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About Fort Hamby Park
Number of accommodations: 33
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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (277)
What Guests Are Saying
Fort Hamby Park is highly praised for its beautiful, clean, and well-maintained campground, offering spacious and private sites in a serene woodland setting. Visitors appreciate the friendly staff and clean facilities, including well-kept bathrooms and showers. While some reviewers noted issues with site grades and cleanliness in certain areas, overall experiences remain positive, with many expressing a desire to return year after year.
What Guests Are Saying
Fort Hamby Park is highly praised for its beautiful, clean, and well-maintained campground, offering spacious and private sites in a serene woodland setting. Visitors appreciate the friendly staff and clean facilities, including well-kept bathrooms and showers. While some reviewers noted issues with site grades and cleanliness in certain areas, overall experiences remain positive, with many expressing a desire to return year after year.
Review Summary
Stephen K
VerifiedMay 9, 2022 • Stayed at: 02, Loop: FORT HAMBY
We stayed at Fort Hamby as a base location to attend the annual spring music festival at Wilkesboro Community College. Bathrooms were clean. In addition, the washed out areas next to the (narrow) campground road had been filled in with crushed stone. This was very helpful for backing our trailer into the campsite and pulling our trailer around the campground loop.
David S
VerifiedMay 9, 2022 • Stayed at: 27, Loop: FORT HAMBY
Nice campground
Doug C
VerifiedMay 9, 2022 • Stayed at: 32, Loop: FORT HAMBY
Quiet, easy to get into site, level, gravel site, clean restrooms, friendly staff, even a little free library!
Patrice S
VerifiedMay 9, 2022 • Stayed at: 04, Loop: FORT HAMBY
We enjoy staying at Fort Hamby. The sites and facilities are nicely maintained, and the campground is quiet.
Anne H
VerifiedMay 8, 2022 • Stayed at: 05, Loop: FORT HAMBY
This is a quiet and peaceful campground with good size campsites. The bath house is very clean. Some sites have views of the gigantic lake, and there are some trails and disc golf as well.
Cindy B
VerifiedMay 8, 2022 • Stayed at: 12, Loop: FORT HAMBY
I screwed up my reservation and thought I was leaving on a Monday instead of Sunday. They were very nice at the office. The person who had reserved the site after us had cancelled at the last minute, so we were allowed to stay in place after making a new reservation. The problem came the next morning when leaving the dump station to go to the gate house to exit. The dump station is on a hill and the incline is fairly steep. Coming out of the dump station, our trailer "Bottomed out". We weren't aware of it until we were 200 miles away when someone flagged us down and said a part of our camper fell off. When we stopped to survey the damage, we were stunned that the back panel was gone, the bumper was crushed, the rear left stabelizer was bent, the skirting was falling off and all scratched up, and the framing post was snapped. I turned it into my insurance, but it's probably $5000 worth of damage. I've camped at Fort Hamby several times over the years and have never had this kind of problem. I was aware that I needed to drop off the window card at the gate house and I went far to the left to square up my truck with the drop box on the side of the gatehouse and the mechanical arm. If I had just angled my truck out like most people do, I probably wouldn't have had a problem. Now, I have lost my whole summer of camping while waiting to get my camper fixed. Bummer!
Debbie S
VerifiedApril 28, 2022 • Stayed at: 29, Loop: FORT HAMBY
Park was clean & quiet. sites were pretty level and large. Plenty of eating places & shopping in town near by.
Clarann H
VerifiedApril 28, 2022 • Stayed at: 28, Loop: FORT HAMBY
Great clean campground with very friendly and helpful staff. First trip there and would come back again. Roads and edges could use some maintenance. Some curves are challenging with a 35 foot TT but now we know the lay of the land we know what to expect.
Rebecca P
VerifiedApril 25, 2022 • Stayed at: 06, Loop: FORT HAMBY
Our cell phone provider is Spectrum, so we had no service at Fort Hamby except for using our data. Thank goodness we have unlimited data.
Tammy W
VerifiedApril 24, 2022 • Stayed at: 20, Loop: FORT HAMBY
First trip of the camping season. Had a blast staying at Fort Hamby.
Location Fort Hamby Park
Address:
1534 S. Recreation Road
Wilkesboro, NC, 28697
United States
From Winston-Salem, North Carolina, take Highway 421 North (approximately 61 miles) and turn left onto S. Recreation Road. Continue for approximately 1.5 miles. Campground entrance is located at the end of the road.
From Charlotte, North Carolina, take I-77 North (approximately 60 miles) before merging onto Highway 421 North towards Wilkesboro/Boone, continue to S. Recreation Road (approximately 28 miles), turn left onto S. Recreation Road and go approximately 1.5 miles. Campground entrance is located at the end of the road.
Travel times from:
Winston Salem: 1 hour
Charlotte: 1.5 hours
Fort Hamby Park is accessible via Highway 421, which connects to I-77 North approximately 28 miles to the south.
Latitude & Longitude: 36.1299 / -81.2721
Elevation: 360 feet
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
3PM
Check out time
12PM
General
- For Campground side only: If no attendant is in the gatehouse, Guests will self-check in using the gate code emailed to them at the point the reservation is made. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LAST SELECTED DATE ON CALENDAR IS YOUR DEPARTURE DATE!
- ATTENTION: Gatehouse will not make changes to your reservation. All reservations, changes, and cancellations must be made by the guest using Recreation.gov, by calling 877-444-6777, or using the Recreation.gov moblie app. The gate code will be delivered to the email address associated with the reservation. Highly recommend downloading the recreation.gov moblie app from the recreation.gov website prior to arriving at the campground.
- Alcoholic beverages and off-road (golf carts, 4-wheelers, etc.) are prohibited. Camping is permitted in designated campsites only, and only permitted to those who have a reservation. Most campsites have a gravel bases: bring padding for tents. All equipment much be placed within site perimeter.
- For Day Use Side of Park to include Shelters Reservations:The shelter reservation fee does include the $7 day use fee if the car is parked at the shelter parking area. All vehicles not associated with a shelter reservation will pay the day use at the kiosk. This fee is to be paid at the kiosk at the entrance to day use area (near gatehouse). The receipt from the kiosk is to be placed on the dash of the car as proof of payment. The playground and volleyball court are not included in your reservation. Those areas area available to all day users. Park only in designated areas. Parking at the shelter is not guaranteed. Carpooling is highly recommended.
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Last updated: June 4, 2026
