Elizabeth City Lodging

The campground was small and well kept up. Probably the easiest in and out, just one road from gate to the campground. There is a small bath house near the beach.One shower and a ? toilet that was closed off. The place was swarming with bees and wasps. Got stung once and never returned. No swimming signs posted near the small beach. Do be aware that there are no amenities. Our jetpack cost is high, so usually try to find campgrounds that offer WiFi (like most Navy campgrounds). No cable and antenna picked up a few channels that would sometimes work and other times wouldn’t. The girl in the office was very nice and friendly. Our one major concern is there is nowhere to shelter in case of severe weather. We have never encountered this at any military campgrounds we have stayed at over the past few years. We had severe thunder storms, high winds and tornado watches while we were there. I called the office to ask where to take shelter if needed. I was told if the weather was severe the CO would close the base and we needed to evacuate with our RV. Evacuate during tornado watches/warnings??? Not gonna happen! All in all it is a nice, basic and very small campground. Good for a stop over, 1 ½ hours over to the Outer Banks. 

Beautiful little campground, paved sites easy in and out. Right on the water. Down side, can't swim. Some kind of bacteria in the water and swimming not recommended. There were not many instructions or directions when you check in you are kind of left on your own. We make sure to check and that there are shower and laundry facilities everywhere we stop as we travel in a 15' travel trailer. When we arrived I did not see laundry or bathrooms and there was no map of the park. I saw that one reviewer said there wasn't any facilities, there actually are. The laundry is in the area where the mobile homes are in a small white building and the bath house is on the other side of the beach (it is your basic beach bathroom, clean but not fancy). Just had to do some exploring to find everything. It was a lovely place to stay and we would stay there again. My dog and I took some beautiful sunrise walks. It would be nice if dogs were not banned from everything. They are cleaner than most people especially when they have their people trained well. 

A nice location and nice paved sites if you are in A thru J. We were assigned site #1 in the small RV location and we moved due to being in a gravel parking lot with cars and surrounded by Mobil homes. There is no bath house or laundry facilities but you do have full hook ups. I would not stay if all they had was # 1 - 4 open. 

A very small and quiet campground with level concrete back-in sites near the river. No confirmation email is sent after a reservation is made to give instructions for check-in or site assignment. That made arrival confusing because we did not know that we had to check a listing on the kiosk to find out what site was assigned to us and there was no camp host to assist us. Our name was not on the list so we took the only vacant site listed then called the office but got no answer. We finally, after several tries, got an answer and was told that the site we picked was our assigned site but then we found that the spigot was broken and had to move. The one thing that will cause us not to come back is the lack of a bathhouse in the campground. Campers have to use the gym down the street for access to toilets and showers. It was very inconvenient.

Wife and I stayed three nights. Very peaceful and quiet . Close enough to Nags Head...but far enough away to avoid the crowds! When you visit don't forget to tour the free Elizabeth City Museum! Will definitely return!

Enjoyed our visit at the base. The RV park is small but well kept and the staff that we met were helpful and personable. If you are planning a trip to the Outer Banks I highly recommend the base.