Goose Creek State Park

RV sites available @ Goose Creek State Park... clean, nice staff... lots of trails for hiking and biking, kayaking, boating, swimming.

Loved this state park campground! Sites have a lot of space between them and the campground is very quiet. Electric, water and sewer hookups. Bath house was spotless. The one downside is the total lack of shade.
Close to Washington and Bath which are really nice little waterfront towns worth a visit. Easy to ride into Washington for groceries and restaurants. Great hiking and biking trails too!

Great trails through lovely wetlands. Full hookups in new RV campground. Level sites spaced well apart, but no shade. Beautiful views from the shoreline, but they're quite a distance from the RV campground. This is a great place to visit in cooler weather. The bugs, humidity, and temperature would be really bad in hot weather. We know since we used to live in the area.

This hidden gem of a state park features 20'ish RV spaces, a handful of cabins, and tent sites which are located in a different section of the park. You can tell the RV/cabin section of the campground is relatively new, as the bathhouse and cabins all look like they were just built this past year.

Among the pluses of staying here is the fact your neighbors are not right on top of you. Site 14, which is where we were located, had at least 100' on the port side between us and the neighboring site, and at least a football field on the starboard side. I don't recall many parks with this much space between them in my travels, and this site probably was the widest. Most sites, however, had at least 75' in between them.

The only true drawback with the sites themselves is that a number of them are sloped, but not horribly. Be prepared to throw an extra block under your front stabilizers in most cases.

Firewood is sold on site for $5/bundle, and is somewhat green so be prepared to spend some time getting a fire going if you use their wood.

Being here off-season is such a blessing, as you really feel like you have the entire park, including the trail system (~8 miles of hiking/singletrack) to yourself. One Monday afternoon I encountered more deer (3) than people (1, the park ranger).

If you're looking for river access, you have it in the primitive sites but the RV sites it's a bit of a hike. You can either drive to the end of the park and hike a couple hundred yards, or hike/bike from the RV sites but it's 2-3 miles.

One thing which isn't mentioned, do not hike the boardwalk trail. There are no signs however the boardwalk is out about 3/4 mile into the hike, with no options but to turn around and hike down the main road to another trail. In talking to the ranger, it didn't sound like this was going to be addressed anytime soon.

Bandwidth Speeds (a.k.a. bring an antenna):
AT&T (Pepwave modem with XPOL external antenna 20' in the air): 30-50mbps down, 5-10mbps up
Verizon (iPhone 11): .5 mbps down, .5mbps up (virtually non-existent)

I LOVED this campground! In late December, it was so quiet and peaceful. The sunsets and moonrises every day were unreal and the scenery was beautiful. With the the cooler weather, we appreciated the lack of shade and it made our trailer just warm enough for comfort. The boardwalk is still broken, but I thought up to that point it's still a nice enough walk through the marsh to go. The other hiking trails were peaceful and pretty as well. Dale and Lorretta are wonderful camp hosts, very helpful and friendly (the park rangers too). Lots of space in between the sites and the bathrooms are high-quality with hot water showers. Our site was level and we appreciated the amount of space available for backing in.

There's not a ton in the surrounding area, so this is the perfect place to just relax and unwind away from others (good in Covid times). We had two Verizon bars, but that was still enough to stream movies.

We stayed in the RV side of the park on a one night stop while traveling to the Outer Banks Campsites are clearly marked - laid out with landscaping timbers- heavy gravel - picnic tables and fire pits are sitting on gravel so you are never sitting in mud / dirt - there had been very hard rain for several days including the day we arrived and only a small amount of standing water - we had good cell reception but Verizon and AT&T - most importantly the trees were cut back with no overhangs

we will be back another time when we can spend more than one night. We did not use the bathhouse facilities so I cannot review those areas

Goose Creek State Park's RV campground is pretty new, and has spacious, level sites with full hookups. The only downside is there's no shade and the trails aren't close by. Well, and cell coverage is poor too.

I wouldn't hesitate to stay here in cooler weather. This was our second stay.

Overall, it was a great getaway. Small campground but very nice & clean. Great for relaxing and walking the historic downtown area. Definitely will come back. All sites are large, flat, and well maintained with full hookups.

This stare park has wonderful hiking trails, fishing and reasonably amenities. Primitive area offers bathrooms and plenty of space.

It's a warm, dry December and we are the only campers here, other than the camphost. Loving the trails that our young kids can hike or ride their bikes on, just off of our campsite. The roads leading to the campground have no traffic, again perfect for riding bikes with young kids for miles.
Swan Quarter is only an hour away, where you can take the ferry to Ocracoke Island, with 16 miles of protected seashore.
Bathrooms are brand new, clean.
Sites exposed, getting full sun, which is wonderful for winter.
Love this campground, would highly recommend.