Ocracoke Campground
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- $28From, per site
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- 140131 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located in the famous Outer Banks area of the stunning North Carolina coast, this campground is perfect for a beach getaway trip. Keep reading
Recreation
The seashore provides a place for active recreation or for quiet reflection. Campers can visit a lighthouse, look for seashells, go fishing and clamming or just sit back and enjoy the peace and beauty of the white sandy beaches. More active recreational activities include swimming, kayaking and windsurfing. Bird and wildlife viewing is also a popular pastime for campers. The seashore provides a home and habitat for creatures large and small, on land and in the water.
Facilities
Ocracoke Campground is only accessible by ferry or aircraft. Campsites are located on sandy soil, so campers are encouraged to bring extra-long tent stakes. Flush toilets, drinking water, cold showers, and grills are all provided for a more comfortable beach camping experience. The campground is conveniently located on the ocean side, separated from the beach by barrier dunes.
Natural Features
Ocracoke Campground sits on a barrier island along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The shore a recreational oasis for beach lovers. This ribbon of sand provides some of the most dazzling scenery that the Atlantic coast has to offer. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (252) 475-9054.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby Ocracoke Village offers restaurants, gift shops, grocery stores, a gas station, and tackle shop.
Charges & Cancellations
Reservations only via recreation.gov Change Fee: A service fee may be charged at the time a modification is made depending on the changes. Cancellation Fee: A service fee will be withheld from any refunds for a cancelled reservation.
What the agency tells you
Ocracoke is accessible only by ferry or aircraft. Ferry reservations may be required during peak season.
OVERNIGHT USE LIMITATIONS: Restrictions limiting the duration of camping will allow all campers to have the opportunity to enjoy camping in America’s first National Seashore. Established limits are designated to prevent resource damage and impacts to sites and allow for an enjoyable recreational experience. Making reservations under another name or account to circumvent the 14-day restriction is prohibited. For more information, visit Laws & Policies - Cape Hatteras National Seashore (U.S. National Park Service) - From Easter Sunday until the Sunday after Thanksgiving, all camping is limited to 14 days at each campground. - From the Monday after Thanksgiving to the Saturday before Easter, camping in Seashore campgrounds is limited to 30 days total.
Quiet hours are 10:00 pm - 6:00 am - Generators are allowed throughout the campground and must be turned off during quiet hours.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Wood fires are not permitted in the campground. Only charcoal cooking fires are permitted in a grill, stove, or other self-contained unit.
A fire may be ignited and maintained only by using fuel sources designed and commonly used for warmth or the preparation of food, such as charcoal briquettes or natural firewood. Lighting or maintaining a fire with other materials including, but not limited to, flammable liquids, garbage, fireworks, plastics, aerosol canisters, batteries, or other manufactured or synthetic materials, is prohibited.
All equipment must fit on the site pad. If you have a large RV over 25 feet, you may have to park your second vehicle in the auxiliary parking area just outside the campground or purchase an additional campsite. Vehicles may not be parked on grass.
At each campsite, there is a limit of six people, two cars (or one car and one trailer), and two tents.
Check in is 3:00 pm. Check out is 12:00 pm.
After heavy rain there may be areas of standing water due to the low terrain.
Biting insects are prevalent in summer months. Netting and repellent are recommended.
Campsites are exposed and subject to weather extremes. There are no shaded sites.
Must be 18 yrs of age to reserve a site.
For specific questions please call (252) 475-9054, hours are 8:00 am - 4:30 pm ET.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 140
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 48 ft
- Paved pads
- 134 of 140
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed at 134 of 135 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Beach, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Visitor center
108 of 260 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:58 UTC
recreation.gov lists 131 of the 140 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $28 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.
