Dan Nicholas Park is home to a campground, lake, carousel, train, gem mine, aquarium and nature center, animal habitats, and more.  Learn more about the attractions at Dan Nicholas Park before your visit. 

Animals are allowed in the park but are not allowed on attractions.

All of the sites and cabins at Dan Nicholas Park are in the woods. We do not have sewer hookups on sites. Pets are allowed on sites only, not in cabin areas. We have a two night minimum for reservations on the weekends. Payment in full must be made to hold reservations. We do not do refunds, but we will issue rain checks if notified 4 days prior to first reservation date. These will be good for one year. 

Reservations
Online reservations are available for your convenience at www.campspot.com/book/dan-nicholas-park. 

The Campground Store can be reached at 704-216-7808. Please leave a detailed message with a return number and they will contact you as soon as possible. 

Dan Nicholas Park

Pretty heavily wooded medium sized campground with good sized sites, some of which are beside a small lake. No sewer hookups, they do have a dump station with no extra fee to use. Heavily populated park about a quarter mile from campground within same area which has gem mining, a carousel, small makeshift train ride, small petting zoo, playgrounds, etc. The campground would have been nice except the park staff are horrible, by far the worst I have experienced yet. When we checked in the girl didnt have a clue as to what the campground had to offer, where to put your trash, etc. The ranger would ride throughout the campground all day and hassle people who didn't follow the rules that no-one knew because the check-in lady didn't have a clue. The worst part was we were forced to move sites the very last night because they had a "mix-up" and someone else had reserved that site for 1 night of all sites on a Sunday night when the entire campground was wide open. Go figure. Was treated rudely told if we couldn't move than we would have to leave, ruined the entire day. We finally moved sites to the one beside us and she calls me back again and says you can stay there, that they had "mixed it up" again! We had already moved The TT and everything. The customer service was horrible and the staff lack training and are unfriendly. Very disorganized. Will not be back.

Don't go 

great place

This place is the best places for families to camp. There is a beautiful zoo, gem mining, a train ride, amazing fishing, a beautiful playground, and a carousel. The campsites are nice and the facilities are fairly clean. We really enjoyed fishing and caught a couple of fish as well. The sites are pretty roomy to! We definitely will be going back again and have been a couple of times.

Such a fun place to camp, especially for the kids 

This was the shakeout trip with our new to us, 2015 R-Pod 176T.  This turned out to be a great trip.  

The Campground and Host Kitty were wonderful.  The Campground is wooded and very scenic.  We stayed in site 25 which had a view of the pond.  Also it was a short walk to the bathhouse which was clean and warm for a cold fall/winter trip.  

The Campground is on a park which has lots of attractions for the family including a gem mine, carousel, small zoo, fishing, padle boats and other things to do.  These were closed due to COVID 19 but will be available once the pademic is over.  

There was WiFi across from our site which was really good.  We were able to stream Netflix and AT&amp;T TV with no problem.  The Camp host Kitty, was kind and helpful throughout our stay she had suggestions for us and assured us that if we had any issues she would be there.

I would highly recommend Dan Nicholas Park. 

Especially post COVID 19!!!!!!

Great place for our 1st Camper Trip

Easy access, Great location very close to the restrooms which are impecable. 

Perfect place for first campers

We went to visit family and didn’t want to have to leave early and go home so we stayed in the campground. It was fantastic. It had everything for kids…Gem mining, carousel,  ￼Paddle boats, and a train that went all the way around the park🥰￼great place for the summer ￼💯