Agency-listedUS Army Corps of EngineersFee
East Fork Campground
Drive-up · public land · WV · 38.09317, -82.31901
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at East Fork Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 707 ft.
Fire & smoke — around East Fork CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from East Fork Campground · public land · WV
Straight-line miles · bearings approx · roads run longer
Nearest of each
- @Mail6 mi
- FFuel11 mi
- GGrocery11 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- WWater15 mi
- ShShower15 mi
- DDump15 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- HHardware19 mi
- EVEV fast charger19 mi
- OOutfitter20 mi
- LLaundry22 mi
- AAir-up22 mi
- PPropane47 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 11 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — East Fork Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
707 ft
State
WV
Coordinates
38.09317, -82.31901
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around East Fork Campground · public land · WV (OpenStreetMap)
- Nearest townWayne · ~11.6 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSunoco · ~11.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~14.9 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~11.2 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~11.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicDaVita Kidney Care · ~12.8 mi
- HardwareR&J Hardware · ~18.8 mi
EV charging — from East Fork Campground · public land · WV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger19.4 mi straight-line E — Thornhill Superstore, Chapmanville, WV · EV Connect · CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach6 within 25 mi · 25 within 50 · 65 within 100 · 350 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)23.8 mi — Huntington, WV - Tesla Supercharger, Huntington
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO36.6 mi — ASTORG AUTO JLR CHARLESTON, Charleston
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)19.3 mi — THORNHILL1 SHOP 2, Chapmanville, WV · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 375410 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around East Fork Campground · public land · WV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaHuntington Welcome Center EB · ~21.4 mi N
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How we know this — East Fork Campground
Source
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
East Fork Campground, at East Lynn Lake -- a developed US Army Corps of Engineers campground. Corps: "East Fork Campground is located on the shores of East Lynn Lake on the East Fork of Twelvepole Creek, near East Lynn, WV." Directions: "From I-64 in Huntington, WV take Exit 8, south on HWY 152 to Wayne, WV. Travel east on Route 37 for 19 miles and follow signs into the campground." Gateway lists it open, fee-collected, reservable, with primitive sites. RIDB fee text, quoted: "Camping rates in 2025: Regular campsites: $35 Waterfront campsites: $50". That is a 2025 figure read in 2026 -- it is the agency's own most recent published rate, but treat it as last year's price. 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: Wayne, about 11.1 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.
EV chargers
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.
Field check
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.
What we don’t know about East Fork Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — East Fork Campground
Water on public land →Fire rules & restrictions →Camping with a dog →Reading your camp page →All field notes →
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