Warrior Creek
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:13 UTC
- A night
- $22–$30When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 63In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Warrior Creek 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. The Warrior Creek trail system completely encircles the campground as it scenically follows the fold of the surrounding landscape. It is recognized by the International Mountain Biking Association as one of the top bike trails in the world. There are 17 miles of single track trail in Warrior Creek with multiple points-of-entry throughout the campground. These trails are also used extensively by hikers and trail runners.
Facilities
The campground offers 61 family campsites, 6 of these are tent only sites that do have electric hookups. The other 55 sites have full electrical and water hookups to support RV's. There are also two group camping areas that are perfect for large groups. Amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. An amphitheater, playground, basketball court and hiking and biking trails offer additional recreation opportunities. A boat ramp and three fishing piers, one of which is ADA accessible, can be found at Keowee Park which borders the campground.
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.
Charges & Cancellations
All camping reservations are made in advance. No transactions will be completed at the campground. All refund request will need to be submitted via recreation.gov. No refunds are given at campground. Refer to recreation.gov for a complete list of fees and cancelation policy
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. Swim beach is closed until further notice. 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.
Swim beach is closed until further notice. Frequently asked Rules and Regulations: Maximun 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
- 63 · 6 tent-only, 2 group
- Hookups
- 63 electric, 61 water
- Longest rig
- 145 ft
- Paved pads
- 2 of 63
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…groups. Amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. An…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. An amphitheater, playground,…”
- 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
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 63rd darkest of 84 in NC
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:13 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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.
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 · 17
What you actually pay
“All camping reservations are made in advance. No transactions will be completed at the campground. All refund request will need to be submitted via recreation.gov. No refunds are given at campground. Refer to recreation.gov for a complete list of fees and cancelation policy” · 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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Warrior Creek closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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recreation.gov availability, read 15:13 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
63 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 51 mapped sitesAll 63 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. 63 of the 63 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| WCRE | 01 | tent only electric | 20 amp | 323 ft | 214 ft | $22 | ||
| WCRE | 02 | tent only electric | 20 amp | 188 ft | 81 ft | $22 | ||
| WCRE | 03 | tent only electric | 20 amp | 188 ft | 227 ft | $22 | ||
| WCRE | 04 | tent only electric | 20 amp | 162 ft | 271 ft | $22 | ||
| WCRE | 05 | tent only electric | 20 amp | 139 ft | 172 ft | $22 | ||
| WCRE | 06 | tent only electric | 20 amp | 139 ft | 215 ft | $22 | ||
| WCRE | 07 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 165 ft | 426 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 08 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 408 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 09 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 455 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 10 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 328 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 11 | standard electric | 67 ft | 30 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 12 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 13 | standard electric | 34 ft | 30 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 14 | standard electric | 110 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 367 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 15 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 421 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 498 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 17 | standard electric | 115 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 538 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 18 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 565 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 19 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 617 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 20 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 21 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 22 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 720 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 23 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 107 ft | 624 ft | $30 |
| WCRE | 24 | standard electric | 120 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 487 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 25 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 131 ft | 503 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 26 | standard electric | 145 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 27 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 353 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 28 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 362 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 29 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 493 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 30 | standard electric | 37 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 606 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 31 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 494 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 32 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 397 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 33 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 34 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 101 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 35 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 73 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 36 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 130 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 37 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 177 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 38 | standard electric | 85 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 161 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 39 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 69 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 40 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 41 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 42 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 97 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 43 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 79 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 44 | standard electric | 74 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 524 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 45 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 488 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 46 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 422 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 47 | standard electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 324 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 48 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 268 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 49 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 50 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 240 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 51 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 203 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 52 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 163 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 53 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 54 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | $30 | |||
| WCRE | 55 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 260 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 56 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 310 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 57 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 363 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 58 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 123 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 59 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 102 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 60 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 156 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | 61 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 218 ft | $30 | |
| WCRE | GSA | group standard electric | 20 amp | 1156 ft | 228 ft | $85 | ||
| WCRE | GSB | group standard electric | 20 amp | 2577 ft | 314 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 63 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Fort Hamby Park2.1 mi
Bandits Roost2.4 mi
W. Kerr Scott Visitor Assistance Center Conference Room3.9 mi
Fish Dam Creek Park4.2 miBoone Fork CampgroundPisgah National Forest · 20 mi
Basin Cove Backcountry CampingBlue Ridge Parkway · 21 miFrom Winston-Salem, North Carolina, take Highway 421 North (approximately 55 miles) to Exit 286B, turn left onto Highway 268 and continue for approximately 8 miles. Turn right immediately after crossing the bridge and follow signs to the campground.
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 8 miles. Turn right immediately after crossing the bridge and follow signs to the campground.
Travel times from: Winston-Salem: 1 hour Charlotte: 1.5 hours
The weather
the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
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
Warrior Creek 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 →