Gill Point in GA -- Campground & RV Camping

Gill Point Recreation Area is a wooded day-use park set in a mixed pine and hardwood forest on the northern shore of J. Strom Thurmond Lake. Located 20 miles from Elberton, Georgia, the site features a single group picnic shelter that accommodates up to 24 people. Facilities include drinking water, flush toilets, a boat dock, and a boat ramp. Visitors use the park to launch powerboats, canoes, and kayaks into the 70,000-acre reservoir, or to fish for bass, crappie, and catfish along the shoreline.

Getting there: From Lincolnton, GA, travel approximately 12 miles north on SR-79.

• Moderately separated here.
• Sits on broad, near-level ground.
• The Clarks Hill Lake shoreline is 0.2 mi off.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 2, true dark-sky territory.