About Cades Cove Group
Over 2 million visitors annually come to enjoy the scenic beauty of Cades Cove and its many historic structures, popular biking and hiking trails and scenic waterfalls and streams. Tucked in the mountains under a lush, shaded canopy, this group campground offers the best that the Great Smoky Mountains National park has to offer. The Great Smoky Mountains are a hikers paradise and visitors to Cades Cove Campground love the 5-mile roundtrip hike to Abram Falls. From Cades Cove Loop Road, turnoff at the sign and follow the directions to the trailhead. Although Abrams Falls is only 20 feet high, the large volume of water rushing over falls more than makes up for its lack of height. The long, deep pool at its base is very picturesque. The trail to the falls traverses pine-oak forest on the ridges and hemlock and rhododendron forest along the creek. The waterfall and creek are named for…
- Fees: Group Facility (including Cabins and Lookouts): Customers who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the…
- Managed by: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, NPS
- Where: 5 mi south of Townsend, TN · 35.60389, -83.77131
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Weather by month
Typical daily highs and lows (°F), 1991–2020 NOAA normals. Best months: Apr–Oct (comfortable days, mild nights, little rain). Nights below freezing: Dec–Feb.
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Good to know
No signal at camp
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: 0.4 mi
Water fill-up: 23.5 mi
Propane: 10.6 mi
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- Anthony Creek Horse Camp 0.3 mi
- Turkeypen Ridge #6 1.2 mi
- Ledbetter Ridge #10 1.9 mi
- Rich Mountain #5 2 mi
- Anthony Creek #9 2.4 mi
- Russell Field Shelter 2.9 mi