Moravian Falls Family Campground

If you can get past the fact that the building with the camp store looks like something out of Hoarders, there's piles of stuff stacked up all over inside & out & abandoned boats you'll find that this is North Carolina's Crystal Lake. The pool & water slide have been neglected sitting unused for many years & a haunting reminder of better days. It's creepy, run down, a lawsuit waiting to happen & either needs an overhaul or they need to close. The upper campground looks like it's mostly full timers & getting a rig up there would be a challenge to say the least. The ones that are occupied have stuff piled up outside it & that's also where you find the cabins but considering the state of disrepair the rest of the place is in I'd be worried about falling through the floor. There's an old abandoned camper that's obviously been neglected from the 60's & I didn't even want to know what was waiting on the other side of the bathroom door up there. The lower campground was close to deserted complete with a old van & hippie, a pop-up camper with tent & another pop-up camper with a tarp over it. The only way to distinguish between the overgrown grass & the campsites are the pole with a number on it. If you have more than 2 people you have to put picnic tables together & the fire rings are car rims without the tire. The shower house is cinder block tombs with rotting bedroom doors & the bathroom is several porta potties sitting around. In the back part of the lower campground there was an old building half enclosed/half open & stuff piled up around it. The only good thing about here is the waterfall.

We stayed here last weekend. The owners were nice people and provided a lot of info about the area. Most campers here seem to be long term/permanent. The campground is family owned and looks like it has been there for the 50 years they were celebrating. At a point in time it was probably very nice. The pool & water slide complex has been closed for years and is overgrown. The sites are small, muddy and very close together. Only a few had for rings and picnic tables. I am sorry to say we probably would not stay here again.

Where to begin... The rate is so high for what you get, the spaces are incredibly cramped (too close to put awnings out in most cases) and you have to send them a check for the full amount of your reservation immediately upon making it and they'll mail you a reservation form. It's very old school. There are some tent sites that looked nice, but for RVers, I couldn't recommend staying here.