Free camping in North Carolina

80 free and low-cost camps on public land in North Carolina, grouped by the unit that manages them — that is who sets the stay limit and the fire rules. See them on the map →

National Forests in North Carolina76 camps

• A.T. Brown Fork Gap Shelter
• A.T. Cable Gap Shelter2,878 ft
• A.T. Carter Gap Shelter4,524 ft
• A.T. Cold Spring Shelter4,914 ft
• A.T. Little Laurel Shelter3,638 ft
• A.T. Long Branch Shelter
• A.T. Muskrat Creek Shelter
• A.T. Rock Gap Shelter3,800 ft
• A.T. Rufus Morgan Shelter
• A.T. Sassafras Gap Shelter
• A.T. Siler Bald Shelter4,607 ft
• A.T. Stan Murray Shelter5,057 ft
• A.T. Standing Indian Shelter4,925 ft
• A.T. Wayah Bald Shelter4,527 ft
• A.T. Wesser Bald Shelter4,069 ft
• Ammons Branch Camp3,129 ft
• Appletree Group Camp2,757 ft
• Badin Lake Campground525 ft
• Bear Creek Hunt Camp2,094 ft
• Bear Creek Lake Dispersed Campsite2,556 ft
• Big Snowbird Rd USFS Free Campground2,256 ft
• Blackjack Lodge Shelter21 ft
• Blue Valley Camp2,609 ft
• Briar Bottom Campground3,034 ft
• Brown Mountain Cua Roadside Campsites1,104 ft
• Buckhorn Gap Shelter3,658 ft
• Butter Gap Shelter3,179 ft
• Cable Cove Campground1,828 ft
• Camp 3787 ft
• Camp 5912 ft
• Camp 7804 ft
• Canebrake Horse Camp502 ft
• Canebrake Horse Camp Overflow469 ft
• Commissary Hill Backcountry Campsite5,766 ft
• Copperhead Landing Shelter16 ft
• Curtis Creek Campground1,859 ft
• Curtis Creek Roadside Campsites1,475 ft
• Deep Creek Hunt Camp1,872 ft
• Deep Gap Backcountry Campsite5,703 ft
• Deep Gap Shelter4,683 ft
• Deep Water Camp474 ft
• Dogwood Shelter12 ft
• East Morris Mountain Hunt Camp826 ft
• Fires Creek Campground1,815 ft
• Fishers Landing25 ft
• Hanging Dog Campground1,552 ft
• Headwaters Roadside Campsites3,241 ft
• Hendersonville Reservoir Rd Roadside Campsites2,460 ft
• Horse Camp470 ft
• Lake Santeetlah Campsites1,935 ft
• Lickstone Dispersed Campsites3,260 ft
• Little Long Mountain Shelter922 ft
• Nantahala Lake Dispersed Camping Site - Lake Access
• Panthertown Shelter3,861 ft
• Santeetlah Creek Campsites2,405 ft
• Siddie Fields14 ft
• Snowbird Camping
• Tanasee Lake Dispersed Campsites3,106 ft
• Upper Cove Creek Roadside Campsites3,206 ft
• USFS dispersed camp #2 — Transylvania County, NC2,376 ft
• USFS dispersed camp #3 — Transylvania County, NC2,270 ft
• USFS dispersed camp #4 — Transylvania County, NC2,242 ft
• USFS dispersed camp — Macon County, NC3,006 ft
• USFS dispersed camp — NC3,226 ft
• USFS dispersed camp — NC #23,023 ft
• USFS dispersed camp — NC #33,321 ft
• USFS dispersed camp — NC #43,153 ft
• USFS dispersed camp — Transylvania County, NC3,522 ft
• Van Hook Glade Campground3,280 ft
• Victor Road Dispersed Camping Site 13,757 ft
• Wash Creek Roadside Campsites2,534 ft
• Wolf Creek Lake Dispersed Campsites3,121 ft
• Wolf Ford Horse Camp3,292 ft
• Yate'S Place781 ft
• Yates Place Camp774 ft
• Yellow Gap Roadside Campsites2,614 ft

Cherokee National Forest3 camps

• A.T. Bald Mountain Shelter5,058 ft
• A.T. Roan High Knob Shelter
• A.T. Spring Mountain Shelter3,537 ft

Elsewhere in North Carolina1 camps

• Oyster Point Campground9 ft