Cranesnest Campground in VA -- Campground & RV Camping

This facility sits near the 1,145-acre reservoir created by the John W. Flannagan Dam in the Cumberland Mountains of southwest Virginia. The campground features electric hookup sites, bathhouses, boat launch ramps, playgrounds, and picnic shelters equipped with grills and horseshoe pits. Visitors access clean, deep water stocked with bass, walleye, and trout along 40 miles of shoreline. Nearby options include canoeing, whitewater rafting, biking, and outdoor recreation at Breaks Interstate Park.

Getting there: From Clintwood, VA main street turn left onto Rt. 83. Travel 2.6 miles and turn left onto Cranesnest Campground Rd. Travel 2.8 miles to the campground.

• Little separation from through roads or other sites here, a 31-site campground with the nearest through road 0.1 miles off.
• Big Branch runs 0.1 mi off.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 4, a rural sky with a glow on the horizon.
• 16 on the water.
• Hill Ridge stands 737 ft above the map pin, 1.3 miles southeast.