Holly Point Campground

This is a nice park on Falls Lake near Raleigh, NC. There are a few RV sites with great lake views including water and electric. If you can boondockthere are some fabulous spots right on the lake. The campground is dated and is due to be closed and upgraded in mid May. Our site, 81 was 4 inches off level on door side. Gravel was sparse and weeds were abundant. Water supply is hard and my pre filter caught a lot of sediment and looked like chocolate milk when I opened it to clean. Inside the park, there is one 1.1 mile trail. There are two designated beaches, one near a no wake zone. And there is one playground for kids. Overall, there is plenty of space between sites and most are very shaded. The camp host sites were occupied, but I never laid eyes on one. Looking forward to seeing the renovations and will probably try again after they're complete

Stayed one night when rolling through to Lake Norman. Site 63 was a walk in but super close to parking. Right on water. Depending on your neighbors depends on noise level. Lots of little kids next to us which was fine all was quiet at night. Stayed Saturday before Easter so a tad cool for tent camping (30s overnight). Restrooms and showers were clean and easy accessible. Park staff super helpful and nice.

Holly Point Campground Loop 1 has some spots that are a little steep. (Not all) We got in and out with no issues, but you could tell some people have spun tires trying to get out due to the slope and it being gravel. Recommend disconnecting weight distribution hitch prior to backing into spot due to nose of truck being pitched up higher than tail making it difficult to take pressure off distribution hitch. Nice hiking trail and swimming beach area. Lots of shade over the spots. Only negative issue was people visiting other campers. At about 10:30pm a car pulled up to a campsite near ours and sat with their high beams on pointed directly at our site for about 20 minutes. (This could obviously happen anywhere). Other than that, it was a good experience and we enjoyed our stay. T-Mobile coverage was in and out between 4G LTE with one bar to nothing.

The sites in our loop were large and private. There was a substantial distance between sites and plenty of underbrush to screen your neighbors. These sites would have great shade on a hot summer day. The sites themselves are gravel/sand with timber frames to lay out the tent pad. Nice big tent pad with a fire ring, picnic table, and plenty of remaining room for your tent or canopy.

The park is focused on the lake. There are two swimming beaches as well as a boat ramp. I have heard that some sites have water access, but I don't believe there are many of those. Most will require a walk to the water. There is a nice trail in the woods that connects all of the camping loops with the beach/playground/boat ramp.

About my only complaint is that garbage is only collected at the dump station so you may have to drive to throw out your trash. Pretty minor complaint for a very nice campground.

All in all not bad but the sites didn't appear to be very level. Our site was definitely not level as we had to raise one site of the trailer by about 3-4" inches off the ground to get it level. We had to back up a slope to put the trailer into our site.

Additionally a trail through the campground to the bathhouse would have been nice. We had to bushwack to get to the bathhouse.

The bathhouse was clean and fairly well maintained. The sites were nicely shaded and not right on top of each other. So while there were some trade off's I would stay here again.