Red Oak Fire Lookout — how to get a site when it's sold out

Booking Red Oak Fire Lookout

Sites at Red Oak Fire Lookout are reserved through Recreation.gov. Sites here can be reserved in advance through the official system, and they are claimed fast — cancellations then trickle back all season, unannounced, at any hour of the day or night.

Site facts

Total sites	1
Site types	Cabin
Hookups	Electric hookups at some sites
Location	Richwood, WV
Book through	Recreation.gov
Official listing	Recreation.gov

The cancellation play at Red Oak Fire Lookout

Because sites are booked months ahead, a steady share of reservations get cancelled as trips fall through. Each cancellation instantly returns that site and those nights to the official calendar — first-come, first-served, no waitlist, no announcement. Refreshing the booking page yourself, every few minutes for weeks, works in theory. In practice, the people who get these sites are the ones who hear about the opening first.

itOpened scans the Recreation.gov calendar for Red Oak Fire Lookout around the clock. When a site matching your dates and your vehicle opens, you get a text with a direct link to it. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell — your fee pays for monitoring, and openings are first-come, so speed is the whole game.

Other campgrounds in Monongahela National Forest

Lake Sherwood	Cancellation alerts available
Seneca Shadows	Cancellation alerts available
Bishop Knob	Cancellation alerts available
Stuart Recreation Area	Cancellation alerts available
Big Bend (Wv)	Cancellation alerts available
Spruce Knob Lake	Cancellation alerts available
Blue Meadow	Cancellation alerts available
Summit Lake Campground	Cancellation alerts available
Williams River Campsites	Cancellation alerts available
Cranberry Campground	Cancellation alerts available
Tea Creek Campground	Cancellation alerts available
Blue Bend Rec Area	Cancellation alerts available
Horseshoe Recreation Area	Cancellation alerts available
Cranberry River Campsites	Cancellation alerts available
Day Run Campground	Cancellation alerts available
Pocahontas Campground	Cancellation alerts available
Big Rock	Cancellation alerts available
Jess Judy	Cancellation alerts available
Cranberry Mountain Nature Center Group Picnic Shelter	Cancellation alerts available
Gatewood Group	Cancellation alerts available
Hopkins Mountain Fireman's Cabin	Cancellation alerts available
Middle Mountain Cabins	Cancellation alerts available

Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Site facts come from the official directory listing for Red Oak Fire Lookout; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.