## Overview

 Stuart Recreation Area is set in a mixed forest along the banks of the Shavers Fork River. The river provides excellent fishing and is regularly stocked with trout. Hiking trails lead to outstanding overlooks, local caves and Blackwater Falls.
## Recreation

 River swimming is a lot of fun, and there are plenty of trout to tempt anglers of all skill levels. The 2-mile River Loop Hiking Trail is enjoyed by many visitors, and is a great way to watch for birds and wildlife.
## Facilities

 The campground lies on a single loop with long spurs. Drinking water and accessible flush toilets and showers are provided, with a dump station is on-site. Each site comes with a campfire ring, tent pad, lantern post and electric hookups. The day-use area has three picnic pavilions with maintained fields and a beach on the riverfront.
## Natural Features

 The campground is perched along a bend on the Shavers Fork River. Shavers is a tributary of the Cheat River, a popular rafting river with rocky rapids. Stuart is in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. The Monongahela Forest extends over the north central highlands of the state, straddling many of the region\'s highest peaks. Elevations here range from 1,000 to 4,863 feet above sea level. 
## Nearby Attractions

 The town of Elkins is a 14-minute drive from the campground. An annual Mountain State Forest Festival takes place here every October.

Stuart Recreation Area

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 . 

Beautiful campground . 

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!

Hidden gem

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. 

Campsites Not Really Close to Day Use 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&amp;T and Sprint/TMobile onboard. There is no Sprint connectivity but AT&amp;T was a full 5G signal. 

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