Will be traveling the entire length of Skyline Drive and BRP, with our Pleasure Way Excel. We prefer public Forests and Parks. We have 3 weeks in May for this section of our trip. We us the ultimate camp grounds app. Any suggestions would be very helpful. Thanks in advance.

Is it true that the term "boondocking" derives from Daniel Boone's adventures in the Blue Ridge Mtns? (No, but that ought to be the origin!!)Some day, we will get to the BRP -- I am told that the food and the music are phenomenal.

We are staying at Price Park in May. We haven't camped there before but I'm familiar with the area from my undergrad days. It's very close to Blowing Rock, Boone, Grandfather Mountain and not too far from Linville Falls. Some sites you can reserve and some are first come first serve. The reviews I read are favorable. Hope this helps.

Right now there are fires in the Shenandoah National Park and a few days ago they closed part of Skyline Drive. Hopefully they will get some rain to help, but there is also increased danger of lightning with storms. Just be aware and check news sources.Dale

All of the Blue Ridge Parkway campgrounds are open by May 6.In a different lifetime (was a tent camper) I've camped in all of them except Otter Creek. And I enjoyed them all, for different reasons. My favorite was Crabtree Fall - which use to be called Crabtree Meadows.Tom

http://www.recreation.gov/camping/loft-mountain-campground/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=70852My favorite on Skyline DR

Sklyline Drive - Blue Ridge Parkway Boone & Dry Camping

profdant139
Explorer II
Apr 22, 2016
Is it true that the term "boondocking" derives from Daniel Boone's adventures in the Blue Ridge Mtns? (No, but that ought to be the origin!!)

Some day, we will get to the BRP -- I am told that the food and the music are phenomenal.
skiles
Explorer
Apr 22, 2016
We are staying at Price Park in May. We haven't camped there before but I'm familiar with the area from my undergrad days. It's very close to Blowing Rock, Boone, Grandfather Mountain and not too far from Linville Falls. Some sites you can reserve and some are first come first serve. The reviews I read are favorable. Hope this helps.
Scottiemom
Nomad
Apr 22, 2016
Right now there are fires in the Shenandoah National Park and a few days ago they closed part of Skyline Drive. Hopefully they will get some rain to help, but there is also increased danger of lightning with storms. Just be aware and check news sources.

Dale
pulsar
Explorer
Apr 22, 2016
All of the Blue Ridge Parkway campgrounds are open by May 6.

In a different lifetime (was a tent camper) I've camped in all of them except Otter Creek. And I enjoyed them all, for different reasons. My favorite was Crabtree Fall - which use to be called Crabtree Meadows.

Tom
Hondavalk
Explorer II
Apr 22, 2016
http://www.recreation.gov/camping/loft-mountain-campground/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=70852

My favorite on Skyline DR
redwingfans
Explorer
Apr 22, 2016
Thanks for the responses, I am looking up each park, then cutting and posting information into a word document. When you recommend a campground, could you describe the sites. large/small good separation of sites. some on the water.... Thanks in advance
redwingfans
Explorer
Apr 23, 2016
Hondavalk wrote:
http://www.recreation.gov/camping/loft-mountain-campground/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=70852

My favorite on Skyline DR

Thanks for the link. I noticed you are from Toledo Ohio. We will be leaving from Maumee Ohio. Do you have a favorite scenic route to the entrance of Sky Line Drive? I have been looking at 250 then 50, but have no idea of how scenic that route is.
pinesman
Explorer
Apr 23, 2016
road repair

They will have a few miles closed for a while
Hondavalk
Explorer II
Apr 25, 2016
http://brpatravelplanner.nomadmobileguides.com/m/website/index.html

https://www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/upload/blrimap-2.pdf

https://www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/maps.htm
MrWizard
Moderator
Apr 25, 2016
close to Cherokee No Carolina
inside the Great Smokey Nat Park

'Deep Creek' campground, it has been years, but when I it was there dry camping, drinking water and toilets, small campers and tent campers,