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Best RV Parks & Resorts near Gastonia, NC

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Several RV parks near Gastonia accommodate various RV sizes and needs. Crown Cove RV Park offers full hookup sites with 50-amp electric, water, and sewer connections. The park features level gravel pads suitable for larger rigs. "Our lot was on a hillside which made using our full hookups going uphill," noted one camper about Crown Cove. Kings Mountain RV Resort contains 116 sites with 50-amp electrical hookups and sewer connections, though the campground lacks some amenities like picnic tables and dump stations. Elmore RV Park provides water and electric hookups with sewer connections, and accommodates big rigs despite its compact layout. Crowders Mountain State Park Campground offers limited RV sites with both 30-amp and 50-amp electrical options.

Most RV parks in the region require advance reservations, particularly during peak travel seasons. Access roads to some parks involve moderate grades, with Indian Springs Campground featuring a manageable 7% grade entrance. Based on reviews from The Dyrt, several campgrounds have unlevel sites that may require blocks or other leveling equipment. McDowell Nature Preserve provides a convenient option near Charlotte with clean facilities and secured gate access for registered campers. Hookup availability varies significantly between parks—while full hookup sites are common at private RV parks, state parks typically offer more limited utilities. Pet policies differ across facilities, with most allowing pets but enforcing specific rules about containment and supervision. Cell service remains reliable at most locations due to proximity to urban areas.

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  • Josh B.
    Mar. 11, 2021

    Kings Mountain — Kings Mountain State Park

    Overall a Good Experience

    Took the new pop-up to Kings Mountain State Park this past weekend and had a great time. The sites are pretty close together, but we still had adequate room to spread out. Each site has water, 30 amp electric, a picnic table, and a fire pit ring. Our site was a pull-through, but the majority of them are back-in. Throughout the campground, AT&T had great cell coverage, but Verizon was non-existent. Our site was a stone's throw from the bath/shower house, which was clean and recently updated. When not in the side, a short walk takes you to the Trading Post, a small store selling firewood ($7), ice, souvenirs, and sundries. Next to that is a large playground connected to a pavilion. A short 2 minute drive (or longer hike if you are feeling ambitious) takes you to the Kings Mountain Military Museum where you can learn of all things historical to Kings Mountain. There's a small model village and numerous other attractions to view while at the park as well. Overall this was a great experience. It's close to home for us, and the price was fantastic ($30 nightly). Let me know if you have any other questions!

  • Nancy W.The Dyrt PRO User
    Nov. 29, 2021

    Spacious Skies Peach Haven

    Nice campground, lots of amenities.

    Overall, this is a very nice, clean park conveniently located to the interstate I-85) and attractions in the area. It has all the amenities you would expect to find at a KOA such as a swimming pool, playground, dog park, miniature golf, store, clubhouse, and more (including goats). It is by far the nicest private campground in the area that we have stayed at.

    This KOA has 127 sites offering varying degrees of services to accommodate RV's, tents, and those wanting to rent cabins. We chose a 50-amp full hook-up back-in site but were upgraded to a pull-thru so we could be in a sunny location to mitigate the chilly air. How nice of them! Our site (#79) was perfectly level as were most others (but not all). Water, electric, and cable hook-ups were well placed at the site and worked fine. We paid $37/night(with the KOA member discount). Nice, large grassy area for dogs to walk and sniff and there is a decent size dog park.  Roads and pads are hard packed gravel with grass in between sites. Some sites are set in a wooded area while some are out in the open with plenty of sun and satellite coverage. The park is big rig friendly and the roads are easily navigable. All sites have a picnic table and some had fire pits but ours did not. Cable is included and offered over 50 channels. Wifi worked well at our site.  The laundry was small with three washers and three dryers but very clean and had a decent book exchange. The bathroom and showers were super clean and looked like they were updated recently. 

    The campground is extremely clean and the owners/employees are super friendly. There is a short hiking trail (less than a mile) through the woods and plenty of green space in front of some of the pull-thrus. playground large swimming pool with large deck putt putt with lots of goat humor. 

    The only downside would be the closeness of sites but that is pretty much what you expect from private RV parks. Fortunately, we did not have neighbors right next to us which gave us more space. I'm usually not a KOA fan but have to say this one was great for our overnight stay and we would recommend it.

  • Austin M.
    Oct. 11, 2022

    Crown Cove RV Park

    Crown Cove Camping!

    Very clean and well maintained campground! Great for long term camp sites! Very easy to deal with the workers as they are friendly and will take care of you! Pet friendly also. This is a great safe campground.

  • T
    Apr. 6, 2022

    Carowinds Camp Wilderness Resort

    convenient to Carowinds, decent campground

    Older campground lots of shade.  staff very friendly and helpful. We were really surprised with how much has been invested in Carowinds over the years by Cedar Fair that the campground has been untouched.  Bathrooms/bathhouses were very clean and seem to be the one part of the campground that has been updated.  One section of the campground has been turned into long term camping and many looked like they had been there for years.  campground was quiet other than noise from air traffic as airport is nearby but it was minor.   Campsites have decent space in between each other which is great bc the sites are small in length and you will be parking either beside the rig or sideways in front of it. We stayed in a back-in site and most back-in sites seemed rather level but pull throughs were hit or miss on that aspect.  If you are staying here to go to the park then it is very convenient and has an excellent shuttle that runs frequently and drops you off near the front gate.  Very small camp store that has most of the basics. Campground overall is clean, safe and secure but we expected a little more from theme park campground.  We live nearby and are pass holders at Carowinds so we will likely stay frequently due to the convenience.

  • Tim P.
    Jun. 19, 2021

    Croft State Park Campground

    Shakedown trip with new first camper

    Great state park. Easy back in some pull through. Spacious clean sites. Many historic hiking trails easy to mod. Horse trails with stables. Bike trails. Lake Craig is nice fishing with rentable Jon boats, kayaks and SUP. No gas motors or swimming. No pool and dump station only. Playground and clean bathhouses.

  • BThe Dyrt PRO User
    Apr. 29, 2022

    Lake Norman State Park Campground

    Beautiful park, great facilities

    Full hookups were all filled but site 29 was a primitive, deep, level 57 foot site right near water siphon and a beautiful modern bathhouse picnic table and fire grate/ring. Fair amount of space between sites, firewood sold by camphost or ranger. Made yummy hot dogs over fire, wonderful night, hot showers, clean facilities. You will be thrilled with this park, lake is beautiful, many hiking trails, biking, etc. Verizon cell service was excellent at our site and appeared good throughout park.

  • Dave V.
    Jul. 1, 2021

    South Mountains State Park Family Campground

    A Sleeper worth Staying At

    South Mountain State Park, NC From I-40 Exit 104, you twist and turn, up and down but keep a sharp eye for the small, brown State Park signs or you’ll pass your right hand turns. 

    The South Mountain Visitors Center is very spacious and attractive but doesn’t offer a great deal. There is a cool 3D topo map display of the state park. At present, this is a 23,000 acre State Park...and ever acquiring more land. 

    The family campground is a short distance further inside the park on the left side(approx 2 miles) marked by a small brown sign...and is situated at 1400 ft elevation. 

    The campground is tiny and narrow, running between a creek and the state park roadway. The sounds of the creek melodious, the road traffic noise-not so much. I would definitely advise selecting the creek side campsites as they lay deeper in the wood line out of sight of the roadway and have the creek noise to cover roadway noise.(note: the roadway dead ends at the trailhead/picnic area, so the only traffic are day visitors and park staff) Be forewarned, Cell service is nonexistent. Your site will have a WiFi password for internet at the Visitors Center, but you need to be at or in the building for it to work. 

    PROS:

    •Small campground with few amenities

    •Mountain/creek location

    •Nice modern facilities

    •Water

    •Adjoining trail network

    •No cell service

    •80’ Waterfall•Interpretive Hemlock Nature Trail

    •Beautiful Day Use picnic area 

    CONS:

    •Road noise for sites 10-14, during working hours and day use hours.

    •No cell service 

    Site 13 backs up toward the roadway, and without much understory, passing traffic is very visible and noisy(the high shoals falls and trail network are popular day use attractions). On the sites between the campground roadway and the State Park roadway, you are much closer than the website maps post, and without understory vegetation, you have direct visibility of several neighbors and normal conversations can be heard. Night noise restrictions, on our visit, were observed so it wasn’t an issue. My visit was Wed, Thurs. midweek Oct 7-8. 

    Our site was an“leveling,” octagonal, elevated, crushed gravel pad, surrounded by landscape timbers...an elevated fire ring with a swing-over, non-adjustable grate, a picnic table and metal lantern pole. It worked fine but I used a small two-man tent. Depending on wind direction, fire ring embers would present a problem for a larger tent. Our site parking area was 45’ from the raised timber to campground roadway. 

    The restroom/shower house is a monstrous, mountain lodge style modern facility...very clean, spacious and well-stocked. 

    Walking the Family Camground my future site picks would be 5 or 7. Site 5 is a park and carry but it did not appear to be more than 50’ and it sat on the creek. Site 7 is on that same small loop but had a larger rectangular raised pad, for keeping tents distanced from fire pits. 

    Some sites have a deep enough gravel drive for a small camper or popup. And a few have electric. 

    Several trails lead from the NW end of the family campground parking lot and vary in length and difficulty. Most notable is the Raven Rock Trail to the High Shoals Falls Trail, which, depending on your level of fitness could be deemed a moderate to strenuous 2.35 mile climb and descent to the upper falls and then wooden boardwalk and steep steps down to the gorgeous 80 ft High Shoals waterfall. Smaller falls and cascades continue on the descent. Our total loop mileage was 5.5 with nearly a thousand foot of elevation gain. 

    Park employees both at the Visitor’s Center desk and in the field were very friendly and pleasant. The NC State Park Ranger was very informative and helpful, as well as giving much appreciated suggestions for great and often lesser traveled hiking trails. 

    Roughly 16.5 miles of mountain bike trails intermix with hiking and equestrian trails. There is a separate equestrian campground between the Visitors Center and the Family Campground. Note: there are several backcountry backpack-in campsite areas(Upper Falls Campsites offer picnic tables, fire ring and a couple pit latrines).

  • Bill C.
    Aug. 2, 2020

    Chester State Park Campground

    Campsites and views, oh my!

    First time staying at Chester State Park. Checked in at the Ranger’s station with friendly staff and a small store front with ice available. Picked pull through site 16. All 25 of the sites are on mostly level ground. The lake from the campground has a fairly new access via a ADA compliant walkway with lighting leading to swings, benches and Adirondack chairs surrounding a rock fire pit. There are benches facing the lake for sitting and or fishing and a new deck that provide even better views of the lake. The trails are well marked and wide that run along the lake edge. There is fishing, kayaks and canoes at the boat dock for rent and to our children’s disappointment no swimming in the lake. The other side of the park has the boat dock, playgrounds for the kiddos and plenty of grassy areas and picnic tables for sitting by the lake. Also there is a professional disc golf course on site. Last but not least the bathhouse is up to date, clean and well stocked.

  • Joel R.The Dyrt PRO User
    Oct. 13, 2021

    Kings Mountain — Kings Mountain State Park

    Nice quiet state park

    This is a very nice state park. The sites are well spaced and wooded. (If you think they are too close together you haven’t been to many private campgrounds). Our site was level and spacious, although some were not as level. Our first site had an awkward incline. The guy at the trading post said they were working on them. We were there mid-week and the campground was very quiet. The only noise was from crows and other birds, and acorns falling in the woods. There is electric (some 50 amp) and water but no sewer. There are 2 dump stations. Several bathrooms/showers are available. There is a nice playground, hiking trails, a lake, canoe rental, and a trading post with some food, ice, camping supplies, firewood and souvenirs. There is also a separate Equestrian campground! The stare park is adjacent to Kings Mountain National Battlefield Park, with Revolutionary War history and more hiking.

