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The Best in Tent Camping: The Carolinas: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Best Tent Camping)
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About The Best In Tent Camping: The Carolinas: A Guide
Product Description 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. Review ...include detailed maps of campgrounds...key information as fees, reservations, rules on pets and fires...driving directions. -- Danny Bernstein, Mountain XPress, December 20-26, 2006 Comprehensive guide...will appeal to the first-time camper as well as the car-camping veteran. -- Ed Wall, New Bern Sun Journal, November 24, 2006 From the Back Cover If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, The Best in Tent Camping: The Carolinas should be your constant companion. Each campground profile includes: · Detailed campground maps · GPS Coordinates of each Campground entrance · Key information such as fees, restrictions, and dates of operation · Driving directions to the campground · Ratings for beauty, privacy, spaciousness, quiet, security, and cleanliness Whether enjoying the cool breezes on the coast or the cool breezes in the mountains, The Best in Tent Camping: The Carolinas is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. If you are a native Carolinian in search of new territory or a vacationer on the lookout for that dream campground, this book unlocks the secrets to the best tent camping North and South Carolina have to offer. About the Author 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 1980’s, 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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 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
