Campgrounds and RV parks near Crab Orchard, WV

Crab Orchard sits in Raleigh County, West Virginia, just outside Beckley and within a short drive of the southern reaches of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. The area gives RV travelers a compact base for exploring the New River, Grandview overlooks, and the surrounding Appalachian plateau, with a mix of state park, county, and National Park Service campgrounds inside a roughly 30-minute radius. Options closest to town include Raleigh County Parks and Little Beaver State Park, both located in the Beaver area, plus the privately run Wood Mountain Campground. For riverside camping inside the national park, Grandview Sandbar provides a primitive camping experience along the New River with shaded wooded campsites near the riverbank, and Army Camp offers similar rustic sites on a horseshoe bend of the river. Most of the National Park Service sites in this corridor are primitive, so RV renters looking for hookups, laundry, and dump stations will generally want a state park or private campground and use the NPS sites for shorter, off-grid stays.

Reservation systems vary by operator. West Virginia state parks, including Little Beaver State Park, take bookings through the state park reservation portal, and West Virginia state parks allow campsite reservations 12 months in advance through reservations.wvstateparks.com. Campsites can be reserved online at any time, by phone, or at the campground office, with a two-night minimum on weekends and a one-night minimum midweek. Private campgrounds such as Wood Mountain Campground book directly through the operator. National Park Service campgrounds in the New River Gorge are handled differently. Grandview Sandbar does not offer reservations through Recreation.gov, and Army Camp does not offer reservations through Recreation.gov either. Sites are first-come, first-served, so for summer weekends and October dates, plan to arrive early or use a reservable state park or private campground as a backup.