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Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites
Hike-in · National Park Service · WV · 37.82906, -81.01554
Inside a national park unit
Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites sits inside New River Gorge National Park and Preserve — a national preserve run by the National Park Service.
Park rules apply, and they are stricter than dispersed camping: inside a National Park Service unit you camp in a designated campground or on a backcountry permit, not wherever you find a flat spot. Check the park before you go: nps.gov/neri ↗
Placed by point-in-polygon against the National Park Service’s own boundary layer (NPS Land Resources Division, 442 units, fetched 18 Sep 2026; this unit’s polygon edited 2013-12-18). Nothing about the price or the legal status on this page was changed by it.
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Ask about this camp →National Park Service 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 Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,209 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Glade Creek Walk-In CampsitesNIFC · 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 Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites · National Park Service · WV
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater3 mi
- @Mail3 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- +Urgent care6 mi
- ShShower8 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- AAir-up9 mi
- MMechanic9 mi
- HHardware9 mi
- EVEV fast charger9 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- OOutfitter13 mi
- PPropane13 mi
- DDump55 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites
Access
Hike-in
Land
National Park Service
Elevation
1,209 ft
Ground slope
5.3% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~0.1 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~4.2 mi · Interstate 64
State
WV
Coordinates
37.82906, -81.01554
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites · National Park Service · WV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNew River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townPrince · ~4.3 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.1 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~4.2 mi · Interstate 64
- Drinking waterWater · ~2.8 mi
- FuelExxon · ~5.0 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~13.3 mi
- GroceriesLittle General Store · ~5.0 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~8.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicAnchor Medical, LLC · ~6.1 mi
- HardwareLowe's · ~8.8 mi
EV charging — from Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites · National Park Service · WV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger9.4 mi straight-line W — FRIENDSHIP AUTO SHOWROOM FRONT, Beckley, WV · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach7 within 25 mi · 14 within 50 · 85 within 100 · 271 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)9.9 mi — Mt. Hope, WV - Tesla Supercharger, Mt. Hope
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)8.2 mi — The Resort at Glade Springs, Daniels, WV · Blink 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 462341 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites · National Park Service · WV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomGlade Creek Single Vault Toilet · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomGlade Creek Restroom · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomGlade Creek Double Vault Toilet · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomNuttallburg Vault Toilet · ~1.6 mi NE · NPS
Coming out here — Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites · National Park Service · WV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps New River as a perennial river, ~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 5.3% — gentle. 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 ~0.1 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. 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 64 is mapped ~4.2 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 Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites elsewhere
Other camps near Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Glade Creek Campground~0.1 mi
- War Ridge / Backus Mountain Campground~2.0 mi
- Grandview Sandbar Campground~2.8 mi
- Grandview Sandbar Walk-In Campground~2.9 mi
Who holds the land at Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as a holding it gives no name, manager on record: a private owner. Our own record names National Park Service - New River Gorge National Park & Preserve as the manager. The two sources disagree, and we have not checked which is right. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites
Stay limit
14 nights (14 days within a 28-day period)
Source
National Park Service recreation data
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
Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites -- a FREE, first-come primitive campground run by the National Park Service. WALK-IN, tent only. Tent-only WALK-IN sites, a separate NPS point about 230 m from the Glade Creek drive-in campground. Tents only -- "RV, camper, and car camping only permitted at drive-in campsites." Walk distance not published; NOT MEASURED. COORDINATE: the NPS's own digitized campground point (https://mapservices.nps.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NationalDatasets/NPS_Public_POIs/MapServer/0, read 2026-08-17), MAPMETHOD='Digitized', XYACCURACY='>=1m and <5m', digitized from WV GIS Technical Center leaf-off imagery. Not a geocode, not OpenStreetMap, not field-checked by us. NEAREST TOWN: Piney View, about 6.8 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. NEW RIVER GORGE CAMPING -- THE RULES THAT APPLY HERE, from the park's own camping page (https://www.nps.gov/neri/planyourvisit/camping.htm, read 2026-08-17). FREE: "There are no camping fees at park campgrounds." FIRST COME FIRST SERVED: "Reservations are not available; all sites are first-come, first-serve. In busy months, campgrounds fill quickly and it is recommended to have a back-up plan." PRIMITIVE: "Primitive camping areas have no drinking water, no hookups, no electricity, and limited restroom facilities." DO NOT TREAT THE NEW RIVER, OR ANY CREEK HERE, AS DRINKING WATER -- the park says to bring your own: "Campers are recommended to bring plenty of drinking water, food, and any other necessities with them." STAY LIMIT: "Camping limit of no more than a total of 14 days within a 28-day period within any park campground and camping area." DESIGNATED SITES ONLY: "Camping in a non-designated site or using a walk-in parking lot for RV, camper, or car camping is prohibited." FIRE: "Use existing fire rings for campfires. Burn only dead wood found on the ground. Damaging or cutting live trees or branches for firewood is prohibited." OTHER LIMITS: no more than 2 vehicles and no more than 2 tents (or 1 tent + 1 RV) per site, 8 people and 4 pets per site, quiet hours 10 PM to 6 AM, pets leashed. ACCESS: "All campgrounds are located on maintained gravel or dirt roads in somewhat remote locations... Campgrounds will be several miles from gas stations, grocery stores, or other markets." SWIMMING: the park "strongly discourage[s]" swimming in the New River -- "powerful currents, rocky banks and shoals, and sudden dropoffs." SEASON: the page states no closing date for the primitive campgrounds. NOT VERIFIED either way this fire -- a reviewer should confirm before we imply year-round access. | 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 Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites
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 — Glade Creek Walk-In Campsites
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Fire rules & restrictions →Power off-grid →All field notes →