The place was great. The sites were fairly separate and private with abundant woods. The bathrooms and showers were in individual rooms and clean. Push button showers only lasted a minute so you had to keep pushing it. Slight annoyance, but no big deal. People were nice.
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Lake Powhatan Recreation Area & Campground near Asheville North Carolina provides full, partial, and primitive tent and RV camping tucked into the forest adjacent to multi-use trails and small lakes. A Forest Service campground operated by concessionaire sites are available for any size RV.
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⭐ 2 Reviews⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.5
We ended up not staying here because we were unable to obtain a reservation. They have a bunch of full hookup sites but only a few are available on a first come first served basis. The camphosts were not very helpful. Of note is Verizon cell phone coverage; this is important to us so we pay attention, the only sites with coverage were in the Lakeside and they pulled a weak 1-2 bars of 4G coverage. With an amplifier it would be usable. All other sites had no to 1x coverage.