If you are looking to camp nearby for a weekend get away Kings Mountain State park is good for camping, hiking and Lake Crawford is there for swimming.
Kings Mountain State Park Camping
Another short get away is Chimney Rock NC about an hour and a half from Charlotte. We enjoy Hickory Nut Falls Family Campground and there is plenty of things to do in Chimney Rock and the Lake Lure areas.
Hickory Nut Falls Family Campground
If you want to go further into the mountains we have camped at Maggie Valley and Cherokee. I don't know if you have children or if you will be tent camping or RV. The place we stayed in in Maggie Valley is right in downtown and we could walk to everything. No tent camping just RVs. Rippling Waters doesn't have a website. But you can google it and get reviews and info. We love Maggie Valley.
In Cherokee we stayed at Happy Holiday RV Village. Beautiful mountain views and a clean campground. Cherokee KOA is there too, we have never stayed there but friends have and said it was a nice place too. If you have children there is a Yogi Bear Campground in Cherokee I have heard was a good place.
Happy Holidays RV
If you change your mind and want to go to the beach Myrtle Beach State Park is a good place as is Ocean Lakes Family Campground and Lakewood.
Myrtle Beach State Park
Ocean Lakes
Lakewood
Please don't stay inside all summer.
We have the mountains one way and the ocean the other way ... you may as well enjoy the ocean before the oil gets here.
Happy camping and hiking .... have a good summer.
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