Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Potomac Group Campground
Hike-in · U.S. Forest Service · NY · 42.49226, -76.78788
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Potomac Group Campground · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · NY
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR H09B (Potomac Campground Road), 520 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR H09B (Potomac Campground Road), 520 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR H09B (Potomac Campground Road): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
What the record says about the site — Potomac Group Campground · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · NY
- Reservation required
- Group reservations only
- Room for 40 parties
- Tent camping
- No drinking water — carry your own
- Listed as a backcountry site
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Potomac Group Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,828 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Potomac Group 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 Potomac Group Campground · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · NY
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel4 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- RxPharmacy7 mi
- +Urgent care7 mi
- WWater7 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- LLaundry7 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- AAir-up9 mi
- ShShower10 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- OOutfitter15 mi
- DDump18 mi
- PPropane56 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 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 — Potomac Group Campground
Access
Hike-in
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,828 ft
Ground slope
2.9% · flat
Nearest rail line
~6.3 mi · passing siding
State
NY
Coordinates
42.49226, -76.78788
Cost
Fee · priced on the land manager's own page (recreation.gov, read 2026-09-18)
Getting in
Park at Potomac Group Campground Parking · ~0.11 mi in a straight line (trail will be longer)
Nearby & resupply — around Potomac Group Campground · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · NY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureHencoop Creek · ~0.8 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Foster Pond (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townReynoldsville · ~2.0 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.3 mi · passing siding
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~7.1 mi
- FuelSunoco · ~4.3 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~24.7 mi
- Dump station~17.8 mi
- GroceriesShur Save · ~8.0 mi
- PharmacyKinney Drugs · ~7.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicSchuyler Hospital · ~10.3 mi
- HardwareHEP-Heating Electric and Plumbing · ~19.4 mi
EV charging — from Potomac Group Campground · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · NY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.1 mi straight-line NE — Parking Lot DCFC, Trumansburg, NY (at a recreation facility) · EVOKE · CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach23 within 25 mi · 79 within 50 · 248 within 100 · 476 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)14.8 mi — Ithaca Ford, Ithaca
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO23.0 mi — SSFLX STATION 1, Hammondsport
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.2 mi — The Lodge at Grist Iron Brewing Co., Burdett, NY (at a brewery / winery) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-10-11 · 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 449494 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Potomac Group Campground · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · NY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletPotomac Group Camp · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBlueberry Patch Day Use · ~0.8 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBlueberry Patch · ~0.9 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBackbone Horse Camp · ~1.1 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Potomac Group Campground · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · NY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Hencoop Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.8 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 2.9% — flat. 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 ~6.3 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a passing siding. 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.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in it.
- 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 Potomac Group Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Potomac Group Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Blueberry Patch~0.9 mi · fee
- Backbone Horse Camp~1.1 mi · fee
- Backbone Horse Campground~1.5 mi
- Finger Lakes Trail Shelter~3.8 mi
The unit that manages Potomac Group Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Potomac Group Campground are set by Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Potomac Group Campground
Fee note
$20.00-$40.00 a night per the Recreation.gov page, read 18 Sep 2026: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/234476
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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.
Agency page
recreation.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: hike (road/trail right there) | Fee 2026-09-18: $20.00-$40.00 per night, single site. Source: https://www.recreation.gov/api/camps/campgrounds/234476 (fee_backfill, figure verified on that page).
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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 Potomac Group 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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Potomac Group Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →