Carolina Beach State Park
New Hanover County, NC
Venus flytraps growing wild, an ancient dune ridge and a marina on the Cape Fear River near Wilmington.
Camp · North & South Carolina
State parks, national forests, the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Outer Banks seashores, private campgrounds and dispersed sites — written up for people sleeping in a van, with the road in and the room to turn around.
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31 places in North Carolina
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Swain County, NC
The largest campground on the North Carolina side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, open all year.
Haywood County, NC
A remote Smokies valley with a resident elk herd and standing homestead buildings — reached by a narrow gravel road.
Swain County, NC
Tubing, three waterfalls and a campground on the edge of Bryson City.
7 places
Transylvania County, NC
The busiest campground in Pisgah National Forest, three miles from Brevard and surrounded by waterfalls.
Buncombe County, NC
A lake and campground inside Pisgah National Forest, yet barely fifteen minutes from downtown Asheville.
Montgomery County, NC
Lakeside camping in Uwharrie National Forest, among some of the oldest eroded mountains in North America.
Yancey County, NC
A riverside campground in Pisgah National Forest at the foot of the trail up Mount Mitchell.
Yancey County, NC
Old hemlocks, a swimming hole and river sites on the South Toe, below the Black Mountains.
Carteret County, NC
Tidal marsh and pine forest where the White Oak River meets Bogue Sound, in Croatan National Forest.
Graham County, NC
Legendary mountain biking loops on a peninsula in Fontana Lake, in Nantahala National Forest.
3 places
Dare County, NC
Open camping behind the dunes at the southern tip of Bodie Island, beside Oregon Inlet.
Dare County, NC
Sites tucked into rolling dunes near Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, on one of the wilder stretches of the Outer Banks.
Hyde County, NC
Behind the dunes on Ocracoke Island, reachable only by ferry — a genuine sense of being offshore.
5 places
Haywood County, NC
The highest campground on the North Carolina stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway, tucked into spruce and fir below Mount Pisgah.
Yancey County, NC
A small wooded Parkway campground above one of the most photographed waterfalls in the mountains.
Alleghany County, NC
High open meadows and long views on a quiet northern stretch of the Parkway near Sparta.
Watauga County, NC
A large Parkway campground on the shore of Price Lake, minutes from Boone and Blowing Rock.
Burke County, NC
Parkway camping at the head of Linville Gorge, the deepest gorge in the eastern United States.