Willis Knob Horse Camp
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:48 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 8All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located in the northern Georgia mountains, far from civilization, Willis Knob Horse Campground is one of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests most beloved horse-lover hideaways. The campground features equestrian camping, riding and hiking trails and fishing in the nearby Chattooga River. Keep reading
Recreation
The 15-mile Willis Knob Trail in Georgia and 12.5 mile Rocky Gap Trail in South Carolina provide some of the most scenic horseback riding and hiking in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Winding across deeply dissected ridges, the trails descend into the vast Chattooga River. The 10.7-mile Chattooga River Trail and the 37-mile Bartram Trail are also accessible nearby and are for hiking only. Fishing is available in the Chattooga River.
Facilities
The campground provides single, double and group campsites for tent and RV camping. There are water and electric hookups at each of the horse campsites, along with tables, lantern posts and campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are also provided. Sorry there is no dump station. The closest one is at Black Rock State Park in Mountain City, GA. Hitching highlines and a horse watering station are available. Campers are required to clean up after their horses using trailers provided on-site for manure only.
Natural Features
The horse camp is located in a heavily wooded area of the forest, amid deep canyons and near to the Georgia-South Carolina border.
Nearby Attractions
Chattooga River Wild and Scenic area is nearby Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (706) 754-6221.
What the agency tells you
Campsites are available by reservation only
A gate security code will be provided with confirmation letter
Click here for more information on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
No hunting within 150 yards (450 feet) any developed campground, developed campsite, or 50 feet from any developed trail in the forest trail system on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest.
This campground is designed for stock use only. If your party does not need access to a horse campground, please consider selecting another campground nearby. There is not a dump station in the area.
Check-out time is 12:01 pm and check-in time starts at 2:00 pm
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 8 · 3 group, 8 equestrian
- Hookups
- 5 electric, 8 water
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- 5
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are also provided. Sorry there…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 2 of 8 campsite records
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Horse Camping
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 17th darkest of 96 in GA
- Bortle 4
12 of 14 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:48 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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.
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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:48 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
8 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 6 mapped sitesAll 8 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. 8 of the 8 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| WKHC | 1-2 | group equestrian | 60 ft | 50 amp | 148 ft | 979 ft | $30 | |
| WKHC | 3 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | $20 | ||
| WKHC | 4-5 | group equestrian | 60 ft | 50 amp | 148 ft | 1,069 ft | $30 | |
| WKHC | 6 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 67 ft | 1,503 ft | $20 |
| WKHC | 6-8 | group equestrian | 60 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| WKHC | 7 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 67 ft | 1,436 ft | $20 |
| WKHC | 8 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | yes | 72 ft | 1,368 ft | $20 | |
| WKHC | 9 | equestrian electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 209 ft | 1,262 ft | $20 |
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 agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Whetstone Horse CampSumter National Forest · 2.4 mi
Sarah's Creek Campground (Clayton, GA)Chattahoochee National Forest · 3.1 mi
West Fork Campground (Clayton, GA)Chattahoochee National Forest · 3.5 miGrapevineSumter National Forest · 5.8 miBurrells FordSumter National Forest · 7.6 miFrom Clayton, Georgia, take Warwoman Road east for about 12 miles. Turn right on Willis Knob Road (Forest Service Road 157) and continue for 2 miles to the campground on the left. The physical address for the horse campground is 1922 Willis Knob Road, Clayton, GA 30525
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sky Valley, GA
Typical weather
Typical October night 47°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Willis Knob Horse Camp is in Georgia’s 9th congressional district. Its representative, Andrew Clyde (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →