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Stone Mountain Park Campground

263 RV Sites, 40 Tent Sites, 3 Glamping Sites, 17 Yurts, 6 Onsite RV/Trailers

Stone Mountain Park Campground in Georgia offers 270 RV sites, 40 tent sites, and 20 glamping and yurt units inside the park's 3,200-acre property, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted up to 90 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Full hookup, super site, and cabled categories join a lake, kayak rentals, and pool, 16 miles from Atlanta. Two hundred seventy sites span full hookup RV, full hookup super site, and full hookup with cable categories, along with four- and six-person rental trailers, all carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 90 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Forty tent sites and 20 glamping and yurt units round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, showers, and a gated entrance handle the practical side. Cancellations more than five days before arrival are refunded less a $30 fee. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a lake supporting kayak rentals, canoeing, paddle boarding, fishing, and swimming. Sports courts, volleyball, horseshoes, walking trails, biking, a playground, and a pavilion fill the grounds. Staying inside the park is the advantage — the mountain, the family attractions, and the natural spectacle that draw Georgia's visitors are all within the gates rather than a drive away. Pets are welcome. Summer and fall drive demand at one of Georgia's most visited destinations. Reserve well ahead.

from $35/night

Jellystone Park™ West Georgia

36 RV Sites, 10 Cabins, 6 Tent Sites

Jellystone Park West Georgia in Bremen, GA, offers 36 full-hookup RV sites, 10 cabins, and 6 tent sites, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 100 feet. Sites come in three categories — back-in, pull-thru, and deluxe pull-thru — all carrying water, sewer, electric, and cable TV with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. At 100 feet the deluxe pull-thrus take anything on the road. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, propane fills and exchange, and golf cart rentals cover the practical side, with cabins for guests without a rig. Pets are welcome. The recreation is the full Yogi Bear program: a water park with inflatable water toys, an outdoor pool, mini-golf, a craft room, sport courts, basketball, gaga ball, corn hole, horseshoes, a pavilion, a playground, a pond for fishing, gem panning, live music, and planned activities through the season. Bremen sits at the intersection of I-20 and U.S. Highway 27, putting Atlanta less than an hour east while the resort itself makes the city easy to ignore. Rates for every accommodation type are on the booking page. Deluxe pull-thrus and summer weekends book first.

from $25/night

Cedar Creek RV & Outdoor Center

28 RV Sites, 19 Tent Sites, 1 Lodge

Cedar Creek RV & Outdoor Center in Cave Spring, GA, offers 28 full-hookup creekside back-in RV sites, 1 lodge, and 19 tent sites, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 40 feet. Every site is a creekside full-hookup back-in carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, picnic table, and barbecue. Check-in is 3pm and early check-ins can't be guaranteed, though the center asks guests to reach out in advance if they need one. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, propane fills and exchange, kayak rentals, and both RV and boat storage cover the practical side. Pets are welcome. Big Cedar Creek runs the length of the property, with a ball field, sport courts, volleyball, a playground, and walking trails, plus kayaking, boating, water sports, fishing, hiking, and picnicking. Cave Spring sits in the ridge-and-valley country of Floyd County, about 40 miles northwest of Rome in the northwest Georgia mountains. Rates for sites, the lodge, and tent spots are on the booking page. Summer creek season books first — and ask about early check-in ahead of time if you need it.

from $21/night

Blue Ridge RV Resort

76 RV Sites

Blue Ridge RV Resort in Morganton, GA, offers 76 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 100 feet. The categories are named for position on the property: creek side back-ins, inner circle back-ins, inner circle buddy back-ins, inner circle pull-thrus, and buddy pull-thrus for two rigs traveling together. All carry water, sewer, and electric. The resort is rated big rig friendly, and at 100 feet it takes the longest coaches — genuinely rare in the Georgia mountains. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, propane fills, a clubhouse, and a recreation center cover the practical side. Pets are welcome, with a dog park and a playground. Creek frontage, corn hole, swimming, fishing, and dark mountain sky for stargazing fill the grounds, with a lake, a river, golf, and the mountains nearby. Morganton sits on Wright Mill Road in the Blue Ridge foothills of Fannin County, four miles from Lake Blue Ridge and within reach of the Toccoa River. Rates by site category are on the booking page. Buddy sites and creek side back-ins book first — mention if you're traveling with another rig.

North Shore Landing Resort

Lake Oconee — Georgia's longest lake, stretching 374 miles of forested Piedmont shoreline across Greene and Morgan counties — consistently ranks among the Southeast's most desirable recreational waterways, and North Shore Landing Resort occupies a 55-acre prime lakefront position just 90 minutes east of Atlanta in the Greene County town of Greensboro. What distinguishes the property immediately is the campus: 13 historic railroad cars, repurposed as resort amenities and unique rental accommodations, give North Shore Landing a one-of-a-kind character that no conventional campground can replicate. The railroad-themed campus sets the visual tone from the moment of arrival, and the resort's full-hookup RV sites and tent areas complement the repurposed-rail lodging options with more traditional camping infrastructure alongside the lakefront. Lake Oconee waterfront access provides boating, bass fishing, kayaking, and waterfront relaxation directly from the resort's shoreline, and the community-oriented atmosphere — where neighbors quickly become familiar faces across many seasons — gives the property a warmth that distinguishes it from purely transactional campground experiences. Pets are welcome throughout. Lake Oconee itself is a superlative natural backdrop: consistently clear water in a setting where the rolling Georgia Piedmont countryside descends to the shoreline in forested ridges and coves that create hundreds of sheltered inlets for boating and fishing. The lake's calm waters are ideal for pontoon cruises and wakeboarding, and largemouth bass fishing on Lake Oconee is among the most productive in Georgia, drawing tournament anglers and recreational fishers from across the region. The surrounding hardwood forests light up spectacularly in October, when the combination of lake views and fall color makes the resort particularly beautiful. Harbor Club on Lake Oconee, 15 minutes from the resort, is one of Georgia's premier lake communities, featuring a Tom Weiskopf-designed championship golf course, fine dining, and sweeping lake views that make the surrounding area worth exploring beyond the campground. The historic town of Greensboro, seat of Greene County, offers antique shops, local restaurants, and a genuinely preserved small-town Georgia downtown character. Reynolds Lake Oconee, one of the most acclaimed resort communities in the South, encompasses multiple championship golf courses and lakeside dining in the broader Lake Oconee corridor. North Shore Landing Resort is open through the camping season, with summer on Lake Oconee being the clear peak for boating and water activities. Spring and fall bring comfortable temperatures for exploring the lakeside community and Greene County's broader landscape, and the fall foliage window in October makes these months particularly compelling for guests who haven't seen the Georgia Piedmont in autumn. The fall foliage window in October adds a visual dimension to Lake Oconee that surprises guests who associate Georgia primarily with its coast or metropolitan areas — hardwood color reflected in the lake's clear surface creates a photographic opportunity that regional visitors travel specifically to experience each year. Reserve waterfront sites and railroad-car accommodations as early as possible — they are consistently the first options to fill each season, and for very good reason.

Great Escapes Chestnut Bay Campground

157 RV Sites, 10 Tent Sites, 32 Cottages

Great Escapes Chestnut Bay in Leesburg, Alabama, offers 157 RV sites, 32 cottages, and 10 tent sites on Weiss Lake, with 20, 30, and 50-amp full hookups, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 45 feet. Back-in and pull-through categories join a water park, splash pad, mini-golf, and a full marina operation. One hundred fifty-seven sites run in back-in and pull-through categories carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 45 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Thirty-two cottages and 10 tent sites round out the accommodations. A general store, laundry, dump station, boat storage, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. Pools and the water park run Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend, with pool hours 9am to 9pm and the water park from 10am, closing after October 31. A water park, outdoor pool, splash pad, and beach anchor the summer, with a boat ramp, boat docks, and boat rentals giving direct lake access for boating, fishing, paddle boats, kayaking, and paddle boarding. Mini-golf, a jumping pillow, gaga ball, sports courts, volleyball, basketball, horseshoes, golf cart rentals, walking trails, a playground, dog park, barn, pavilion, and on-site dining fill the rest. Pets are welcome. Weiss Lake is one of the most productive crappie fisheries in the Southeast, within reach of both Atlanta and Birmingham. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead.

