Best Tent Camping
Autor Johnny Molloyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 dec 2015
Well-traveled outdoor writer and native Tennessean Johnny Molloy methodically set forth into his home state, searching for campgrounds to include in this new edition of Best Tent Camping: Tennessee. Having camped the state for decades, Molloy, with over 50 outdoor guides to his credit, uaed his wealth of experience and scoured the entirety of Tennessee -- choosing only the most pristine campgrounds that included not only a great locale for tent campers but with fun outdoors activities nearby, most as close as your tent door.
Included in this book is a rating system for the Southern Appalachian’s 50 best tent campgrounds. Certain campground attributes -- beauty, site privacy, site spaciousness, quiet, security, and cleanliness/upkeep -- are ranked using a star system.
Included in this book is a rating system for the Southern Appalachian’s 50 best tent campgrounds. Certain campground attributes -- beauty, site privacy, site spaciousness, quiet, security, and cleanliness/upkeep -- are ranked using a star system.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781634040266
ISBN-10: 1634040260
Pagini: 196
Ilustrații: 50 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: ADVENTURE PUBLICATIONS
ISBN-10: 1634040260
Pagini: 196
Ilustrații: 50 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: ADVENTURE PUBLICATIONS
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Notă biografică
Johnny Molloy is a writer and adventurer based in Johnson City, TN. He has written more than 40 books about the outdoors, including hiking guidebooks, camping guidebooks, paddling guidebooks, comprehensive guidebooks about a specific area, and true outdoor adventure books throughout the Eastern United States. Molloy writes for varied magazines and websites, and he is a columnist and feature writer for his local paper, the Johnson City Press.
Cuprins
North Carolina Campground Overview Map
South Carolina Campground Overview Map
Map Legend
Acknowledgments
Preface
Best Campgrounds
Introduction
NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS
- Balsam Mountain Campground
- Big Creek Campground
- Cable Cove Campground
- Cataloochee Campground
- Doughton Park Campground
- Julian Price Park Campground
- Lake James State Park Campgrounds
- Lake Powhatan Campground
- Linville Falls Campground
- Mount Mitchell State Park Campground
- Mount Pisgah Campground
- New River State Park: Wagoner Access Campground
- North Mills River Campground
- Rocky Bluff Campground
- Smokemont Campground
- South Mountains State Park Campground
- Standing Indian Campground
- Sunburst Campground
- Tsali Campground
NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT
- Badin Lake Campground
- Hanging Rock State Park Campground
- Lake Norman State Park Campground
- Morrow Mountain State Park Campground
- Pilot Mountain State Park Campground
NORTH CAROLINA COAST AND COASTAL PLAIN
- Carolina Beach State Park Campground
- Cliffs of the Neuse State Park Campground
- Frisco Campground
- Goose Creek State Park Campground
- Jones Lake State Park Campground
- Lumber River State Park: Princess Ann Access Campground
- Merchants Millpond State Park Campground
- Neuse River Campground (Flanners Beach)
- Ocracoke Campground
SOUTH CAROLINA UPCOUNTRY
- Cherry Hill Campground
- Devils Fork State Park Campground
- Jones Gap State Park Campground
- Keowee-Toxaway State Park Campground
- Table Rock State Park Campgrounds
SOUTH CAROLINA MIDLANDS
- Brick House Campground
- Calhoun Falls State Park Campground
- Kings Mountain State Park Campground
- LeRoys Ferry Campground
- Lick Fork Lake Campground
- Parsons Mountain Lake Campground
- Poinsett State Park Campground
- Sand Hills State Forest Campground
- Woods Ferry Campground
SOUTH CAROLINA LOWCOUNTRY
- Honey Hill Campground
- Huntington Beach State Park Campgrounds
- Little Pee Dee State Park Campground
APPENDIX A: CAMPING EQUIPMENT CHECKLIST
APPENDIX B: SOURCES OF INFORMATION
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Extras
Bear Heaven
Ratings
Beauty: 5 stars
Site privacy: 3 stars
Spaciousness: 4 stars
Quiet: 5 stars
Security: 3 stars
Cleanliness: 4 stars
Address: Bear Heaven, P.O. Box 368 Parsons, WV 26287
Operated by: U.S. Forest Service
Information: (304) 478-3251
Open: Year-round
Sites: 8
Each site has: Picnic table, fire grate, lantern post
Assignment: first come, first served; no reservations
Registration: Self-registration on site
Facilities: Pump well, vault toilets
Parking: At campsites only
Fee: $5 per night
Elevation: 3,600 feet
Restrictions: Pets: On leash only. Fires: In fire grates only. Alcoholic beverages: At campsites only. Vehicles: None. Other: 14-day stay limit.
