Bandits Roost
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 103All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bandits Roost Campground is located on the south side of W. Kerr Scott Reservoir in western North Carolina. Constructed in the beautiful Yadkin River Valley, the lake offers extensive opportunities for outdoor recreational activities. Keep reading
Recreation
The 1,475-acre reservoir offers excellent boating, canoeing, kayaking and swimming opportunities. Anglers will find channel catfish, large and smallmouth bass, bluegill, threadfin shad, spotted bass, striped bass, and hybrid striped bass. Miles of multi-use trails, that allow hiking and mountain biking, surround the lake, including the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, which has a trailhead at the campground. An additional 25 miles of trails can be found at the Warrior Creek and Dark Mountain areas.
Facilities
The campground offers 102 campsites, including 17 tents sites and 85 standard sites with water and electric hookups. The popular group tent area offers a covered shelter with water and electricity, a grill, six tables and seven tent pads. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A boat ramp, swim beach, playground, basketball court and amphitheater offer additional recreation opportunities.
Natural Features
The gentle Yadkin River flows through its scenic namesake valley in the foothills of the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains. Forests of mixed hardwoods, including sycamore, poplar, oak and hickory, cover the region. Wildlife is abundant in the valley. White-tailed deer, black bear, eastern cottontails and more can be found among the hills. Birds in the area include wild turkey, woodpeckers, Carolina chickadees, red-eyed vireo, ovenbirds, mallards and wood ducks. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (336) 921-3390 for general information.
What the agency tells you
Check out time is 12pm. Check in time 3pm or after. If no attendant is in the gatehouse, Guests will self-check in using the gate code emailed to them at the point the reservation is made. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LAST SELECTED DATE ON CALENDAR IS YOUR DEPARTURE DATE!
ATTENTION: Gatehouse will not make changes to your reservation. All reservations, changes, and cancellations must be made by the guest using Recreation.gov, by calling 877-444-6777, or using the Recreation.gov moblie app. The gate code will be delivered to the email address associated with the reservation. Highly recommend downloading the recreation.gov moblie app from the recreation.gov website prior to arriving at the campground.
Frequently asked Rules and Regulations: Maximum stay is 14 days within any 30 day period. Changing names on a reservation, changing campsites, or making multiple reservations in order to stay over 14 days is prohibitied. Golden Age/Access and America the Beautiful Interagency Senior and Access Passes are accepted at this campground. Cardholders receive a 50% discount on camping fees. Cardholder must be present at of check in, show pass and ID, and camp during the entire stay. Alcoholic beverages and off-road (golf carts, 4-wheelers, etc.) are prohibited. Camping is permitted in designated campsites only, and only permitted to those who have a reservation. Most campsites have a gravel bases: bring padding for tents. All equipment much be placed within site perimeter. Quiet hours are from 10pm. to 6am. Generators and music must be cut off at 10pm. Campers/Customers should not have packages delivered to the Park. For a full list of rules and regulations, please visit Title 36
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 103 · 17 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- 86 electric, 85 water
- Longest rig
- 148 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 80 of 89 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…tent pads. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A boat…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A boat ramp, swim beach,…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Environmental Education
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Visitor center
- Night sky · 70th darkest of 84 in NC
- Bortle 4
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:08 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$30 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:08 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
103 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 89 mapped sitesAll 103 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 103 of the 103 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| A | 01 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | $20 | ||||
| A | 02 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | $20 | ||||
| A | 03 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | 151 ft | 145 ft | $20 | ||
| A | 04 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | 151 ft | 134 ft | $20 | ||
| A | 05 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | 103 ft | 98 ft | $20 | ||
| A | 06 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | 81 ft | 83 ft | $20 | ||
| A | 07 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | 81 ft | 93 ft | $20 | ||
| A | 08 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | 92 ft | 154 ft | $20 | ||
| A | 09 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | 92 ft | 218 ft | $20 | ||
| A | 10 | standard electric | 110 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 327 ft | $30 | |
| A | 11 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 250 ft | $30 | |
| A | 12 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 214 ft | $30 | |
| A | 13 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 160 ft | $30 | |
| A | 14 | standard electric | 107 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 129 ft | $30 | |
| A | 15 | standard electric | 102 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 94 ft | $30 | |
| A | 16 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| A | 17 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| A | 18 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 55 ft | $30 | |
| A | 19 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 61 ft | $30 | |
| A | 20 | standard electric | 74 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 81 ft | $30 | |
| A | 21 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 84 ft | $30 | |
| A | 22-A | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 63 ft | $30 | |
| A | 22-B | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 43 ft | $30 | |
| A | 23-A | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 193 ft | $30 | |
| A | 23-B | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 179 ft | $30 | |
| A | 24 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| A | 25 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 174 ft | $30 | |
| A | 26 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 165 ft | $30 | |
| A | 27 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 152 ft | $30 | |
| A | 28 | standard electric | 105 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 170 ft | $30 | |
