Poplar Point Campground

This was our first time camping at Jordan Lake and Poplar Point campground. I wish I could give this campground higher marks, but unfortunately, I can’t. Poplar Point is in an excellent location, Jordan Lake is beautiful, it has good cell coverage and it’s close to several small towns. We visited near-by Pittsboro, NC a couple of times...and enjoyed the small-town atmosphere and all the people we met. If you visit Pittsboro, I recommend you stop by the Chatham Beverage District...lots of fun. My disappointment with the Poplar Point campground mostly had to do with the lack of cleanliness/maintenance of the campground's bathroom facilities. Our visit was Sun - Thurs and the campground was less than half full. As campground facilities go, and without going into detail, these facilities were about as bad as we had ever experienced in terms of cleanliness. Very disappointing! While in the area, we drove through several other state campgrounds that were near-by. Next time, we will probably try one of the other campgrounds instead.

We really enjoyed how close this park was to everything - plenty of grocery stores, restaurants, easy drive to Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. We loved kayaking on the lake and the sunsets were also fantastic!

Our site was good, but there were several in the F loop that shared a driveway with other sites, which I would've been unhappy with. They were literally on top of each other, so just be mindful of that when booking your site. The waterside sites are really nice!

My husband was fine with the bathhouse but I was a little grossed out by all the millipedes in the shower and there is no ventilation in the building which doesn't make for a great shower experience in hot, humid August. There was a cut through trail to get to the bath house on one side of the loop, but not on our side. It was a little bit of a longer walk, so it would've been nice to have a cut through path for easier access.

Good connectivity - we worked all week using AT&T with no issues.

The park is dead on the weekdays and definitely picks up on the weekends, but there is plenty of space between most of the sites so we didn't have any issues with noise.

I didn't get the impression that they clean up much between visitors. There was trash that remained along the side of the road and at the beach through our entire visit. Just a little disappointing but not a dealbreaker.

I wish there were more hiking trails - there is only one. All in all we would definitely stay here again!

I was torn between 4 and 5 stars here. It would have been 5 if we didn't have to search for a new site after finding ours wasn't usable. We had reserved ahead of time a 98ft long pull through site on the B Loop. We get to the site and its going up a hill. So you would pull in going uphill, it levels out for about 20ft then continues up the hill to where you pull back out. We're 40ft and towing so it was impossible for us to use. Luckily we were able to head over to E loop which is a no reservation loop and found a great big level site. We ended up extending our stay due to the gas shortage that hit the area right when we were supposed to leave. Overall it was a peaceful, nice campground and we'd absolutely stay here again.

FYI- there is water and electric hookups but no sewer. There is a somewhat centrally located sewer dump though.

We really enjoyed our stay here. It was so quiet during the week. We were almost completely alone M-Th and then it would start to fill up on Friday afternoon. Even when full, it was mostly quiet. The sites are fairly spaced apart with plenty of trees. Our site was mostly level, some more than others but that’s expected with a park.
Plenty of trash cans and the park was very clean.
If you get lucky you may get a spot on the lake which would be beautiful.

The website directions can be a little confusing. Just make sure you enter Poplar Point Campground from Beaver Creek Road and you’ll be fine.

This campground is fantastic! Our site was right by the water. The site was clean. The water and power worked. The campground was quiet but I imagine that’s because it’s early in the camping season here and the campground was no where near capacity. We watched squirrels build nests and dig for nuts.

My only gripe is the women’s bathroom. The toilets and sinks were clean but the showers looked like they don’t get cleaned much based on the same large clumps of hair and a bandaid that remained our entire 4 day stay. Also, the shower heads are motion activated and makes drying off a little difficult as you will get sprayed while toweling off if you get near the sensor. I used the larger accessibility shower after I sprained my ankle. The stall has a handheld showerhead that is supposed to mount on a pole but the mount was broken so I ended up sticking the showerhead between the handle rails and the wall while rocking back and forth on the bench to keep the water flowing. I’m docking a star off this review for the showers alone for the fact the showers aren’t cleaned regularly, but not for the motion activated water or the broken mount as I’m sure campers are to blame for both.

On the recreational side of things, there is one hiking trail. There’s a beach for swimming. There’s fishing and any other small boat craft activity. It was relaxing to watch the boaters out on the water fishing from the campsite. But if you bring a boat make sure you don’t have a shared driveway like our campsite did with three campsites that had a partially blocked driveway due to a neighbor having a large rig, a truck AND a boat that didn’t all fit in their space.

Funny side note: There are signs everywhere saying alcohol is prohibited in North Carolina campgrounds but the recycle bin by the restroom was FULL of wine bottles.

For those who work and travel like us, on Speedtest at 8pm on a Monday–Verizon via iPhone 12: 52 mbps down and 3 mbps up with 32 ms ping; I totally forgot to test our T-Mobile speed. I worked on T-Mobile all week even with video chat.

We are just ending a 10 day stay. The weather has been a bit wet and chilly and there have been too many dogs barking on the weekends.If people can't keep their dogs quiet they should not bring them along.

Now that the bad part is out of the way, the site we had was very nice. We were level enough that we really would not have had to ground the jacks. The lake view was excellent and there were birds around singing in the mornings. During the week it was not very busy, only about three or four campers in our loop. It was very peaceful during the week and felt like you were way off the beaten trail, exactly what we like. This was our first stay at poplar point so we didn't know what to expect and it was the end of January with electric only hookup, so I don't think this would be typical of high season.

We checked out other sites and I think during high season we would chose a site away from the lake, those sites are a spaced out a little more and some would give complete privacy when the leaves are on the trees.

All in all This is an excellent choice for reasonably priced camping with better than average privacy, clean sites, great dump site facility and close enough to Raleigh to take in some of the things it has to offer.

Our site had an interesting layout. The neighboring site was 90 degrees and could almost be classified as a buddy site. The park had numerous open sites, the prime sites next to the lake were full. Our neighbors had young children & 2 dogs, both let everyone know they were there. If it wasn’t for the crying, screaming,& barking the peacefulness would have been enjoyed.our site was clean, level, and had access to the small inlet.