# US Federal Campgrounds & RV Areas — U.S. location dataset

All 5,904 locations in the U.S., as one CSV: 23 fields per record, 49 states, file built October 18, 2026. $39 one-time, with up to 10 real rows free before you buy.

Canonical URL: https://locationlists.com/data/campground-list

5,953 federally managed campgrounds and RV areas, from the Recreation Information Database that powers Recreation.gov, with GPS coordinates on every record, a street address on 71% and a phone on 81%. The breakdown by agency is US Forest Service 3,832, Army Corps of Engineers 1,071, National Park Service 655 and Bureau of Land Management 359. Federal land is where most American camping actually happens, and unlike private park directories this source is authoritative, free of pay-to-list bias and complete for the agencies it covers. RV and outdoor gear brands planning dealer and retail coverage, campground software and reservation vendors, satellite and connectivity providers, and tourism and site-selection analysts all use it as the demand map for outdoor recreation. Coordinates on 100% of rows make trade-area and drive-time work immediate.

## The figures

- Records: 5,904 locations
- States: 49
- Coverage: U.S.
- Fields: 23
- Price: $39 one-time, CSV download, commercial license (https://locationlists.com/license)
- File built on October 18, 2026. Rebuilt weekly on an automatic schedule.
- File last modified: 2026-10-18

The file has all 5,904 locations across 49 states in one download. Building the same list by searching one area at a time tends to miss places, and a missed place looks like a gap in coverage that is not really there.

## Fields

- `name`: Business or facility name
- `type`: Type or class, as the source publishes it
- `address`: Street address
- `city`: City
- `state`: Two-letter state code
- `zip`: ZIP code
- `country`: Country code
- `phone`: Phone number where published
- `website`: Website where published
- `latitude`: GPS latitude where published
- `longitude`: GPS longitude where published
- `source`: Which source the record came from
- `sourceId`
- `sourceUrl`: The public source this row came from
- `agency`
- `reservable`
- `directions`
- `geo_precision`
- `county`: County, where the source publishes it
- `county_fips`
- `county_note`
- `address_quality`
- `zip4`

## What we did to this data

Unified 43 city spellings, corrected 25 misspelled city names, standardised 773 state codes, shortened 203 ZIP codes, restored 2 ZIP codes, added coordinates to 311 listings, added the county to 5,620 listings, re-placed 111 misplaced map points, flagged 3,702 incomplete addresses and measured 5,904 rows. Rebuilt October 18, 2026 from ridb.recreation.gov.

## How complete the key fields are

phone 82%, website 85%, street address 72%, city 72%, state 97%, ZIP code 69%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 21 of 23 columns are filled on at least half the rows.

## Ask this list a question with a link

No connector and no account; each link answers with the matching count, preview rows and the price for just that part.

- [Only California, the state with the most](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=campground-list&state=CA)
- [Within 25 miles of Bend, OR, the busiest area](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=campground-list&near=Bend+OR&radius=25)
- [Within a 30-minute drive of Bend, OR](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=campground-list&near=Bend+OR&drive=30)
- [Only rows where reservable is true](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=campground-list&where=reservable%3Aeq%3Atrue)
- [Every Camps, Childcare & Recreation list combined, within 25 miles of Sunnyside Tahoe City, CA](https://locationlists.com/find?category=recreation-community&near=Sunnyside+Tahoe+City+CA&radius=25)
- [Each one's nearest US Farmers Markets, in California, with miles](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=campground-list&state=CA&relate=nearest&k=1&b.dataset=farmers-market-list&b.state=CA)
- [The whole list: add a city, state, ZIP code or distance](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=campground-list)

## The same dataset, for machines

- Record as JSON: https://locationlists.com/data/campground-list/dataset.json
- Free sample, up to 10 real rows: https://locationlists.com/data/campground-list/sample.csv or https://locationlists.com/data/campground-list/sample.json
- Buy link (opens Stripe Checkout): https://locationlists.com/data/campground-list/buy

## Questions

### Does this include private campgrounds and RV parks?

No, and the name says so. This is federal land only, the four agencies above. Private chains such as KOA maintain their own locators, and we can quote those separately; KOA's detail pages currently block automated access, so it is not in this file rather than being silently partial.

### Why do some records have no street address?

Remote federal campgrounds often have no postal address at all, which is why 29% lack a street line. Every record has coordinates, so location is never in doubt even when a mailing address does not exist.

### Where does the data come from?

The Recreation Information Database, the federal government's own inter-agency source for recreation facilities. It is public, free, and published as a full export rather than reconstructed from a website.

### How is this data cleaned?

Every rebuild runs the same steps and counts what each one changed. For the current file, rebuilt October 18, 2026 from ridb.recreation.gov: Merged 0 duplicate listings that had the same business name, street address and ZIP code, keeping every filled-in detail from both (October 18, 2026). Unified 43 city names written more than one way within the same ZIP code (for example with and without a space or an abbreviation) to the US Census Bureau spelling (October 18, 2026). Corrected 25 misspelled city names to the US Census Bureau place name for their ZIP code (October 18, 2026). Set the state on 773 listings to its two-letter US Postal Service code, matched to the US Census Bureau state register (or, for Canadian rows, the ISO province code) (October 18, 2026). Shortened 203 ZIP codes to the five-digit code every address filter expects, keeping the delivery-route segment in a column of its own (October 18, 2026). Restored the leading zero on 2 ZIP codes that had lost it (October 18, 2026). Added map coordinates to 311 listings that had none, from the US Census Bureau address geocoder or, where the street address could not be matched, the centre of the ZIP code (October 18, 2026). Set the county and its federal county code on 5,620 listings, matched to the US Census Bureau county list from the county the source records, the listing's map point, or its ZIP code area (October 18, 2026). Checked every map point against the state in its address and re-placed 111 points that fell outside that state (October 18, 2026). Flagged 3,702 addresses that are incomplete, a PO box, or missing a house number, in an address quality column (October 18, 2026). Checked that the row count, state count and field completeness published for this file were measured from the file itself (October 18, 2026).

### Isn't this free on ridb.recreation.gov?

The underlying records are public on ridb.recreation.gov. What you pay for is the work between that public release and this file: unified 43 city spellings, corrected 25 misspelled city names, standardised 773 state codes, shortened 203 ZIP codes, restored 2 ZIP codes, added coordinates to 311 listings, added the county to 5,620 listings, re-placed 111 misplaced map points, flagged 3,702 incomplete addresses and measured 5,904 rows, and a fresh rebuild every week. The current file was rebuilt October 18, 2026 from ridb.recreation.gov. Doing it yourself means downloading the full release, repeating each of those steps, and repeating them again every time the source updates.

### How complete is each field?

Measured on every row of the current file, the share of rows that carry each key field: phone 82%, website 85%, street address 72%, city 72%, state 97%, ZIP code 69%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 21 of 23 columns are filled on at least half the rows.