Bulltown Campground

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.

Bulltown Campground, at Burnsville Lake -- a developed US Army Corps of Engineers campground. Roughly 200 campsites, electric hookups on loops A-F and HILL per the recreation.gov site list. STAY LIMIT, quoted from the recreation.gov campground page: "No person(s) may camp at one or more campsites for more than 14 days in a 30 day consecutive period at Burnsville Lake." Next to the Bulltown Historic Area and a Civil War battlefield. RIDB fee note, quoted in full: "*Please note there is a $5.00 fee for visitors to the campground." That is a VISITOR fee, i.e. day guests -- it is NOT the nightly camping rate, which neither federal source published. COORDINATE: the facility coordinate the Corps publishes through RIDB (https://ridb.recreation.gov/api/v1/facilities?state=WV, read 2026-08-17) -- the same point recreation.gov shows on its booking page. Not a geocode, not field-checked by us. NEAREST TOWN: Burnsville, about 6.5 mi away in a straight line. Nearest incorporated place and distance are straight-line, computed against the WV GIS Technical Center municipal point layer (https://services.wvgis.wvu.edu/arcgis/rest/services/Location/wv_cities/MapServer/6, read 2026-08-17). Straight-line, NOT road miles -- the road distance is longer, sometimes much longer, in this terrain. US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS CAMPGROUND. This is a developed FEE campground, not free and not dispersed. Existence, lake project and coordinate come from the Corps' own booking system via RIDB (https://ridb.recreation.gov/api/v1/facilities?state=WV, read 2026-08-17); operating status and the fee-collected marker come from the Corps Lakes Gateway project page (https://corpslakes.erdc.dren.mil/visitors/projects.cfm, read 2026-08-17). A NOTE ON WHO RUNS IT: on the Corps Lakes Gateway every West Virginia campground is printed in italics, which that page's own legend defines as "Managed by Others" -- the Corps owns the land, somebody else (state, county or concessionaire) operates the campground. Call the number on the recreation.gov listing rather than the district office. NIGHTLY RATE NOT VERIFIED unless a dollar figure appears above -- neither RIDB nor the Gateway published one for most WV sites, and the Corps' own Huntington District website (www.lrh.usace.army.mil) was unreachable this fire: it served a TLS certificate that does not list its own hostname. Do not print a price we have not read. DRINKING WATER: not stated by either federal source for this site. Not claimed here. | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.

US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.

On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.