Doughton Park Campground in NC -- Campground & RV Camping in North Carolina

Doughton Park Campground sits at 3,688 feet along the Blue Ridge Parkway in a landscape of bluegrass bluffs and ridgetop meadows. The facility includes 121 family sites and three group sites, equipped with picnic tables, lantern posts, campfire rings, flush toilets, drinking water, and a dump station. Thickets of mature trees shade the camping loops. The park features 30 miles of hiking trails, including routes to historic structures like the 1885 Brinegar Cabin and Caudill Cabin, access to stocked trout streams in Basin Cove Creek, and nearby entry to primitive backcountry sites.

Getting there: Note: GPS devices and mapping programs do NOT provide accurate directions to Doughton Park Campground. GPS devices and mapping programs may take campers onto steep grades and gravel or dirt country roads not suitable for RV or trailer travel. From Charlotte: Take I-77 North. Merge onto US-21-BYP N via EXIT 83 on the left toward Roaring Gap/Sparta. Go 2.9 miles. Merge onto US-21. Go 18.1 miles. Turn left to take the Parkway South ramp. Turn south onto Blue Ridge Parkway. Go 10 miles to Doughton Park Campground. From Raleigh: Take I-40 West. Merge onto US-421 North via EXIT 188 toward Yadkinville/Wilkesboro. Go 28.3 miles. Merge onto I-77 N via EXIT 265A toward Elkin. Go 10.1 miles. Merge onto US-21-BYP N via EXIT 83 on the left toward Roaring Gap/Sparta. Go 2.9 miles. Merge onto US-21. Go 18.1 miles. Turn left to take the Parkway South ramp. Turn south onto Blue Ridge Parkway. Go 10 miles to Doughton Park Campground.

• Little separation from through roads or other sites here, a 108-site campground with the nearest through road 0.1 miles off.
• Most of them shaded.
• The Willis Lake shoreline is 0.5 mi off.

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