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Accessible camping

Confirmed,
not assumed.

Plenty of camping apps put a wheelchair icon on a listing and leave it at that. Ours shows up 255 times, and behind every one is a real document from the people who run the place. On the other 5,201 we say nothing at all, because we honestly don’t know yet.

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What the badge means

You’ll only ever see
one of three things.

An icon that shows up on every listing isn’t telling you anything. So we kept it to three, and the third one is by far the most common.

Confirmed accessible

174

The agency has published which sites are accessible, and often the site numbers, what the ground is like, and how far you’ll be from a restroom. We read it and quote it back to you.

Partly accessible

81

Some of it works and some of it doesn’t. An accessible restroom but no marked site. A cabin but not the campground. We tell you which, in plain words.

Not published

5,201

Nobody has written it down. That doesn’t mean the place is inaccessible, it means we can’t tell you, and calling ahead is the only honest thing we can offer.

Counts read from the live catalogue on September 3, 2026. The federal recreation database publishes accessibility text for about one campground in a hundred, which is why that last number is so big. An empty field beats a guess.

How we checked

Somebody had to
read the PDFs.

There’s no national list of accessible campsites. There are fifty state park systems, six federal agencies, and an awful lot of PDFs. So the 255 come from 130 separate sources, each one named on the listing: the California State Parks Accessible Features guide, the Michigan DNR, Texas Parks and Wildlife, one national park’s accessibility page at a time.

You can check our work instead of trusting it. Here’s what one of them actually says.

Texas Parks and Wildlife confirms several wheelchair-accessible sites here: full hookup sites 18 and 19 in Piney Hill, electric site 61 in Copperas Creek, with a roll-in shower and handrails at that restroom, and tent sites with water 27 and 28 in Deer Run. Cabins 12 and 14 are also wheelchair accessible.

Lost Pines, Bastrop State Park, Texas · source: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Site numbers. Hookups. Which restroom has the handrails. That’s what you actually plan around, and it’s why this took months instead of an afternoon.

Where they are

Where we’ve
found the most.

This is really two things at once: how much accessible camping a state has, and how good its parks department is at writing it down. Washington and California sit at the top because their accessibility guides are genuinely excellent.

Verified accessible campgrounds by state, October 2026. Bar shows the total.
State Relative total Confirmed Partly Total
Washington191635
California23326
Michigan11516
Colorado7411
Utah8210
Oregon729
Florida459
Georgia628
Virginia617
Maine516
New Hampshire426
Indiana156

State parks are running circles around the federal system.

160 of the 255 are state parks. 51 are national parks. Forest Service land accounts for 28, even though it’s the biggest category in the app by a mile. State agencies publish this stuff. Federal recreation data mostly doesn’t carry the field at all, which is a paperwork problem rather than a ramps problem, and it’s the main reason this page isn’t longer.

Ten places to start

Ten good places
to start.

Spread around the country, all of them confirmed by the agency that runs them. Tap any one for the full listing, where the source and the exact wording live.

  • Upper Pines Campground
    Yosemite Valley, California · National Park · $35

    Designated accessible sites with paved routes to restrooms and accessible tables. Two Lower Pines sites carry power outlets for medical equipment.

    Source: National Park Service, Yosemite National Park

    Confirmed

  • Mazama Village
    Crater Lake National Park, Oregon · National Park · $32

    Five RV sites designated accessible, two with electrical hookups, with paved parking, roads and paths to water, restrooms and trails.

    Source: National Park Service, Crater Lake, via Recreation.gov

    Confirmed

  • Patrick’s Point State Park
    Trinidad, California · State Park · $35

    Accessible sites 91, 92 and 94 in Agate Campground, where all four cabins are wheelchair accessible, though the nearest restroom is 200 to 300 yards away.

    Source: California State Parks, Accessible Features guide

    Confirmed

  • Lost Pines, Bastrop State Park
    Bastrop, Texas · State Park · $22

    Full hookup sites 18 and 19, electric site 61 with a roll-in shower and handrails at that restroom, tent sites 27 and 28, and two accessible cabins.

    Source: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

    Confirmed

  • Watchman Campground
    Zion National Park, Utah · National Park · $20

    Specific accessible sites in Loop A, including site A016hc, with paved roads and accessible walkways throughout the campground.

    Source: National Park Service, Zion, via Recreation.gov

    Confirmed

  • Silver Falls State Park
    Willamette Valley, Oregon · State Park · $26

    Two campsites and four cabins with universal access features, plus a paved brick path from the parking area to the South Falls viewpoint.

    Source: Oregon State Parks

    Confirmed

  • Big Meadows
    Shenandoah National Park, Virginia · National Park · $30

    Site D163 is a designated accessible group site on the federal booking system, which matters if you travel with people who help you.

    Source: Recreation.gov, National Park Service

    Confirmed

  • Twelvemile Beach
    Pictured Rocks, Michigan · National Lakeshore · $20

    Two of the campground’s 36 sites are designated wheelchair accessible, on the Lake Superior shore.

    Source: National Park Service, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

    Confirmed

  • Cape Disappointment State Park
    Ilwaco, Washington · State Park · $35

    One of the park’s yurts has a deck built to be wheelchair accessible, per Washington State Parks’ own brochure.

    Source: Washington State Parks

    Confirmed

  • Mather Campground
    Grand Canyon South Rim, Arizona · National Park · $18

    There are wheelchair-accessible sites, though without RV hookups. Ask for one when you reserve, because the exact site numbers aren’t published.

    Source: National Park Service accessibility guide

    Confirmed

Open all 255 in the app

The full list

Every one we’ve
confirmed, by state.

Ordered by how many each state publishes, which is really a ranking of which agencies write this down. Tap any campground for the exact wording and the document it came from. Confirmed means an agency document names accessible sites. Partly confirmed means some facilities are accessible and some are not, and the listing says which.

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  • Hosmer GroveHaleakalā NP · National ParkPartly confirmed

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Manitoba

New Brunswick

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Newfoundland

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Saskatchewan

Yukon

Worth knowing

Nobody tells you
about the Access Pass.

If you’re a US citizen or permanent resident with a permanent disability that seriously limits a major life activity, you qualify for the Interagency Access Pass. It’s free, it’s good for life, and six agencies honor it: the National Park Service, Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation.

Picking one up in person at any of a thousand-plus federal recreation sites costs nothing. Ordering the physical card online adds a $10 processing fee, and there’s a digital version through Recreation.gov you can use right away. Bring photo ID and one document showing permanent disability: a signed note from your doctor, or paperwork from the VA, Social Security, or a state vocational rehab agency.

You’ll read everywhere that the pass gets you half off camping. The agencies don’t say that.

What it actually gets you is a discount on expanded amenity fees, camping included, at a lot of sites. Six agencies, six sets of rules, so the amount moves around and some places don’t discount camping at all. Call ahead before you count on a number. Better to hear that here than at the kiosk.

Order or learn more Read the NPS page

Further reading

A few things
worth reading.

National Park Service

NPS Accessibility

The service-wide hub, with a page for each park. The individual park pages are where the useful detail hides, and they’re the source behind a lot of our national park listings.

Recreation.gov

Digital America the Beautiful passes

Where the digital Access Pass comes from, and where most federal campground bookings actually happen. We hand you over here rather than taking your reservation ourselves.

US Forest Service

Forest Service Access Pass

The Forest Service runs more campgrounds than anyone else in the country. This is their own guidance on the pass and on getting around national forest land.

Community

Disabled Hikers

Trail guides written by disabled hikers, with real detail on grade, surface and obstacles instead of a yes-or-no label. Honestly the best model out there for how this should be written.

What we don’t know yet

255 isn’t enough.

That’s under five percent of the campgrounds in the app. The other 5,201 show nothing instead of a guess, which is the right call and still a lousy answer if you’re the one trying to plan a trip. Two things move that number: agencies publishing the field at all, and people who have actually been there telling us what they found.

If we got something wrong, or if you’ve been somewhere we’ve marked unknown, please write. A note saying “site 14 has a paved pad but the restroom door is too narrow” is worth more to us than another database. Corrections go into the listing, with credit to whoever told us.

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About this page

It’s built from the same design tokens as the app, in both themes. Every bit of text on it clears 4.5 to 1 against its background, and the faintest step in our type ramp isn’t used here at all. Status is never just a color. The tables have real headers, the theme switch is a real pair of buttons, and nothing moves or animates. If any of that falls down for you, that’s a bug and we want to hear about it.