Woodring Campground (GA)
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:19 UTC
- A night
- $26–$42When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 43In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Woodring Branch Campground is located in the North Georgia Mountains on the beautiful Carters Lake Project, which is just a short 70 miles north of Atlanta. Carters Lake provides clean, safe, and quiet campgrounds that help you escape the hustle and bustle of your day to day routine and relax with your family. Woodring Branch offers boating, hiking, mountain biking, picnicking at the day use area, and many other summer activities. Woodring Branch has two different loop style trails from from easy to moderate. Amadahy and the Oak Ridge Nature trail will ensure a great family hiking experience as they both include a wide diversity of plants, animals, and scenic views. The campground has 2 boat ramps with limited boat trailer parking spaces for all your boating needs. Woodring branch at Carters Lake has something for everyone, no matter what your hobbies are. Keep reading
Recreation
Boaters visit Carters Lake to enjoy its solitude and scenic beauty. Whether in a powerboat or sailboat on the open water or paddling along the shoreline in a canoe, Carters Lake offers enjoyable boating experiences for everyone. Fishing is a popular activity on the lake. Major species include bass (largemouth, smallmouth, hybrid, striped and spotted), crappie, walleye, bream and catfish. Bank fishing locations are limited due to steep shoreline terrain, but six boat ramps are scattered around the shoreline, offering easy access to the lake. The Amadahy Trail is located in the Woodring Branch Recreation Area. This 3.5-mile loop is excellent for beginners with flat to rolling terrain. Bikers and hikers are treated to beautiful views of Carters Lake along most of trail's length.
Facilities
This heavily wooded campground offers many sites with scenic lake views. Electric hookups are available at many of the campsites. Flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided. Additional amenities include a children's playground and a dump station. A boat ramp and swimming area are on-site.
Natural Features
Carters Lake embraces a spectacular tract of foothills scenery in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia. It covers 3200 surface acres and has 62 miles of undeveloped shoreline. Contact Info For local information, please call (706) 276-6050 or call (706) 334-2248 for general information.
Charges & Cancellations
Please review rules and reservation policies at the bottom of the page.
What the agency tells you
CAMPGROUND PROCEDURES
- ALL CAMPERS MUST HAVE A RESERVATION BEFORE ENTERING CAMPGROUND - Campers must fill out and deposit registration card in box at gatehouse - Campsite occupancy is limited to maximum of eight (8) and two (2) vehicles and one (1) boat. - VISITORS must register with campground host. - No transactions will be done at gatehouse
CHECK-IN TIME - 3PM CHECK-OUT TIME - 12PM
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Vehicles may exit at any time via electronic gate.
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.
Camping at one or more campsites at Carters Lake Project for a period longer than 14 days during a 30 day period is prohibited. Title 36 CFR 327.7B
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 43 · 12 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- 30 electric, 32 water
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 30 of 43
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 10 of 43 campsite records
- Showers
- Accessible Showers · Seasonal Showers
- ACCESSIBLE SHOWERS on 12 of 43 campsite records / SHOWERS (SEASONAL) on 1 of 43 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 2 of 43 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 2 of 43 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 63rd darkest of 96 in GA
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:19 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“Please review rules and reservation policies at the bottom of the page.” · 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 · 5
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Woodring Campground (GA) closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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- The Pocket Recreation AreaChattahoochee National Forest · 25 mi
recreation.gov availability, read 16:19 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
43 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 42 mapped sitesAll 43 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. 42 of the 43 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| WOOD | 001 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30/30 amp | 87 ft | 87 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 002 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 133 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 003 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 85 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 004 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 118 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 005 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 54 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 006 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 58 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 007 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 57 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 008 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 72 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 009 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 50 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 010 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 88 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 011 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 46 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 012 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 120 ft | 76 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 013 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 33 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 014 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 161 ft | 70 ft | $36–$42 |
| WOOD | 015 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 29 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 016 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | yes | 126 ft | 117 ft | $36–$42 |
| WOOD | 017 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 126 ft | 114 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 018 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 143 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 019 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 92 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 020 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 108 ft | 104 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 021 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 65 ft | 37 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 022 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 57 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 023 | tent only nonelectric | 61 ft | 84 ft | $26 | |||
| WOOD | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 61 ft | 62 ft | $26 | |||
| WOOD | 025 | tent only nonelectric | 65 ft | 63 ft | $26 | |||
| WOOD | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 65 ft | 43 ft | $26 | |||
| WOOD | 027 | standard electric | 64 ft | 69 ft | $36–$42 | |||
| WOOD | 028 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 56 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 029 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 64 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 030 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 43 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 031 | type not stated | 40 ft | 50 amp | 120 ft | |||
| WOOD | 032 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 77 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 033 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 52 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 034 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 49 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 035 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 114 ft | 51 ft | $36–$42 | |
| WOOD | 036 | tent only nonelectric | 50 ft | 122 ft | $26 | |||
| WOOD | 037 | tent only nonelectric | 50 ft | 73 ft | $26 | |||
| WOOD | 038 | tent only nonelectric | 48 ft | 60 ft | $26 | |||
| WOOD | 039 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 84 ft | $26 | |||
| WOOD | 040 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 63 ft | $26 | |||
| WOOD | 041 | tent only nonelectric | 65 ft | 83 ft | $26 | |||
| WOOD | 042 | tent only nonelectric | 48 ft | 78 ft | $26 | |||
| WOODRING CAMPGROUND | G1 | group tent only area nonelectric | 877 ft | 398 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.
25 of 43 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Doll Mountain Campground1.1 mi
Lake Conasauga Overflow CampgroundChattahoochee National Forest · 16 mi
Lake Conasauga CampgroundChattahoochee National Forest · 17 mi
Jacks River Fields CampgroundChattahoochee National Forest · 18 miHickey Gap CampgroundChattahoochee National Forest · 19 miFrom Atlanta, take I-75 north to Exit 293; follow Highway 411 north. Turn right on Highway 136, then left on old Highway 411. Turn right on Highway 282/76. Campground is located 4.5 miles off Highway 282.
From Ellijay, GA, take Highway 282/76 west for 11 miles to the access road and follow signs to the campground.
Physical Address, Woodring Branch Rd, Ellijay,GA,30540
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ellijay, GA
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 74°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Woodring Campground (GA) 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 →