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Brandywine Campground

Harrisonburg, VA

Beach Area

November 2026

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About

Overview

This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site.

Not suitable for large RVs. Dump station is available. Sites are limited to one RV or two tents, no more than two vehicles, and no more than eight persons per site. When recreating on Forest Service Lands, follow the safety and outdoor ethics recommendations.

Water is available when temperatures are above freezing but is winterized when temperatures are low enough to freeze and damage the water system

Recreation

This wooded recreation area affords access to multiple hiking and mountain biking trails, a swimming beach, and a campground with an onsite host. Dump station is available. Sites are limited to one RV or two tents, no more than two vehicles, and no more than eight persons per site. Bath houses have hot showers and flush toilets, drinking water available. Each campsite has a tent pad, picnic table, lantern post and grill.

Nearby Attractions

High Knob trail #1021: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/gwj/recreation/trails/high-knob-forest-trail-1021

High Knob Tower on Shenandoah Mountain near North River was built using native stone in 1939–1940 by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC Camp #2) crews and World War I veterans.

History and Location

Location: Sits on the border of Virginia and West Virginia along Shenandoah Mountain in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests.

Design: It is a unique historic stone fire tower featuring a catwalk and an interior room.

Elevation: Stands at an elevation of 4,223 feet

Amenities

  • drinking water
  • dump station
  • picnic tables

Phone: N/A

The sites at Brandywine Campground

Brandywine Campground has 4 sites. Site types: Tent (3) and Standard (1).

From the booking system's own site list.

Is Brandywine Campground fully booked?

A campground showing no availability is almost never full for good. People cancel — plans change, weather turns, someone books three weekends and keeps one — and the site goes straight back into the booking system, usually without warning and often at odd hours. The reason sold-out campgrounds feel impossible is not that sites never free up; it is that nobody is watching at the moment they do.

CampHawk watches Brandywine Campground in Harrisonburg, VA for you. We recheck it around the clock, as often as every 15 seconds, and the moment a site opens we send a text, an email and a push notification — and on Recreation.gov we also try to put the site straight into your cart, so it is held while you get to your phone.

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Auto-cart on Recreation.gov

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