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ClosedWoodcock Lake Park Campground is currently closed to camping.

A public campground shut with nobody having to say why isn’t good enough.Ask why it’s closed →

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near hereTell me when it comes back
Right now
ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
A night
$18When it reopens, per site
Sites
111In the agency’s record
Photos · USACE
1,280 ftElevation
1,573 ftWater · an unnamed pond
2.8 miNE of Meadville, PA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 34th darkest of 48 in PA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices

In the agency’s own words

Woodcock Creek Lake is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Woodcock Creek Lake provides visitors with the chance to enjoy a number of outdoor recreational opportunities. There are currently no camping opportunities at Woodcock Lake Park. Keep reading

Recreation

Woodcock Creek Lake offers walking/hiking trails, canoeing, kayaking, birding, walking across the 1-mile long dam, 18-hole disc golf course, concrete corn hole boards, picnic shelter and tables/grills, a playground in the Outflow Recreation Area, and fishing both in the lake (20hp limit) and downstream of the dam. Other recreational activities are managed by our partners. Crawford County Conservation District manages Stainbrook Park below the dam offering picnic shelters, a restroom, walking paths, and a visitor center with interpretive opportunities. The Pennsylvania Game Commission manages several hundred acres of wildlife habitat at the eastern end of the park for additional outdoor recreation such as hunting, trapping, and fishing.

Facilities

Natural Features Woodcock Creek Lake is located in NW Pennsylvania offering rolling hills, beautiful woodlands and a beautiful lake.

Nearby Attractions

Nearby communities include Sagertown, Meadville, Cambridge Springs, Conneaut Lake, Edinboro and Erie. We are just minutes from I-79 and easy to get to. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (814) 763-4422.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Woodcock Lake Park Campground is currently closed to camping.

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
111
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
111
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 111 of 115 campsite records
Playground
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek
Backpacking
Birding
Boating
Canoeing
Disc Golf
Hiking
Paddling
Picnicking
Fall color · reported 2 days ago, in Crawford County
Peak color
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 15, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:27 UTC

Woodcock Lake Park Campground is currently closed to camping.

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

A night, when it reopens$18plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
What’s open near here
Tell me when it reopens

Watch for it to come back

One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.

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’ll write once, when the agency reopens it.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Every line of the receipt · 11

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night, when it reopens$18
Standard Nonelectric$18
Group area, a night$35
These are next season’s rates, May 1, 2027 to Sep 8, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 4
Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
What the agency said · 1

Woodcock Lake Park Campground is currently closed to camping.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · posted Sep 9, 2026
Closure: recreation.gov facility notice, quoted verbatim · Oct 16, 2026
Open within 60 miles · 1

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 17, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 15:27 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

115 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 4 mapped sites
358 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Most roomWoodcock Creek Lake Shelter 4 491 ftWoodcock Creek Lake Shelter 1 385 ftWoodcock Creek Lake Shelter 2 332 ftWoodcock Creek Lake Shelter 3 332 ft
Least roomWoodcock Creek Lake Shelter 2 332 ftWoodcock Creek Lake Shelter 3 332 ftWoodcock Creek Lake Shelter 1 385 ft
Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 115 records

115 of 115 records located
Type not stated111Day use4
Shelter 1Shelter 2Shelter 3Shelter 4110100101102103104105106107108109111101111213141516171819220212223242526272829330313233343536373839440414243444546474849550515253545556575859660616263646566676869770717273747576777879880818283848586878889990919293949596979899
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026
Imagery: Esri World Imagery
SleepsTakes a

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 115 of the 115 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

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.

Woodcock Creek LakeShelter 1day useyes385 ft1,260 ftWoodcock Creek Lake229 ft$35
Woodcock Creek LakeShelter 2day useyes332 ft903 ftWoodcock Creek Lake292 ft$35
Woodcock Creek LakeShelter 3day useyes332 ft608 ftWoodcock Creek Lakeunder 10 ft$35
Woodcock Creek LakeShelter 4day useyes491 ft951 ftWoodcock Creek Lake167 ft$35
Woodcock Lake Park1type not statedyes1,419 ftWoodcock Creek Lake464 ft
Woodcock Lake Park10type not statedyes1,271 ftWoodcock Creek Lake263 ft
Woodcock Lake Park100type not statedyes1,059 ftWoodcock Creek Lake236 ft
Woodcock Lake Park101type not statedyes1,053 ftWoodcock Creek Lake182 ft
Woodcock Lake Park102type not statedyes1,117 ftWoodcock Creek Lake181 ft
Woodcock Lake Park103type not statedyes1,133 ftWoodcock Creek Lake240 ft
Woodcock Lake Park104type not statedyes1,205 ftWoodcock Creek Lake270 ft
Woodcock Lake Park105type not statedyes1,197 ftWoodcock Creek Lake222 ft
Woodcock Lake Park106type not statedyes957 ftWoodcock Creek Lake132 ft
Woodcock Lake Park107type not statedyes1,018 ftWoodcock Creek Lake166 ft
Woodcock Lake Park108type not statedyes1,042 ftWoodcock Creek Lake132 ft
Woodcock Lake Park109type not statedyes1,063 ftWoodcock Creek Lake111 ft
Woodcock Lake Park11type not statedyes1,299 ftWoodcock Creek Lake294 ft
Woodcock Lake Park110type not statedyes1,106 ftWoodcock Creek Lake144 ft
Woodcock Lake Park111type not statedyes1,078 ftWoodcock Creek Lake138 ft
Woodcock Lake Park12type not statedyes1,239 ftWoodcock Creek Lake236 ft
Woodcock Lake Park13type not statedyes1,262 ftWoodcock Creek Lake274 ft
Woodcock Lake Park14type not statedyes1,206 ftWoodcock Creek Lake229 ft
Woodcock Lake Park15type not statedyes1,205 ftWoodcock Creek Lake285 ft
Woodcock Lake Park16type not statedyes1,162 ftWoodcock Creek Lake239 ft
Woodcock Lake Park17type not statedyes1,164 ftWoodcock Creek Lake288 ft
Woodcock Lake Park18type not statedyes1,109 ftWoodcock Creek Lake238 ft
Woodcock Lake Park19type not statedyes1,112 ftWoodcock Creek Lake275 ft
Woodcock Lake Park2type not statedyes1,394 ftWoodcock Creek Lake453 ft
Woodcock Lake Park20type not statedyes1,063 ftWoodcock Creek Lake282 ft
Woodcock Lake Park21type not statedyes1,034 ftWoodcock Creek Lake217 ft
Woodcock Lake Park22type not statedyes1,003 ftWoodcock Creek Lake265 ft
Woodcock Lake Park23type not statedyes966 ftWoodcock Creek Lake202 ft
Woodcock Lake Park24type not statedyes949 ftWoodcock Creek Lake256 ft
Woodcock Lake Park25type not statedyes899 ftWoodcock Creek Lake239 ft
Woodcock Lake Park26type not statedyes904 ftWoodcock Creek Lake187 ft
Woodcock Lake Park27type not statedyes840 ftWoodcock Creek Lake231 ft
Woodcock Lake Park28type not statedyes857 ftWoodcock Creek Lake185 ft
Woodcock Lake Park29type not statedyes793 ftWoodcock Creek Lake245 ft
Woodcock Lake Park3type not statedyes1,332 ftWoodcock Creek Lake399 ft
Woodcock Lake Park30type not statedyes726 ftWoodcock Creek Lake285 ft
Woodcock Lake Park31type not statedyes693 ftWoodcock Creek Lake311 ft
Woodcock Lake Park32type not statedyes633 ftWoodcock Creek Lake321 ft
Woodcock Lake Park33type not statedyes615 ftWoodcock Creek Lake265 ft
Woodcock Lake Park34type not statedyes561 ftWoodcock Creek Lake301 ft
Woodcock Lake Park35type not statedyes489 ftWoodcock Creek Lake301 ft
Woodcock Lake Park36type not statedyes414 ftWoodcock Creek Lake298 ft
Woodcock Lake Park37type not statedyes347 ftWoodcock Creek Lake319 ft
Woodcock Lake Park38type not statedyes379 ftWoodcock Creek Lake256 ft
Woodcock Lake Park39type not statedyes324 ftWoodcock Creek Lake294 ft
Woodcock Lake Park4type not statedyes1,388 ftWoodcock Creek Lake469 ft
Woodcock Lake Park40type not statedyes362 ftWoodcock Creek Lake250 ft
Woodcock Lake Park41type not statedyes314 ftWoodcock Creek Lake285 ft
Woodcock Lake Park42type not statedyes262 ftWoodcock Creek Lake272 ft
Woodcock Lake Park43type not statedyes304 ftWoodcock Creek Lake220 ft
Woodcock Lake Park44type not statedyes245 ftWoodcock Creek Lake263 ft
Woodcock Lake Park45type not statedyes300 ftWoodcock Creek Lake204 ft
Woodcock Lake Park46type not statedyes260 ftWoodcock Creek Lake240 ft
Woodcock Lake Park47type not statedyes321 ftWoodcock Creek Lake187 ft
Woodcock Lake Park48type not statedyes281 ftWoodcock Creek Lake232 ft
Woodcock Lake Park49type not statedyes329 ftWoodcock Creek Lake222 ft
Woodcock Lake Park5type not statedyes1,315 ftWoodcock Creek Lake411 ft
Woodcock Lake Park50type not statedyes362 ftWoodcock Creek Lake178 ft
Woodcock Lake Park51type not statedyes412 ftWoodcock Creek Lake213 ft
Woodcock Lake Park52type not statedyes428 ftWoodcock Creek Lake177 ft
Woodcock Lake Park53type not statedyes481 ftWoodcock Creek Lake220 ft
Woodcock Lake Park54type not statedyes516 ftWoodcock Creek Lake197 ft
Woodcock Lake Park55type not statedyes548 ftWoodcock Creek Lake248 ft
Woodcock Lake Park56type not statedyes583 ftWoodcock Creek Lake228 ft
Woodcock Lake Park57type not statedyes616 ftWoodcock Creek Lake292 ft
Woodcock Lake Park58type not statedyes658 ftWoodcock Creek Lake283 ft
Woodcock Lake Park59type not statedyes731 ftWoodcock Creek Lake234 ft
Woodcock Lake Park6type not statedyes1,364 ftWoodcock Creek Lake427 ft
Woodcock Lake Park60type not statedyes724 ftWoodcock Creek Lake254 ft
Woodcock Lake Park61type not statedyes784 ftWoodcock Creek Lake200 ft
Woodcock Lake Park62type not statedyes752 ftWoodcock Creek Lake247 ft
Woodcock Lake Park63type not statedyes805 ftWoodcock Creek Lake213 ft
Woodcock Lake Park64type not statedyes769 ftWoodcock Creek Lake262 ft
Woodcock Lake Park65type not statedyes802 ftWoodcock Creek Lake273 ft
Woodcock Lake Park66type not statedyes851 ftWoodcock Creek Lake223 ft
Woodcock Lake Park67type not statedyes845 ftWoodcock Creek Lake289 ft
Woodcock Lake Park68type not statedyes925 ftWoodcock Creek Lake228 ft
Woodcock Lake Park69type not statedyes924 ftWoodcock Creek Lake283 ft
Woodcock Lake Park7type not statedyes1,300 ftWoodcock Creek Lake358 ft
Woodcock Lake Park70type not statedyes999 ftWoodcock Creek Lake283 ft
Woodcock Lake Park71type not statedyes1,003 ftWoodcock Creek Lake231 ft
Woodcock Lake Park72type not statedyes1,076 ftWoodcock Creek Lake265 ft
Woodcock Lake Park73type not statedyes1,072 ftWoodcock Creek Lake222 ft
Woodcock Lake Park74type not statedyes1,140 ftWoodcock Creek Lake281 ft
Woodcock Lake Park75type not statedyes1,204 ftWoodcock Creek Lake294 ft
Woodcock Lake Park76type not statedyes1,227 ftWoodcock Creek Lake274 ft
Woodcock Lake Park77type not statedyes1,273 ftWoodcock Creek Lake325 ft
Woodcock Lake Park78type not statedyes1,278 ftWoodcock Creek Lake315 ft
Woodcock Lake Park79type not statedyes1,333 ftWoodcock Creek Lake370 ft
Woodcock Lake Park8type not statedyes1,347 ftWoodcock Creek Lake370 ft
Woodcock Lake Park80type not statedyes1,330 ftWoodcock Creek Lake369 ft
Woodcock Lake Park81type not statedyes523 ftWoodcock Creek Lake211 ft
Woodcock Lake Park82type not statedyes584 ftWoodcock Creek Lake168 ft
Woodcock Lake Park83type not statedyes541 ftWoodcock Creek Lake130 ft
Woodcock Lake Park84type not statedyes592 ftWoodcock Creek Lake110 ft
Woodcock Lake Park85type not statedyes642 ftWoodcock Creek Lake143 ft
Woodcock Lake Park86type not statedyes618 ftWoodcock Creek Lake125 ft
Woodcock Lake Park87type not statedyes681 ftWoodcock Creek Lake197 ft
Woodcock Lake Park88type not statedyes718 ftWoodcock Creek Lake225 ft
Woodcock Lake Park89type not statedyes747 ftWoodcock Creek Lake275 ft
Woodcock Lake Park9type not statedyes1,338 ftWoodcock Creek Lake330 ft
Woodcock Lake Park90type not statedyes794 ftWoodcock Creek Lake304 ft
Woodcock Lake Park91type not statedyes812 ftWoodcock Creek Lake249 ft
Woodcock Lake Park92type not statedyes864 ftWoodcock Creek Lake268 ft
Woodcock Lake Park93type not statedyes889 ftWoodcock Creek Lake220 ft
Woodcock Lake Park94type not statedyes923 ftWoodcock Creek Lake189 ft
Woodcock Lake Park95type not statedyes963 ftWoodcock Creek Lake130 ft
Woodcock Lake Park96type not statedyes917 ftWoodcock Creek Lake145 ft
Woodcock Lake Park97type not statedyes875 ftWoodcock Creek Lake146 ft
Woodcock Lake Park98type not statedyes888 ftWoodcock Creek Lake120 ft
Woodcock Lake Park99type not statedyes827 ftWoodcock Creek Lake182 ft

