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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
campground
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Campgrounds in Glacier National Park open in late May and early June.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A campground, picnic tables, an equestrian center and a youth camp are among developments being talked about for the property.
▪ Camp greeter Alexandra made the campground her back yard.
▪ Despite the closure of nearly 18 percent of national forests in Arizona, developed campgrounds within those closed areas are open.
▪ For climbing information the campground is the best source, and the only place to buy guidebooks.
▪ In May, police launched Operation Park, increasing patrols of city parks and playgrounds that have become makeshift campgrounds.
▪ The narrow trail began at the end of the campground and meandered alongside Lime Kiln Creek.
▪ The rain which would turn their campground to mud, and fill the cisterns of Famagusta.
▪ The tour includes easy hikes and family activities, all meals and campground accommodations.
Wiktionary
campground

n. 1 An area where tents are pitched. 2 An area where a camp meeting (a retreat) (trail ride and party) is held.

WordNet
campground

n. a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: campsite, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, encampment, camping area]

Usage examples of "campground".

The road wound north from Index and then east along the north fork of the Snohomish River and past the Troublesome Creek Campground and the San Juan Campground to Garland Mineral Springs before it meandered tortuously south back to Jack Pass and Highway 2.

Lostine River near the Maxwell Campgrounds trailhead that leads mountain hikers into the Eagle Cap Wilderness.

To reach the campgrounds, one has to turn off Route 82 and head south from the town of Lostine.

Much sought after in the warm months, the riverside campgrounds are empty in winter, buried beneath snowdrifts, next to a river as cold and clear as ice.

Sheriff Jett had sent him up to the campgrounds after Jett received a couple of phone calls from outside the county.

If someone unfamiliar with the justice system in the state of Oregon were to deliberately choose a place to get away with a crime, they could not have done better than the Maxwell Campgrounds in Wallowa County.

Kevin Larkin was a deputy in Columbia County, Washington, and it was his request to Wallowa County Sheriff Ron Jett that had sent Undersheriff Rich Stein to the Maxwell Campgrounds to check out the information.

By that time, there was a good chance that the snow in the Maxwell Campgrounds would melt and jurors could be taken to the crime scene on the Lostine River.

Cruz stopped, spun back on the men, grabbed Dennis Grover by the hair, and dragged him across the campgrounds toward the firepit.

The state had also bulldozed some lakes in the valley and stocked them with rainbow and cutthroat trout, and there were half a dozen manicured campgrounds along the route.

EASYto get to the camping sites on the Lostine River near the Maxwell Campgrounds trailhead that leads mountain hikers into the Eagle Cap Wilderness.

You can see these people at campgrounds all over the country, standing around their vehicles comparing gadgets--methane-powered ice-cube makers, portable tennis courts, antiinsect flame throwers, inflatable lawns.

The village was good-sized, with a visitors' center, motel, stores, post office and campgrounds, but everything was shut and every window was boarded.

Wili had bobbled the campground through to the next morning, or the morning after that — to some later time when the mass of the Authority's forces would have moved away from the Gate they now thought blocked.

A blue jay wheeled overhead, circled the campground once, and lighted at Smathers' feet.