Guide to Gastonia

RV camping near Gastonia, North Carolina provides convenient access to both natural areas and urban amenities. Located in the western Piedmont region, campgrounds in this area experience mild winters and warm summers, with average summer temperatures around 90°F. Most RV parks maintain year-round operations, though state park facilities may limit hookup availability during winter months.

What to do

Hiking at Crowders Mountain: The 1-mile trail to the campground serves as a gateway to more extensive hiking networks. "This was a pretty good place to camp. There is a hike to the campsite from the parking lot so we definitely got our workout in bringing our gear in," notes Lisa L. about Crowders Mountain State Park Campground.

Fishing opportunities: Breezy's Lake offers stocked pond fishing with convenient amenities. "Breezy's Lake has great fishing access with Electric & Water hookups, even an onsite dump station for longer stays," shares Jake C. about Breezy's Lake & RV Park.

Recreation facilities: Some campgrounds provide on-site activities for all ages. "Well maintained and super nice. Nice children and adult play area, cornhole, horseshoes, swing set, and fire pits," reports Jeff K. about Maple Ridge RV Park.

What campers like

Proximity to attractions: Many RV parks offer strategic positioning between urban and natural settings. "Stayed here for a couple of month and loved it! Specially with a toddler very friendly and is just that middle base between city and nature," comments Danarys E. about Crown Cove RV Park.

Cleanliness and maintenance: Well-kept facilities receive consistent praise from campers. "Nice campground. A bit on the small side. Owners are very friendly and helpful. Several sites have a dog pen. My dogs really enjoyed the extra off leash time," writes James about Maple Ridge RV Park.

Convenient late arrival options: Some campgrounds accommodate unexpected schedule changes. "We were not able to make our reservation check-in time at another campground. We called Grandview and the gentleman was very friendly and told us there was a drop box for the money for a tent site," explains Adam P. about Grand View Campground & RV Park.

What you should know

Pet policies vary: While many campgrounds welcome pets, specific rules differ by location. "Nice and quiet. Had fire pits and grill at the site. Community fire pits. Close to lake lure and chimney rock. Clean bathhouse and restrooms," reports Kevin T. about Maple Ridge RV Park.

Long-term vs. short-term accommodations: Some parks cater primarily to extended stays. "I lived here for two years on a long term spot. If short term you will be In a small gravel lot. There are no amenities, no shower houses. No frills," explains Deanna L. about Elmore RV Park.

Campground rules: Some parks enforce strict regulations. "Is a decent rv park. No amenities, charge $100 extra dlls for each kid. Kids are not allowed outside," notes Rozina G. about Glenwood Acres RV Park.

Tips for camping with families

Consider accessibility needs: Parks offer varying levels of accommodation for families. "The hikes here are really awesome and the facilities are nice and clean! We really enjoyed all of the different hikes and the lake as well as the hike to the top of the mountain. The hike to the top was a little strenuous for smaller kids," shares Lisa L. about Crowders Mountain State Park Campground.

Pack-in preparation: Backcountry sites require proper planning. "There is a hike to the campsite from the parking lot so we definitely got our workout in bringing our gear in," notes Lisa L. about her experience at Crowders Mountain.

Beginner-friendly options: Some locations specifically suit new campers. "Good campground for beginners of families with kids or those that love to hike," recommends Von B. about Crowders Mountain State Park Campground.

Tips from RVers

Site leveling challenges: Prepare leveling equipment based on terrain variations. "Subpar; seems to cater to long term residents... our lot was on a hill side which made using our full hookups going up hill," reports one camper about Crown Cove RV Park.

Check amenity availability: RV parks differ significantly in provided services. "If short term you will be In a small gravel lot. There are no amenities, no shower houses. No frills," notes Deanna L. about Elmore RV Park.

Request site specifications: When making reservations, communicate specific needs. "We were on a 'hill' but since we were close to all the trees i didn't mind it," mentions Danarys E. about Crown Cove RV Park.

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