Where are your favorite camping spots?

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Ok, so where are your favorite camping spots - Even if they're not fourwheeling spots. I'm looking for some cool places to take the wife camping here in the next few months. What does it cost? Why do you like it? Thanks!!

- Mac
 
URE just on top of kodak rock inside the fence. You can wheel during the day & watch folks play & break at nite. I once watched a guy in a cherokee try the rock at nite during the menuver his front & rear drive shafts seperated due to so much flex at that point he & his buddy decided that because he had no tow hooks in front to hook up to his poorly welded 4 link front axle with a winch from another jeep that was tied to a tree after I heard the 9,000# winch lug down to almost a stop we heard a loud set of pops!!! & his front axle was about 8" farther than the front bumpber now thats entertainment
 
Little snowbird and Santeetlah creek.
Both in/near Robinsville, NC
Cost free.

Why, well peaceful serene, mediocre trout fishing, 20 minutes from Tellico, and the people are damn hard to beat.

It is a Dry County though, so thats aggravating as hell...
 
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Mine and my family's favorite is Hot Springs NC. Up above Asheville. There is a campground right on the bank of the French Broad river. It is between two small mountains and the appalachian trail goes through there. Great hiking if thats your thing. They have small cabins for the women folks and tent camping if that is what you like. Its in a really small town about 15 miles from anything. I think Marshall is the closest town.
Across the road are the "hot springs" they are now hot tubs but the water is supposed to be coming from the ground. It's awesome in the winter/fall when you watch it snow around you and you are in the hot tubs.
 
Upper Santee river, just upstream from Lowfalls landing. Anywhere there is accessible high ground.

1. It's swampy
2. It's quiet
3. It's remote
4. There is all sorts of wildlife to view
5. Superb fishing
6. The sunrises/sunsets are priceless
7. It's only accessible by boat
8. It's free
9. During the spring there are gators everywhere
10. ETC..

Or any sandbar on the Edisto river, especially around Branchville SC, for the same reasons above.
 
Almost heaven... (and it for dang sure AIN'T WV!)
 

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ncflatfender said:
Mine and my family's favorite is Hot Springs NC. Up above Asheville. There is a campground right on the bank of the French Broad river. It is between two small mountains and the appalachian trail goes through there. Great hiking if thats your thing. They have small cabins for the women folks and tent camping if that is what you like. Its in a really small town about 15 miles from anything. I think Marshall is the closest town.Across the road are the "hot springs" they are now hot tubs but the water is supposed to be coming from the ground. It's awesome in the winter/fall when you watch it snow around you and you are in the hot tubs.
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Yeah but Marshall is just as small as Hot Springs. And Hot Springs is the only town in the county that sells beer.

Get the NGS trails unlimited maps of "French Broad and Nolichucky Rivers" and "Holston and Wautaga Lakes", there's a ton of camping in the woods, and on the river and other creeks, all around there, much of it free or maybe $5.00 per weekend.Forest svc. parks to single primitive sites.(some way out in the middle of nowhere on some creeks, those are the ones to get, but I won't tell you how to find them) You might even find some "designated 4wd roads" on there. Quite a few small trail runs around here (small as in single trail or two that might take 4 hrs to ride), good for stock rigs to better bring the buggy. (especially if its been raining).

>Across the road are the "hot springs" they are now hot tubs but the water is supposed to be coming from the ground.<

It does at 104 wonderfull degrees F. It's supposed to go down through a fault line near Stackhouse Rd. (halfway between H.S. and Marshall)then get hot and come out in Hot springs. If you can get it, reserve tub #5, it's in the corner of land at the confluence of Spring Creek and the F.B. It's :huggy: There definitely is a fault line cuz there's been a few earthquakes here. last big one was about a year and a half ago, I think it was 6.something.
 
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