“Reservations only via recreation.gov Change Fee: A service fee may be charged at the time a modification is made depending on the changes. Cancellation Fee: A service fee will be withheld from any refunds for a cancelled reservation.” · 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:58 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
140 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 135 mapped sites4 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 140 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 140 of the 140 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. 135 of the 140 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 | A001 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 95 ft | 547 ft | $28 | |
| A | A002 | type not stated | 40 ft | 498 ft | |||
| A | A003 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 74 ft | 497 ft | $28 | |
| A | A004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 34 ft | 487 ft | $28 | |
| A | A005 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 74 ft | 434 ft | $28 | |
| A | A006 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 34 ft | 471 ft | $28 | |
| A | A007 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 73 ft | 361 ft | $28 | |
| A | A008 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 45 ft | 455 ft | $28 | |
| A | A009 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 42 ft | 143 ft | $28 | |
| A | A010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 48 ft | 453 ft | $28 | |
| A | A011 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 48 ft | 128 ft | $28 | |
| A | A012 | type not stated | 32 ft | 446 ft | |||
| A | A013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 138 ft | $28 | |
| A | A014 | type not stated | 35 ft | 415 ft | |||
| A | A015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 32 ft | 159 ft | $28 | |
| A | A016 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 71 ft | 341 ft | $28 | |
| A | A017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 28 ft | 185 ft | $28 | |
| A | A018 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 62 ft | 277 ft | $28 | |
| A | A019 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 25 ft | 207 ft | $28 | |
| A | A020 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 62 ft | 217 ft | $28 | |
| A | A022 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 63 ft | 201 ft | $28 | |
| A | A024 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 53 ft | 215 ft | $28 | |
| A | A026 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 40 ft | 236 ft | $28 | |
| A | A028 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 32 ft | 256 ft | $28 | |
| A | A030 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 23 ft | 276 ft | $28 | |
| A | A032 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 23 ft | 299 ft | $28 | |
| A | A034 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 32 ft | 325 ft | $28 | |
| B | B001 | type not stated | 35 ft | 214 ft | |||
| B | B002 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 42 ft | 141 ft | $28 | |
| B | B003 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 65 ft | 190 ft | $28 | |
| B | B004 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 49 ft | 120 ft | $28 | |
| B | B005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 63 ft | 200 ft | $28 | |
| B | B006 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 49 ft | 116 ft | $28 | |
| B | B007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 235 ft | $28 | |
| B | B008 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 50 ft | 145 ft | $28 | |
| B | B009 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 48 ft | 282 ft | $28 | |
| B | B010 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 43 ft | 170 ft | $28 | |
| B | B011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 48 ft | 317 ft | $28 | |
| B | B012 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 43 ft | 206 ft | $28 | |
| B | B013 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 57 ft | 170 ft | $28 | |
| B | B014 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 42 ft | 224 ft | $28 | |
| B | B015 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 56 ft | 126 ft | $28 |
| B | B016 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 42 ft | 207 ft | $28 | |
| B | B017 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 51 ft | 119 ft | $28 |
| B | B018 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 47 ft | 199 ft | $28 | |
| B | B019 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 28 ft | 133 ft | $28 | |
| B | B020 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 45 ft | 211 ft | $28 | |
| B | B021 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 28 ft | 147 ft | $28 | |
| B | B022 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 38 ft | 224 ft | $28 | |
| B | B023 | type not stated | 44 ft | 160 ft | |||
| B | B024 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 38 ft | 257 ft | $28 | |
| B | B025 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 32 ft | 296 ft | $28 | |
| B | B026 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 30 ft | 244 ft | $28 | |
| B | B027 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 29 ft | 283 ft | $28 | |
| B | B028 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 27 ft | 221 ft | $28 | |
| B | B029 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 29 ft | 273 ft | $28 | |
| B | B030 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 27 ft | 204 ft | $28 | |
| B | B031 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 34 ft | 263 ft | $28 | |
| B | B032 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 30 ft | 189 ft | $28 | |
| B | B033 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 51 ft | 259 ft | $28 | |
| B | B034 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 25 ft | 174 ft | $28 | |
| B | B035 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 33 ft | 265 ft | $28 | |
| B | B036 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 25 ft | 170 ft | $28 | |
| B | B037 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 33 ft | 274 ft | $28 | |
| B | B038 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 27 ft | 164 ft | $28 | |
| B | B039 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 47 ft | 290 ft | $28 | |
| B | B040 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 27 ft | 167 ft | $28 | |
| B | B042 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 175 ft | $28 | ||
| B | B044 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 23 ft | 186 ft | $28 | |
| B | B046 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 23 ft | 200 ft | $28 | |
| B Loop | B001 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 211 ft | $28 | ||
| C | C001 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 65 ft | 283 ft | $28 | |
