Chestnut Creek Campground

Chestnut Creek Campground is a great campground. We stayed 4 nights in the off season and had a great time. Seth was super helpful and lent us some climbing guidebooks that we forgot at home.
The bathhouse wasn’t super new and up to date, but it definitely met our needs, especially for the price. There were a multitude of quite funny signs everywhere.
We would definitely stay here again!

Seth is awesome! Took us in at 130am was very helpful. Nice little place. Nothing fancy but perfect place to car camp with a beer and fire after climbing all day. We’ll be back.

Great campground for tent/​car campers climbing, hiking, or rafting the New River Gorge. Seth and Sierra are super nice and maintain the place very conscientiously, but in a laid-​back manner. Don’t worry about all the signs – just don’t be a jerk. The hot showers alone are worth the price of admission. Nice sites with picnic table and firepit and level spots to pitch tents. And the Lansing General Store is open till 9 pm for beer and other necessaries. Long walk/​short drive to The Junkyard; 10 min drive to the Bubba City and cemetery parking lots. Will happily stay there again next time we climb the New!

I had a wonderful experience here. My boyfriend and I stayed two nights here just after Memorial Day weekend, and it was exactly what we wanted — quiet camping in the woods, friendly owners, a really amazingly well-​stocked general store (lots of gluten-​free items!!), and great rock climbing. The owner was relaxed and friendly when directing us over the phone, and then came by to personally say hello when we had set up camp. He even lent us his climbing guide to take out to the rock with us for a day. I will most definitely come back here any time I am in the area. Highly recommended.

We always stay at the Chestnut Creek Campground when we go climbing at the New. We’ve been staying there a couple of times a year for about 4 years and it is always quiet and clean. Secluded camping as close to amenities as you would want to be on a camping trip, with large wooded campsites. With 3 kids, you can imagine that our tent has a pretty large footprint, but most of the sites have plenty of room for it. I believe that every site has a table, firering and trash can. The rest rooms are clean and typically have plenty of hot water, even on crowded weekends. I happened to pause to write this review while I’m booking our next stay. See you there.

This is the second year I have stayed at chestnut creek and I can say I do enjoy every moment. If you are looking for a nice quiet and spacious campground you have found it. The campsites are all wooded with tall mature trees. The sites are clean and very well maintained but do not have electric. Sorry.
The bath house is the best maintained campsite faculty I have seen. The down side is that the showers are timed with the heaters and they only run in prime time hours.
The campground is under new ownership, the old owners daughter, but same rules do apply. If you follow them, you’ll have a peaceful relaxing stay.

I’ve stayed here about 7 times in the past several years on trips to the New. As previous reviewers have mentioned, Bryan is on the stricter side of things (he is a former schoolteacher), but generally I think that’s what makes this campground so great. Everything is very well-​maintained, the bath house is very clean, the campsites themselves are lovely and, as a result, the people who stay here tend to be low-​key and friendly as well.

Whoaa this place ruined our last two days in the New. Do not stay here! Ok the the grounds are nice and the facilities are clean but the owner Brian is a patronizing OCD sufferer. His paranoia drives him to put up notes with rules and threats literally everywhere. I have never had so much to read in a campsite. He runs the place like a prison camp and constantly drives round at night checking if people are following his rules. We are very low profile and very quiet campers and followed all his rules but he still managed to come by our site every morning to complain about something. It was really getting on our nerves. Do not stay here, there are plenty of nice alternatives, but if you have to then don’t pay him upfront! If you have to leave early for some reason or emergency (the super storm Sandy in our case) he will not refund!

Clean, quiet, and well maintained. The owner and manager are lovely. This is primitive camping at its best. We will be back.