The Best in Tent Camping
The Carolinas: a Guide for Car Campers Who Hate Rv's, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos
Molloy, Johnny
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The Best in Tent Camping: The Carolinas, 2nd is the only guide to the best tent campgrounds the two states have to offer. The book includes campground layout maps, directions to each campground, and descriptive profiles.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Written to steer campers away from concrete slabs and convoys of RVs, The Best in Tent Camping: The Carolinas points tent campers to the most scenic and serene campsites in the Palmetto and Tar Heel State. Including five new campgrounds and completely updated, this latest edition has a campground to suit nearly every camper's taste. In North Carolina, experience the rare spruce-fir forest of Balsam Mountain Campground or the sand dunes of Frisco Campground. Visit Cherry Hill, South Carolina's finest upcountry campground, or pitch your tent by the Atlantic Ocean in Hunting Island State Park. From the Smokies to the Atlantic, each campground profiled is unique.
AUTHOR BIO
Johnny Molloy is an outdoor writer based in Johnson City, Tennessee. He has averaged over 100 nights in the wild per year since the early 1980s, backpacking and canoe camping throughout our country. He has written numerous books covering much of the U.S. from Florida to Wisconsin to Colorado and articles for magazines and websites.
BOOK EXCERPTS
Carolina Beach State Park
With all there is to do here, you should find the campground very appealing as a base camp. It is located in piney woods near Snows Cut, a waterway connecting the wide Cape Fear River to the Intracoastal Waterway. Pine trees tower over the two campground loops. Live oaks, water oaks, and other hardwoods are mixed in with the pines. Clumpy brush grows here and there among the woods, adding privacy. A drive on the paved campground road through the first loop will reveal large sites with a sand and pine-needle floor. The Snow's Cut Trail leads toward a maritime forest near campsite 21. We enjoyed campsite 25, where the filtering sunlight helped dry our gear after a storm pushed through the previous night. A bathhouse centers the loop. A short road with large campsites along it leads to the second loop. This second loop, with sites 48 through 82, is opened only when the first loop fills. The sites look little used in the second loop, but the first loop doesn't get a whole lot of business itself. The second loop, where the Sugarloaf Trail leaves from campsite 54, also has large campsites and a bathhouse in the center.
This park has an unusual system of claiming campsites. A little green tag hangs below each unoccupied and numbered campsite post. When you find a campsite you like, grab the green tag and take it to the park store and marina, then register there. The campground will fill most weekends from Memorial Day through Fourth of July weekend. After that, the heat keeps most campers away until fall, when cooler-weather weekends will become busy, but usually not full. A campsite can be had most spring weekends and anytime during winter. We came during fall-the weather was ideal and the insects weren't bothersome.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0897329694
ISBN(13-digit): 9780897329699
Dewey Decimal: 796.54/0975
Library of Congress: 2006047257
Book Publisher: Pgw
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 190
Paper Weight (lb): 0.70 lb
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