Best Tent Camping
Autor Johnny Molloyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 apr 2019
The Carolinas provide spectacular backdrops for some of the most scenic campgrounds in the country. But do you know which campgrounds offer the most privacy? Which are the best for first-time campers? Johnny Molloy has traversed the entire region--from the alluring Blue Ridge Mountains to the saltwater-washed sands of the Atlantic coast--and compiled the most up-to-date research to steer you to the perfect spot! The full-color, updated, user-friendly format lets you easily find 50 of the best campgrounds to fit your travel plans and meet your personal interests, with author selections based on location, topography, size, and overall appeal.
Detailed maps of each campground and key information such as fees, restrictions, dates of operation, and facilities help to narrow down your choices, and ratings for beauty, privacy, spaciousness, safety and security, and cleanliness ensure that you find your perfect car-camping adventure. So whether you seek a quiet campground near a fish-filled stream or a family campground with all the amenities, Best Tent Camping: The Carolinas is a keeper.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781634041515
ISBN-10: 1634041518
Pagini: 194
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: ADVENTURE PUBLICATIONS
ISBN-10: 1634041518
Pagini: 194
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: ADVENTURE PUBLICATIONS
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Notă biografică
Johnny Molloy is an outdoors writer based in Johnson City, Tennessee. Born in Memphis, he moved to Knoxville in 1980 to attend the University of Tennessee. It was in Knoxville that he developed his love of the natural world, which has since become the primary focus of his life.
It all started on a backpacking foray into Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
That first trip, though a disaster, unleashed an innate love of the outdoors that has led to his spending more than 150 nights per year, over the past 25 years, tent camping, backpacking, and canoe camping throughout the United States and abroad. In 1987, after graduating from the University of Tennessee with a degree in economics, he continued to spend an ever-increasing amount of time in natural places, becoming more skilled in a variety of environments. Friends enjoyed his adventure stories; one even suggested he write a book. Soon he parlayed his love of the outdoors into an occupation.
His efforts have resulted in almost 80 books, ranging from hiking guides to paddling guides to camping guides and to true outdoor-adventure stories. His books have covered all or part of 26 states, primarily in the East. Johnny's Carolina books include Top Trails: Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Hiking North Carolina's National Forests; 50 Hikes in South Carolina; Best Easy Day Hikes Charleston, South Carolina; and Paddling South Carolina.
Johnny has also written numerous articles for magazines and websites. He continues to write and travel extensively to all four corners of the United States, pursuing a variety of outdoor interests. For the latest information about the author, visit johnnymolloy.com.
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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