Findings from continuous watching

Last-minute camping in North Carolina — campgrounds with weekend nights open

Which North Carolina campgrounds we watch still have weekend nights open this month, checked live — and which stay fully booked, each ranked over its own park's most recent season.

Open right now

4 of 4 campgrounds we watch here have weekend nights open this month

Remaining Friday and Saturday nights this month, from our latest check of each campground. A full campground opens up when someone cancels — a watch emails you the moment it does.

Not ranked yet

We rank a region once we watch at least 5 campgrounds here for two weeks

Today we're watching 51 campgrounds here, none of them with 14+ days of history in this window yet. We need 5 more qualifying campgrounds before this page ranks anything.

Campgrounds we watch here: Smokemont  ·  Cataloochee  ·  Standing Indian  ·  Davidson River  ·  Basin Cove Backcountry Camping  ·  Crabtree Falls  ·  Doughton Park  ·  Johns River Road Backcountry Camping  ·  Julian Price  ·  Linville Falls  ·  Mount Pisgah  ·  Cape Point  ·  Frisco  ·  Ocracoke  ·  Oregon Inlet  ·  GREAT ISLAND CABIN Camp  ·  LONG POINT CABIN Camp  ·  Balsam Mountain  ·  Big Creek Campground (Great Smoky Mountains National Park)  ·  BIG CREEK HORSE Camp  ·  CATALOOCHEE HORSE Camp  ·  Deep Creek  ·  ROUND BOTTOM HORSE Camp  ·  TOW STRING HORSE Camp  ·  Arrowhead  ·  Badin Lake  ·  Balsam Lake Lodge  ·  Black Mountain  ·  CANEBRAKE HORSE Camp  ·  Carolina Hemlocks Rec Area  ·  Cedar Point  ·  Cheoah Point Cabin 1  ·  Cheoah Point Cabin 2  ·  Cheoah Point  ·  Curtis Creek  ·  Flanners Beach  ·  Harmon Den  ·  Jackrabbit Mountain  ·  Lake Powhatan  ·  Lake Powhatan Glamping  ·  Mortimer  ·  North Mills River  ·  Oyster Point  ·  Rocky Bluff  ·  Sunburst  ·  Van Hook Glade  ·  WASH CREEK HORSE Camp  ·  Wolf Ford Horse Camp  ·  Bandits Roost  ·  Fort Hamby Park  ·  Warrior Creek

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