Campground Name: Whispering Pines Campground Location: Newport, NC Overall Campground Rating (1-5): 4 Maneuverability*: Backing into sites is easy enough but the campground is somewhat difficult to navigate due to one-way roads and a median you’re not supposed to drive over. For example, we had to drive a short distance the wrong way on a one-way road to get to our campsite. While parking at the laundry room, you have to leave and re-enter the campsite to get back to your site. We did, however, see plenty of other people driving the wrong way down one-way roads. Also, the one-ways roads are only noted as such on the campground map; there are no physical markings on the roads themselves. Campground Notes: Very peaceful and quiet place near the OBX beaches. Brenda at the office was friendly. Majority of sites are permanent or seasonal, but the place still had a nice vibe. This place was better than we expected by other reviews we had read, and we will stay here again in the future. Site #: 20B Site Rating (1-5): 3 Site Notes: Very long site, can fit any length rig. Full hookups with 50 amp electric, stable voltages, and good water pressure. Site was pretty muddy after tropical storm Eta but no flooding. No trees so there was no shade but that was also a benefit during the storm. There was a nice picnic table and fire ring. Amenity Rating (1-5): 4 Amenity Notes: Great playground equipment, nice lake with an island you can go out on, nice laundry room - $1.25w/$1.50d (although there was something in one of the machines that got on our clothes), pool looked nice but was closed for the season Reason for camping here: Heading South and were looking for an alternative to Carolina Landing that had good internet for work, near the beach Miscellaneous Notes: Great location - Proximity to multiple nice beaches, restaurants, groceries, etc. Dates Stayed: 11/8/2020 – 11/15/2020, 7 days Price Paid: $0, with Thousand Trails membership Weather: Hit by tropical storm Eta with rain and wind, otherwise it was in the 70s during the day and 50s at night. Great weather for relaxing (but not swimming) at the beach. Verizon Cell Quality**: Excellent cell service, 55.6 Mb/s download and 29.8 Mb/s upload Mail: NA - Did not have any mail delivered here * For reference we are pulling a 33’ long Jayco travel trailer with a 2016 F350 Crew Cab Short Bed 4x4 which is 22’ with hitch giving us a total length of 55’. **For reference we have two Google Pixel 2 XL on Verizon ‘Play More” unlimited data plans. For data we have an Inseego 8800L on Verizon’s expired prepaid unlimited hotspot plan. In areas of low signal we use a Netgear 6000450 MIMO antenna. Measurements are taken using the “Multi” test on Speedtest by Ookla. A review by sdplusztravels, a fulltime family of three living on the road in a RV. This review is our opinion and we have not been sponsored or compensated by anyone. Follow us on Instagram (@sdplusztravels) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SDplusZ/). YouTube coming soon!

The management of this place has no clue about customer service. They agreed to allow us to use our Clam screen room before paying but after we used it awhile they changed their minds and mad us take it down. No reason to do so.

As part of the Thousand Trails membership trails collection, this campground separates, it's monthly members, from what they call translate guest. The regular sites, are 4 star, but the campsites provided for Thousand Trail members are small, muddy and on top of each other. Evident even by the site numbers, show the regular sites have been split into A and B sites. The staff are very friendly, and helpful. The park is clean and the pool and it having a private boat launch is excellent. I would gladly stay here again on a regular site, but I would not stay here again in a Thousand Trails site.

As usual, the Thousand Trails section is not the same as other sites in the park. It’s rally style camping at best. We have a trailer with 3 pick up trucks next to us and then the 4 young children joined the party. Parents can make or break neighbors camping experience. We couldn’t take the excessive noise any longer. Brian was nice enough to move us to the dog park side of the park, space 139, where we thoroughly enjoyed the end of our stay. We would camp again on this side. I’d rather pay for a site than endure the rally-style parking. The campground is nice and maintained. Lots of pine trees and several ponds on premise where we enjoyed the ducklings each morning.