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Campsite #2 at Davidson River Campground, NC
$46
Campsite #2
| Drive-In | 8 people |
| 45 ft | Back-In |
| 2 | fair |
5/19
Campsite #2 Features: Drive-In access, Back-In parking, 45ft driveway, 30 amp hookup, 50 amp hookup, Fire ring, Picnic Table, RV Site, Tent Site, Trailer Site, Pets Allowed
Campsite Reviews (25)
5.0 out of 5
| 5 star | | 60% |
| 4 star | | 24% |
| 3 star | | 8% |
| 2 star | | 0% |
| 1 star | | 8% |
@KatieC9331305 · Camped on Oct 24, 2025 at Campsite #2
We love this campground! Great for hiking and biking, well spaced sites, great staff, awesome riverside trail to a great bbq restaurant! We come here when we want to stay close to home but want to feel like were far away
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@justinhEFD9EFA · Camped on Aug 5, 2025 at Campsite #2
Absolutely beautiful and close enough to town to get supplies. One of the top state/federal park campgrounds I have ever stayed at and Ive been to a bunch. Big sites with distance between. Show staff. Great amenities. Awesome river beach. Love this place!
Good
@EmberLBF48EF03 · Camped on Apr 25, 2025 at Campsite #2
We enjoyed our stay. It was nice that each loop of camp sites had their own bathhouse which were clean and in good condition. We really enjoyed the quiet time hours the quiet outdoor evenings. It was a nice safe place for our children to play next to our site.
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@KelleyJC98C2D4 · Camped on Mar 19, 2025 at Campsite #2
We've tent camped at this campground twice. We enjoyed both of our visits. It is a very nice campground with a fantastic location and it gets *A LOT* of use. Despite the amount of traffic, the campsites and grounds are generally clean. Both times we've booked, we have only been able to reserve our electric site on the Sycamore loop. Sycamore is convenient as it is the first loop in the campground and appears to be a smaller loop than others. Be aware some Sycamore loop sites (especially 1, 2, and 3) are fairly exposed to noise related to the nearby campground entrance, can be visible to passing traffic, and the light pollution from the campground entrance can be an annoying distraction to some as the lights are on all night. Some campgrounds use directional lighting, a hedge, or a fence (yuck!) to address visibility and light pollution issues - we used a tarp which helped some.Campers should also be aware that the Sycamore bath house has 1 male and 1 female bathroom; both provide 1-bathroom stall and 1-shower stall. Because of the proximity of this campground to nearby hiking trails and the small size of the bath house, bath houses are sometimes unavailable to campers because of hikers. During one trip our bath house was occupied for about an hour by a hiking party unassociated with the campground. Bath houses are ok; could sometimes use a bit better cleaning. Never had a need to contact a campground host, but folks at the entrance have always been very nice and helpful. We'll be back.
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@EdwardM9946642 · Camped on Jan 18, 2025 at Campsite #2
Have been visiting many parks in the southeast for past couple of months and Davidson River was hands down the best. The park is scenic and meticulously maintained but more importantly the employees were the finest group of people I have run across in a long time. Kind helpful and hard working
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@SeilyB946DD679 · Camped on Jul 26, 2024 at Campsite #2
Everything was perfect. Very close to the places we wanted to visit. Would definitely stay again.
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@DalenFD83DA414 · Camped on Feb 16, 2024 at Campsite #2
The potable water filling station at the dump station was broken. Showers were lukewarm, at best, which when you dont have a water hookup is a big downside.
Major Issues
@DarrellH1DBA91 · Camped on Jun 7, 2023 at Campsite #2
The bathrooms have improved and site personnel were friendly
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@ScottH7806643 · Camped on Apr 28, 2023 at Campsite #2
Enjoyed our trip except for a couple days of rain but the campground staff were excellent.
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@JonasS90B1DAA4 · Camped on Mar 12, 2023 at Campsite #2
Perfect location with plenty to do on site and within a walk or bike ride away. Everything was clean and functioning. Trails were awesome and the river was beautiful. Cant wait to come back!
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@HaileyPFC52C86 · Camped on Jan 12, 2023 at Campsite #2
Campground was nice and clean. My only complaint was that the hose for the dump station was missing the whole time we were there so we had no way to properly clean our black tank out when it was time to leave.
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@MichelleZ25652 · Camped on Aug 14, 2022 at Campsite #2
Wonderful place near lots of waterfalls. Trails along river. Self Rafting . Near town.
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@DeniseP3039167 · Camped on Apr 22, 2022 at Campsite #2
Great place to camp! Right on the river, nice clean bath houses, friendly helpful staff.
Good
@chrisf4258649 · Camped on Apr 19, 2022 at Campsite #2
Our campsite was great with plenty of room and was very peaceful. Amenities were excellent except for a lack of water hookup. Our only complaint was with the men's bathhouse. There was only one stall with a toilet and no urinal. Also, the shower was horrible. The water would not stay on and would not stay warm while taking a shower. The bathhouse needs to be updated and the showers improved.
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@JakeO677 · Camped on Dec 17, 2021 at Campsite #2
Easy in and out...nice level spot and power hook up was good to go. Wish they would open back up fully and get back to normal.
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@JohnL956 · Camped on Nov 26, 2021 at Campsite #2
Great campground excellent location. Unfortunately, we have an RV that can be set up very quickly.
We are able to drive where we want to go during the day and quickly set it up once we return to our campsite. We had enough fire wood for the weekend, a welcome Matt, and two homemade wood ramps, for leveling the RV, at our sight along
With the reservation placard publicly displaying the sight was reserved.
Upon arriving back at our site our campfire wood had been taken along with the wood leveling ramps. Remarkably the Campground manager knew who took the wood and. ramps. It was common knowledge,
Knowledge that campfire wood may be stolen.
I suggest that perhaps management be trained to offer respect to those that choose to leave for a few hours to enjoy a water fall hike that they could put public awareness signs up and include in the reservation documents that if a site is reserved and there is no one present to respect the site and it’s content/s until the reservation ends or the person who has paid the lot lease offers their belongings to whomever they choose. Will never be back
We are able to drive where we want to go during the day and quickly set it up once we return to our campsite. We had enough fire wood for the weekend, a welcome Matt, and two homemade wood ramps, for leveling the RV, at our sight along
With the reservation placard publicly displaying the sight was reserved.
Upon arriving back at our site our campfire wood had been taken along with the wood leveling ramps. Remarkably the Campground manager knew who took the wood and. ramps. It was common knowledge,
Knowledge that campfire wood may be stolen.
I suggest that perhaps management be trained to offer respect to those that choose to leave for a few hours to enjoy a water fall hike that they could put public awareness signs up and include in the reservation documents that if a site is reserved and there is no one present to respect the site and it’s content/s until the reservation ends or the person who has paid the lot lease offers their belongings to whomever they choose. Will never be back
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@BradH379 · Camped on Nov 24, 2021 at Campsite #2
Very nice campground. World class mountain biking, hiking, dirt road riding available right from the campground. Very nice staff. $8/small bundle of wood seems a little steep. Sycamore loop has electricity and we used a small space heater in our van to keep warm. Bathroom shower is free but a royal pain to use the men's one as you have to keep the button pushed in or the water shuts off. Women's bathroom was better - push in the button and water would run for longer. Water wasn't particularly warm though. No adjustment available. Toilet was leaking water onto the floor in the men's bathroom. Bathroom was clean every time I used it. Some of the other loops look to have more modern bathrooms (but not all of them). Nice flat sites with small rock tent pads, paved drives and paved loops so easy to keep your rig clean.
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@CARLP687 · Camped on Nov 2, 2021 at Campsite #2
Love the Camp ground entrance person Kim ( I think that's her name). So nice and helpful. Leaves were beautiful too.
@EdwardR751 · Camped on Aug 29, 2021 at Campsite #2
the staff was helpful. The site was clean.
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@DianeP369 · Camped on Mar 20, 2021 at Campsite #2
We always love staying at the Davidson River Campground. We did have to evacuate our site one night because of torrential rain that flooded our site. It is also getting very difficult to secure a reservation at Davidson River Campground anymore.
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@JaneK878 · Camped on Feb 23, 2021 at Campsite #2
Beautiful area with lots to do. Campsite was awesome!! We will be back for sure!
@PatrickW387339 · Camped on Nov 22, 2020 at Campsite #2
We have traveled to Davison River Campground many times over the years. This last time had been nearly 5 years since our last visit. When we arrived we noticed multiple trees down that have not been cleaned up for quite some time. A couple trees in particular had falling on the fence at the entrance and you can tell that theyve been there for quite a while and still no one had clean them up. This is the main reason for such a bad review on the campground.We now have children that we were camping with I would love to see a playground in the park.
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