Camping in Outer Banks?

Thanks everyone! I will check all these out. I wouldn't mind something more secluded, but want at least electric and water! Would love to be short walking distance of beach or dunes.

As far as I know, there is nothing on the beach on any part of the islands with roads.  (You can camp on the beach on Portsmouth Island, south of Ocracoke, but it's a trick getting there, it requires 4WD, and you can't take a trailer there [as in pigs can't fly.  It's not against the rules I don't think, but you can't do it without a tracked vehicle].  For most people PI isn't part of the OBX experience except maybe for a 4 hour tour via Capt. Rudy Austin's pedestrian-only ferry service from Ocracoke.  The Martins offer vehicle ferry service from Atlantic, on the mainland south of Ocracoke.  For the fare, and the time and effort involved, it's not a day trip, but it's a great place for tent-camping or a pickup camper.)

There is an abundance of commercial campgrounds on the Outer Banks with all sorts of amenities, including, of course, hookups.  The National Park Service operates 4 campgrounds on the islands, none with any hookups at all.  They do have cold water showers.  The campgrounds at Oregon Inlet and Cape Point at Buxton, right by the Hatteras Light, are open and flat, but behind the dunes.  Frisco and Ocracoke have more topography especially at Frisco.  You can even find some sites with very limited exposure to neighbors, if that's what you want.  Ocracoke tends to have more mosquitoes.  Frisco, which is also on Hatteras just a few miles south of Hatteras Light, is my favorite.  We were back there a little over a month ago.

TT

http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=3405&KW=outer+banks&PN=1&title=camping-in-tennessee-and-noth-carolina This is a posting from earlier this year that talked about some different areas in the Outer Banks.  Also (I can't for the life of me remember who) there were some posts that highly touted the KOA in Cape Hatteras.