Whitetail Ridge
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 16:07 UTC
- A night
- $36–$72Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 58All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Whitetail Ridge Campground is a waterfront facility on the western shore of West Point Lake, which spans parts of Alabama and Georgia. This man-made lake has 525 miles of shoreline that provide excellent opportunities for fishing, camping, boating and other recreational activities. Keep reading
Recreation
Whether sailing or power boating, West Point Lake is a boater's paradise. There are boat ramps in 34 public recreation areas around the lake, including Amity, as well as two privately owned full-service marinas. Fishing is one of the most popular activities on the lake. A dozen creeks and more than 40 square miles of lake provide plenty of good fishing spots for the thousands of anglers who fish here regularly. The lake abounds with bass, catfish, crappie and bream. Bank fishing is excellent at many locations, including public fishing piers at Hardley Creek, Rocky Point and McGee Bridge parks. Several trails wind along the lake and through the landscape, including the Lakeside Trail, which is perfect for mountain biking. A wildlife management area of nearly 10,000 acres, located at the upper end of the lake, provides habitat for many types of wildlife. This area offers excellent hunting opportunities.
Facilities
The Whitetail Ridge Campground offers 58 sites with electric and water hookups. Additional amenities include a dump station, laundry facilities and hot showers.
Natural Features
Surrounded by rolling fields and deep forests that display outstanding fall foliage, West Point Lake extends 35 miles along the Chattahoochee River on the Alabama-Georgia state line. The campground is forested and sits on the shore overlooking the 25,900-acre lake.
Nearby Attractions
The lake offers 21 day-use parks. While many people visit the lake to boat and camp, the parks offer a variety of other recreation facilities including tennis courts, ball fields, basketball courts, fishing piers with fish attractors, hiking trails and picnic shelters for individuals or large groups.
Charges & Cancellations
Changes and Cancellations: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see R1S Reservation Policy
What the agency tells you
CHECK-IN TIME is guaranteed for reservations after 4:00 p.m. EST. CHECK-OUT TIME is 3:00 p.m. EST. Campers and their guests are required to depart the campground and remove their camping equipment prior to check-out time.
There is a four (4) vehicle per campsite limit in the campground. This includes cars, trucks, campers, RVs, boat trailers, and utility trailers. There is no overflow parking.
PARKING: Vehicles should be parked in campsite driveways and designated parking spaces. Vehicles may be parked two-wide in most driveways. If spaces are unavailable, park on the shoulder of the road with the direction of traffic. All four wheels should be off the pavement with the vehicle parallel to the roadway.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
GATES are locked from 10:00 p.m. EST to 7:00 a.m. EST and will only be opened in emergencies. For emergency exit, see the park attendant contractors at their campsite located near the gatehouse or call 706-884-8972.
PETS: Wild, exotic or aggressive pets and livestock are not permitted in the campground. All pets must be penned, caged, or restrained on a leash no longer than six (6) feet. Invisible fences or wireless collars are not sufficient. Pet owners must dispose of all pet waste. Pens and cages should not be placed on graveled impact pads due to sanitary concerns. Pets are not allowed in restrooms, shower houses or on playgrounds.
Attention: Effective immediately, West Point Lake campgrounds will accept payment by credit card, debit card, or prepaid credit card only. No other form of payment will be accepted. This change will streamline financial transactions, provide quicker processing of refunds and enhance gatehouse operations. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your business this camping season.
The primary occupant must check-in before guests of the primary occupant are allowed to visit a reserved campsite. Those providing rental campers will not be allowed to set-up prior to the arrival of the primary occupant.
Campers who arrive more than one day late for their reservation will be considered a "no show" and their reservation will be cancelled. If you're planning to arrive later than you're scheduled arrival date, please contact the gatehouse at 706-884-8972.
Visit www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Recreation/West-Point-Lake/Camping/ for additional information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 58
- Hookups
- 58 electric, 58 water
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Additional amenities include a dump station, laundry facilities and hot showers.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Night sky · 61st darkest of 96 in GA
- Bortle 4
4 of 116 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:07 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $36–$72 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.
“Changes and Cancellations: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.” · 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:07 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
58 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 58 mapped sitesAll 58 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. 58 of the 58 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.
| LOOA | 01 | standard electric | 63 ft | 30 amp | 129 ft | 328 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOA | 02 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | 224 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOA | 03 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | 193 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOA | 04 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 128 ft | 153 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOA | 05 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 148 ft | 124 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOA | 06 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 160 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOA | 07 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 125 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOA | 08 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 130 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOA | 09 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 156 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOA | 10 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 164 ft | 216 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 11 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 167 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 12 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 103 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 13 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 121 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 14 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 104 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 15 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 88 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 16 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 114 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 17 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 139 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 18 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 130 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 19 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 110 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 20 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 138 ft | 79 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 21 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 90 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 22 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 142 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 23 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 173 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 203 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOB | 25 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 281 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOC | 26 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 143 ft | 273 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOC | 27 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 232 ft | 228 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOC | 28 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 232 ft | 347 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOC | 29 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 171 ft | 505 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOC | 30 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 121 ft | 399 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOC | 31 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 121 ft | 478 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOD | 32 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 134 ft | 152 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOD | 33 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 109 ft | 149 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOD | 34 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 109 ft | 96 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOD | 35 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 53 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOD | 36 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 102 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOE | 37 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 139 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOE | 38 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 103 ft | 100 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOE | 39 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 139 ft | 67 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOE | 40 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 108 ft | 102 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOE | 41 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 187 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOE | 42 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 129 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOE | 43 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 107 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOE | 44 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 93 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOE | 45 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 121 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOE | 46 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 185 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOF | 47 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 196 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOF | 48 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 178 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOF | 49 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 321 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOF | 50 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 370 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOF | 51 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 128 ft | 260 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOF | 52 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 122 ft | 273 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOG | 53 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 179 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOG | 54 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 178 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOG | 55 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 104 ft | 156 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOG | 56 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 246 ft | 114 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOG | 57 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 103 ft | $36–$72 |
| LOOG | 58 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 85 ft | $36–$72 |
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 58 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Holiday (Georgia)0.8 mi
Horace King Park1.3 miGlass Bridge Park1.9 mi
Long Cane Recreation Area2.2 mi
Rocky Point Recreation Area2.3 mi
Earl Cook Recreation Area2.7 miFrom Lagrange, Georgia, travel west on State Route 109 for about 7 miles. After crossing the first bridge across the lake, travel approximately one more mile, then turn left onto Thompson Road. After a mile, bear left and watch for the sign.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Standing Rock, AL
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 32°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
Who answers for this land
Whitetail Ridge is in Georgia’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Brian Jack (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →