Several national parks in North Carolina operate family campgrounds for tents and RVs, or offer primitive tent camping. Parks and campgrounds have various maximum consecutive-night stays.

The national forests in North Carolina offer hundreds of camping opportunities, ranging from camping in established campgrounds to wilderness camping. Family campgrounds may have consecutive-night stay limits.

North Carolina’s state parks offer camping at most sites, with multiple, large family campgrounds at Falls, Jordan and Kerr lakes, and family, primitive, backpacking, canoe and group camping elsewhere throughout the system.

Continue at right for more about camping at national parks, national forests, state parks, Tennessee Valley Authority reservoirs, and at sites sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Defense.

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