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North Beach Beach Mart & Campground
23781 NC Highway 12  
Rodanthe, NC 27968 (Map)
252-987-2378
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» Camping & RV Parks
» Outdoor Supplies
» Grocery Stores
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This gas station offers groceries, drinks and snacks, fireworks, RV supplies, and tackle. It's the headquarters for the North Beach Campground.
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| Value: |  | Service: |  | | | Great placed Great People | | By Guest on 10/20/2011 | | We have stayed here on numeras trips and the family loves it. The people are great, the pace is laid back and everyone looks out for every one else. If you need help you do not have to ask some one will offer. More like a family than a campground. | |
| 1 of 1 people found this review helpful: | | Value: | | Service: | | | | A great Place for memories | | By LR in Richmond on 10/19/2011 | | I have been to this area before and over the years I kept going back to North Beach. I took my kids there every summer when they were toddlers and 30 years in total. You can count on a safe place to camp with kids, hot showers with power in the clean restrooms, Beach front fishing and surfing. There is a store with everything and anything you need. Just down the beach you can drive on the beach and get to the remote spots in no time. There are no mosquitos like the park campgrounds and you don't have to have lights off and alot of rules like the large campgrounds around. The owners are nice local people that care about the land and have rebuilt storm after storm so that we campers can enjoy the beauty of Rodanthe long after the movie crews have left. There are campsites close to the beach and several in the overflow area which is where the ''guest'' probably stayed. You need to call ahead! My kids caught frogs and put them in the tent year after year, flew kites, went swimming, ran through the dunes playing with other kids whose families had ''dilapidated'' mobile homes. Those second homes near the seaside were wonderful get aways for many hard working nature loving people. Rodanthe is close to nature, threatened by it, surrounded by it and graced by it. Those that live there all year so we can visit are wonderful and I appreciate thier hard work so that my kids could go there from 3 months old while I was chasing the blue fish in my 20s untill one had spring break from architecture school when this mom was 50. I hope North Beach has survived this last storm, because there are many more memories to be had around the beach fires at North Beach Campground. If you want to camp in the woods in the shade camp in the woods in the shade! If you love the Beach you'll be right on it at North Beach! | |
| 4 of 5 people found this review helpful: | | Value: |  | Service: |  | | | Not for those who want an experience with nature | | By Guest on 8/9/2011 | I had never traveled to this area before and could find very little in the way of reviews or photos of North Beach Campground. I had hoped for much, much better when booking a spot for my tent at this location but was sadly disappointed as soon as I pulled in.
The Cons:
This was more of a trailer park/mobile home graveyard than a campground. I believe that this place is a residence for most (i.e. trailer park) and the mobile homes were pretty much dilapidated to say the least.
When tent camping you are literally camping in a gas station parking lot with a smelly dumpster 50 yards away with absolutely no shade, with the exception of one of the four tent sites having a small tree. I barely slept due to the extremely bright lights from the gas station/campmart and the road noise. Highway 12 is only about 75 yards from the tent area.
The Pros:
The Beach is a quick walk through the trailer park, the bathroom & showers were relatively clean, and you have a store on site with basically anything you could need while camping...plus the staff were very nice.
All in all not an experience I wish to repeat again. If you are looking for real camping with nature then go to another Island like my heart kept telling me to do as I drove through. I would have given anything for a review of this place to have steered me in the right direction being that I had never traveled to the Outer Banks before. Now I know the difference in the areas of the Outer Banks and will choose more wisely next time. | |
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North Beach Beach Mart & Campground, located in Rodanthe -- part of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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