Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds
The Army Corps of Engineers manages the reservoirs it built, which makes it the largest provider of lakefront camping in the United States — and the most consistently overlooked. Corps parks tend to be better equipped than Forest Service sites, with electric hookups, paved pads, boat ramps and swim beaches, at fees well below private lakeside RV resorts.
- 1,263
- Campgrounds
- 40
- States
- 798
- Reservable online
- 690
- With electric hookups
What Army Corps camping is like
- Almost always on water — Corps parks exist to manage reservoirs
- Higher rate of electric hookups than other federal land
- Boat ramps, swim beaches and fish-cleaning stations are common
- Concentrated in the South and Midwest, where the big reservoirs are
Listings come from Recreation.gov's official catalog. We watch the reservable ones around the clock and alert you the moment a sold-out site frees up — see pricing.
Largest Army Corps campgrounds
The biggest, best-documented sites in the catalog.
- SHENANGO REC AREA CAMPGROUNDShenango River Lake328 sites
- BLOOMINGTON EASTClinton Lake323 sites
- Mill Creek Camping (Berlin Lake)Berlin Lake307 sites
- SEVEN POINTS (PA)Raystown Lake267 sites
- PRAIRIE FLOWER RECREATION AREASaylorville Lake252 sites
- INDIAN CREEK (MO)Mark Twain Lake249 sites
- NORTH BEND PARKJohn H. Kerr Dam and Reservoir247 sites
- SUGAR BOTTOM CAMPGROUNDCoralville Lake244 sites
Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds by state
Ordered by how many campgrounds each state has.
- Texas153 · 92 bookable
- Arkansas130 · 90 bookable
- Oklahoma116 · 73 bookable
- Kansas80 · 49 bookable
- Georgia74 · 53 bookable
- Missouri73 · 51 bookable
- Kentucky57 · 34 bookable
- Iowa51 · 37 bookable
- Tennessee48 · 35 bookable
- Pennsylvania42 · 33 bookable
- Illinois40 · 34 bookable
- Mississippi36 · 22 bookable
- California34 · 27 bookable
- North Dakota30 · 9 bookable
- Virginia26 · 13 bookable
- Ohio24 · 9 bookable
- West Virginia22 · 14 bookable
- Alabama20 · 18 bookable
- South Carolina20 · 7 bookable
- Oregon17 · 7 bookable
- Florida15 · 4 bookable
- North Carolina14 · 9 bookable
- South Dakota14 · 5 bookable
- Washington13 · 5 bookable
- Indiana12 · 3 bookable
- Montana12 · 8 bookable
- Nebraska12 · 2 bookable
- Idaho9 · 7 bookable
- New Mexico9 · 4 bookable
- Minnesota7 · 7 bookable
- Wisconsin7 · 4 bookable
- Massachusetts6 · 5 bookable
- Colorado5
- Vermont5 · 5 bookable
- New Hampshire4 · 4 bookable
- Connecticut3 · 3 bookable
- Louisiana3
- New York2
- Alaska1
- Arizona1
Other federal land
National forest camping, National park campgrounds, BLM camping. Or browse camping by state and RV campgrounds with hookups.