Warning
GeneralStatewide Burn Ban--Effective Saturday, March 28 until further notice. Due to increased wildfire risk, the N.C. Forest Service has issued a ban on all open burning. Beach fires are considered open burning. If you are camping, portable gas stoves or grills are alternate methods for cooking food.
About Ocracoke Campground
Number of accommodations: 131
Campground Amenities
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Beach Access -
Potable Water -
Showers
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
Open year round
This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.
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Reviews (591)
What Guests Are Saying
Ocracoke Campground offers a beautiful location just over the dunes from the ocean, with friendly staff and well-maintained facilities, including clean bathrooms. While the lack of hot showers and occasional weeds can be drawbacks, visitors appreciate the private sites and easy beach access. Overall, it's a peaceful, clean campground ideal for families and nature lovers, with many guests expressing a desire to return.
What Guests Are Saying
Ocracoke Campground offers a beautiful location just over the dunes from the ocean, with friendly staff and well-maintained facilities, including clean bathrooms. While the lack of hot showers and occasional weeds can be drawbacks, visitors appreciate the private sites and easy beach access. Overall, it's a peaceful, clean campground ideal for families and nature lovers, with many guests expressing a desire to return.
Review Summary
Jeff S
VerifiedNovember 27, 2024 • Stayed at: C016, Loop: C
Great access to the beach. Level sites that are easy to access. No services other than a dump station. The campground is flat with some vegetation. Sites feel private. Very clean. Cold showers. Easy to bike into Ocracoke.
Jesse G
VerifiedNovember 25, 2024 • Stayed at: C008, Loop: C
A great place
Charles C
VerifiedNovember 23, 2024 • Stayed at: A030, Loop: A
Wonderful place we love it. This is our fifth year. Just wanted to thank Ranger namedJoseph for the great things he did and the volunteer who was a marine did good too. great people.
Lord Willin will be back next year
Charles H
VerifiedNovember 20, 2024 • Stayed at: C005, Loop: C
Great campground! Bring your bike and shade.
Dan T
VerifiedNovember 19, 2024 • Stayed at: D036, Loop: D
I have a camper that operates entirely on solar. While I was camped there the level of the batteries charged by the solar array fell below a required minimum. Correcting the problem required a brief charge from a source of "shore power." There was none to be found anywhere on the campground. I even asked the hosts who said they weren't able to provide some for even the few minutes that would have resolved the problem. As a result I had to pack up and leave early.
I doubt that I will be the only person who finds himself in this situation. This campground would have gotten five stars from me if I had been able to gain access to shore power for a brief period of time measured in minutes.
Brian K
VerifiedNovember 19, 2024 • Stayed at: C003, Loop: C
Stayed off-season (Nov) but on a holiday weekend. Still plenty of open spots. Spot C3 was great! 31’ total length travel trailer backed all the way up to the curb left me enough room to barely park the truck across the front of the site and still be inside the lines (within 6-8” of not having enough room).
Access trail to the beach right behind the site. Beach was nearly empty all Veterans Day weekend. Temps 40s-60s. No mosquitoes at this time of year.
Dump site (across street from main entrance) was well maintained. One potable water spigot and one non-potable (with threaded end for tank flush) available.
Only “downer”: Grass in the site and sand in the dune atea are full of sand spurs/sticker burrs so watch out for bare feet and paws. Beach didn’t have them.
Elizabeth S
VerifiedNovember 17, 2024 • Stayed at: D030, Loop: D
It was my first time camping, but everyone was wonderful and so was the campsite!
Evalin D
VerifiedNovember 15, 2024 • Stayed at: A022, Loop: A
Beautiful, spacious and close to beach. We stayed one night in early November. It was warmer than normal I think and the mosquitos showed up in the morning - our site was near brush. Best part was sky gazing at night with almost total darkness. We took our truck and trailer on the ferry from Hatteras(free). Then caught the Cedar Island Ferry to mainland ($45).
Ken T
VerifiedNovember 15, 2024 • Stayed at: A006, Loop: A
Great location. Clean site and bathrooms. Dump station was solid. Right time of the year—cool nights few bugs.
Need to allow solo type stoves for fires at campsites.
Roger H
VerifiedNovember 13, 2024 • Stayed at: D004, Loop: D
Nice campground in great location. Well kept, but no hot showers. Oregon Inlet has showers, so Ocracoke needs to get them.
Location Ocracoke Campground
Address:
4352 Irvin Garrish Hwy
Ocracoke, NC, 27960
United States
Latitude & Longitude: 35.1228 / -75.9261
Elevation: 1 feet
Policies & Rules
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Ocracoke is accessible only by ferry or aircraft. Ferry reservations may be required during peak season. |
| General |
Camping is limited to a total of 14 days of camping between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Making reservations under another name or account to circumvent the 14 day restriction is prohibited. |
| General |
Quiet hours are 10:00 pm - 6:00 am - Generators are allowed throughout the campground and must be turned off during quiet hours. |
| General |
Wood fires are not permitted in the campground. Only charcoal cooking fires are permitted in a grill, stove, or other self-contained unit. |
| General |
A fire may be ignited and maintained only by using fuel sources designed and commonly used for warmth or the preparation of food, such as charcoal briquettes or natural firewood. Lighting or maintaining a fire with other materials including, but not limited to, flammable liquids, garbage, fireworks, plastics, aerosol canisters, batteries, or other manufactured or synthetic materials, is prohibited. |
| General |
All equipment must fit on the site pad. If you have a large RV over 25 feet, you may have to park your second vehicle in the auxiliary parking area just outside the campground or purchase an additional campsite. Vehicles may not be parked on grass. |
| General |
At each campsite, there is a limit of six people, two cars (or one car and one trailer), and two tents. |
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Check in is 3:00 pm. Check out is 12:00 pm. |
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After heavy rain there may be areas of standing water due to the low terrain. |
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Biting insects are prevalent in summer months. Netting and repellent are recommended. |
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Campsites are exposed and subject to weather extremes. There are no shaded sites. |
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Must be 18 yrs of age to reserve a site. |
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For specific questions please call (252) 475-9054, hours are 8:00 am - 4:30 pm ET. |
Warnings & Advisories
Warning
GeneralStatewide Burn Ban--Effective Saturday, March 28 until further notice. Due to increased wildfire risk, the N.C. Forest Service has issued a ban on all open burning. Beach fires are considered open burning. If you are camping, portable gas stoves or grills are alternate methods for cooking food.
