Crabtree Falls Campground - Blue Ridge Parkway
Kelsey M.
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2018

Wonderful Stop off the Parkway

This review (just as future reviews to this page should be) is about the Crab Tree Falls Campground that is in North Carolina along the Blue Ridge Parkway and is managed by the National Park Service. There is another Crabtree Falls Campground quite a ways away in Virginia. Google Maps recognizes this campground as Crab Tree Meadows Campground (which is the name of the area along the Parkway that the campground is located in) but the Parkway's Crab Tree Meadows and Crab Tree Falls campgrounds are one and the same. It's all a little confusing.

This is a wonderful stop along the Blue Ridge Parkway. There are few campgrounds that are a park of the Blue Ridge Parkway National Park area. This campground passed by more often than some of the bigger Parkway campgrounds which means that it doesn't fill up as quickly. That doesn't mean that it won't full up. I visited in late October and the campground was pretty darn full by early evening.

This is one of the few national parks where you can collect firewood. However, campers are prohibited from bringing their own wood in, especially from out of state, unless it was been properly treated.

There are picnic tables, fire pits, and running water in the bathrooms. It's a little but funny that many of the campsites share parking with neighboring sites. It was occasionally challenging to tell which parking went with which site. Many of the sites are a little removed from their parking spot which help create separation between the sites.

Loop A is for RVs while Loop B is for tents (Loop C was closed when I visited)

The campground hosts were very friendly. If you have time take the short but very steep hike down to the actual falls.

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  • Review photo of Crabtree Falls Campground - Blue Ridge Parkway by Kelsey M., October 25, 2018
  • Review photo of Crabtree Falls Campground - Blue Ridge Parkway by Kelsey M., October 25, 2018
  • Review photo of Crabtree Falls Campground - Blue Ridge Parkway by Kelsey M., October 25, 2018
  • Review photo of Crabtree Falls Campground - Blue Ridge Parkway by Kelsey M., October 25, 2018
  • Review photo of Crabtree Falls Campground - Blue Ridge Parkway by Kelsey M., October 25, 2018
  • Review photo of Crabtree Falls Campground - Blue Ridge Parkway by Kelsey M., October 25, 2018
  • Quick drive around some of the campground
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  • Review photo of Crabtree Falls Campground - Blue Ridge Parkway by Kelsey M., October 25, 2018