Boone KOA

A good campground that is really conveniently located near central Boone but still removed and set in a mountain farm setting. Clean facilities. I’ve stayed here numerous times and it’s well run. My only complaint: on my most recent visit, I purchased firewood in the office that would not burn. It was like a bundle of novelty fire suppressant logs. A neighboring camper even took some of the logs and placed them on his fire, to help get my fire started and they almost extinguished his fire. I’ve never seen anything like it.

We didn’t get to spend too much time in the area as I was there mainly to run the Grandfather Mountain Marathon at Appalachia State and to see the Scottish Highland Games.
Unlike other KOAs, though, the evening at this particular place wasn’t quiet. There was a lot of drinking and loud talking going on into the evening. I assume that had something to do with the Games; still, we stayed at the KOA because it’s normally far more friendly.
The main office was great for kids. Pool table, ping pong table, big reading room that connected to the pool, and the camp store had everything we needed.
The bathroom/​showers were a bit of a walk for us (we were in the cabins), but there are worse things in the world.
The layout segregated campers for sure because of the limited number of facilities, but clean and kind as all KOAs are.