Julian Price campground | Wild Camping

October 26th, 2023 by mtsoprishiker

Simple campground, basics, does have showers off loop D, 6 of them, free. We stayed in a wooded corner spot F25 on the trailer loop in our camper van and it was very quiet here. Difficult to find bathroom on this loop at night, no lights on in it inside or out. Best to pick your campsite when you arrive, great variability in conditions of sites. Repairs needed, spigots not working or hard to find. You can take a shower here for $3 if you're not camping here. Free for campers.

August 5th, 2022 by jodyp1272

Title and some reviews are for Rough Ridge Parking. Rough Ridge is about 5 miles south of this location. Other reviews are for Price Park campground that is at this location.

November 19th, 2021 by USFreeCamping4theWin

LET'S TALK ABOUT BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY STEALTHING:
Got your attention? Cool. It's illegal, sleeping on BRP land ('cept in campgrounds.) Here in Virginia, pretty good chance you'll be caught by a ranger, maybe ticketed, maybe have to scoot. It's not as bad as that sounds however. Unlike the Skyline Drive, surrounded by miles of National Park, typically there's only a bit of right of way owned by the parkway.

So what you do is: use a Rand McNally road atlas (RMc shows national forests nicely,) a State Gazetteer (sold in all hiking shops) or this site (https://www.fs.fed.us/ivm/index.html) to chieck if the parkway bounds a national forest. It often does (all the way in NC I believe.) You can camp just about anywhere in a national forest, just get off the road some & keep a couple hundred feet from streams. Last is official but still probably optional. There are some private holdings & homes, should be obvious, stay away from those. Generally you find a gravel road in the NF or a long pulloff off a paved road, you're good. Forest Service roads esp.

So therefore to find BRP campsites, find exits to the NF, find a fire road or parking area, pull over and camp. It's as easy as that. There are also some good ninja spots where you just won't be seen by a ranger unless you are rocking 200w of lights at night. Keep an eye for those.

If you find a really good basecamp kind of spot, remember to move every 2 weeks. Don't have to go far, but you do have to move.

June 27th, 2021 by wotell823

If you do get caught spending the night you’ll be ticketed by a blue ridge parkway ranger. But it’s rare they come by and if you’re stealthy you’ll be okay

October 13th, 2019 by instagram.com/lenomadevan

It’s a lookout not a campground. No one bothered us at night. No signs on no overnight parking. Night was very quiet. It started getting busy at sunrise with hikers but everyone was quiet and disappeared into the trails within minutes. It happened to be very foggy while we stayed here but still was really nice and scenic.

June 10th, 2019 by bicitours.blogspot.com

Showers are free for people who camp here.
It’s a good campground, but no wifi or 4g, so you’re cut off from the rest of the world.
Generally there is not often T-Mobile coverage on the parkway it self. But on some unexpected spots it can be good.

April 5th, 2019 by alixalfke

Camping is $20 a site. Season starts in May through October. $10 in the off-season sometimes.

June 27th, 2018 by fiditeam

Free Dump Station
Water Fill
Hot Sower 3 $ / person
no cel phone signal
some sites with electricity