🏕️ Camping in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

CampSage tracks 27 campgrounds in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, Tennessee, grouped by area. 8 of them are on live cancellation watch right now. Tap any campground for live 2–3 night openings, reviews, a direct booking link, and a free alert the moment a cancellation opens up.

Sold out is not the same as unavailable. Over the last 30 days, 20 of the 27 campgrounds CampSage tracks in Great Smoky Mountains National Park came open on at least 3 separate days — Cades Cove Campground on 30 of them. Those are openings CampSage recorded while scanning these campgrounds, not estimates, and they rebuild nightly.

Great Smoky Mtns / Bryson City (17)

• Abram'S Creek Campground 4.2 opened 13/30d
• Anthony Creek Horse Camp 4.0 opened 3/30d
• Appalachian Clubhouse 4.9
• Balsam Mountain Campground 4.5 opened 11/30d
• Big Creek Horse Camp 4.4 opened 19/30d
• Cades Cove Campground 4.4 opened 30/30d
• Cades Cove Group 4.9 opened 7/30d
• Cataloochee Horse Camp 4.6 opened 16/30d
• Cosby Picnic Pavilion 4.5
• Deep Creek Campground (NC) 4.5 opened 21/30d
• Deep Creek Picnic Pavilion 4.1
• Elkmont Campground 4.5 opened 29/30d
• Greenbrier Picnic Pavilion 4.6
• Look Rock Campground 4.3 opened 22/30d
• Smokemont Campground 4.5 opened 29/30d
• Smokemont Group Camp 4.2 opened 18/30d
• Twin Creeks Picnic Pavilion 4.7

Sumter NF / Oconee (6)

• Big Creek Group Camp 4.5 opened 12/30d
• Cataloochee Group Camp 4.4 opened 3/30d
• Cosby Campground 4.5 opened 19/30d
• Cosby Group Camp 4.6 opened 13/30d
• Deep Creek Group Camp 4.7 opened 11/30d
• Elkmont Group Camp 4.5 opened 11/30d

North Carolina (2)

• Big Creek Campground (Great Smoky Mountains National Park) 4.7 opened 21/30d
• Cataloochee Campground 4.7 opened 23/30d

Tennessee (2)

• Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Pavilion 4.7
• Spence Cabin 4.6

Camping in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: common questions

Can you still get a campsite in Great Smoky Mountains National Park if it looks sold out?

Usually, yes. Over the last 30 days 20 of the 27 campgrounds here came open on at least 3 separate days, and Cades Cove Campground came open on 30 of them. Sites free up when other people cancel, which happens constantly — the hard part is being there in the minutes after one lands.

When do cancelled campsites reopen?

Cancellations arrive around the clock rather than evenly through the day. CampSage watches continuously and alerts you the moment a site frees up at a campground you are following, so you do not have to sit on a booking page refreshing it.

How far ahead can you book Great Smoky Mountains National Park?

Reservations release on a rolling window, so new dates appear on a fixed schedule and the popular nights go within minutes of release. Missing the release is not the end of it — cancellations keep arriving right up to the date.

How booking windows and releases work → · When cancellations actually happen →

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