This is a platform for sharing campgrounds and camp sites you have discovered. Community reviews and ratings provide you with up to date information and help you select the best camp site for your next camping trip. We give you a simple, map based search engine to find free and cheap camping areas. Our community provides the best free camping information available. You can simply use your smart phone's GPS to find camping near you or even use our trip planner to plan your route from coast to coast. Rangers have in the past closed roadside camping for all due to people trashing the area.Whether you just need to know where to camp nearby or you want to plan a free camping road trip, we've got you covered. We all enjoy these locations for their natural beauty and hate to get to a trashy site. Please bury bathroom waste and also toilet paper. Leave the site better than how you found it. Some of the dispersed spots are close to the campground so that you can use the bathrooms(no hot showers) at the campground.Īlways pack out what you pack in. There are dispersed camping sites all along the road, but you can also find a small, very cheap campground located on this road. It is a paved part of the way but gravel the rest. This road is between Old Fort and Blue Ridge Parkway. This road is right off the Blue Ridge Parkway, making it easy and beautiful to get to.Ĭurtis Creek North dispersed camping is on Curtis Creek rd FS 482. Neals Creek rd FS 2074 has great riverside primitive camping. This narrow dirt road is not suited for pull campers or bigger. In the Big Ivy area Coleman Boundary, there is free primitive camping off of FS 74. There are several more roadside camping locations farther up the road also with tent pads and fire rings. There is a large group camping site in the first mile with bathrooms but no hot showers. The Avery Creek area is less than 10 minutes from Brevard, NC, with breweries, restaurants, and shopping. FS 477 is just north of the Pisgah Ranger Station on US 276. An insider’s guide tip go to the secret swimming hole near here for some deep river water or hike the less populated Cemetery Loop Trail to see some history of Western North Carolina.Īn excellent place for dispersed camping and is close to civilization is in the Avery Creek area. Another mile south, you will find the Pisgah National Forest Fish Hatchery. The south end of Headwaters rd FS 475B will bring you to Slick Rock Falls, a little-known waterfall across the road from multiple free camping sites. Several sites are along this road, some with multiple tent pads and fire rings for larger groups. FS 475B is also a winding narrow dirt road. on your right, just a short distance down. Head south on US276, and there is FS 475B Headwaters Rd. The camping sites are all marked as designated camping sites. There are several camping spots along the way. Yellow Gap road goes from the North Mills River area all the way through to US 276. Go early in the day as they do fill up.Īnother great forest service road is Yellow Gap road also known as FS 1206. The sites along FS 5000 are marked, so you will quickly see them. Remember that the Blue Ridge Parkway often closes in the winter so that you may get to the end, and it is gated off. I would always scout out this area before pulling anything down a forest service road. This road connects the North Mills River area to the Blue Ridge Parkway and is a gravel road to get rough and bumpy in sections. To get to the free spots, take FS 5000, also called Wash Creek rd. There is also a small fee campground North Mills River Campground, open year-round to accommodate larger RV’s and have vault toilets but no hot showers. Most of the spots are marked and have established fire rings, and some have tent pads. There is a horse camp located on FS 5000, so trailers do drive down it, but it can be tight in some areas. The North Mills River area has some great spots for tenters, vans, teardrops but not larger RV’s or large pull campers. There are many options for free camping here.
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