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About Loft Mountain Campground
Number of accommodations: 145
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2026 Season availability
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- Dump station on site
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- Potable Water
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Reviews (556)
What Guests Are Saying
Loft Mountain Campground is praised for its spacious layout, cleanliness, and beautiful views, making it a great spot for group camping and hiking. Campground staff are noted for being friendly and helpful, enhancing the overall experience. While some sites may not be level and the shower facilities require payment, the positives, including wildlife sightings and well-maintained restrooms, contribute to a memorable camping experience.
What Guests Are Saying
Loft Mountain Campground is praised for its spacious layout, cleanliness, and beautiful views, making it a great spot for group camping and hiking. Campground staff are noted for being friendly and helpful, enhancing the overall experience. While some sites may not be level and the shower facilities require payment, the positives, including wildlife sightings and well-maintained restrooms, contribute to a memorable camping experience.
Review Summary
Monica T
VerifiedNovember 5, 2025 • Stayed at: D115, Loop: D Loop
This is my favorite place to camp!
Billy M
VerifiedNovember 8, 2025 • Stayed at: E155, Loop: E Loop
We always love Loft Mountain campground. Been going there for 25 years or more. The Shenandoah's feel like home. It is all dry camping with water, bathrooms and a dump station available. Very peaceful, much wildlife at times....deer will often visit your campsite. One recommendations I have is the pay showers are a pain to use. You must insert quarters ($5.00 worth) one at a time for a 10 minute shower. The showers had nice hot water but the shower/bathroom had no heat on and it was very cold. We were there this year the last week of October and it turned very rainy, windy and foggy, but you never know, the weather changes a lot up on the mountain. It would be nice to have at least electric and some internet/cell service but when you go there but you need to be ready to disconnect which can be a good thing sometimes. Overall Loft Mountain Campground is on the top of our camping list.
Lawrence V
VerifiedNovember 8, 2025 • Stayed at: B084, Loop: B Loop
I didn't appreciate the nastygram left by the ranger for parking in what appeared to be a natural driveway, though not paved. As a usual backpacking camper, not car camper I made an honest mistake. If it was such a priority the area should be roped off.
Megan T
VerifiedNovember 9, 2025 • Stayed at: 012, Loop: Upper Loop
Beautiful, convenient, and tidy. Note that the tent-only sites are down a steep-incline.
Michael R
VerifiedNovember 9, 2025 • Stayed at: G201, Loop: G Loop
The campground was nice, the views were beautiful. We just happened to have the worst campsite in the entire place. G102. It is terrible. Parking is a pretty deep sloped spot. The camping spot is on a rocky hill and to be honest needs to be redone. Everything about the site was awful. Small, uneven, mostly a hill.so uneven you couldn’t even put chairs by the fire. It needs to be scrapped and made more amenable or combined with another spot. You are sleeping on an angled incline with hardly any space to put a tent.
Andrew F
VerifiedNovember 9, 2025 • Stayed at: E145, Loop: E Loop
The campground is quite large. The bathrooms are older, but heated and functional with flush toilets and soap for the sinks. Showers are seasonally open at the camp store, inside of the men’s/women’s restrooms. They’re $5 in quarters for 10 minutes. It would be nice to have a shorter, cheaper shower option (like $3 for 5 minutes)
Samuel L
VerifiedNovember 9, 2025 • Stayed at: 009, Loop: Upper Loop
Campsite check-in was easy and ranger provided helpful map and information. The walk in sites had designated parking spots and the bathrooms were a short walk away. Each site included a bear proof container that easily fit a 55qt cooler and more. The camp store was well stocked with firewood and other camping essentials including sleeping bags and cooking stoves. The showers are also located at the camp store and costs $5 for 10 minutes. There are coin machines outside the showers. Doyle's river falls trail and blackrock summit are nearby and worth the hikes.
Nancy W
VerifiedNovember 10, 2025 • Stayed at: E159, Loop: E Loop
The area was nice and in a good location. I did not consider and did not know if information was available about the incline in our site. We have a van so we do not have levelers. We had a pretty steep incline.
Leslie W
VerifiedNovember 10, 2025 • Stayed at: B082, Loop: B Loop
If you need a level spot, there are not many choices. Best bet is the lower part of the A loop. The campground was very clean and everything in good repair, park employees and the campground host were friendly and helpful.
Darren D
VerifiedNovember 10, 2025 • Stayed at: F174, Loop: F Loop
Excellent tent camping location
Location Loft Mountain Campground
Address:
C/O Shenandoah National Park/Swift Run Entrance Station 22591 Spotswood Trail
Elkton, VA, 22827
United States
From Washington, D.C., metro area, travel west on Interstate 66 to exit 43A. Take US Highway 29 south approximately 55 miles to Ruckersville, Virginia, then take US Highway 33 west to Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive Swift Run Entrance. Follow Skyline Drive south approximately 15 miles and turn left into the Loft Mountain area. Follow the signs to Loft Mountain Campground.
From Richmond, Virginia, area, travel west on Interstate 64 to exit 99 for Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive. Take Skyline Drive north approximately 25 miles and turn right into the Loft Mountain area. Follow the signs to Loft Mountain Campground.
Loft Mountain Campground is accessible via Interstate 66 to US Highway 29 south and US Highway 33 west. Additionally, it can be reached from Interstate 64 to Skyline Drive.
Elevation: 1021 feet
22 mi drive to downtown Elkton (about 37 min)
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Last updated: September 9, 2026
