Cedar Point Campground
- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
- A night
- $27–$54When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 38In the agency’s record
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cedar Point Campground and Recreation Area is located in eastern North Carolina at the junction of the White Oak River and the Bogue Sound, immediately adjacent to the Swansboro Inlet. It is within 1 mile of full service shopping, and within 2 miles of NC's Crystal Coast and the barrier island beach community of Bogue Banks. The campground is extremely busy and reservations are recommended but must be made 3 days in advance. Keep reading
Of the 36 campsites, 4 are considered first-come, first served campsites that cannot be reserved or held, so a person must physically be there with their camping equipment to purchase the campsite. Cedar Point campground has the option to use Scan & Pay system, but by the rules of recreation.gov it may only be used for first-come, first served sites. Please make sure to contact a campground host to ensure availability before paying for any campsite. Failure to check with the campground host for availability may result in the loss of your camping fee.
Recreation
Canoeing and fishing are popular options. Power boating is allowed on the White Oak River. Visitors can hike the Tidelands National Trail, a 1.9-mile path divided in two loops that lend themselves to wildlife viewing. Ospreys and the occasional dolphin can be viewed along the loops. The recreation area is also home to a picnic area and shallow draft boat launch.
Facilities
The campground has 36 accessible sites with full electrical service (20/30/50 amps). A modern, state-of-the-art bath house is available, with private, hot showers. Accessible flush toilets, and a dump station with potable water connection is also provided. 32 of the 36 sites may be reserved using the recreation.gov website, app, or call center and 4 sites are first com-first served campsites that cannot be held or reserved.
Natural Features
Cedar Point, at the mouth of the White Oak River, is bordered by a salt marsh and a coastal forest. The salt marsh, where fresh water meets salt water, stretches out like a sea of grass. This nutrient-rich wetland is a valuable habitat for commercial seafood, including fish, shrimp, crabs and oysters. The recreation area is part of the Croatan National Forest, a 160,000-acre tract on North Carolina's coast, bordered on three sides by tidal rivers and Bogue Sound. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (252) 638-5628.
Nearby Attractions
The campground is a short drive from the developed barrier island town of Bogue Banks.
Charges & Cancellations
There is a $10.00 fee to cancel Reservations. Reservations canceled within the 3 days of arrival may result in the loss of the fee for one or more nights stay. Refunds for weather or checking out early will not be considered
What the agency tells you
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DOG LIMIT: 2
Because of its proximity to the coast, Cedar Point is sometimes impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms and must be closed temporarily. These storms generally occur from July through September. It is always wise to check the weather forecast prior to your arrival, particularly during these months.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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- Cedar Point reservations must be made 3-days in advance. - Please be aware that to keep things fair for everyone, there is a 14 day maximum consecutive stay rule in effect for this facility. Reservations at the campground cannot exceed 14 nights in a 30 day period of time. After 14 days, each person and their camping unit must leave the campground for 16 days. Violation of this policy may result in the loss of your campsite with no refund and a citation
- All tents & Equipment must be located within the designated site to protect the health of the grass and to allow for proper mowing and maintenance of the campsite.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 38
- Hookups
- 37 electric
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 38
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with private, hot showers. Accessible flush toilets, and a dump station with potable water connection…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “A modern, state-of-the-art bath house is available, with private, hot showers.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…flush toilets, and a dump station with potable water connection is also provided. 32 of the 36 sites may…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Beach, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Water sports
- Night sky · 76th darkest of 84 in NC
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:09 UTC
Because of its proximity to the coast, Cedar Point is sometimes impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms and must be closed temporarily.
OpenBooked
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 18
What you actually pay
“- There is a $10.00 fee to cancel Reservations.” · this campground’s own terms
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
What the agency said · 1
Because of its proximity to the coast, Cedar Point is sometimes impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms and must be closed temporarily. These storms generally occur from July through September. It is always wise to check the weather forecast prior to your arrival, particularly during these months.
U.S. Forest Service · posted Sep 9, 2026
Filed as emergency from the agency’s own words “hurricanes”. That reading is ours.
Open within 60 miles · 2
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Oyster Point CampgroundCroatan National Forest · 19 mi · 15 sites
- Flanners Beach CampgroundCroatan National Forest · 21 mi · 39 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 16:09 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
40 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 35 mapped sitesAll 40 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 37 of the 40 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 37 of the 40 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop A | 001 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 116 ft | 406 ftBoathouse Creek | 583 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 002 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 115 ft | 315 ftBoathouse Creek | 601 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 003 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 448 ftBoathouse Creek | 455 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 004 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 91 ft | 338 ftBoathouse Creek | 525 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 005 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 74 ft | 464 ft | 405 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 006 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 87 ft | 313 ft | 502 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 007 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 87 ft | 359 ft | 423 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 008 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 113 ft | 473 ft | 318 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 009 - double | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 92 ft | 387 ft | 372 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 010 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 136 ft | 383 ft | 340 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 011 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 178 ft | 529 ft | 263 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 012 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | yes | 101 ft | 700 ft | 227 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 013 - host | host pad | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 885 ft | 294 ft | ||
| Loop A | 014 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 101 ft | 779 ft | 296 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 015 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | yes | 96 ft | 931 ft | 443 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 016 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | yes | 101 ft | 799 ft | 398 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 017 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | yes | 130 ft | 820 ft | 527 ft | ||
| Loop A | 018 - double | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 84 ft | 829 ft | 698 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 019 - double | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | yes | 84 ft | 894 ft | 717 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 020 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | yes | 81 ft | 1,108 ft | 594 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 021 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 110 ft | 1,005 ft | 579 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 022 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | yes | 81 ft | 1,145 ft | 534 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 023 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 96 ft | 1,018 ft | 464 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 024 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | yes | 112 ft | 1,105 ft | 445 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 025 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 113 ft | 996 ft | 338 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 026 - double | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 98 ft | 1,117 ft | 398 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 027 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 84 ft | 1,051 ft | 329 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 028 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | yes | 86 ft | 938 ft | 218 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 029 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | yes | 84 ft | 995 ft | 278 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 030 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 97 ft | 907 ft | 204 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 031 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 117 ft | 676 ft | 129 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 032 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | yes | 91 ft | 612 ft | 246 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 033 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 91 ft | 596 ftBoathouse Creek | 331 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 034 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | yes | 40 ft | 856 ft | 143 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 035 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 40 ft | 819 ft | 115 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 036 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | yes | 90 ft | 832 ft | 186 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop A | 037 - Host | host pad | 56 ft | 50 amp | yes | 739 ft | 209 ft | ||
| Loop A | 038 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | $27–$54 | |||
| Loop A | 039 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | yes | $27–$54 | |||
| Loop A | 040 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | yes | $27–$54 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 40 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Oyster Point CampgroundCroatan National Forest · 19 mi
Flanners Beach CampgroundCroatan National Forest · 21 mi
Great Island Cabin CampCape Lookout National Seashore · 38 mi
South Core Banks -- Beach campingCape Lookout National Seashore · 38 mi
North Core Banks - Beach CampingCape Lookout National Seashore · 49 mi
Long Point Cabin CampCape Lookout National Seashore · 49 miTake VFW Road off NC 58 approximately 1.25 miles north of the junction of NC 24 and NC 58. Follow signs to the campground on VFW Road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cedar Point, NC
Typical weather
Typical October night 54°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Cedar Point Campground is in North Carolina’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Greg Murphy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →