Wright Lake Campground
1Heads up1 fire 1.8 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 29 of the next 30 nights read 16:48 UTC
- A night
- $20–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Wright Lake is located approximately 25 miles from the Gulf of Mexico in an area known as the Forgotten Coast. Wright Lake and nearby Hickory Landing provide easy access to the Apalachicola River, known for its sport fishing, boating and paddling. You will never run out of things to do! Keep reading
Recreation
Wright Lake is a quiet scenic lakefront recreation area that offers a host of amenities and activities for campers and day-trippers. The area around the clear, spring-fed lake offers both a day-use area for swimming, picnicking, and hiking, and a campground in a beautiful forest setting along one portion of the lakeshore. It is perfect for fishing and boating. The campground bathhouse includes flush toilets and hot showers. Picnic tables and grills are scattered among trees with views of the lake. Hikers can enjoy a 4.6-mile trail that winds through several different ecosystems in the area, and there is a short 0.2 mile loop that circles the lake. Nearby Hickory Landing offers boating access to Owl Creek and the Apalachicola River.
Facilities
The campground includes 1 electric(host) and 18 nonelectric campsites with picnic tables, grills, tent pads and fire rings. The recreation area is fairly level and easily accessible. The comfort station has flush toilets and warm showers.
Natural Features
You will find peace and quiet on a ridge in the Apalachicola Savannahs. The longleaf pine dominates this open landscape where wiregrass, or sometimes palmetto, covers the forest floor. Swamps and savannahs are commonly interspersed with the longleaf community.
Nearby Attractions
The Apalachee Savannahs Scenic Byway is part of a nationwide program to provide viewing opportunities of well-managed and pleasing forest landscapes. This scenic drive is an excellent way to see the forest, as it showcases grassy, open savannahs sporting the most diverse collection of wildflowers in Florida's Panhandle. Nearby, historic Prospect Bluff played an important role in Florida history. Located along the Apalachicola River, this interpretive area offers detailed information about the site and its history along with trails, river access, and a picnic area. Detailed interpretive information in the form of kiosks and signage lead you through the site of both forts and the cemetery where the victims from 1816 are buried.
Charges & Cancellations
Refunds can not be processed on site. All refunds must go through Recreation.gov.
What the agency tells you
Winter hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed during the summer.
Closest Towns are Sumatra and Eastpoint.
Campground Host is available.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 19
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…The campground bathhouse includes flush toilets and hot showers. Picnic tables and grills are…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The campground bathhouse includes flush toilets and hot showers.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Coast
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 4th darkest of 60 in FL
- Bortle 3
Something open on 29 of the next 29 bookable nightsread 16:48 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBookedNot reservable
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$30 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.
“Refunds can not be processed on site. All refunds must go through Recreation.gov.” · 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 16:48 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 20 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 18 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Wright Lake | 001 - Host | host pad | 50 ft | $20 | ||
| Wright Lake | 002 | rv nonelectric | 60 ft | 106 ft | 416 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 003 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 122 ft | 300 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 004 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 476 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 005 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 127 ft | 387 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 006 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 84 ft | 538 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 007 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 407 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 008 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 65 ft | 561 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 009 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | 65 ft | 555 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 010 | rv nonelectric | 60 ft | 74 ft | 519 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 011 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | 69 ft | 403 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 012 | rv nonelectric | 55 ft | 70 ft | 477 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 013 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | 69 ft | 340 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 014 | rv nonelectric | 55 ft | 70 ft | 418 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 015 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 108 ft | 313 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 016 | rv nonelectric | 55 ft | 85 ft | 257 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 017 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | 118 ft | 152 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 018 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 127 ft | 116 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 019 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 127 ft | 228 ft | $20 |
| Wright Lake | 020 | type not stated | 45 ft | 146 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Camel Lake CampgroundApalachicola National Forest · 19 miCamel Lake Recreation AreaApalachicola National Forest · 19 miPorter LakeApalachicola National Forest · 23 miFrom the intersection of CR 379 and SR 65 in Sumatra, drive south on SR 65 for 2.5 miles. Turn right onto FR 101 (Wright Lake Rd) and follow it west for 1.5 miles to the Wright Lake Recreation Area entrance on the right. Turn right and follow the entrance road up to the kiosk.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sumatra, FL
Typical weather
Typical October night 58°F, day 80°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 40°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Wright Lake Campground is in Florida’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Neal Dunn (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →