Paint Creek Campground

The quality of the camp ground has dropped since the garbage cans were removed and 2 dumpster were put in . The flys were terrible as we tried eating outside also warf rats were in the dumpster and one got ran over in the road near campsite #7 .

The creek is beautiful but the toilets' were a mess. The surrounding areas smelled terrible. I do not think the composting toilets' are betting treated correctly.

Wonderful campground. The sites are well kept and quite distant from each other (which was important to us due to COVID). Almost all of them are creekside and because of the sound of the river, it is an incredibly quiet campground. We had people on three sides of us and yet couldn't hear them at all. The Rich Mtn fire tower is just a few miles away (on a very cool gravel road that is worth running) and offers spectacular views. Also, the campground is in very nice proximity to Greeneville if you end up needing anything during your stay. Only critique at all is that the bathrooms smelled absolutely horrible (not sure if they just needed drained or whatever, but whoa). Also, we were there the four days prior to the campground being shut down due to bear activity - and we did see two bears and one came within 20 feet of me while I was washing dishes. Not scared of humans at all and so it was good to see the authorities take that seriously and do what was necessary to try to move the bears in order to keep them and the campers safe. Oh, one other thing - we were there to fish Paint Creek, but it is really a bit too small of a creek for very good fishing. A lovely place for visiting the waterfalls and swimming in the deeper holes, but maybe not the best for an extended day trip for trout! Overall, a wonderful experience and I will definitely plan to come again - I just might not build the trip around fishing.

Did not get to go cause you all couldnt fix my problem. I tried to book 2 nights and when I got through everything including my credit card it only gave me one night and charged me 18.00. I have been going to paint creek since I was a kid and NOW you make it where we have to schedule our camping trip. This has messed everything up plus now its 18,00 ...10 + a fee to use a site to book in a system that Doesn't work. You stole money from me and wonder how many more people has this happened to. Oh yes I called and it was a fee to get my money back, how stupid can you be . Well you can cancel, oh so you can collect another 18.00 from someone else. Hope this really really fails. You just dont know how disappointed alot of people are.

Nice and clean camp site. Everything we needed.

Very nice place to be to get away from it all. Back to nature.

Had a good time but the dumpsters had a smell to them . It was better with the garbage cans in camp .

We loved the campground very quite quiet and relaxing. Our tent site was very private and right on the creek. Beautiful

Need electric on all the lower sites . This should have been done when they ran electric to the host site would have been cheaper. campground needs to stay open and all gates stay open till deer season is over.we the people have to buy a type 94 lic. to hunt and you close the campground and lock the gates. this is bull.you let people come there and tear the off roads up and driv into the woods these people dont pay anything.we the people want the camp ground open and gates open till Dec 31 .Thank you.

Paint Creek was awesome.....we had never camped primitive before and we enjoyed it very much. Creek was flowing: nice to sleep by, leaves were starting to change: beautiful to see. We are already planning our next trip!!