Westville Recreation Area
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- Right now
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Westville Lake is situated on the Quinebaug River in the towns of Southbridge and Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Westville offers a variety of hiking opportunities, group picnic shelters, a picnic cove, a large recreation field, canoe/kayak launches, and much more. Keep reading
Recreation
Westville Lake offers two large picnic shelters for hosting any number of events, a canoe/kayak launch into a slow current river, fishing opportunities, plenty of charcoal grills and picnic tables for everyone to enjoy, and a trail network perfect for hiking for all ages. In the winter, there is an ice skating pond in the park and perfect sledding hills!
Facilities
There are two large picnic shelters with electricity hook-ups, picnic tables, and grills available for use in the recreation area. There is a large picnic cove with many picnic tables and grills. There are also flush toilets, drinking water, and hiking trails available throughout the park.
Natural Features
The recreation area features a large open field, a picnic cove with trees for shade on those hot summer days, and beautiful waterside views for wildlife viewing.
Nearby Attractions
Explore the living history museum of Old Sturbridge Village nearby.
Charges & Cancellations
Season Dates 2020 May 16, 2020 - September 7, 2020
What the agency tells you
No kiddie pools.
Alcohol is allowed but kegs are not.
Inflatable structures are not permitted. Bounce houses, climbing walls, swimming pools and other outside amusements of this type or similar are prohibited.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
No portable generators are allowed.
Any special requests will be granted at the discretion of the project manager.
Check-In time is 8:00 A.M.
Check-Out Time is a 1/2 hour before the park closes: - Third Saturday in May - July 16, 2026: Park closes at 8:00 p.m.; Shelter/Pavilion user reservation ends at 7:30 p.m. - July 19-August 13, 2026: Park closes at 7:30 p.m.; Shelter/Pavilion user reservation ends at 7:00 p.m.- August 14-Labor Day: Park closes at 7:00 p.m.; Shelter/Pavilion user reservation ends at 6:30 p.m.
Pets are welcome but must be on a 6 foot leash.
Trash is 'carry-in, carry-out.'
No staples or nails allowed in tables, pavilion supports, or trees; balloons are only allowed to be tied to the picnic shelter, not to trees or any other items in park.
For more information, please call the main office at (978)318-8848.
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.
No drones or other remote controlled flying equipment.
COVID 19 Social Distancing and Mask Rules apply
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…picnic tables and grills. There are also flush toilets, drinking water, and hiking trails available…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…grills. There are also flush toilets, drinking water, and hiking trails available throughout the park.…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Hiking
- Winter sports
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 3 records here and marks every one of them day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
“Season Dates 2020 May 16, 2020 - September 7, 2020” · 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
3 records
All 3 records
| Ball Field | Ballfield | day use | yes | $30 | |
| Shelters | Shelter 1 | day use | 15 amp | yes | $45–$60 |
| Shelters | Shelter 2 | day use | 15 amp | yes | $45–$60 |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
West Thompson Lake Campground12 mi
West Hill Park24 mi
Tully Lake Recreation Area (MA)40 mi
Indian Hollow44 mi
Otter Brook Lake Recreation Area62 mi
Hop Brook Lake Recreation Area65 miWestville Lake can be accessed from Wallace Road in Sturbridge, which is located directly off of Main St. The Dam and Recreation area can also be accessed from West St in Southbridge by taking a right onto South St.
The physical address for the Westville Lake Recreation Area is 125 Wallace Road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sturbridge, MA
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 17°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
Westville Recreation Area is in Massachusetts’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Richard Neal (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
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyRichard E. NealU.S. Representative · Massachusetts’s 1st district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationEdward J. MarkeyU.S. Senator · Massachusetts
- Your senator, on the same appropriationElizabeth WarrenU.S. Senator · Massachusetts
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Westville Recreation Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Richard E. Neal, I’m a constituent in Massachusetts’s 1st district. Westville Recreation Area, Massachusetts carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Westville Recreation Area (Massachusetts) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Westville Recreation Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Edward J. Markey, I’m a constituent in Massachusetts. Westville Recreation Area, Massachusetts carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Westville Recreation Area (Massachusetts) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Westville Recreation Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Elizabeth Warren, I’m a constituent in Massachusetts. Westville Recreation Area, Massachusetts carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Westville Recreation Area (Massachusetts) via campanac.com