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Spots in Tennessee, North Carolina and South

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  • Highland Hammock State Park
  • Florida State Park, Sebring FL
  • central Florida, savannah-like, nice big campground

  • Merchants Millpond Campground
  • North Carolina State Parks, Gatesville NC
  • A quiet little loop of campsites right off US 158. The rest of the park - Visitors Center, access to the Millpond, trails - are a couple of miles to the west then south. Very pleasant place.

  • Ekim and Carol's house
  • private business Chapel Hill NC
  • 60's style split level on a cul-de-sac, feels like you're in a park

  • Rodanthe Watersports and Campground
  • private business Rodanthe NC
  • funky, but very convenient, probably awesome on a pretty day. Sadly it was gloomy and windy when I was there. good windsurfing I'll bet!

  • Buck Hall Recreation Area
  • Francis Marion National Forest, McClellanville SC
  • on the Intracoastal Waterway. The campground fills early with fishermen, but there is overflow camping a little inland, hence the $3!

  • Brierfield Ironworks State Park
  • Alabama State Parks, Brierfield AL
  • A remote, slightly shabby historical park with campground in the hills of Alabama. Nice folks running it. Along with the Ironworks, there's also an historical church and a baseball field.

  • Torreya State Park
  • Florida State Parks, Bristol FL
  • An out-of-the-way state park with a good price point. The big deal here is that it is on a bluff ... in Florida. Really! My site is at the edge of a steep drop-off that falls for a few hundred feet and gives a great view ... of nothing really interesting. This feature would be unremarkable in most places, but it's the highest bluff in Florida!

  • Chewalla Lake Campground
  • National Forests of Mississippi, Holly Springs MS
  • A run down, slightly spooky place, but quite convenient and cheap.

  • Wilderness Road Campground
  • Cumberland Gap National Park, Middlesboro KY
  • Very handy campground on the Virginia side of Cumberland Gap. You drive a while off the highway to get here, but you're really just looping around to be right by the highway again, so there is road noise.

  • Carolina Beach State Park
  • North Carolina State Parks, Carolina Beach NC
  • odd check in: 1. pick a site, 2. drive 2 miles to the office, 3. drive back. Very nice campground and park, though.

  • Reelfoot Lake Campground
  • Tennessee State Parks, Samburg TN
  • Beautiful lakeside setting. No alcoholic beverages allowed in Tennessee State Parks.

  • Big Biloxi Campground
  • Desoto National Forest, Gulfport MS
  • Boring but very handy to the Gulfport and the coast. They withheld part of the senior discount!

  • Suwanee River State Park
  • Florida State Parks, Live Oak FL
  • A sleepy little campground in a sleepy little park. Pleasant and quiet. The Suwanee River is pretty, it would be fun to kayak it. The bathroom/laundry had a little book exchange!

  • Meriwether Lewis Campground
  • Natchez Trace Parkway, Hohenwald TN
  • A campground on the Natchez Trace Parkway, so you don't even have to exit to get there. Drive past the M Lewis obelisk and up the hill to a really nice, free federal government campground.

  • Whitewater Creek Park Campground
  • Macon County Parks, Oglethorpe GA
  • I ended up here as a last resort, but it's quite a nice place. Large, spacious, level sites, looks like it was built by the Army Corps. It is near a lake after all... Most folks are here to fish on the little lake.

  • Pickwick Dam Campground
  • Tennessee Valley Authority, Pickwick TN
  • The TVA is almost like the Army Corps, a gigantic federal agency that builds dams then tosses in a few campgrounds around for fun. This one is below the dam, right across the road from the water. It is fun to watch the barges.

  • Louisiana Welcome Center
  • Interstate rest area, Henderson LA
  • Nice welcome center with big parking lot where you can part pretty far from the semis. Free coffee in the morning!

  • Newport Campground
  • Wakulla County, St Marks FL
  • A very handy spot, right outside St Marks Wildlife Refuge. A great place to spend more time someday.

  • Barnwell State Park
  • South Carolina State Parks, Barnwell SC
  • pretty but nondescript little spot in the interior of the state. Really nice fall colors when I was there, big yellow leaves covering everything!

  • Bandy Creek Campground
  • Big South Fork National Recreation Area, Oneida TN
  • Watauga Dam Campground
  • Tennessee Valley Authority, Valley Forge TN
  • A really nice spot, a fisherman's dream I imagine. This a tailwater campground, that is to say build below the dam on the river. Most of the campsites are right on the river, so folks were fishing right out of the back of their campsites.