The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-07-10
CAMP SITES INCREASED
IN NORTH CAROLINA

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fore for setting up vacation head
quarters in the family tie mt or
camp-trailer.
In picturesque settings from the
summit of. Eastern Americas high
est mountain to the surfside dunes
on the Outer Banks Islands, camp
grounds for family use have been
improved and expanded.
There are over 80 developed
campgrounds in National Parks
and Forests and State Parks of
Variety Vacationland". They are
listed in a new bulletin Outdoors
In North Carolina, available free
from the State Advertising Di-
vision, Department Conservation
and Development, Raleigh.
New this year in the Cape Hat
teras National Seashore is a camp
ground offering some 80 tent or
camp-trailer sites near historic
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on Hat
teras Island. Other National Sea-
shore campgrounds for public use
are at Oregon Inlet on Bodie Is
land, Pea Island Wildlife Refuge
on Hatteras Island, and the village
of Ocracoke on Ocracoke Island.
Island. All are accessible by paved
roads and free automobile ferries.
Western North Carolina camp
grounds are in cool glades on
mountain streams or lakes as well
as in forests on mile-high noun
tains. Loftiest of all the
campgrounds is in Mount Mitchell
State Park, where vacationists
can pitch their tents on the crest
of the highest 1854 feet) peak in
Eastern, America. The Park is
reached via a paved State high
way connecting with the Blue
Ridge Parkway 80 miles north of
Asheville.
Three developed campgrounds
are in the North Carolina section
of the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park. Accessible by paved
highways, the campg,ounds are at
Smokemont near Cherokee and the
main North Carolina entrance to
the Park; Deep Creek near Bry-
son City, and Balsam Mountain
near the junction of the Blue Ridge
Parkway and U. S. 10 west of
Asheville.
Pisgah and Nantahala National
Forests, which cover almost mil
Lion acres in the mountains of
Western North Carolina, have a.
combined total of Is developed
campgrounds. Some are near main
highways, and others are reached
by Forest Service roads.
On the Blue Ridge Parkway in
ing areas (for tents and trailers) |
North Carolina, the National Park
Service maintains developed camp
at Doughton Park between Blow
ing Rock and the Virginia Line, and
at Crabtree Meadows between Lit
tile Switzerland and Asheville. Al
new Parkway camping area is I'M
der development near Blowing
Rock and scheduled for opening in
1860.
A campground for family use is
the newest feature at Grandfather
Mountain, a noted privately ope-
rated scenic attraction near Lin
vile and the Parkway.
In the North Carolina Piedmont
are campgrounds at Morrow Noun
tain State Park in the Uwharrie
Mountains near Albemarle; Hang
ing Rock State Park post Office
Danbury) in the Sauratown Noun
tains near Wniston-Salem; and
William B. Umstead State Park on
Crabtree Greek near Raleigh.
In the Cape Hatteras National
Seashore, campers enjoy excellent
surf casting, as we'll as surf and
sun bathing, and can charter boats
for deep sea or sound fishing.
Many inland campgrounds are ad-
jacent to fishing waters and SWIM
ming areas as well as to forest
hiking trails and noted scenic
points.
Although they are in secluded
settings, North Carolina camp
grounds are within convenient
motoring distance of communities
wneIe groceries and other supplies
can be obtained, and of resorts of
fering such vacation diversions asl
outdoor drama, summer theatre,
golf, riding, square dancing, and
craft centers. "Rockhounds" can
pick mountain campgrounds near
gem collecting grounds.
Use of public campgrounds in
the National Parks and Forests is
on a first-come basis (no reserva-
tions). Public camp sites in State
Parks can be reserved through the
superintendents of the various
parks.
The principal camping season in
North Carolina is from April
through October, although there is
some use year around of camping
areas in the Cape Hatteras Ma
tional Seashore.