Stuart Recreation Area

After reading previous review about the camp hosts, I think they have changed. They still have plumbing issues and the showers are still non-functional, but we brought our own anyway.

Although we are wondering if the host is changing the pricing on his own. We have a senior pass good for 1/2 price camping and recreation.gov lists the site at $30 per night. The host charged us $19. I am not sure if this is something he can do.

We pulled straight in to our site instead of backing in. We like our door to face the picnic table and campfire! Good thing we have a long electrical cable.

Nice private camping areas more well suited to tents than RV. Most of the sites are very out of level. 

As far as cell signals, we have either AT&T and Sprint/TMobile onboard. There is no Sprint connectivity but AT&T was a full 5G signal. 

AT&T Speedtest 42.3 Mbps down, 20.5 Mbps up.

Campsites were easily accessible. Most of them were on the larger size, with nicely paved driveways, and big, flat, gravel tent pads. Campsites were pretty private for the most part.

The Stuart Recreation Day Use area isn’t really accessible to the campground unless you drive down the hill to it. You could walk/bike it, but it’d be quite the hike and definitely not do able with kids.

Picture is from the day use area on the river.

The camp hosts during our visit were very strange. I wanted to take a shower and asking them questions was like talking to a riddling cartoon character. They collected our money and then told us to go to their camper to use the shower. Then we figured out where the ACTUAL showers were.

This tiny campground in the Monongahela National Forest was such a fun find! There are less than 30 sites and most have a good bit of privacy. There is one building with showers and flush toilets near the entrance, and several outhouse style toilets scattered around. My kids didn't love those so we took a lot of trips down to the bathroom building. The 1.5 mile loop trail was great and just challenging enough to be fun. The campground and trail are filled with beautiful mountain laurel. The hosts were friendly and available and the whole place seemed to be well maintained. Elkins is only a few minutes away if you need groceries or supplies. We had a great time and would definitely come back!

This is a great campground with nice large sites. I can imagine if you go when the rhododendron are blooming it would be ever more beautiful . There’s great swimming hole in the park you can pay 5 to enter and swim or fish. Nice flat tent pad . Very clean with a great clean bathroom and shower house .