Outflow Camping

The hiker and biker section is not well defined and can get crowded. There wasn’t a clear check-in process, and I wasn’t sure who to show my reservation to. Know that if you camp here, there is only a shared campfire area and no designated tent areas.

Wonderful campground and hosts. All sites are spacious and level with nice walking access to small town.

Of all the campgrounds that I've been to Ouflow is by far my favorite. Bathrooms always clean nice showers. The campsites are great and the grounds are kept up very nicely.

Great hosts, clean bathrooms, and quiet

Great campground Clean restrooms Clean site. Quiet Sleep to the sound of the river flow

Not happy because they canceled our reservation for not occupying the site( we arrived early next morning). Only to find we had been canceled, had to go onto Recreation.gov and reserve the site again.

Excellent campground

After a very long day of self supported bicycle touring, I tried to register for a ‘hiker/biker' site at the Outflow CG office which was closed. My cell coverage (Verizon) appeared to be adequate, but in trying to complete the registration form (I was already a registered, experienced user of Recreation.gov) the form hung, lost my data, and I was forced to restart the process at least 5 times. Probably as a result of this poorly designed and executed software interface I was eventually billed $24 for a two 'hiker / biker' sites while I was only trying to register for myself a single site. I tried to use my Senior Lifetime pass and this was rejected in at least one attempt. As nearly as I can figure out from the receipt, I was charged full price for one site ($16) and then a second site had the SL pass accepted ($16 - $8 SL discount = $8) and so $16 + $16 - $8 = $24, the amount I was charged.. It probably would have been impossible for me to register without the help of the Outflow CG volunteer (Chris ?) who used his cell phone to serve me a WiFi hotspot so I was finally able to complete a registration successfully. Self supported bicycle touring is an uncertain undertaking (as is hiking) with potential delays due to physical, weather, mechanical, etc. issues, impeding registering for a campsite in advance. Further it inhibits spontaneity and the freedom to explore a new area on a personal schedule. This is just one of a number of bad experiences I've had with recreation.gov and their inflexible policies. For example, last year four of us (ages 61 to 75) were self support cycle touring across MA with the intention of cycling Route 100 in VT 'end to end', i.e. the MA border to within a few miles of Canada. In North Adams, MA we had a mechanical issue that took some time to resolve. Had I not called Clarksburg SP in MA before 3 PM, Clarksburg staff confirmed we would have been turned away from a nearly empty campground.

I utilized the hammock camping posts while cycling on the GAP. The posts were placed a good distance apart, worked well. The bathrooms and showers are a decent walk away which is my largest complaint, but the facilities were clean and functional... the showers could use a better push button function but hey, they worked.

site was clean bathroom was clean like how close everything is .. campground host checked with us as we came in ..