| C | C002 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 55 ft | 219 ft | $28 | |
| C | C003 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 65 ft | 268 ft | $28 | |
| C | C004 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 55 ft | 200 ft | $28 | |
| C | C005 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 67 ft | 261 ft | $28 | |
| C | C006 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 62 ft | 198 ft | $28 | |
| C | C007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 62 ft | 293 ft | $28 | |
| C | C008 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 56 ft | 215 ft | $28 | |
| C | C009 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 35 ft | 209 ft | $28 | |
| C | C010 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 56 ft | 206 ft | $28 | |
| C | C011 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 44 ft | 177 ft | $28 | |
| C | C012 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 57 ft | 166 ft | $28 | |
| C | C013 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 59 ft | 171 ft | $28 | |
| C | C014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 35 ft | 124 ft | $28 | |
| C | C015 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 44 ft | 198 ft | $28 | |
| C | C016 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 33 ft | 114 ft | $28 | |
| C | C017 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 44 ft | 196 ft | $28 | |
| C | C018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 29 ft | 115 ft | $28 | |
| C | C019 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 31 ft | 222 ft | $28 | |
| C | C020 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 27 ft | 121 ft | $28 | |
| C | C021 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 30 ft | 223 ft | $28 | |
| C | C022 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 27 ft | 131 ft | $28 | |
| C | C023 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 30 ft | 218 ft | $28 | |
| C | C024 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 22 ft | 133 ft | $28 | |
| C | C026 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 22 ft | 129 ft | $28 | |
| C | C028 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 26 ft | 121 ft | $28 | |
| C | C030 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 33 ft | 115 ft | $28 | |
| C | C032 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 33 ft | 118 ft | $28 | |
| C | C034 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 18 ft | 145 ft | $28 | |
| D | D001 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 42 ft | 254 ft | $28 | |
| D | D002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 35 ft | 176 ft | $28 | |
| D | D003 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 42 ft | 227 ft | $28 | |
| D | D004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 45 ft | 140 ft | $28 | |
| D | D005 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 71 ft | 182 ft | $28 | |
| D | D006 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 49 ft | 107 ft | $28 | |
| D | D007 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 71 ft | 167 ft | $28 | |
| D | D008 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 46 ft | 86 ft | $28 | |
| D | D009 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 54 ft | 200 ft | $28 | |
| D | D010 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 46 ft | 95 ft | $28 | |
| D | D011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 43 ft | 228 ft | $28 | |
| D | D012 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 44 ft | 127 ft | $28 | |
| D | D013 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 42 ft | 259 ft | $28 | |
| D | D014 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 44 ft | 160 ft | $28 | |
| D | D015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 42 ft | 287 ft | $28 | |
| D | D016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 47 ft | 201 ft | $28 | |
| D | D017 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 58 ft | 308 ft | $28 | |
| D | D018 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 28 ft | 241 ft | $28 | |
| D | D019 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 45 ft | 314 ft | $28 | |
| D | D020 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 28 ft | 225 ft | $28 | |
| D | D021 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 45 ft | 306 ft | $28 | |
| D | D022 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 35 ft | 212 ft | $28 | |
| D | D023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 280 ft | $28 | |
| D | D024 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 35 ft | 196 ft | $28 | |
| D | D025 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 55 ft | 258 ft | $28 | |
| D | D026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 39 ft | 168 ft | $28 | |
| D | D027 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 55 ft | 230 ft | $28 | |
| D | D028 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 41 ft | 128 ft | $28 | |
| D | D029 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 43 ft | 191 ft | $28 | |
| D | D030 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 41 ft | 98 ft | $28 | |
| D | D031 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 43 ft | 167 ft | $28 | |
| D | D032 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 49 ft | 68 ft | $28 | |
| D | D033 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 50 ft | 149 ft | $28 | |
| D | D034 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 49 ft | 75 ft | $28 | |
| D | D035 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 50 ft | 162 ft | $28 | |
| D | D036 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 57 ft | 168 ft | $28 | |
| D | D037 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 180 ft | $28 | ||
| OCRACOKE CAMPGROUND | B042 | standard nonelectric | 177 ft | $28 | |||
| OCRACOKE CAMPGROUND | C034 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 146 ft | $28 | ||
| OCRACOKE CAMPGROUND | D037 | standard nonelectric | 182 ft | $28 |
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Frisco CampgroundCape Hatteras National Seashore · 20 mi
Cape Point CampgroundCape Hatteras National Seashore · 23 mi
Long Point Cabin CampCape Lookout National Seashore · 24 mi
North Core Banks - Beach CampingCape Lookout National Seashore · 24 mi
South Core Banks -- Beach campingCape Lookout National Seashore · 37 mi
Great Island Cabin CampCape Lookout National Seashore · 37 miThe campground is located off North Carolina Route 12, three miles east of Ocracoke Village and ten miles west of Hatteras inlet ferry terminal.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ocracoke, NC
Typical weather
Typical October night 60°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 40°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Ocracoke 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: D-. See every public-lands vote →