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Badin Lake Recreation Area
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About Badin Lake Recreation Area
Badin Lake Recreation Area offers swimming, boating, fishing, hunting, hiking trails, equestrian trails, four-wheel drive trails, mountain biking trails & camping opportunities. **Please pick up your trash! Trash cans are at all recreation sites.** **Camping in Badin Lake Recreation Area** There are 4 developed campgrounds for tents, camping trailers, & RVs with flush toilets and showers & 1 tent only campground within the Badin Lake Recreation Area. For people that want electricity, flush toilets, showers & a dump station there are 2 campgrounds with these amenities. Arrowhead Campground has 48 sites for the public to use with electrical hookups at sites 12-45. These sites have 50 amp, 30 amp & 110 volt outlets. Sites 1-11 & 46-50 do not have power. Canebrake Horse Camp has 28 sites available to the public. All sites have electrical hookups with 50 amp, 30 amp & 110 volt outlets. This…
- Fees: Single sites are **$20 per night**and double sites **( 6, 20, 28)** are **$40 per night. Sites 17 & 19 are always first come, first serve…
- Season: Year Round
- Managed by: National Forests in North Carolina, FS
- Where: 4 mi northeast of Badin, NC · 35.44772, -80.07624
Things to do:
Official page for this camp (fees, closures, booking)
Weather by month
Typical daily highs and lows (°F), 1991–2020 NOAA normals. Best months: Apr–May & Sep–Oct (comfortable days, mild nights, little rain). Nights below freezing: Jan.
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Trails near camp
| Trail | Open to | From camp | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Badin Lake | Hiking | 0.1 mi | 5.4 mi |
| Lake Trail | Horse | 0.3 mi | 1.3 mi |
| Big Rock Loop | Horse | 0.4 mi | 1.1 mi |
| Josh Trail | Horse | 0.5 mi | 1.8 mi |
| Greg's Loop Connector | Horse | 0.7 mi | 0.1 mi |
| Greg's Loop | Horse | 0.8 mi | 1.4 mi |
Straight-line distance from camp, from Forest Service, BLM, state and OpenStreetMap trail data.
Good to know
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From the carriers' FCC coverage maps, which tend to be generous.The Milky Way is clear overhead but fades toward town glow.
Class 4 of 9, from NASA/NOAA night-light data.Dump station: 6.3 mi
Water fill-up: 0.6 mi
Propane: 16.5 mi
Camps nearby
- Badin Lake Group Camp 0.4 mi
- Arrowhead Campground 0.7 mi
- Overflow Horse Camp 1.7 mi
- Canebrake Horse Camp 2 mi
- Badin Horse Camp or Old Horse Camp 2 mi
- Campsite · 5 mi NE of Badin 2 mi