Keowee Park Shelter in NC -- Campground & RV Camping

Keowee Park Shelter is a day-use facility located within Keowee Park along the 1,475-acre W. Kerr Scott Reservoir in the Yadkin River Valley. The shelter is equipped with six 8-foot picnic tables and a grill, but has no water or electrical hookups. On-site amenities include vault toilets, a playground, a horseshoe pit, three fishing piers (one ADA-accessible), and a boat ramp. The shelter offers direct access to the Warrior Creek trail system, part of a 30-mile multi-use network surrounding the lake.

Getting there: From Charlotte, North Carolina, take I-77 North (approximately 60 miles) before merging onto Highway 421 North towards Wilkesboro/Boone. Continue to Exit 286B (approximately 20 miles), turn left onto Highway 268 and continue for approximately 7.5 miles. Turn the first right after the bridge. (You will see a sign for Warrior Creek Campground.) Continue on this access road and the shelter will be straight past the gatehouse. From Winston-Salem, North Carolina, take Highway 421 North (approximately 55 miles) to Exit 286B, turn left onto Highway 268 and continue for approximately 7.5 miles. Turn the first right after the bridge. (You will see a sign for Warrior Creek Campground.) Continue on this access road and the shelter will be straight past the gatehouse. From Wilkesboro, North Carolina, head west on Main Street/Hwy 268/Hwy 18 (approximately 8.5 miles) and turn right on the Warrior Creek Campground access road (directly across from Edmiston Road). Continue on this access road and the shelter will be straight past the gatehouse.

• Moderately separated here.
• The W. Kerr Scott Reservoir shoreline is 0.1 mi off.
• Mars Mountain stands 780 ft above the map pin, 1.6 miles southwest.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 3, a dark rural sky.