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Spots in Tennessee, North Carolina and South

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  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • Cotton Hill Campground
  • Army Corps of Engineers, Ft Gaines GA
  • A well laid out campground on the Georgia side of Lake Eufaula. All manner of water pursuits, many from the edge of your campsite.

  • Monument Lake Campground
  • Big Cypress National Preserve, Ochopee FL
  • 26 sites around a little lake. very pretty, lotsa bugs. Fee station was mysteriously closed,

  • 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.

  • Goose Creek Campground
  • Goose Creek State Park, Washington NC
  • in the swampy piney woods

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • Manatee Springs State Park
  • Florida State Parks, Chiefland FL
  • Aquatic recreation paradise. swimming, kayaking, snorkeling, scubaing. You can swim or snorkel in the mouth of the spring Checkout is 3 pm.

  • 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!

  • Ocean Pond Campground
  • Osceola National Forest, Olustee FL
  • pretty spot next to the lake

  • 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.

  • St Marks NWR
  • US Fish and Wildlife Service, St Marks FL
  • A really interesting place. The entrance and Visitors Center are five miles off the highway, then it's another five miles to the payoff, the lighthouse and actual Gulf of Mexico. The Visitors Center looks quite deluxe, but both times I have been hurrying to make sunset at the beach, and both times I forgot to return in the morning.

  • 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.

  • Bandy Creek Campground
  • Big South Fork National Recreation Area, Oneida TN