National Park System · MD, WV
Camping in Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
The Recreation.gov record puts 37 campgrounds inside the park. Of those, 6 take reservations and 31 are first-come, first-served. Entrance fees, alerts and hours for the park itself are on our sister site, Park Atlas.
37 campgrounds31 first-come
The park in figures
- vehicle entrance fee
- $20
- recreation visits in 2025
- 4,579,704
- campsites
- 73
- campgrounds take reservations
- 6 of 37
- longest RV or trailer allowed
- 20 ft
The entrance fee and visit count come from Park Atlas open data. The campground figures are totals across the 37 Recreation.gov records listed below, and the rig length is the longest any one of them allows.
Every campground
Park campgrounds book out fastest of any on Recreation.gov. Most open six months ahead at 10 a.m. Eastern; the first-come loops are the fallback when the window is gone. The first-come playbook