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About North Mills River
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Reviews (560)
What Guests Are Saying
North Mills River Campground is a beautifully maintained site with clean and spacious facilities, offering a peaceful experience deep in the woods. Camp hosts are friendly and helpful, providing excellent service and local activity recommendations. While some bathroom facilities are older and access to certain sites can be improved, the campground is praised for its beautiful scenery, fishing, and proximity to hiking and biking trails.
What Guests Are Saying
North Mills River Campground is a beautifully maintained site with clean and spacious facilities, offering a peaceful experience deep in the woods. Camp hosts are friendly and helpful, providing excellent service and local activity recommendations. While some bathroom facilities are older and access to certain sites can be improved, the campground is praised for its beautiful scenery, fishing, and proximity to hiking and biking trails.
Review Summary
Candice E
VerifiedApril 22, 2023 • Stayed at: 003, Loop: NORT
Campground/site: Well maintained, beautiful area, lots of trees/shade. Good flat spot for rooftop tents.
Camp hosts: Friendly, helpful, provided useful info and firewood!
Bathrooms: clean and functioning! Shower house had heated toilet stalls. Shower stalls were nice and fairly clean, but did not quite drain properly in the stall I was in. Nothing to hang or set soaps on really.
Atmosphere: Generally quiet and peaceful. Lots of people around fishing and recreating aside from the campers. People near me came in at 10:30pm, left car running for a long time, and then made noise until after 1am. Then I saw them pulling branches off of live trees to keep their smoking campfire going (burning live brush won’t work broh especially after it’s been pouring rain for days. If you are going to camp, learn how to camp! See tread lightly dot con for example!
I enjoyed my stay and would return.
Starlink: With major interruptions.
Candice E
VerifiedApril 22, 2023 • Stayed at: 003, Loop: NORT
Campground/site: Well maintained, beautiful area, lots of trees/shade. Good flat spot for rooftop tents.
Camp hosts: Friendly, helpful, provided useful info and firewood!
Bathrooms: clean and functioning! Shower house had heated toilet stalls. Shower stalls were nice and fairly clean, but did not quite drain properly in the stall I was in. Nothing to hang or set soaps on really.
Atmosphere: Generally quiet and peaceful. Lots of people around fishing and recreating aside from the campers. People near me came in at 10:30pm, left car running for a long time, and then made noise until after 1am. Then I saw them pulling branches off of live trees to keep their smoking campfire going (burning live brush won’t work broh especially after it’s been pouring rain for days. If you are going to camp, learn how to camp! See tread lightly dot con for example!
I enjoyed my stay and would return.
Starlink: With major interruptions.
Tina P
VerifiedApril 17, 2023 • Stayed at: 026, Loop: NORT
Beautiful quiet location
Tina P
VerifiedApril 17, 2023 • Stayed at: 026, Loop: NORT
Beautiful quiet location
Jim S
VerifiedDecember 2, 2022 • Stayed at: 007, Loop: NORT
Great campground, some of the sites are small but we were able to book a double site right on the river which had a ton of space for two families. Some nice trails for the kids to explore right in the campground. Bathrooms/showers were clean and well kept. Camp host was super nice and helpful - found some really great hiking 20 minutes away in Pisgah National Forest. No cell service at all (have to drive about 5-10 minutes to get a signal. For as remote as the campground feels, you’re only about 10-12 minute drive from grocery, ace, food, etc which was super convenient. Highly recommend!
Jim S
VerifiedDecember 2, 2022 • Stayed at: 007, Loop: NORT
Great campground, some of the sites are small but we were able to book a double site right on the river which had a ton of space for two families. Some nice trails for the kids to explore right in the campground. Bathrooms/showers were clean and well kept. Camp host was super nice and helpful - found some really great hiking 20 minutes away in Pisgah National Forest. No cell service at all (have to drive about 5-10 minutes to get a signal. For as remote as the campground feels, you’re only about 10-12 minute drive from grocery, ace, food, etc which was super convenient. Highly recommend!
Carol B
VerifiedDecember 1, 2022 • Stayed at: 008, Loop: NORT
Very nice, quiet campground! My husband and I enjoyed camping here. You can hear the river from your campsite (we stayed on site 8) and it was a short walk to an afternoon of fly fishing. The bathrooms were old, but clean. We will definitely camp here again. Also, we had to run back into town to buy firewood, but it’s a short drive. We also recommend Mills River Brewery which was close to the campground.
Carol B
VerifiedDecember 1, 2022 • Stayed at: 008, Loop: NORT
Very nice, quiet campground! My husband and I enjoyed camping here. You can hear the river from your campsite (we stayed on site 8) and it was a short walk to an afternoon of fly fishing. The bathrooms were old, but clean. We will definitely camp here again. Also, we had to run back into town to buy firewood, but it’s a short drive. We also recommend Mills River Brewery which was close to the campground.
Jonah P
VerifiedNovember 21, 2022 • Stayed at: 010, Loop: NORT
Nice campground. Good location. Would definitely go again.
Jonah P
VerifiedNovember 21, 2022 • Stayed at: 010, Loop: NORT
Nice campground. Good location. Would definitely go again.
Location North Mills River
Address:
5289 N. Mills River Road
Mills River, NC, 28742
United States
From Asheville, take U.S. Highway 280 west to North Mills River Road. Follow North Mills River Road to the campground.
Elevation: 678 feet
5.9 mi drive to downtown Mills River (about 12 min)
Policies & Rules
Cancellation policy
- Reservation fees are non-refundable. For campsites, cabins, lookouts, yurts, group sites, and similar stays, we charge a reservation service fee of $8.
- Standard cancellations usually have a $10 cancellation fee. Customers can generally cancel before the check-in date online.
- Late cancellation rules differ by stay type.
- Individual campsites: cancelling after 12:00am local time the day before arrival usually means a $10 cancellation fee plus forfeiting the first night's fee.
- Cabins, lookouts, and yurts: cancelling less than 14 days before arrival usually means a $10 cancellation fee plus forfeiting the first night's fee.
- One-night reservations: a late cancellation usually forfeits the full amount paid, up to the total original reservation cost.
- Modifications are allowed before the cut-off window, but fees depend on the change. Changing to dates completely outside the original reservation dates may trigger a $10 change fee. Extending or shortening a stay that still includes original dates usually has no change fee, though refunds may depend on timing and facility rules. Switching to the same type of campsite for the same dates usually has no change fee, but price differences are charged or refunded.
- Early departures may or may not be refunded. At certain facilities, partial refunds may be possible if staff can mark the site available for other visitors. No refund is given for a night if the early departure is requested after that day's check-out time.
- Security deposits are separate. Security deposits may be refunded to the original payment method if the facility is left in acceptable condition, as determined by the property.
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Last updated: September 9, 2026
