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Old 12-20-2015, 07:11 AM   #1
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What's your favorite camp ground in the smokies

we are looking for campgrounds in western north Carolina, east Tennessee , southern Virginia. What are some of your favorite and not so good experiences thanks we want to start planing the up coming year.
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So I guess no one likes camping in the smokes ?
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We're looking at a trip to the Asheville area next fall, and we were thinking about using our Thousand Trails membership. Problem is, the nearest TT campground is about 75 miles away from Asheville, which is too far for a practical base for our time there. So we're in it with you - looking for a nice place specifically in the Asheville area. Any suggestions, anyone?

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I stayed at Cherokee KOA 2 years ago and it was a nice place with plenty to do. The only issue is access to the town (dry) BTW so plan accordingly. 25 minutes down hill to the grocery store and a small town. Pull through sites were level and well kept.

There is also a Jelly stone up the road from the KOA further.
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There is KOA in Swannanoa, right near Ashville that is great. Close to everything.
We are members of Pride Resort in Waynesville. Next door is Creekwood Farm, both are nice and close to the Smokies.

There are so many commercial cg's in the western, NC area that you will be hard pressed to find any state parks.

I am not familiar with the Gatlinburg area but know there are loads of resorts there.
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Doesn't anyone go to the CG's inside the National Park? Jellystone, KOA, Paula's Paridise Resort?? If you go to the area to visit the park, I'd stay in one of the CG's in the park. If the goal is to graze the tourist traps, then you'll want one of the many private CG's all around Gburg and PForge.

Our personal favorite In park CG is Elkmont near the Thownsen entrance. Great CG [no hookups] and near Cades Cove with easy access to town and shopping on a rainy day.
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Look at http://www.nps.gov

http://www.campgroundreviews.com/regions...-national-park

This: http://www.reserveamerica.com/campin...O&parkId=72293
is our personal favorite but the road in is to narrow for our rig. We spend many hours there watching the Elk and enjoying the peace and quiet.

We love to visit but can't get our rig in there.
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We were in Gatlinburg in Sept. and stayed at Smoky Bear just east of Gatlinburg. Just far enough away from the craziness of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Falls to be quiet and relaxing. Just close enough that driving to the main entrance of the park in Gatlinburg. Squeaky clean facilities, the place is neat as a pin and the owners and employees (2 of which are the son and DIL of the owner) are excellent hosts. They even offered to blow the leaves off of my slide before we left. We'd go back there in a heartbeat.
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We like to stay in the foothills and drive into the mountains. Our favorite campground for western NC is Bandits Roost. It's close to the parkway and close to some of my favorite trout fishing locations. We make day trips into the mountains from this location.
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We've stayed at Tremont in Townsend 3 times and will be back there again in Feb. It's the quiet side of the Smokies. 10 minutes to Cades Cove. 30 minutes to Gatlinburg.

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My favorite is ELKMONT CAMP which has no hookups of course...

If we want to get closer to towns then we go to the RIVEREDGE RESORT which is just inside Pigeon Forge coming from Gatlinburg and has hookups...

Townsend is a great place to stay if you need hookups... Close to everything but not in the middle of it...

Camping off the power gird and no hookups are our cup of tea.... North Carolina has many such places in the two or three Natl Forest camping spots...

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Pigeon Forge Roy? That seems about as opposite of your kind of camping as it gets. We drove through to go to Walmart and then avoid the area the rest of the week.
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We're looking at a trip to the Asheville area next fall, and we were thinking about using our Thousand Trails membership. Problem is, the nearest TT campground is about 75 miles away from Asheville, which is too far for a practical base for our time there. So we're in it with you - looking for a nice place specifically in the Asheville area. Any suggestions, anyone?

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CAMPFIRE LIGHTS is in Weaverville NC, about 6 miles from Asheville, beautiful mountin views, if you're going in the fall anywhere in western NC would suggest you reserve now
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