Woods Ferry Recreation Area
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $7From, per site
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Woods Ferry Recreation Area, in western Chester County, lies within a beautiful wooded floodplain surrounded by upland pine woods and maturing hardwood forests. Campers and day-users can choose from a variety of activities: picnicking, fishing, canoeing, or horseback riding. Its location on the Broad River makes fishing and boating easily accessible. Woods Ferry campground and day-use area are temporarily closed beginning January 7, 2025. Keep reading
The bridge on Park Road (S-12- 574) leading to Woods Ferry Recreation Area has been taken out of service by SCDOT due to a failed inspection and will remain closed until repairs have been completed. We will update when the bridge has been repaired. Access to Woods Ferry Horse Trail remains open at the Bucks Grave Road parking area. The day-use area of Woods Ferry is open free to the public. All campsites at Woods Ferry are available for reservation on recreation.gov . Horses are allowed in designated sites. Woods Ferry campsites will continue to cost $7 per night at a standard site and $14 per night at a group and double site. Woods Ferry Horse Trail map [PDF]
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($7), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Woods Ferry Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 0.0 mi
Poulous Loop Group Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 3.3 mi
Collins Creek Seasonal Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 16 mi
Sedalia Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 17 mi
Rocky Branch Seasonal Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 20 mi
Brick House Campground (SC)Sumter National Forest · 23 miThe agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lockhart, SC
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°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
Woods Ferry Recreation Area is in South Carolina’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Ralph Norman (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →