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GeneralFire restrictions are currently in effect that prohibit all wood-burning fires. Charcoal and gas grills are permitted in designated areas.
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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
Mike E
VerifiedJuly 16, 2021 • Stayed at: 01, Loop: FORT HAMBY
A beautiful campground with nice sites and good shade. Bath house was clean and fairly new.
Robert H
VerifiedJuly 9, 2021 • Stayed at: 14, Loop: FORT HAMBY
Clean and well maintained. Nice trail. Geared for rvs staying long term.
Erin G
VerifiedJuly 9, 2021 • Stayed at: 27, Loop: FORT HAMBY
If you're looking for a nice, quiet campground under a thick canopy of trees in the mountains. This is the campground for you! If you're most interested in the swimming/lake aspect keep reading. The campground itself has a rather odd layout. Also be aware that there are maybe two sites at this campground with access to the water directly from the campsite. Most of the campsites have an impossible descent to the lake, even a view of the lake is mainly obscured by the trees. We were there over the July 4th holiday, so the campground was full and the bathrooms stayed in a constant need of cleaning that seemed to be limited to once a day. It was nice to get away, but not exactly what we had in mind.
Mark D
VerifiedJuly 8, 2021 • Stayed at: 30, Loop: FORT HAMBY
Nice af quite, this trip. No children running around at 7 in the morning yelling up and down the road. Ge volunteers at the entrance were great.
Rogrt Y
VerifiedJuly 8, 2021 • Stayed at: 16, Loop: FORT HAMBY
The campground was very clean and well equipped. Nice level sites.
Steve M
VerifiedJune 28, 2021 • Stayed at: 15, Loop: FORT HAMBY
Love camping there!!
James F
VerifiedJune 26, 2021 • Stayed at: 19, Loop: FORT HAMBY
Nice campground sites are very spread out and it's very wooded area lovely.
KEN M
VerifiedJune 22, 2021 • Stayed at: 27, Loop: FORT HAMBY
The park is nice for what we wanted/needed.
It could use more shower/toilet facilities.
Richard S
VerifiedJune 21, 2021 • Stayed at: 18, Loop: FORT HAMBY
Nice bathroom, but you really have to drive to it. Good Electric and water. Sites should be categorized by how close they are to adjacent sites. I had a small bush between me and my nieghbor, while the site across from me was shrouded in forest. Much more private site, but no way to tell that on the website. Just a suggestion!
Vicky H
VerifiedJune 19, 2021 • Stayed at: 14, Loop: FORT HAMBY
We tent-camp and enjoyed four days with two of our grandchildren. Ft. Hamby offers a lot of activities and we had fun playing disc golf, using the swim beach, and hiking the Bushwhacker trail. Site #14 is a little tricky to back into and a bit small, but fairly private. The downside is that we had to drive to most sites and to the showerhouse because of the distance involved and the steep terrain of the campground. I doubt we will stay at this campground again, although we are very likely to come again for day-use only.
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
Latitude & Longitude: 36.1299 / -81.2721
Elevation: 360 feet
Policies & Rules
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ATTENTION: Gatehouse will not make changes to your reservation.
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Frequently asked Rules and Regulations:
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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. |
Warnings & Advisories
Warning
GeneralFire restrictions are currently in effect that prohibit all wood-burning fires. Charcoal and gas grills are permitted in designated areas.
