Agency-listedUS Army Corps of EngineersFee
Gerald Freeman Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · WV · 38.68000, -80.54694
Ask an AI about this campsiteOpens Grok already loaded with this site. It reads the same records this page is built from, and links whatever it tells you.
Ask about this camp →U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Gerald Freeman Campground
Loading the latest forecast…
Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 993 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Gerald Freeman CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Gerald Freeman Campground · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · WV
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump1 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- GGrocery6 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- MMechanic6 mi
- OOutfitter6 mi
- EVEV fast charger6 mi
- +Urgent care7 mi
- LLaundry9 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- ShShower22 mi
- WWater39 mi
- AAir-up57 mi
- PPropane60 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 39-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 6 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 — Gerald Freeman Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Elevation
993 ft
Ground slope
12.4% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~2.9 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~6.3 mi · Interstate 79
State
WV
Coordinates
38.68000, -80.54694
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Gerald Freeman Campground · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · WV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureKanawha Run · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townFlatwoods · ~6.2 mi
- Nearest rail line~2.9 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~6.3 mi · Interstate 79
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelLloyd's Food Store · ~6.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~0.6 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~6.3 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~11.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicCare Xpress · ~6.6 mi
- HardwareLloyds Hardware · ~6.3 mi
EV charging — from Gerald Freeman Campground · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · WV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.5 mi straight-line W — Sutton, WV - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 9 within 50 · 97 within 100 · 324 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS6.6 mi — Pilot Travel Center 474, Sutton
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO30.3 mi — Northside Chevrolet GMC, Summersville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)15.8 mi — WC EDA MUSEUM, Webster Springs, WV · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports 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 233044 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Gerald Freeman Campground · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · WV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaBurnsville Rest Area SB · ~16.2 mi N
- Highway rest areaBurnsville Rest Area NB · ~16.3 mi N
- Highway rest areaServia Rest Area SB · ~19.5 mi W
- Highway rest areaServia Rest Area NB · ~19.5 mi W
Coming out here — Gerald Freeman Campground · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · WV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Kanawha Run as a perennial stream, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 12.4% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Rail line mapped ~2.9 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Interstate 79 is mapped ~6.3 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Gerald Freeman Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Gerald Freeman Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Bakers Run Campground~3.5 mi · fee
- Bee Run Campground~7.1 mi · fee
- Bulltown Campground~7.8 mi · fee
- Riffle Run Campground~11.6 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Gerald Freeman Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Sutton Recreation Area, manager on record: Army Corps of Engineers (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Gerald Freeman 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
Gerald Freeman Campground, at Sutton Lake -- a developed US Army Corps of Engineers campground. Corps description: "Gerald Freeman Camp is nestled in the headwaters of Sutton Lake in central West Virginia, 70 miles north of Charleston." Corps directions: "From I-79, take exit 67. Turn right on WV-4 and go 1 mile. Turn left on WV-15 and travel 12 miles to the campground," followed by the Corps' own warning: "NOTE: GPS directions are not always accurate." Take that seriously and take the written directions. 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: Flatwoods, about 6.4 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 Gerald Freeman 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 — Gerald Freeman Campground
Water on public land →Fire rules & restrictions →How to read this page →Reading the aerial →All field notes →