Jackrabbit Mountain Campground offers scenic lakeside camping in the beautiful Nantahala National Forest of southwestern North Carolina. Campers can breathe the fresh air of the forest while enjoying numerous recreation activities, including hiking, picnicking, mountain biking, fishing and water sports at Jackrabbit Recreation Area. The campground contains three seperate camping loops; Loops A is open May - September, and Loop B and C is open May - October.
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Currently open - Oct 2 to Nov 1
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🚐060, Loop: B
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🚐064, Loop: B
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🚐065, Loop: B
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🚐080, Loop: C
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🚐081, Loop: C
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🚐082, Loop: C
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🚐083, Loop: C
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🚐093, Loop: C
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🚐094, Loop: C
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🚐095, Loop: C
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🚐096, Loop: C
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🚐097, Loop: C
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🚐098, Loop: C
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🚐099, Loop: C
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🚐100, Loop: C
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🚐081, Loop: C
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🚐082, Loop: C
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🚐091, Loop: C
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🚐092, Loop: C
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🚐093, Loop: C
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🚐094, Loop: C
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🚐095, Loop: C
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🚐096, Loop: C
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🚐097, Loop: C
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🚐098, Loop: C
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🚐099, Loop: C
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🚐100, Loop: C
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Reviews
499 reviews
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Jackrabbit Mountain Campground offers a fantastic camping experience with clean facilities, friendly hosts, and beautiful lakeside views. Visitors appreciate the well-maintained sites, access to recreational activities like biking, swimming, and kayaking, and the peaceful atmosphere. While there are some concerns regarding bathroom maintenance and noise from motorboats, the overall sentiment is overwhelmingly positive, with many guests eager to return.
Stayed at 41. It is close to 42, we were at higher ground and you have a good view of camp site 42. their campsite is about 30 away. you can hear them casually talking and theres lack of foilage between these 2 campsites. there is an easy walk to water though woods. when going to water paths goes to right due to fallen trees and blocked access. campsites 46 45 42 and 41 end up sharing the water access at the same spot. the ground is soft there and to the left is red muddy clay and fallen wood, thats why these sites access the same spot. most leave their kayaks and paddle boards at the water. water access isn't the swim/beach type. tent pad about 14 x 22. campsite 48 is best 50 2nd. 55 has max privacy and borders much water.
I enjoyed my stay at Jackrabbit. I camped there in order to ride the mountain bike trails , which were awesome, The restrooms were clean and hot showers, I tent camp, at 18.00 per night it was a bargain. I'll be back.
Nice Campground ! The Showers in the B Camp sights need to be repaired.Water running in showers and shower heads need to be replaced- no pressure.We had a great time- everyone that stayed at the camp sights were respectful at Quiet time hours.Bathrooms were clean.We will be coming back to ride the Mountain bike trails.
Pros: Beautiful lakefront campsites. Some have direct access to water, some have a drop off. Nice camp hosts (new this year 2023). Great for relaxing and wonderful lake views. Sites are clean and water is nearby. Cons: no hot water in bathrooms (so cold showers), no soap in the bathroom and if you leave soap for other campers (even no mess liquid soap), the cleaning service takes them (even when full!). That is absurd. Camp hosts warned us about this but didn't believe the cleaning service would take full containers of liquid soap. No firewood or ice for sale, have to bring it in yourself. Overall very nice campground but only worth a stay for 3-4 nights as not much to do around there.
The campground map and photos led us to believe that our site at C-88 was away from the bathroom and had a pull down driveway. Both are inaccurate. We have a small travel trailer and parked it on the road... about 12 ft in front of the bath house for the loop. The map indicated the bath house was at the top of the loop and that our site was on the side and behind the bath house... the bath house is at the top of the loop. And the door slams. All. Night. Long. Wham, just as we doze off, Wham at 2 am, Wham before coffee, Wham with breakfast. It was terrible, we left after one night. To be fair, tent campers are below grade of the road, and would likely be more insulated. Would not recommend C loop for any type of camper / RV set up. Wham. It soured us on the whole campground but we drove through the other loops and thought they were better planned out for campers. Lots of recreation possibilities here and someday we'll be back, but definitely not on C loop! Wham!
Although I was skeptical because no water or electricity at sites for RVs that didn't matter days filled with boating on beautiful Lake Chatuge with 360 degree views of mountains and starry filled nights in pitch black sky's made it all worth while !!!
We’ve been visiting this campground for years because of the mountain bike trail system as well as access to the lake from most of the campsites. I will say on this last visit I never saw anyone clean the bathrooms on the B loop. There weren’t that many people there during the week in September but the bathrooms still needed to be cleaned. And wish this campground would keep soap in the bathroom. Other than that will continue to visit every year.
Jackrabbit campground is in a beautiful location with sites located all around a gorgeous lake. The sites are well cared for and not on top of each other - at least in loop A. However, the generator hours are totally unreasonable if you are in a motorhome. Hours are 10:00 am to 10 pm and limited to 3 hours per day. The 10pm time is fine but who waits until 10am to have coffee in the morning? And for a larger motorhome, 3 hours per day is hardly long enough to keep batteries charged. Maybe the campground needs to be divided to allow tents in one area and units that use generators in another. Funny thing is, the sites were far enough apart in our loop that I could barely hear the generator running at the neighboring site so not sure what the issue is. Again, it is a beautiful campground but wish it was more big rig friendly.
Good campground. Nice some large site in the c section. Water was nice. Mtn biking riding was great. Facilities could be better. Be prepared with soap and toilet paper. We had a small popup which fit perfectly but the door faced the wrong way to the site. Kind of pain when getting food and going in and out of camper. Enjoyed our stay.
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Location & Directions for Jackrabbit Mountain
465 Jackrabbit Road, Hayesville, NC 28904 United States
From Hayesville, North Carolina, take U.S. Highway 64 east for 6.2 mi. Turn right onto State Route 175 and go 2.5 mi. Turn right onto State Road 1155, which turns into Forest Road 248.
From Hiawassee, Georgia, take Georgia Route 75 north for abou...
From Hayesville, North Carolina, take U.S. Highway 64 east for 6.2 mi. Turn right onto State Route 175 and go 2.5 mi. Turn right onto State Road 1155, which turns into Forest Road 248.
From Hiawassee, Georgia, take Georgia Route 75 north for about 3.5 mi, where it turns into North Carolina Route 175, and go an additional 1.5 mi. Turn left onto State Road 1155, which turns into Forest Service Road 248.
Jackrabbit Mountain is accessible via U.S. Highway 64, which is approximately 6.2 miles from Hayesville, NC. Additionally, access can be gained from Georgia Route 75, which transitions into North Carolina Route 175.