Dennis Cove Recreation Area

Google thinks this is a hotel. Far from it actually! It’s a really wooded campground with lots of shade. The camp host is super friendly and helpful. The campsites are roomy and private from each other. You can bring a camper or RV but there is no hook up and the road leading up to the grounds is narrow and loaded with very tight switch backs. This will likely limit the size of the camper you could bring. We are car campers, so it was perfect for us. There are clean bathrooms with flushing toilets, but no showers. There are also spigots placed around that everyone can use that provide cold, clean, potable spring water. There is firewood spread around that everyone is welcome to take, but I would recommend an axe, or some way to split it. They are pretty large logs that need to be split down smaller to burn. A large creek runs along one side of the campground which makes peaceful noises. However, there was one camper that ran the world’s loudest generator literally all weekend, so we didn’t get to hear the creek much. Through out the day, (and well into the night) the locals fly down the road (which is right next to one side of the campground) in their side by sides and occasionally do donuts in the gravel parking lot at 1:30 am. It sounds like I’m complaining, and maybe a little bit I am, but overall we had a very nice camping trip, and it’s a really pretty campground tucked away in the forest. Sometimes you just have to let other humans be humans. Haha

Nice campground, quiet. No cell service. Dale the campground host was nice. The bathroom does not have showers which we knew that going in so bathed at Planet Fitness in Elizabethton which is only 6 miles away. Our campsite (#4) is literally 60 feet from the road but at night was little to no traffic. Hiking to the Appalachian trail is super close.

Dennis Cove was a nice little campground, there were flush toilets and running water, although no showers at this facility. The camp hosts were often not present, since this was my first time here and I had a reservation from recreation.gov I wasn't sure what the procedure was. It's five miles down the twisty mountain road that brings you to the road that has nearest store for gas and ice(and coffee). There's a few grocery stores not too far away, definitely closer then other campgrounds I've stayed at. Campsites are close but not too close and there are beautiful streams and creeks in the area.

The campsites are spaces with lots of room there are several hiking trails the trout fishing is good they have a day area that has been renovated with fixed up picnic tables and new grills

Rustic, we love it that way! Trails to hike. Off the beaten path. The Federal park system needs to fix the DAY USE area. Grills and tables all broken or missing!