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Very large and spacious campground located on West Virginia's Cheat River. Quiet and plenty of room to stretch out. Amazingly, the campground actually has cellular coverage (T-mobile). The price as of 2020 was $5 a head - - hard to beat. Yes, it's a substantial drive from I-68 but worth it!
Great and inexpensive place to camp - convenient to Cheat River Outfitters white water rafting company (great rafting company by the way). I just finished doing a white water rafting trip with Cheat River Outfitters up the road about 1/2 mile and wanted a place to stay over for the night. Turned out to be a great place. I tent camped for $5 !! How can you beat that? Also nice are the hot showers (pay showers for 1$ but nice and hot) for cleaning up after a rafting trip. There is a nice wide field to camp and also some camp spots down in the tree line near the river for a quite and private spot. the sites have a fire ring and newer picnic tables. the day i was there, there was only me. during the week i imagine it will always be quite. It would be a nice place if you want privacy and not many loud people/campers/RVs. There are showers in the main building and flush toilets. I would have given it 5 stars if the bathrooms were a little more cleaned up - like a few spider webs. ..lthough at 5$ you aren't getting a Holiday Inn spa. Also you do get some road noise from rt26 from crazy truck/rude truck drivers using their engine breaks. but if you are near the river the rushing water blocks out the noise pretty well. It is about 4 minutes down the road from Cheat River Outfitters. Go South on rt26 to Kingwood about a 10 minute drive to find a supermarket, Chinese Buffet, Catholic Church (St Sebastian 10:30 AM Sunday Mass), and a few stores. i would highly recommend this place if you want a very cheap, flush toilet, hot shower, low key, nice camp site, few people palce to camp. Also - a real nice treat up the road about 1-2 miles north on rt26..check out the old blast furnace site ( small road side sign marking the spot) then walk up stream ~20 yds feet - the best coolest water fall cascades that will surprise you.
Amazing rate of $5 a night per person. I love going down there and having a riverside access/woodsy site! Being an R1 boater, I don't like long carries to the river and this is so close that I'm happy. Just don't forget to bring quarters for the shower facility which is nice and clean. The hot water works well too. The owners are super friendly. Can't wait to go back!
Relaxing, calm and full of nature and beauty. We enjoyed a lot , the owner is super humble and friendly ,
This is a small campground, but was very convenient for the Cheat Canyon and Narrows. Phil is a friendly host and his dogs are cute! He allowed us to put-in (on the river) right from our campsite. There's a nice "mountain" view and the trees on the property are pretty. The bathrooms could use a little TLC, but they functioned properly and were 10x better than using a port-a-john. We will definitely stay here again if we are back in the area.
