W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Visitor Assistance Center conference room is located beside the dam at W. Kerr Scott Reservoir in northwestern North Carolina. 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 can be accessed from the parking lot outside the Visitor Center. An additional 25 miles of trails can be found at the Warrior Creek and Dark Mountain areas.
Facilities
The conference room offers eight, 8-foot tables, 40 chairs, and is ADA-accessible. Flush bathrooms and a water fountain are located within the building. There is no kitchen available. The area around the Visitor Assistance Center has scenic views and is close to other park amenities which include a boat ramp, two reservable shelters, a museum and Environmental Education Center located in the Visitor Assistance Center, and access to the Overmountain Victory Trail and Native Tree Trail.
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.
What the agency tells you
Those interested in reserving the conference room should call the Visitor Assistance Center at 336-921-3390. The Visitor Assistance Center is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., seven days a week from April - October; switches to Monday - Friday only from November - March.
No entrance fee is charged at this park.
The other park amenities are available to your group as well as to members of the general public.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Alcoholic beverages are prohibited.
The conference room includes a projection screen and podium.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…40 chairs, and is ADA-accessible. Flush bathrooms and a water fountain are located within the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…is ADA-accessible. Flush bathrooms and a water fountain are located within the building. There is no…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek
- Environmental Education
- Ranger Station
- Visitor center
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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What you actually pay
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
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The sites
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All 1 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room | Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room | day use | 15 amp | yes | 195 ft | 2,377 ft | $50 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Fish Dam Creek Park0.4 mi
Bandits Roost1.4 mi
Fort Hamby Park2.5 mi
Warrior Creek3.9 mi
Basin Cove Backcountry CampingBlue Ridge Parkway · 18 mi
Doughton Park CampgroundBlue Ridge Parkway · 21 miFrom Charlotte, North Carolina, take I-77 North (approximately 60 miles) before merging into Highway 421 North towards Wilkesboro / Boone. Continue to Exit 286B (approximately 20 miles), turn left onto Highway 268, continue for approximately 4 miles and turn right on Reservoir Road. Turn left into the Visitor Assistance Center parking lot after 0.25 miles.
From Winston-Salem, North Carolina, take Highway 421 North (approximately 55 miles) to Exit 286B, turn left onto Highway 268, continue for approximately 4 miles and turn right on Reservoir Road. Turn left into the Visitor Assistance Center parking lot after 0.25 miles.
From Wilkesboro, North Carolina, head west on Main Street / Hwy 268 / Hwy 18 (approximately 4 miles) and turn right on Reservoir Road. Turn left into the Visitor Assistance Center parking lot after 0.25 miles.
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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room 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 →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyVirginia FoxxU.S. Representative · North Carolina’s 5th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationTed BuddU.S. Senator · North Carolina
- Your senator, on the same appropriationThom TillisU.S. Senator · North Carolina
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Virginia Foxx, I’m a constituent in North Carolina’s 5th district. W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room, North Carolina carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room (North Carolina) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Ted Budd, I’m a constituent in North Carolina. W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room, North Carolina carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room (North Carolina) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Thom Tillis, I’m a constituent in North Carolina. W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room, North Carolina carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room (North Carolina) via campanac.com