Bear Heaven lies on a spur ridge high on Shavers Mountain outside Elkins. It can be pretty cool on summer nights. I can only imagine how cold it is in mid-January. Most tent campers will head up this way during the warmer months to enjoy a small, quiet campground tucked away on the back side of the Otter Creek Wilderness.
The Otter Creek drainage forms the centerpiece of this preserved national forest land. Mountain ridges are the borders, where spruce stands and bogs hold strong. Lower in the wilderness are tangles of rhododendron over which grow northern hardwood species such as cherry and yellow birch. This area was once logged and many trails follow old railroad grades. In other areas, apple trees mark homesites long since abandoned. On the edge of this wilderness, Bear Heaven campground awaits your arrival.
What does this mean for you? It means a great place to explore the heart of natural West Virginia, where the woods are king. After a day's hiking and sight-seeing, you can return to your ridgetop camp and reflect on the day's sights. (One of those sights will be what a fitting campground to be adjacent to the Otter Creek Wilderness. Another might literally be a lookout-from atop the jumbled rock outcrop near the campground picnic area where you can gaze south over a sea of wooded ridges.)
Leave the spur road off Stuart Memorial Drive and enter Bear Heaven Recreation Area. To your right is the picnic area and rock outcrop. This spur ridge is level by mountain standards and covered in a northern hardwood forest dominated by beech and cherry trees. The canopy thickens in summer, with an understory of sugar maple and striped maple. Come winter, you can better see the numerous gray boulders strewn about the campground like childrens' toy blocks tossed around a room.
Three sites occupy the main road. Wood log borders keep campers where they ought to be. The campsites are dispersed and large, even though this spur ridge is narrow. There are winter views into the woods below. Some less-than-level sites have tent pads.
Entering a five-campsite loop, sites #4 and #5, the two prettiest and most used, are integrated into the boulder-dominated landscape. Swing around the loop and pass the final few campsites. This small campground has only eight units, offering the good and bad of small campgrounds: intimate, yet easily packed with campers, as well. Bear Heaven fills during mid-summer weekends and traditional summer holidays. Other than that you should have no problem getting a campsite.
There are no trails leaving directly from the campground, other than the short walk to teh rock outcrop by the picnic area, but there is a whole wilderness just to the north. Less than a mile away, on Forest Road 303, which you passed on the way in, lies the main trailhead for the southern side of the Otter Creek Wilderness. The area's 20,000 acres of rocky ridges and rhododendron-lined creeks thrive, along with its wildlife, under wilderness protection since 1975.
Here, you can start the upper end of the Otter Creek Trail. This 11-mile footpath is the backbone of the trail system. Several loop hikes can be made using a combination of trails. One circuit starts north down the Otter Creek Trail and turns right on the Mylius Gap Trail. Climb up to Mylius Gap, then turn right on the Shavers Mountain Trail and follow it for 4.3 miles to the Hedrick Camp Trail. Turn right here and you'll soon intersect the Otter Creek Trails for a 9.4-mile loop.
Or start at the top of Otter Creek Trail and walk 4.4 miles down to Pothole Falls, Otter Creek's tallest fall. Then return the way you came. To stay in the high country, start at Alpena Gap near U.S. 33 and walk out along the Shavers Mountain Trail.
Even as remote as Bear Heaven seems, the fully equipped town of Elkins is just 10 miles away, in case you need supplies or any civilized trappins. Between Elkins and Bear Heaven is the Bowden Fish Hatchery. If you have never visited a hatchery, check it out. There are fish of all sizes swimming in the tanks. It may inspire you to take a rod down to Otter Creek and toss a line for the native brook trout lying secretively in the cool pools.
Ratings
Beauty: 5 stars
Site privacy: 3 stars
Spaciousness: 4 stars
Quiet: 5 stars
Security: 3 stars
Cleanliness: 4 stars
Address: Bear Heaven, P.O. Box 368 Parsons, WV 26287
Operated by: U.S. Forest Service
Information: (304) 478-3251
Open: Year-round
Sites: 8
Each site has: Picnic table, fire grate, lantern post
Assignment: first come, first served; no reservations
Registration: Self-registration on site
Facilities: Pump well, vault toilets
Parking: At campsites only
Fee: $5 per night
Elevation: 3,600 feet
Restrictions: Pets: On leash only. Fires: In fire grates only. Alcoholic beverages: At campsites only. Vehicles: None. Other: 14-day stay limit.
Bear Heaven lies on a spur ridge high on Shavers Mountain outside Elkins. It can be pretty cool on summer nights. I can only imagine how cold it is in mid-January. Most tent campers will head up this way during the warmer months to enjoy a small, quiet campground tucked away on the back side of the Otter Creek Wilderness.
The Otter Creek drainage forms the centerpiece of this preserved national forest land. Mountain ridges are the borders, where spruce stands and bogs hold strong. Lower in the wilderness are tangles of rhododendron over which grow northern hardwood species such as cherry and yellow birch. This area was once logged and many trails follow old railroad grades. In other areas, apple trees mark homesites long since abandoned. On the edge of this wilderness, Bear Heaven campground awaits your arrival.
What does this mean for you? It means a great place to explore the heart of natural West Virginia, where the woods are king. After a day's hiking and sight-seeing, you can return to your ridgetop camp and reflect on the day's sights. (One of those sights will be what a fitting campground to be adjacent to the Otter Creek Wilderness. Another might literally be a lookout-from atop the jumbled rock outcrop near the campground picnic area where you can gaze south over a sea of wooded ridges.)
Leave the spur road off Stuart Memorial Drive and enter Bear Heaven Recreation Area. To your right is the picnic area and rock outcrop. This spur ridge is level by mountain standards and covered in a northern hardwood forest dominated by beech and cherry trees. The canopy thickens in summer, with an understory of sugar maple and striped maple. Come winter, you can better see the numerous gray boulders strewn about the campground like childrens' toy blocks tossed around a room.
Three sites occupy the main road. Wood log borders keep campers where they ought to be. The campsites are dispersed and large, even though this spur ridge is narrow. There are winter views into the woods below. Some less-than-level sites have tent pads.
Entering a five-campsite loop, sites #4 and #5, the two prettiest and most used, are integrated into the boulder-dominated landscape. Swing around the loop and pass the final few campsites. This small campground has only eight units, offering the good and bad of small campgrounds: intimate, yet easily packed with campers, as well. Bear Heaven fills during mid-summer weekends and traditional summer holidays. Other than that you should have no problem getting a campsite.
There are no trails leaving directly from the campground, other than the short walk to teh rock outcrop by the picnic area, but there is a whole wilderness just to the north. Less than a mile away, on Forest Road 303, which you passed on the way in, lies the main trailhead for the southern side of the Otter Creek Wilderness. The area's 20,000 acres of rocky ridges and rhododendron-lined creeks thrive, along with its wildlife, under wilderness protection since 1975.
Here, you can start the upper end of the Otter Creek Trail. This 11-mile footpath is the backbone of the trail system. Several loop hikes can be made using a combination of trails. One circuit starts north down the Otter Creek Trail and turns right on the Mylius Gap Trail. Climb up to Mylius Gap, then turn right on the Shavers Mountain Trail and follow it for 4.3 miles to the Hedrick Camp Trail. Turn right here and you'll soon intersect the Otter Creek Trails for a 9.4-mile loop.
Or start at the top of Otter Creek Trail and walk 4.4 miles down to Pothole Falls, Otter Creek's tallest fall. Then return the way you came. To stay in the high country, start at Alpena Gap near U.S. 33 and walk out along the Shavers Mountain Trail.
Even as remote as Bear Heaven seems, the fully equipped town of Elkins is just 10 miles away, in case you need supplies or any civilized trappins. Between Elkins and Bear Heaven is the Bowden Fish Hatchery. If you have never visited a hatchery, check it out. There are fish of all sizes swimming in the tanks. It may inspire you to take a rod down to Otter Creek and toss a line for the native brook trout lying secretively in the cool pools.
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