Adventure Bound Camping Resorts

Stayed at Adventure Bound for our Oct 2025 visit to the Smokies. We spend all our time outside when we camp in our tiny camper. And we don’t have a bath in this trailer, so bath houses are important to us. (I’m now including bathroom pics in all my campground reviews.) We arrived Friday and departed Monday, and the bath houses were not cleaned at all during our stay. The floors were never swept, o... Stayed at Adventure Bound for our Oct 2025 visit to the Smokies. We spend all our time outside when we camp in our tiny camper. And we don’t have a bath in this trailer, so bath houses are important to us. (I’m now including bathroom pics in all my campground reviews.) We arrived Friday and departed Monday, and the bath houses were not cleaned at all during our stay. The floors were never swept, one of the 2 hand soap pumps stayed empty, and the showers were not cleaned (same hair wad was in bottom of a shower stall all days). I think the large trash may have been pulled though. The bathrooms could be much nicer if they were just better maintained and cleaned regularly. I don’t expect a luxury level, just clean. I will say the ladies at the front desk and the maintenance guy (who was always working and driving on the green John deer) were VERY nice. Kind, friendly, and always smiling, they were all wonderful! I would give them ⭐️5 stars. Also, the streamside site was really nice to sit and listen to the water. And site 136 is wide and flat. 👍 We stayed here to hike the Alum Cave trail, visit Cades Cove, and walk up to Kuwohi/Clingman’s Dome at the Kuwohi visitor center. I also recommend stopping at the Chimney Picnic area and the Ben Morton overlook. I’ll have to add reviews for those, too.

My daughter and I had never been camping before and , frankly, I was not excited. This campsite turned out to be a great experience. There were 5 of us camping together and I would 10/10 recommend, especially if you’ve never been camping before and you’re low key scared. Bathrooms The bathrooms and showers up by the main building were very clean, the shower was warm, and was a short walk from our... My daughter and I had never been camping before and , frankly, I was not excited. This campsite turned out to be a great experience. There were 5 of us camping together and I would 10/10 recommend, especially if you’ve never been camping before and you’re low key scared. Bathrooms The bathrooms and showers up by the main building were very clean, the shower was warm, and was a short walk from our campsite. The bathrooms and showers next to the playground were pretty gross, smelled strongly of pee (bathrooms and showers both). Location 20-40 minutes from Gatlinburg and on the same Parkway; 45–55 minutes from Dollywood; 36 minutes from the Island/Tanger Outlets. It’s on the other side of Gatlinburg and is an absolutely beautiful drive if you go up and around the mountain. Plenty of scenic overlooks that are worth the stop. Campsite Plenty of room here, it’s not on one of those rocky platforms. It’s just ground. Which hurts a lot if your air bed has an unknown hole in it and leaves you fighting for your life the first night. It is camping though, right? Second night was great with a patched hole. Main building Where you check in has an incredible stock of items you might need while camping. Outlet converters, hammocks, sausage, drinks, fire starters, and so much more. Stuff for RV/campers that I couldn’t tell you what they’re for. They also have ice cream up there and FREE coffee. Yes, coffee. Without being dramatic, it saved my life. Carla Speaking of the main building, Carla, who works there, is incredible. Very kind, accommodating, knowledgeable, and just a fun person to talk to. She was very helpful. Entire campground This was a pretty packed campground without feeling crowded. We walked around the whole place and saw so many campers/RV’s. Some really cute campsites on the water, overlooking a creek on a little dock, playground, fishing pond, cabins that felt secluded.

We were there on Halloween weekend. This is our first time camping there. It was a lot of fun watching the kids trick or treating. That was the good part of the weekend. There were kids riding golf carts all day and night, up until 2:30 in the morning. Drunk people everywhere, a man was so drunk he ran his truck into a tree, his wife was so drunk she had to have help just to get in their camper, o... We were there on Halloween weekend. This is our first time camping there. It was a lot of fun watching the kids trick or treating. That was the good part of the weekend. There were kids riding golf carts all day and night, up until 2:30 in the morning. Drunk people everywhere, a man was so drunk he ran his truck into a tree, his wife was so drunk she had to have help just to get in their camper, one site was handing out candy to kids and Jell-O shots to adults. The people behind us were drunk and cussed all night. They finally either passed out or went to bed around 3:30 in the morning. There was no one even trying to quiet down the Roudy people. The bathrooms were nasty, and so were the showers and cabin that my sister in law was staying in. There was dog hair all over the comforter. We will not be going back there again. This seems to be a place for people to get drunk and party.

My fiancé used to stay at this camp ground growing up when it was Crazy Horse. He was excited to take me here until we arrived to our camping cabin. I completely understand that these simple camping cabins are not supposed to be the highest quality but they could have at least been clean. This cabin was absolutely disgusting. There was dust everywhere. There was old tin foil with food on it still... My fiancé used to stay at this camp ground growing up when it was Crazy Horse. He was excited to take me here until we arrived to our camping cabin. I completely understand that these simple camping cabins are not supposed to be the highest quality but they could have at least been clean. This cabin was absolutely disgusting. There was dust everywhere. There was old tin foil with food on it still on the grill. There was food on the porch. The shower drain stopped up and had to stand in water. the shower curtain was black it was so nasty. We attempted to go to the shower house to take a shower because ours was nasty, but the bath houses were a disaster. No curtains on half the showers and trash everywhere. At the end of the trip, I went to the contact page adventure bound management wants guest to use to reach out to them about issues instead of writing a review. I finally received feedback apologizing for lack of staff to keep the cabins clean and was told we would receive a refund for our stay but we never did. Very disappointed that not only was had to stay in such a disgusting place, but was lied to by management about issuing a refund. We wanted to give this campground another chance, but unfortunately we will not.

Traveled 9 hrs just to be harassed by some kid and his grandma. This kid literally hung out in the road infront of my campsite and was screaming all sorts of profanities and picking on my kids! When I asked the staff to deal with it they did absolutely nothing. This kid went as far as saying I had a gun! Just absolutely ridiculous! Guess what? Cops were called on me!!!! Mind you I have my baby and... Traveled 9 hrs just to be harassed by some kid and his grandma. This kid literally hung out in the road infront of my campsite and was screaming all sorts of profanities and picking on my kids! When I asked the staff to deal with it they did absolutely nothing. This kid went as far as saying I had a gun! Just absolutely ridiculous! Guess what? Cops were called on me!!!! Mind you I have my baby and 3 kids with me on vacation. Cops came and still nothing was done. I urged them to search my camper so they can drop the weapon crap already! The next day my kids come back crying because this kid is beating on them. They are 8 and he was 12! So I went into the office pissed as I should be!!! They called the cops alright on me! I was removed from the campgrounds! Still didnt search me accusing me of having weapons. What the hell!!! No refund! Had to get another place and pay even more money! Just an absolute despicable business. Kids walking around unsupervised at night. 4 and 5 yr olds.. filthy not maintained. Will be looking into this matter further because who the hell should ever have to go through that!!!