Balsam Mountain Campground

An excellent campground at high altitude in the Smoky mountains. A great place to escape the southern heat in summer. Not a big campground but nice and well kept. Out of the way but convenient to nature and picturesque views.

Enjoyed my stay as usual! Everything was neat and clean. It's a very nice out of the way experience. The sunset viewing area is my favorite place to be in the evening. I will be back!

Stopped for an overnight stay after visiting 11 National Parks / Monuments in 16 days. Nice site, close to restrooms, our site had a very steep incline down to the campsite, which caused me to leave just 4 stars instead of 5. We will definitely stay again, but try to find a better level site.

It’s a beautiful ride up to the campground, and it’s secluded. There are several nice camp sites there. Other than that I was disappointed. Lots of the sites are crammed together. Some like ours you practically park in the road beside your camp site. Larger campers barely got by without hitting our car. The pictures of the camp sites online are very misleading. I have a van with a awning I was planning on using because they were calling for rain but when we got there realized you could not use a awning because you’re parking on the side of a hill and walk down to the campsite. Online it listed it suitable for campers and rvs and last time I checked most campers and rvs have awnings. They should have listed this on their site. Also you can use generators there but instead of having limited hours of operation say for an hr or so in the morning and then Manet an hr or 2 in the afternoon . You can run them almost all day. Not what I wanted to listen to at 9:00 in the morning sitting there trying to enjoy nature. Probably won’t go back.

Balsam Mtn was better before the check-in method was changed. Too many signs on all the posts. How do I know which site I want until I get there? It's hard to get phone reception way up there. We stayed at Gunter Hill campground. We tried to register on line and all sites were taken. We went there and hardly any sites were taken. Unless it has been improved, this process needs to be done away with.

Exceptional scenery, camp ground was flawless, tent pads level, other campers pleasant and friendly

Go there.

Exceptional scenery, camp ground was flawless, tent pads level, other campers pleasant and friendly

Go there.

The campground amenities were exactly as advertised. We had great hikes right from camp and really enjoyed the cool summer evenings offered by the higher elevation. Our campground host was personable and super helpful and informative.