Mount Pisgah Campground
The highest campground on the North Carolina stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway, tucked into spruce and fir below Mount Pisgah.
- Haywood County, NC
- Nearest town: Canton
- 4,850 ft
Coordinates
- Lat
- 35.40487
- Lng
- -82.75675
Van camping
You can drive in and sleep in your van here.
At a glance
The basics
What to expect
Blue Ridge Parkway
High elevation, tunnels with posted clearances, closes in winter weather.
- County
- Haywood County
- State
- North Carolina
- Nearest town
- Canton
- Elevation
- 4,850 ft
- Max vehicle length
- Not verified
The place
About Mount Pisgah Campground
At roughly 5,000 feet, this is as high as you can sleep on the Parkway in North Carolina, and the altitude changes everything. Nights are cold enough for a blanket in July, clouds move through the campground rather than above it, and the forest is spruce and fir rather than the hardwoods of the valleys below. The Mount Pisgah summit trail climbs to a television tower and one of the widest views in the region, taking in the Pisgah Ridge, the Shining Rock Wilderness and, on a clear evening, the lights of Asheville. The Parkway itself is the attraction as much as the campground is: this section runs along the crest with pull-offs every mile or two.
For van drivers
Getting a van in and out
Everything about getting here is Parkway driving: a 45 mph limit, no commercial traffic, tight curves and stone-lined tunnels with posted clearances that will stop a tall build. Know your exact height before you commit to a tunnel, and have an alternate route in mind. The Parkway closes without much notice for ice and fog, and at this elevation that starts in autumn and can last into spring, so check the Park Service's real-time road closure map the morning you travel rather than the night before. There is no fuel anywhere on the Parkway.
Written for a high-roof van, not a pickup. Surfaces and clearances change with the weather and with the season’s roadwork — the official page below is the last word.
On the ground
Facilities & fees
Not verified means nobody has confirmed it — treat it as unknown, never as a no. 8 of the 8 below are still unconfirmed.
- Restrooms
- Not verified
- Drinking water
- Not verified
- Showers
- Not verified
- Dump station
- Not verified
- Hookups
- Not verified
- Campfires
- Not verified
- Dogs allowed
- Not verified
- Reservations
- Not verified
- Max vehicle length
- Not verified — check with the park
- Season
- Not verified — check with the park
- Fees
- Not verified — check with the park
The last word on all of this is nps.gov(opens in a new tab).
Where it is
Coordinates & directions
Decimal degrees
- Latitude
- 35.404873
- Longitude
- -82.756750
35.4049° N · 82.7567° W
No map tiles here on purpose. Half of these places have no signal at the gate, so coordinates you can save offline beat a map that needs one. Drop them into your phone before you turn off the pavement.
Nearest gas and groceries: Canton
Before you go
Official sources
Fees, site counts, length limits and closures change season to season. Everything we have not confirmed ourselves is marked Not verified above rather than guessed at — and where we do have a number, the operator’s own page still wins.
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