Need Camping Info around Wake Forest/N. Raleigh for Thanksgiving (Durham: RV park, middle school)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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I have family coming to visit at Thanksgiving and need to find a campground with water and electric that will be open at that time of year. I thought that Falls Lake would have sites available at Holly Point, but that campground closes on November 1.
Falls Lake State Rec area also operates Rolling View Campground off of Baptist Rd (I think it's technically Durham, about 10 miles away from Holly Point campground). Rolling View stays open year-round. Each year when my parents come down for Thanksgiving & Christmas, they park their RV at Rolling View. If you ever end up needing them for Christmas though, just note that the campground requires the campground to empty out on Christmas day itself. This is not the case, however, for Thanksgiving day.
To get to Rolling View from Holly Point, head left out of Holly Point camground onto New Light Rd. At the traffic light intersection with 98, turn right onto 98. Go ~5 (check this on mapquest) miles and at Neal Middle School turn right onto Baptist Rd. The road ends several miles up and the campground is at the end of it. Nice campground overall, water, electric & dump stations.
The N.C. Division of Parks & Recreation (919) 733-4181 should be able to confirm the hours. I do know the gates close early. The website says 6pm for the entire park but I remember them being open until 7pm. Parks & Rec should be able to verify though.
If you can make due with driving them around, what a lot of people do is leave a car parked just inside the gate, so that way if you drop them off after the gate is closed they can easily drive back to their campsite. When my folks come into town they don't actually stay in the RV every night so this doesn't become too much of an issue.
These same rules apply to Jordan Lake, as there is another year-round campground there.
Other options my parents have looked at are a facility near the NC State Fairgrounds (they've never stayed there), although I'm not 100% sure if they have water hookups, and the KOA in Smithfield.
The N.C. Division of Parks & Recreation (919) 733-4181 should be able to confirm the hours. I do know the gates close early. The website says 6pm for the entire park but I remember them being open until 7pm. Parks & Rec should be able to verify though.
If you can make due with driving them around, what a lot of people do is leave a car parked just inside the gate, so that way if you drop them off after the gate is closed they can easily drive back to their campsite. When my folks come into town they don't actually stay in the RV every night so this doesn't become too much of an issue.
These same rules apply to Jordan Lake, as there is another year-round campground there.
Other options my parents have looked at are a facility near the NC State Fairgrounds (they've never stayed there), although I'm not 100% sure if they have water hookups, and the KOA in Smithfield.
Looks like they're going to wind up in Durham at an RV park called Birchwood. It doesn't have an early "curfew" so we'll get to spend more time with them, even though they're staying further away than we previously expected. (6pm gate closing is a little too early for us, especially over the holidays:-)
Thanks for all the great suggestions!
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