The agency files 4 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.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 115 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate41.68747, -80.08150
The phone814-763-4422
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight35°Chance Rain Showers47% rain
Saturday49°Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny25% rain
Saturday Night32°Widespread Frost
Sunday59°Widespread Frost then Sunny

NWS forecast for Blooming Valley, PA

Source: National Weather Service, CLE forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 42°F, day 60°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 18°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: PORT MEADVILLE AP, PA (USW00004843), 8 miles away and 120 ft higher
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it · a letter you can send

Who answers for this land

Mike Kelly, official portrait

Woodcock Lake Park is in Pennsylvania’s 16th congressional district. Its representative, Mike Kelly (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score
Who can change it · 3
A closed campground is a budget line before it’s anything else

We read the agency’s notice and couldn’t get a reason out of it, so it’s filed as no reason we could read. That reading is ours. The draft to the agency asks what closed Woodcock Lake Park, what reopening it would cost and what date they’re working towards. The draft to Congress asks them to put the same question in writing and to fund the answer.

Read the draft, or change the wording

For the camper who found out at the gate, or a week before the trip. 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.

To Mike Kelly

Asks them to find out what reopening Woodcock Lake Park would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.

Subject Woodcock Lake Park is closed (Pennsylvania)

Dear Mike Kelly,

I’m a constituent in Pennsylvania’s 16th district. I went to camp at Woodcock Lake Park, Pennsylvania and found it closed.

The notice says: "Woodcock Lake Park Campground is currently closed to camping."
(https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10132301, read Oct 16, 2026)

The notice doesn’t say what closed it, which is worth asking about on its own. A campground on public land going dark with no stated reason and no reopening date isn’t something the public should have to guess at.

Please ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in writing, what reopening Woodcock Lake Park would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 111 campsites are open next season.

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 Woodcock Lake Park (Pennsylvania) via campanac.com
To David McCormick

Asks them to find out what reopening Woodcock Lake Park would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.

Subject Woodcock Lake Park is closed (Pennsylvania)

Dear David McCormick,

I’m a constituent in Pennsylvania. I went to camp at Woodcock Lake Park, Pennsylvania and found it closed.

The notice says: "Woodcock Lake Park Campground is currently closed to camping."
(https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10132301, read Oct 16, 2026)

The notice doesn’t say what closed it, which is worth asking about on its own. A campground on public land going dark with no stated reason and no reopening date isn’t something the public should have to guess at.

Please ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in writing, what reopening Woodcock Lake Park would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 111 campsites are open next season.

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 Woodcock Lake Park (Pennsylvania) via campanac.com
To John Fetterman

Asks them to find out what reopening Woodcock Lake Park would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.

Subject Woodcock Lake Park is closed (Pennsylvania)

Dear John Fetterman,

I’m a constituent in Pennsylvania. I went to camp at Woodcock Lake Park, Pennsylvania and found it closed.

The notice says: "Woodcock Lake Park Campground is currently closed to camping."
(https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10132301, read Oct 16, 2026)

The notice doesn’t say what closed it, which is worth asking about on its own. A campground on public land going dark with no stated reason and no reopening date isn’t something the public should have to guess at.

Please ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in writing, what reopening Woodcock Lake Park would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 111 campsites are open next season.

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 Woodcock Lake Park (Pennsylvania) via campanac.com
How we know this · 4
Contacts: Contact forms from @unitedstates/congress-legislators · Sep 9, 2026
The figures in these drafts: Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress (CRS Report RS20643) · Updated December 4, 2025 · “The ship’s final procurement cost was $13,316.5 million (i.e., about $13.3 billion) in then-year dollars.”
The figures in these drafts: Salary Table 2026-GS, Incorporating the 1% General Schedule Increase, Effective January 2026 (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) · Effective January 2026 · “Grade 5, Step 1: $34,799 (annual rate, before locality pay).”
The figures in these drafts: Update to Civilian Position Full Fringe Benefit Cost Factor, Federal Pay Raise Assumptions, and Inflation Factors used in OMB Circular No. A-76 (OMB Memorandum M-08-13) · March 11, 2008 · “the civilian position full fringe benefit cost factor needs to be adjusted downward, from 36.45 percent to 36.25 percent”

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own notice puts it in the closed position. Its sentence is quoted below.
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 4 of the 111 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.77 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 48 rated federal campgrounds in Pennsylvania · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 15, 2026
Reported by: Pennsylvania DCNR, reported peak color · Oct 15, 2026
Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Blooming Valley, PA, 1.2 mi WNW. Straight line.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026