U.S. Forest Service · George Washington & Jefferson National Forest · Virginia

Cave Springs

First-come, first-served37 sites

Sites are first-come, first-served. Recreation.gov lists this campground for paying on site, and you may be able to pay with the Scan and Pay feature of its app.

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Cave Springs
Photo from the area. Famartin (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Weather by month

NOAA climate normals →
Weather by month near Cave Springs30°40°50°60°70°80°January: 4.41 inches of precipitation, 3.5 inches of snowFebruary: 4.37 inches of precipitation, 2.8 inches of snowMarch: 4.86 inches of precipitation, 1.1 inches of snowApril: 4.59 inches of precipitation, 0.1 inches of snowMay: 4.32 inches of precipitation, 0.0 inches of snowJune: 4.39 inches of precipitation, 0.0 inches of snowJuly: 4.44 inches of precipitation, 0.0 inches of snowAugust: 3.95 inches of precipitation, 0.0 inches of snowSeptember: 3.71 inches of precipitation, 0.0 inches of snowOctober: 2.99 inches of precipitation, 0.0 inches of snowNovember: 2.88 inches of precipitation, 0.0 inches of snowDecember: 4.77 inches of precipitation, 1.8 inches of snowJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanuary: 34.0°F averageFebruary: 37.5°F averageMarch: 45.2°F averageApril: 54.1°F averageMay: 63.0°F averageJune: 70.7°F averageJuly: 74.1°F averageAugust: 73.2°F averageSeptember: 67.7°F averageOctober: 56.1°F averageNovember: 44.9°F averageDecember: 37.3°F average0 in1 in2 in3 in4 in5 inTemp °FInches
The line is the average temperature and the bars are average precipitation at Pennington Gap, 5 miles from the campground at 1,360 feet, station USC00446626 in the NOAA monthly climate normals for 1991 to 2020. Precipitation totals about 50 inches a year. The dotted line is average snowfall, about 9 inches a year on the same inches scale.

Getting there

Coordinates36.7994° N, 82.9256° W · Directions ↗

Supplies & services

Outdoor gearBig Bore Outfitters ↗9.6 mi
RV sales & serviceRV sales & service ↗50.4 mi

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Limited data for this unit

No site-by-site records, no amenities, no fee schedule or directions in the Recreation.gov record. What is here comes from the agency's own listing. The rest lives there.

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Trails nearby

Forest Service trail data →
  • 0.1 mi
    Stone Mountain ↗
    14.6 mi trail · hiking, horse, bike
  • 1 mi
    Payne Branch
    1.9 mi trail · hiking, horse
  • 3.7 mi
    Wallen Ridge ↗
    7.1 mi trail · hiking, horse, bike
  • 4.5 mi
    Olinger Gap
    1.1 mi trail · hiking, horse, bike

Trail and trailhead records are the Forest Service's. Distances are straight-line to the nearer trail end. Trail conditions are not tracked here.

Public land it sits in

On Wilderness Atlas →

Stone Mountain Wilderness begins about 0.1 miles away, and it is the closest of these.

Each unit is published as a centre point and an acreage rather than a boundary, so this section stands it in for a circle of the same area. Whether a campground is inside, and how far it is from one it is outside, are both approximate.

On the National Register nearby

On Register Atlas →

Guidebooks for Virginia

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  • Best Tent Camping: Virginia
    Randy Porter, 2018
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  • Camping Virginia and West Virginia
    Desiree Smith-Daughety, 2013
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  • Best tent camping
    Johnny Molloy, 2014
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Reference

Questions people ask

Do I need a reservation at Cave Springs?

No. Cave Springs is first-come, first-served. Sites are taken on arrival and paid at the fee station.

Source: How first-come camping works

How many sites does Cave Springs have?

37 sites.

Source: Site mix

What if Cave Springs is full?

The nearest public campgrounds are High Knob Campground (17.9 mi, first-come), Bark Camp (22.7 mi, first-come), and Cane Patch (24.9 mi, first-come).

Source: Campgrounds nearby