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Federal campgrounds

One row per federal campground in the United States, drawn from the Recreation.gov RIDB export and the Forest Service recreation directory. Each row carries the managing agency, the parent recreation area, coordinates, whether sites can be reserved, the site count, electric, water and sewer hookups, pets and campfire rules, the longest RV any site accepts, a confirmed-free flag, and the booking and official page links. Campgrounds inside National Park System units are included and marked with their Park Service page.

Download campgrounds.csv5,568 rows · snapshot October 26, 2026 · refreshed nightly

Columns

facility_id: RIDB facility id, the key used in every Campsite Atlas URL. Forest Service campgrounds that RIDB does not carry use the Forest Service recreation id with an fs prefix
name: Campground name as the managing agency records it
state: Two-letter state code. Taken from the RIDB address when one exists, otherwise derived from the coordinates against Census state boundaries, then from the parent recreation area
agency: Managing agency code (FS, USACE, NPS, BLM, BOR, FWS)
rec_area: Parent recreation area, usually the national forest, lake project or park unit; blank when RIDB lists none
lat: Decimal degrees, WGS84; blank when the agency publishes no coordinates
lon: Decimal degrees, WGS84; blank when the agency publishes no coordinates
reservable: True when some or all sites can be booked, usually on Recreation.gov. Kept for older readers; booking has the three-way status
booking: reservable (all sites book), partly (some sites book, the rest are first-come) or first-come (no advance booking). From the Recreation.gov listing and the Forest Service reservation text
total_sites: Campsites in the campground; 0 when RIDB carries no site-level records
electric: True when at least one site reports electric hookups
water: True when at least one site reports a water hookup
sewer: True when at least one site reports a sewer hookup
pets: True when at least one site allows pets
campfires: True when at least one site allows campfires, subject to seasonal restrictions
max_rv_length_ft: Longest vehicle length in feet that any site accepts; blank when no site records a limit
confirmed_free: True when the fee record states there is no fee. False is not proof of a charge, only that the record did not say so
book_url: Recreation.gov booking page when the campground is reservable there
nps_url: Official National Park Service campground page when the campground sits in a park unit

The first 8 rows

facility_id	name	state	agency	rec_area	lat	lon	reservable	booking	total_sites	electric	water	sewer	pets	campfires	max_rv_length_ft	confirmed_free	book_url	nps_url
10000167	Tail Race Campground	WY	BLM		42.024400	-110.060900	False	first-come	0	False	False	False	False	False		False
10000305	Burro Creek Campground	AZ	BLM	Kingman Field Office	34.536050	-113.451880	True	partly	25	False	False	False	True	False	120	False	https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10000305
10000309	Windy Point Campground	AZ	BLM		35.435956	-114.160087	False	first-come	0	False	False	False	False	False		False
10000330	Wild Cow Springs Campground	AZ	BLM		35.061300	-113.869180	False	first-come	0	False	False	False	False	False		False
10000447	Castle Rock Campground	OR	BLM	Crooked Wild and Scenic River	44.158140	-120.833950	False	first-come	8	False	False	False	False	False		False
10001419	Cold Brook Campground	SD	USACE	Cold Brook Lake	43.461656	-103.491700	True	reservable	13	False	False	False	True	True		False	https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10001419
10001432	Cottonwood Springs Campground	SD	USACE	Cottonwood Springs Lake	43.439306	-103.572564	True	reservable	18	False	False	False	True	True	67	False	https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10001432
10001451	Steel Creek Campground	AR	NPS	Buffalo National River	36.030169	-93.341853	True	reservable	40	False	False	False	True	True		False	https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10001451	https://www.nps.gov/buff/planyourvisit/camping.htm

Source, license and citation

Sources: Recreation.gov RIDB full export, US Forest Service recreation directory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service facility records as carried in RIDB. The file is regenerated by the nightly pipeline that rebuilds this site, so it is never older than the pages that cite it. Method notes are on the methodology page.

License: CC0 1.0. Use it for anything, no permission or attribution needed. A link back helps other people find the source.

Suggested citation: "Campsite Atlas open data, Federal campgrounds (October 26, 2026 snapshot), derived from Recreation.gov RIDB and federal agency sources, campsiteatlas.com/data/campgrounds/."