Wanderlust on Wheels
Discovering a secure, scenic place to park a 40-foot motorhome or dual-axle journey trailer isn’t straightforward. Fortunate for you, we now have searched excessive and low for RV-friendly campgrounds within the Blue Ridge area. Right here’s what we discovered.
Camp Holly
- Diana, W.Va.
- Greatest For: Solitude Seekers
Situated half-hour from any grocery store, big-box retailer, or quick meals joint, Camp Holly is the right place to get away.
In response to campground proprietor Xavier Walter, the property spans 23 acres of West Virginia wilderness and options 9 full-service RV websites alongside the banks of Grassy Creek. In addition to stress-free by the stream, friends can discover on-site trails, play yard video games, and even gap up of their journey trailer and stream Netflix. (The WiFi, says Walter, is surprisingly quick for the world.)
You may as well solid a line in Pete’s Pond, a three-acre lake teeming with trout, bass, and catfish. For the reason that lake is stocked, you possibly can hold your bounty and even seize some produce from the backyard to spherical out your meal.
“A visitor can actually catch and prepare dinner dinner utilizing fresh-grown herbs and greens with out leaving camp,” says Walter.
Different facilities vary from a climbing dome to a bathhouse, which campers commend for its cleanliness. “We take satisfaction in serving to friends have one of the best expertise attainable,” the host assures.
Silver Creek Campground
- Mill Spring, N.C.
- Greatest For: Adventurous Households
Positive, you possibly can load up the children and take them to an amusement park for a protracted weekend. However if you wish to lower your expenses and your sanity, head to Silver Creek Campground as a substitute.
Nestled on 48 acres within the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Silver Creek has all the things it is advisable to hold your rugrats joyful (suppose a fishing pond, playground, frisbee golf course, swimming pool, corn gap set, ping-pong and air hockey desk, and picnic space).
The campground host additionally affords arts and crafts workshops on Saturdays, says proprietor Ed Hermsen. “She hosts a celebration for holidays like Christmas and Easter, as effectively,” he notes.
There’s loads for folks to like, too. The RV pads are outfitted with full hookups, as an illustration. Plus, Hermsen simply completed outfitting the campground workplace with a brand new laundry room and is engaged on including an additional bathhouse. Even higher, the RV park is lower than an hour’s drive to family-friendly sights just like the Greenville Zoo and The Youngsters’s Museum of the Upstate.
Whitewater RV Park
- Benton, Tenn.
- Greatest For: Paddlers
When you’re a dirtbag paddler seeking to park your rig and relaxation your head, look no additional than Whitewater RV Park.
Set simply exterior Cherokee Nationwide Forest in southeast Tennessee, the year-round campground is lower than a 10-minute drive to the Ocoee River, an epic waterway full of heart-racing rapids in addition to sections of calm flatwater appropriate for lazy afternoons of tubing.
“We’re additionally half a mile from Parksville Lake,” provides host Justin Shigley.
At 1,930 acres, Parksville Lake is a vacation spot in and of itself. You may carry your motorboat and go fishing. Or, you possibly can carry a picnic and spend the day swimming at Mac Level Seaside.
If you’re executed splishing and splashing, retire to one of many campground’s 24 full-service RV websites and roast hotdogs and s’mores on the fireplace pit. If you wish to skip the skewers and sticky fingers, seize some grub on the on-site café or ice cream store as a substitute.
Different perks embody air-conditioned and heated restrooms, laundry services, free WiFi, a canine park, and safety gates. “Facilities are being added consistently,” says Shigley.
Pisgah Forest RV Park and Campground
- Penrose, N.C.
- Greatest For: Mountain Bikers
Pisgah Forest RV Park and Campground isn’t fancy. You’ll discover lightning-fast WiFi and full hookups, certain. However there’s no shiny rec room or state-of-the-art enterprise middle. And that was very a lot on objective, says proprietor Brian Zmich.
“We don’t have a number of facilities on the campground,” he explains. “We did that as a result of we wish individuals to come back and luxuriate in nature—to get out and discover.”
Fortunately, the park’s location makes that straightforward. Located in a tiny mountain group referred to as Penrose, the campground is lower than 10 minutes from Pisgah Nationwide Forest and DuPont State Leisure Forest. The campground can also be near Experience Kanuga and Experience Rock Creek, two iconic downhill bike parks. Put collectively, these recreation areas boast among the most interesting singletrack within the Southeast.
In fact, should you aren’t a lot for biking, there’s loads extra to do. The campground is barely 5 miles from Oskar Blues Brewery. Drive slightly additional into Brevard, and also you’ll discover a smorgasbord of eating and procuring choices, too.
“The placement is ideal due to the proximity to all the outside adventures and nice eating places and breweries,” says Zmich. “The proximity units us aside.”
Cowl photograph: Skip the tent and go for an RV as a substitute. Photograph courtesy of RVshare