancellations for a single night's use will not be assessed a service fee. Group Facility: If a customer cancels a group overnight facility reservation within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date they will be charged the $10.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's use fee. Cancellations for a single night's use will not be assessed a service fee. Group Day Use Area: If a customer cancels a group day use facility reservation within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date, they will forfeit the total day use fee with no service fee charge. No-Shows Camping / Day Use: A camping no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Reserved campsites and group overnight facilities will be held until check-out time on the day following your scheduled arrival. Group day-use facilities will be held until check-in time on your scheduled arrival date. If a customer does not arrive at the campground or group facility by check-out time the day after arrival or does not cancel the reservation by the times listed under "Late Cancellations" above, the customer may be assessed a $20.00 service fee and forfeit use fees. Refunds Customers must request refunds no later than 14 days after the scheduled departure date. Recreation.gov will not grant refund requests after 14 days of departure. Reservation Fee: For some facilities, tours or permits an additional reservation fee is charged. For some overnight and day-use facilities, an additional non-refundable reservation fee may apply. The non-refundable reservation fee for tours and tickets is $1.00. The non-refundable reservation fee for permits varies by location. • Refunds for Bankcard Purchases: Refunds for bank card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank card. • Refunds for Check or Cash Purchases: Refunds for Recreation.gov payments made by check or money order, and cash payments at selected campgrounds will be issued a check refund. A refund will be processed within 30 days of receipt and approval. Please Note: Refund requests made during or after departure can only be processed when approved by the facility management staff based upon local policy. • Refunds for Emergency Closures: In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team will attempt to notify users and offer alternate dates (as appropriate). If this is not possible, reservations will be cancelled and all fees paid will be refunded. Reservation fees for free tickets are non-refundable in the event of an emergency closure.
What the agency tells you
Maximum of three vehicles per campsite
Camping limit is 14 consecutive days or 14 non-consecutive days in any 30-day period at all Corps of Engineers operated campgrounds on the Allatoona Lake Project.
Off-road vehicles, golf carts and ATVs are not permitted
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Entrance gate is closed from 10:30 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Primary Occupant must be 18 years of age or older.
Digital Copies of campground maps are available online. Please print ahead of time if you would like physical copy.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 74 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- 71 electric, 74 water, 2 sewer
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…rings, picnic areas, drinking water, flush toilets and showers are all provided, creating a…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…beach. Fire rings, picnic areas, drinking water, flush toilets and showers are all provided,…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 92nd darkest of 96 in GA
- Bortle 5
Full this Saturdayread 16:15 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
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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.
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$34 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.
“Camping / Day Use: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation (including campsites, cabins, lookouts, group facilities, etc.). The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amount.” · this campground’s own no-show 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:15 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
74 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 72 mapped sitesAll 74 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. 71 of the 74 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.
| VICT | 01 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 416 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 02 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 404 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 03 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 462 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 04 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 463 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 05 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 354 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 06 | type not stated | 50 ft | 50 amp | 426 ft | |||
| VICT | 07 | type not stated | 50 ft | 50 amp | 365 ft | |||
| VICT | 08 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 288 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 09 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 281 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 10 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 199 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 11 | tent only nonelectric | 65 ft | 68 ft | 140 ft | |||
| VICT | 12 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 211 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 13 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 101 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 14 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 77 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 15 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 195 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 16 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 115 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 17 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 41 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 18 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 108 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 19 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 22 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 20 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 113 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 21 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 11 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 22 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 61 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 23 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 55 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 24 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 83 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 25 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 76 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 26 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 57 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 27 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 176 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 28 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 209 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 29 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | yes | 81 ft | 158 ft | $30–$34 |
| VICT | 30 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 220 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 31 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 244 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 32 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 286 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 33 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 270 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 34 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 93 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 35 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 283 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 36 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 193 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 37 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 129 ft | 286 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 38 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 345 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 39 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 386 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 41 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 421 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 42 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 403 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 43 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 154 ft | 411 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 44 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 95 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 45 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 51 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 46 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 39 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 47 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 23 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 48 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 120 ft | 39 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 49 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | under 10 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 50 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | under 10 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 51 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 48 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 52 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 81 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 53 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 126 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 54 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 131 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 55 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 116 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 56 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 118 ft | 141 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 57 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 124 ft | 153 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 58 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 178 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 59 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | yes | 82 ft | 219 ft | $30–$34 |
| VICT | 60 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 127 ft | 418 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 61 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 127 ft | 481 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 62 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 137 ft | 629 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 63 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 532 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 64 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 298 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 65 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 356 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 66 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 282 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 67 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 235 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 68 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 200 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 69 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 149 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 70 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 195 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 71 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 226 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 72 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 206 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 73 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 122 ft | 252 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 74 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 171 ft | 421 ft | $30–$34 | |
| VICT | 75 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 494 ft | $30–$34 |
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 74 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Payne Campground-Allatoona Lake3.1 mi
Sweetwater Campground3.8 mi
Bald Ridge Creek31 mi
Sawnee31 mi
Doll Mountain Campground32 mi
Woodring Campground (GA)32 mi- Physical address: 937 Victoria Landing Drive, Woodstock, GA 30189
- From I-575, take exit 11 and turn west onto Sixes Road. After 2.5 miles turn left on Bells Ferry Road and follow the signs to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Woodstock, GA
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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
Victoria Campground is in Georgia’s 11th congressional district. Its representative, Barry Loudermilk (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
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 moneyBarry LoudermilkU.S. Representative · Georgia’s 11th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJon OssoffU.S. Senator · Georgia
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRaphael G. WarnockU.S. Senator · Georgia
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 Victoria Campground, Georgia
Dear Barry Loudermilk, I’m a constituent in Georgia’s 11th district. I tried to camp at Victoria Campground, Georgia, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 72 of the 74 campsites the agency files at Victoria Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 72 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Victoria Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Victoria Campground. 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 Victoria Campground (Georgia) 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 Victoria Campground, Georgia
Dear Jon Ossoff, I’m a constituent in Georgia. I tried to camp at Victoria Campground, Georgia, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 72 of the 74 campsites the agency files at Victoria Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 72 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Victoria Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Victoria Campground. 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 Victoria Campground (Georgia) 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 Victoria Campground, Georgia
Dear Raphael G. Warnock, I’m a constituent in Georgia. I tried to camp at Victoria Campground, Georgia, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 72 of the 74 campsites the agency files at Victoria Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 72 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Victoria Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Victoria Campground. 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 Victoria Campground (Georgia) via campanac.com