from $40/night

Little River Campground

46 RV Sites, 1 Tent Site

Little River Campground in Fort Payne, Alabama, offers 46 full-hookup RV sites and a tent site at the edge of Little River Canyon National Preserve, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 40 feet. Back-in and pull-through categories sit in a forested setting with a clubhouse, creek, and pond on the property. Forty-six sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp in back-in and pull-through configurations, sized to 40 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, cable TV, and site WiFi. Note the 40-foot cap before booking a larger rig. A clubhouse, laundry, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. Rates and policies are subject to change, and high-impact periods may vary. Pets are welcome. The forest setting is the draw. A creek and pond run the property for fishing, with hiking from the grounds into the surrounding plateau country. The campground works as a base rather than a destination, and its position at the preserve's edge is the point. Little River is one of the few rivers in North America that runs its entire length atop a mountain, and it carved Little River Canyon 600 feet down through the Lookout Mountain plateau — one of the deepest canyon systems east of the Mississippi. Northeast Alabama's Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain country delivers dramatic waterfalls, spring-fed streams, and outstanding fishing and hiking, with a state park and lake nearby. Summer and October foliage drive demand in the canyon country. Reserve ahead for fall color weekends.

from $26 $23/night

River Falls at the Gorge

70 RV Sites

River Falls at the Gorge in Lakemont, Georgia, offers 70 RV sites along the Tallulah River with 30 and 50-amp full hookups and rigs accepted to 56 feet, open all year behind a gated entrance. River back-ins join premium categories including pull-throughs with decks and sites with private pavilions, 1.5 miles from the rim of Tallulah Gorge. Seventy sites span back-in river, premium, premium end, premium pull-through with deck, premium with pavilion, and pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 56 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. The deck and pavilion categories are worth requesting — genuine outdoor living space rather than a pad. Loops A and B are nightly sites; Loop C is for leasing. Cabins, treehouses, a tiny cabin, and tent sites round out the accommodations. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, and firewood handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with tubing, fishing, kayaking, and river swimming in the Tallulah's clear mountain water directly from the property. A clubhouse, arcade, sports courts, basketball, corn hole, walking trails, hiking, biking, a playground, pavilion, and community fire pit fill the grounds, with a lake and wineries nearby. Pets are welcome. Tallulah Gorge is one of the most spectacular natural landmarks in the Southeast, and this is one of the only riverside RV campgrounds in northeast Georgia. Summer river season and October foliage drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $76/night

Scenic City RV Campground

44 RV Sites, 2 Glamping Sites

Scenic City RV Campground in Ringgold, Georgia, offers 44 full-hookup RV sites and two glamping sites on 10 wooded acres, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Open all year, with a clubhouse, boat rentals, a game room, and a dedicated Class B site category, it sits at Georgia's northwest gateway to Chattanooga. Forty-four sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp in back-in and pull-through configurations, sized to 45 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. A separate back-in category is reserved for Class B vans — a genuinely useful distinction that keeps small rigs from being placed on oversized pads. Two glamping sites round out the accommodations. A general store, boutique shop, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. The 10 wooded acres give the campground its character. A pond and creek run the property for fishing, boat rentals are available, and a clubhouse, game room, playground, and dog park fill the grounds. Planned activities run through the season, and the tree canopy and dark surroundings make for good stargazing. A lake, boating, and an amusement park are nearby. Pets are welcome. Ringgold sits in Catoosa County on the I-75 and US-41 corridors, at the edge of the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park's 5,300 acres of Civil War battlefield. The Lookout Mountain and Signal Mountain recreation corridor extends Chattanooga's outdoor footprint into the northwest Georgia ridgeline. The campground is open year-round and family-owned. Summer and fall color drive demand — reserve ahead for October, when Chattanooga-area lodging tightens.

Timberline Glamping at Cheaha State Park

8 Glamping Sites

Timberline Glamping at Cheaha State Park in Delta, Alabama, is a unique glamping destination next to the Talladega National Forest at the highest point in Alabama — a curated outdoor accommodation experience in Clay County providing the comfort-forward camping alternative to traditional tent or RV camping at the 2,407-foot Cheaha Mountain summit, where the granite and quartzite exposed summit of Alabama's highest point gives the campground the most dramatic elevation change and the most complete panoramic viewshed in the state's outdoor recreation landscape. Cheaha State Park's position in the Talladega National Forest's Cheaha Wilderness gives Timberline's guests the direct access to the Pinhoti National Recreation Trail, the park's summit rock scrambles, and the Talladega National Forest's mountain bike trail system that makes Cheaha one of the most comprehensively equipped outdoor recreation state parks in the Southeast. Glamping accommodations with the complete comfort infrastructure give Timberline the curated Cheaha State Park experience for guests who want the mountain summit setting, the forested park atmosphere, and the Talladega NF outdoor recreation access without the conventional tent camping logistics — the glamping format specifically gives couples and families the elevated accommodation that Cheaha's mountain park setting justifies as a destination in itself rather than a campground-stop in a travel corridor. The glamping accommodation's proximity to the state park's developed summit area gives guests the immediate park access that the overnight stay specifically enables for the sunrise and sunset summit views. Pets are welcome. Cheaha State Park's CCC-built stone observation tower on the 2,407-foot Cheaha Mountain summit gives guests the 360-degree panoramic view of the Talladega National Forest's ridge and valley landscape — the southern Appalachian talus slope, the Hillabee metamorphic belt's rock outcrops, and the forested ridgelines extending to the horizon in all directions from the summit tower give the Cheaha overlook the specific high-point perspective that the state's highest summit provides in the geologically complex terrain of the Piedmont's ancient metamorphic core. The Bald Rock Heritage Preserve's exposed granite flatrock ecosystem adjacent to the Cheaha summit gives the park its specific botanical diversity of the granite outcrop plants that are otherwise absent from the surrounding forested landscape. The Pinhoti National Recreation Trail, 335 miles long from the Georgia border through the Talladega National Forest to the Benton MacKaye Trail junction in the Cohutta Wilderness, begins in its Alabama section at Cheaha State Park and gives thru-hikers the most significant long-distance hiking trail in Alabama's mountain park landscape. The Pinhoti's passage through the Talladega National Forest's Dugger Mountain Wilderness and the Cheaha Wilderness gives day hikers and backpackers the complete spectrum of Alabama mountain hiking from the summit geology to the riparian hardwood bottomlands in a trail system that has sustained the Alabama outdoor recreation community for four decades. Timberline Glamping at Cheaha State Park serves guests year-round in Clay County's southern Appalachian mountain climate, where the spring wildflower bloom from March through May and the October fall foliage color on the Talladega ridgeline give the Cheaha summit its most visually spectacular shoulder seasons. Talladega Superspeedway, 30 miles west of Cheaha in Talladega County, hosts the NASCAR Cup Series races in the spring and fall that give the Talladega area the motorsports tourism event calendar that draws the camping and RV market from across the Southeast twice annually. Reserve glamping accommodations well ahead for the Talladega NASCAR race weekends and the spring and fall Cheaha peak outdoor season.

from $117 $102/night

Scenic Mountain RV Resort

4 RV Sites

Scenic Mountain RV Resort in Milledgeville, Georgia, offers 4 full-hookup pull-through RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. A single pull-through category means no backing at any site, with an outdoor pool, clubhouse, boutique shop, pavilion, pond, and pet washing station. Four sites are pull-through throughout, carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 50 feet. One consistent spec covering all three amperages means any rig plugs in without an adapter, and nobody backs after a driving day. A laundry, propane fills, restrooms, a boutique shop, and a pet washing station handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the warm months, with a clubhouse, pavilion, playground, dog park, pond, volleyball, fishing, hiking, and swimming filling the rest. Pets are welcome. A pool and clubhouse at four sites means you will essentially have them to yourself, which is the quiet luxury of a very small park. Milledgeville has a heritage most Georgia towns cannot match — it served as the state capital from 1807 through 1868, and the Old Governor's Mansion, the Old State Capitol building, and a substantial antebellum downtown all survive. Flannery O'Connor's Andalusia Farm is here and open to visitors, Georgia College anchors the town, and Lake Sinclair and Lake Oconee are both close for boating and fishing. Atlanta is about 90 minutes northwest and Macon 30 minutes southwest. Spring and fall bring the most comfortable middle Georgia conditions, with summer drawing lake traffic. Reserve ahead for university and holiday weekends.

The Cabins at Long Branch

3 Cabins

The Cabins at Long Branch above the Nantahala Gorge in western North Carolina are handcrafted two-bedroom cabin retreats at 3,500 feet elevation — a secluded, private mountain cabin accommodation tucked high above the Nantahala River's Class III and IV whitewater corridor in the southern Blue Ridge, where the elevation gives guests the cool mountain climate that the gorge bottom cannot provide and the proximity to Nantahala's outdoor adventure infrastructure gives the cabin guests the complete access to whitewater paddling, mountain biking, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park from a high-elevation mountain cabin that the Nantahala National Forest's ridge and valley landscape sustains in one of the most recreationally active outdoor adventure destinations in the eastern United States. The Nantahala Gorge's position in Swain or Macon County gives the cabins the specific southern Appalachian elevation character of a mountain retreat above the gorge in a landscape where the 1,800-foot elevation difference between the gorge floor and the surrounding ridge crests creates the dramatic western Carolina topography. Handcrafted two-bedroom cabins at 3,500 feet above the Nantahala Gorge give The Cabins at Long Branch the specific mountain cabin retreat character of a high-elevation private accommodation that the gorge-bottom commercial campground cannot replicate — the elevation gives the cabins the cool mountain summer temperatures and the ridge-top forest setting that distinguish a 3,500-foot cabin experience from the whitewater activity corridor below, and the proximity to the Nantahala Outdoor Center's outfitter services and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's Swain County entrance gives cabin guests the complete southern Appalachian outdoor adventure access from a comfortable mountain cabin base. Pets are welcome. The Nantahala Outdoor Center, five miles north of the Nantahala Gorge's lower takeout on US-19/74 in Swain County, is the most comprehensive whitewater outfitter and outdoor adventure resort in the American South — a campus of whitewater rafting, kayaking instruction, zip lines, mountain biking, and flatwater paddling that has served as the entry point to the Nantahala River's Class III whitewater for over a million guests since its 1972 founding. The Nantahala River's consistent 45-degree water temperature (released from the bottom of Fontana Lake's cold hypolimnion at Nantahala Lake) and the Class III Nantahala Falls at the takeout give the gorge its specific cold-water character and its most technically demanding rapids. Great Smoky Mountains National Park's Swain County entrance at Bryson City, 15 miles north of the Nantahala Gorge on US-74, provides the Deep Creek area's three waterfalls (Tom Branch, Indian Creek, and Juney Whank Falls), the tubing on Deep Creek's mild rapids, and the access to the park's backcountry trail system that the Swain County entrance specifically makes available in the less-visited southwestern section of the most visited national park in the country. The Cabins at Long Branch serve guests through the western North Carolina mountain cabin season from late spring through fall, with the prime whitewater rafting season on the Nantahala from May through October sustaining the outdoor adventure visitor market and the October fall foliage on the Nantahala National Forest's ridgelines giving the 3,500-foot elevation the most spectacular autumn color display in the southern Blue Ridge. The Appalachian Trail's Wesser Bald section above the Nantahala Gorge and the Bartram Trail's ridge walk through the Nantahala National Forest give hikers the long-distance trail access from the cabin's elevation position. Reserve cabins well ahead for the peak summer whitewater season and the October fall foliage weeks.

from $169/night