Beartree

We loved our stay at Beartree! Our site felt beautifully private, and there was a tumbling stream at the back. We hope to return for another few days in the fall.

I have been camping here a few times. Every time is always very enjoyable. The facilities are always clean, the campsites are very nice and the staff is amazing.

Campground looking good! Recently pruned and treated. Bath houses clean and working. Multitude of birds serenading. Still our favorite place!!

Four of us stayed at site 25 in the chipmunk circle from 6/30-7/3. The sites are surrounded by rhododendron making them feel private and jungle-like. The bathrooms are okay, just maybe don't touch the walls with all the bugs. You'll be okay. All part of the camping experience, I suppose. At least there are showers (metered kind) w/ hot water. No reception, but you're only ~20min from Damascus. Great place to make basecamp and see Whitetop mountain for sunset (watch out for deer) or summiting Mt. Rogers. I'd come back to try the Creeper Trail. For $22/night it's a really cool campground.

We absolutely love it here! We brought our toddler here for the first time and he had a blast playing on the playground. We’re already planning our next trip!

The campsite wasn’t as big as the description stated. We only had 14 people and 6 tents and a hammock. We were all crammed together and when it rained, the rain stayed in the campsite instead of draining which is ok. The outhouses were dirty and not properly ventilated with no power. The shower house was a good 6 minute walk away. The parking was unorganized and definitely couldn’t fit 4 cars per sit.

The camp host was great. Since the campground was nearly empty it was so quiet. I love the wooded sites. The campground bathrooms were old and need updating but functional. It was a short drive to Damascus to ride the Virginia Creeper Trail.

Very nice sites and the check in host was very nice and informative about questions we had about the vegetation.

We love BearTree! All the sites are private and wooded and close enough to the bathrooms. The hosts are friendly and helpful. It's a climb from Damascus and tends to be 5-10° cooler. We will be returning again next year.

My family has been camping at Beatree many times over a 10-year period and love the area and the campground. We like the large sites and how secluded they are. We missed camping there in 2022 but were able to return this year. We noticed the sites and facilities were not kept up as nice in the past. The bath houses are starting to get run down and were not very clean. We had two dead trees at our site which could be a huge hazard during high winds. The tent pads were not kept up and the foliage has overtaken many of the sites making them smaller. During our stay over the Labor Day weekend the water went out at the tent sites in the two main loops and we had to drive 2 mi to the one working bathroom for two days. During this time the facility was not cleaned properly for all the traffic it was getting. The restroom facilities at the lake were also out of service and the doors boarded up. We love camping there and hope that these items can be improved in the future.