North Gorge Campground

Lovely relaxed place with family. No beach for little ones, but we didn’t need that. Will go back!

Campground is very small. Very little space for taking walks. There is a railroad track directly adjacent to the campground. There are generally 2 trains a day. They travel very slowly, maybe 5-10 mi an hour at most, but can be quite loud if you in the lower area. The boat ramp is busy and early launchers with loud trucks and headlights will drive you nuts. Launchers here tend to leave their trucks running and their headlights on while launching which is not cool at 330 AM. Boat ramp parking is very inadequate. The whole lower area gets really congested at times, especially on sunny weekends. Locals use the upper camping area for cliff diving and swimming, and if you are tent camping in sites 8-11 you will likely not be happy campers, especially if you like things relatively quiet. Also those tent sites have very limited flat space for tents. Certainly can't accommodate large families or groups of more than a few people. Cars can jam the upper circle on sunny afternoons, making parking and ingress/egress almost impossible at times. National Park Service does a nice job, and restrooms are cleaned daily. Garbage cans are usually emptied and clean too, except when some uncaring fisherman throws fish guts in the hot dumpster, creating a stinking mess for everyone else to smell. There are no hookups or and no potable water available and most of the sites available to RV's are quite small. If you need your cell phone, be advised it is extremely limited and comes and goes all the time (mostly gone). I'd advise if you are not good at backing up your trailer, go elsewhere, and stay out of the upper area as turn around is very limited at best and impossible if more than one vehicle is parked there. On the plus side, the river/lake is beautiful, and the water is cool and clear.

Very clean and quiet. No trouble. Enjoyed our stay immensely!

Water in camp ground was not turned on. Water level was way to low to launch a boat at North Gorge. Paid in advance launch fee. Other campers Dogs we’re running loose. I have no problem with dogs off leash if they stay with there owner but these dogs even small ran all over the camp ground
But bath house was clean and so was the campground.I really like north gorge.

Pay online before you go!!! The campground must be paid online. Well, there’s no cell service there. You have to drive 20 minutes back to get cell service. I was able to get a phone call out to pay by phone. Took 20 minutes to get through and got transferred twice. Campground is just “ok”. The water was so low in May that it was a little hike to get to the river. $23 seems expensive for no hookups, no water. Just paying to park overnight. Meh.

By far our favorite campground! Can't wait for the crew to be back to normal. We don't mind the higher fees, but the bathrooms aren't as clean.
We also had a bear frequent the campground. He didn't bother us one bit... but seems to like it there as much as we do.
We will be back again and again!

Quiet & scenic

Love this campground!

Swimming was great.

The site was beautiful!!
Our main concern was that the site stated that it would fit 10 people and it barely fit my 10 person tent. The place of the picnic table made it really hard to place the tent in a safe spot.
Also someone defecated all over the only toilet in the whole campsite and it was melting so it was unusable and there wasn’t a good place to use the bathroom anywhere else.

Other than that we had a good time!! We would come back.