| A | 29 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 257 ft | $30 | |
| A | 30 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| A | 31 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 203 ft | $30 | |
| A | 32 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 140 ft | $30 | |
| A | 33 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 97 ft | $30 | |
| A | 34 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 106 ft | $30 | |
| A | 35 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 171 ft | $30 | |
| A | 36 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 193 ft | $30 | |
| A | 37 | standard electric | 89 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 250 ft | $30 | |
| A | 38 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 239 ft | $30 | |
| A | 39 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 250 ft | $30 | |
| A | 40 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 291 ft | $30 | |
| A | 41 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 365 ft | $30 | |
| A | 42 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 351 ft | $30 | |
| A | 43 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 345 ft | $30 | |
| A | 44 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 334 ft | $30 | |
| A | 45 | standard electric | 76 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 334 ft | $30 | |
| A | 46 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 289 ft | $30 | |
| A | 47 | standard electric | 67 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 281 ft | $30 | |
| A | 48 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 220 ft | $30 | |
| A | 49 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 233 ft | $30 | |
| A | 50 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 165 ft | $30 | |
| A | 51 | standard electric | 95 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 387 ft | $30 | |
| A | 52 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 344 ft | $30 | |
| A | 53 | standard electric | 148 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 294 ft | $30 | |
| A | 54 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 106 ft | 230 ft | $30 | |
| A | 55 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 196 ft | $30 | |
| A | 56 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 172 ft | $30 | |
| A | 57 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 291 ft | $30 | |
| A | 58 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 406 ft | $30 | |
| A | 59 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | yes | 93 ft | 391 ft | $30 |
| A | 60 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 246 ft | $30 | |
| A | 61 | tent only nonelectric | $20 | |||||
| A | 62 | tent only nonelectric | $20 | |||||
| A | 63 | tent only nonelectric | 75 ft | 158 ft | $20 | |||
| A | 64 | tent only nonelectric | 75 ft | 189 ft | $20 | |||
| A | 65 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 297 ft | $20 | |||
| A | 66 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 233 ft | $20 | |||
| A | 67 | tent only nonelectric | 90 ft | 255 ft | $20 | |||
| A | 68 | tent only nonelectric | $20 | |||||
| A | 69 | standard electric | 81 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 231 ft | $30 | |
| A | 70 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 150 ft | 260 ft | $30 | |
| B | 100 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 102 ft | 280 ft | $30 | |
| B | 71 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| B | 72 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 614 ft | $30 | |
| B | 73 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | yes | 58 ft | 672 ft | $30 |
| B | 74 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 603 ft | $30 | |
| B | 75 | standard electric | 77 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 673 ft | $30 | |
| B | 76 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 584 ft | $30 | |
| B | 77 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 646 ft | $30 | |
| B | 78 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 546 ft | $30 | |
| B | 79 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 612 ft | $30 | |
| B | 80 | standard electric | 31 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 589 ft | $30 | |
| B | 81 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 513 ft | $30 | |
| B | 82 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 520 ft | $30 | |
| B | 83 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| B | 84 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 443 ft | $30 | |
| B | 85 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 577 ft | $30 | |
| B | 86 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 517 ft | $30 | |
| B | 87 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 455 ft | $30 | |
| B | 88 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 384 ft | $30 | |
| B | 89 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| B | 90 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| B | 91 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| B | 92 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 261 ft | $30 | |
| B | 93 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 239 ft | $30 | |
| B | 94 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 453 ft | $30 | |
| B | 95 | standard electric | 41 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 355 ft | $30 | |
| B | 96 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 327 ft | $30 | |
| B | 97 | standard electric | 115 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 236 ft | $30 | |
| B | 98 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 245 ft | $30 | |
| B | 99 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 253 ft | $30 | |
| B | B | group standard electric | 20 amp | 333 ft | 245 ft | $85 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 103 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Fort Hamby Park1.3 mi
W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room1.4 mi
Fish Dam Creek Park1.7 mi
Warrior Creek2.4 mi
Basin Cove Backcountry CampingBlue Ridge Parkway · 19 mi
Doughton Park CampgroundBlue Ridge Parkway · 22 miFrom Winston-Salem, North Carolina, take Highway 421 North (approximately 55 miles) to Exit 286B, turn left onto Highway 268 and continue for approximately 5 miles. Turn right onto Jess Walsh Road. Campground entrance is located at the end of the road. From Charlotte, North Carolina, take I-77 North (approximately 60 miles) before merging onto Highway 421 North towards Wilkesboro/Boone. Continue to Exit 286B (approximately 20 miles), turn left onto Highway 268 and continue for approximately 5 miles. Turn right onto Jess Walsh Road. Campground entrance is located at the end of the road. Travel times from: Winston Salem: 1 hour. Charlotte: 1.5 hours. Physical address is 667 Jess Walsh Road Wilkesboro, NC 28697
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wilkesboro, NC
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 72°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Bandits Roost is in North Carolina’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Virginia Foxx (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →