This is one of the nicest parks we have ever stayed at. The bathrooms and showers are brand new and spotless. We had a large pull thru gravel pad with 50A full hook ups. Utilities worked perfect. The Wi-Fi was fast and reliable. Highway noise is noticeable but not objectionable. There didn't appear to be much for kids to do here. I'd have to call it an adult park. The price we paid is the off season weekly rate including tax. If the park had paved roads, concrete pads, and a hot tub, we'd rate it a 10. We camped here in a Motorhome.
We stayed at Misty River last weekend and watch the leaves change and had a great time. The sites are spacious and they are easy to get into and out of. The laundry is large and bathrooms are great! I’ve never seen this set up before in other campgrounds. You get your own bath room! Someone was always there cleaning them every time I walked in. The Wi-Fi and cable both worked well. The staff was friendly and helpful. We will go back we had a great time. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
This is a lovely campground with all the facilities we require for any extended stay. It was a pleasure to stay here from the start with efficient and helpful registration. There's a large field for dog walking which makes a change from some of the campgrounds we have been in on this trip. The individual bathrooms were clean with good pressure in the showers and lots of hot water. Cable and Wi-Fi worked just fine too. We are storing our fifth for the winter while we head back to Canada, and feel confident they will look after it well. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
We have camped here several times. As I type, we are here enjoying the Labor Day weekend. It did rain, however they have plenty of rock down so no worries about tracking any type of mud in. Great since we have dogs. We have also stayed next to the field which again was wonderful for taking the dogs out to walk and play. Across the field is the little river and a walking area. The bathrooms are extremely clean, and the staff is friendly. We have driven through other campsites going toward Townsend but the amount of room your given is nothing compared to this campground. Sites are level and allow for plenty of room to set up. It's very pretty here! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Review Rating
[ 10 / 10 ]
September 2009
$40
Nice new campground with all of the goodies. We love the bath house! It’s the only campground that we have ever gone to with private bathrooms. You get your own bathroom all by your self. The bath house was very clean and the laundry is in the front of the bath house with new washers and dryers that work! The sites are large and most of them are pull through sites with wide roads. We camped in a motorhome with a tow car and had no problems coming or going. We used to camp in Townsend, but like the wider sites here. We arrived around 9:30 at night and the owner even came out to meet us and show us to a site. The Wi-Fi is good and strong and the BBQ is GREAT! The pool was closed for the winter but the hot tub was still open. This is a GREAT campground! We camped here in a Motorhome.
Enjoyed our Labor Day weekend at Misty River. Sites were of ample size to spread out and enjoy. Owner put on covered dish dinner by supplying the barbecue chicken, was good. Well laid out park, some turns are a little tight with tow vehicle behind the motorhome. We'll do it again. We camped here in a Motorhome.
A very nice park, close to the river. It has clean restrooms and pool. We enjoyed our stay here over the Labor Day weekend and would come again. In the surrounding town of Townsend, there is a really nice bike trail on both sides of TN 321. It's close to the Great Smoky Mts. National Park. It was very crowded but with such great scenery: it was well worth the trip. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
This was our 3rd trip to Misty River. The park is well maintained and quiet. You can't beat the bath house. The staff is very friendly and helpful. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Review Rating
[ 10 / 10 ]
July 2009
$45
The park is nice and well maintained with wide roads. We are in a 40 foot Winnie with an enclosed bike trailer. We found the sites to be nice and wide and easy to get into and out of. The power, cable and wi-fi work great. The bath house, even though we did not need it, was very clean with lots of private bathrooms. We did use the washer & dryer and they looked new and worked great. We only need one run of the dryer to get the load dry. The laundromat is in the front of the bath house, and it is air conditioned. The w-fi works there also. The ladies in the office were very friendly and even took time to print us out some maps of the dragon’s tail on Hwy 129. The pool was clean and there is a game room next to the pool. Next to the pool is a small BBQ stand with GREAT food! The river was just a short walk from our site and we had a large field that our two dogs could run in. There was not a lot of shade yet, but this is a new park and lots of trees are planted that will grow given some time. I prefer the sites without trees so I don’t have sap dripping on my rig. The satellite dish works better when I’m not under the trees anyway. The guy who posted below is right, this campground is much better than the overcrowded campgrounds in Townsend and if he did not like his site, he should had asked to be moved to a site that he did like. That is why we have RV’s, so we can move them when we want to. This is a great campground and we will be back anytime we are in the area. We camped here in a Motorhome.
When we arrived, this park appeared to be a nice, well maintained park but our first impression was that it had been oversold by previous reviewers. Our first day was OK until it rained and there was not enough gravel at the site, so mud is an issue. They have planted a lot of little trees, but for now, there is no shade. We were assigned a spot next to a unused narrow grassy space close to a park model. That was pleasant, we thought. Then, the second day, with many vacant spaces available, they assigned the very narrow grass space to a pull behind with three adults, three children, 2 dogs, and two vehicles. They were amazingly good neighbors, but their campfire was too close to our rig. They were outside most of the time, and there was visiting just outside our bedroom window after we went to bed. Not really the campers fault, but poor judgment from the park owner. I delayed doing the dumping duties in order to avoid being in the middle of their picnic. This previously unused grass spot should not have been assigned at all, since so many other spaces were available. Their trailer and truck had to be parked at an odd angle due to the space being undersized which meant I had to ask them to move their truck in order to exit when we left. It really should have been a tent site. The laundry, and other facilities were over there and looked nice, but we have to base our rating on what we use. The site, the appearance, etc. Good, not great. Good Wi-Fi. I would have given this campground a 9, but due to our particular experience, it gets a 6. This campground is much better than some of the overcrowded campgrounds in Townsend, but doubt that we will stay here again on our next trip to the Smoky Mountains. We did see a really nice campground in Townsend that will probably be our choice next time. FYI: Rate above includes a discount + 3 taxes = $45.87 per night. Also, just noticed that we paid $6 more per night than the other reviewers. One really excellent thing about this CG is the BBQ concession on certain days including the weekend. Best BBQ we have had and nice guy who runs the concession. This part of the camp experience gets a 10 for sure. We camped here in a Motorhome.
I also give this campground a 10. I have camped here many times and it’s always a great place. We live about 20 miles away and try to camp at Misty every few weeks. The reason we camp there is the wife LOVES the bath house! It’s always clean and we have never found it to be dirty. The only down side is that the trees are still young and some of them are not very big so we just turn up the AC and have a good time. The owners and staff are very helpful and easy to find if you need anything. We love the BBQ by the pool. The sites are large and easy to get into with most of the sites being pull through sites. We even got to pick some tomatoes from the garden. We think it's one of the best campgrounds in the area. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Well, I again give this campground a 10. But from what I have seen it will not be that way for long for sure. The shower floors were dirty, and the grass was not mowed as it has been in my most recent stays, and it is not kept up as well as it has been. But I will still keep coming up here. It is great, but I hope the National Award Of Campground of the Year does not go to their head as it is a great place, and I hate to see it run down . We camped here in a Motorhome.
I can see why rating is so good here. We love the place. The road around the campground is wide and so are the pull thru sites. We showed up at 8:30 in the night and the owner came out to show us to our site. The owner and staff are friendly and helpful. The cable & Wi-Fi signal was good and the bath house was GREAT! It is the best bath house ever! The bath rooms are very clean and you get you very own private bath room. It was so nice to be able to take the kids in a bath room that I did not have to share with anyone, it made bath time so easy. The pool and hot tub was clean ad the kids loved the water jets in the pool deck. We had very good BBQ from the little restaurant by the pool. We walked down by the river and saw some ducks that the kids gave bread to. Some one was fishing, but we did not try out luck. The view of the mountains on each side of the campground was beautiful and I just hated to have to leave. We have found a new home in the Smoky Mountains. This is a great campground! We camped here in a Motorhome.
I was surprised to see such high reviews for this campground. When we arrived it looked like it hadn't been maintained in a month. The grass was knee high and so on. I was not impressed! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
This is a new campground. We enjoyed the benefits of Misty River being a couple of years old - full hook up with 50 amp service at all sites, spacious pull thrus for big rigs, Wi-Fi that works, cable TV, individual bathrooms that are clean, a new pool with a hot tub. The setting is quiet and relaxed on the Little River in Walland, TN. It was nice to be on the "quiet side of the Smokies." We plan to revisit Misty River next year. We camped here in a Motorhome.
What a great place to stay, all the sites are FHU with cable /Wi-Fi. We were part of a rally that stayed in April 09 and had a wonderful time. All of the sites were large. The bath house is one of a kind with private room so you don’t have to share. It was so clean you never had to worry about dirt. Even with a lot of us there the bath house had so many rooms in it we never had to wait. I wish more campgrounds would have bath rooms like this place! The laundry was clean and in a large room, it is in one end of the bath house. It was so big that we sat on the couches and played the dulcimer in the laundry room. We were close to Townsend and the Smoky Mountain National park, dulcimer shop & picking porch and every thing we wanted to do. The pool was open and looked great but we did not use it. The BBQ there is great! We will come back again. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
This park is very well maintained. The owners were helpful and very friendly. The Wi-Fi was solid. The cable TV offered a lot of stations and was included free. Nicest, cleanest bath house and laundry facility we have ever seen. The campground is located in a rural area with great access to the Smokey Mountains unlike other area campgrounds which were in town. The pool and hot tub area was closed because we were there in early spring but it looks very nice. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
We had a great experience at this campground. The owners were very nice and it is a very friendly park. The location is very convenient to both Cades Cove and Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg. They also have a great playground for kids with a pool and hot tub. The bath house is just unbelievable! They are private bathrooms. You don’t have to share the bathroom with anyone you don’t know. Its just like a bathroom at your house. The sites are flat and wide. We had a 40 motor home with a 30 foot trailer and had no problems moving around the park. They even had a pull thru site to fit us. The wi-fi was strong and cable was good. We will be back. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Very nice campground, with a view of the hills and the Little River along one side. The laundry/rest rooms have couches to sit on; some guys were online there, so the wi-fi might not be as good at some sites as it was at ours. There are about a dozen individual bathroom/shower rooms, heated and with fans, many of which are handicapped accessible, very clean. Free cable as well as wi-fi. It's no longer a Good Sam park but they still honor the Good Sam card and give you a discount. Very close to Great Smoky Mountains National Park (which was way too crowded for our tastes but pretty). We camped here in a Motorhome.
Misty River Cabins & RV Resort was named small Tennessee Campground-of-the-Year at ceremonies in Nashville yesterday, during a meeting of the Tennessee Association of RV Parks & Campgrounds (TNARVC). The park was so recognized for its accomplishments in campground operations, marketing, management, and industry unity. The bathhouse is state-of-the-art with large private bathrooms like you would find in a home. It was definitely built with the family in mind. Four of the bathrooms are handicap accessible with zero barrier showers. The resort uses guest reviews to help them get a non-biased camper review of their facilities. So far, they have had 68 campers participate in the survey who have given them an overall rating of A with a grade of 4.8 out of a possible 5. Misty River also has a grade of A+ for cleanliness. TNARVC is composed of over 60 private campgrounds across the state. Its mission is “to serve the special needs of RV parks and campgrounds in Tennessee and provide the public with the highest quality camping experience.” We camped here in a Motorhome.
Review Rating
[ 10 / 10 ]
October 2008
$36
Misty River Cabins & RV Resort was named small Tennessee Campground-of-the-Year at ceremonies by the Tennessee Association of RV Parks & Campgrounds I love this park. Lots of room. Nice clean bathrooms... and what a set of bathrooms! Good power & wifi. Easy to get to, very friendly staff. Its just a great place. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
This Park is at the Foothills of the Smoky Mountains. We liked it because it was near Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, yet off the beaten path in Walland. We have a 45 foot motor coach which the pull thru sites easily accommodated. The private bathrooms were outstanding. This a campground we plan to visit again. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Last year, we discovered a new campground in Walland, TN, Misty River RV. This campground is on the quiet side of the Smoky Mountains. It is beside the Little River, off Highway 321. Misty River has private bathrooms that are very clean and nice. The owner has a friendly welcome for his campers. We sometimes camp in the hustle bustle of Sevier County, but it was nice to enjoy the relaxed, scenic atmosphere available at Misty River. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
Excellent, excellent facility! Bathhouse is top notch, sites are very large for the Smoky Mtn area, very level, beautiful valley. Swimming pool area is very nice. This is one of the few RV 'resorts' that can truly call itself a resort. The weekend BBQ is incredibly good and very inexpensively priced. The only complaint I have is that the water pressure is barely adequate. Everything else is well thought out and well excuted. But have long hoses and connections as all of the hookups are are the end of your camping area We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
This is going to be a great camping resort. It has a lot of potential. The bathrooms are clean and roomy. The sites are very level and clean. They have garbage pickup at your site. I will return to this place very many times in the future. I will also recommend it to anyone that wants away from the main stream crowds of the Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg area. I am planning another stay there this following weekend since it's only about 51 miles from where I live. Great place, very friendly staff , and all in all a great place to stay and relax. They also have a little BBQ snack shack that is outta this world. All meats are smoked right outside the shack. Very good food. They serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We camped here in a Motorhome.
We stayed here for a week to attend a family function in Maryville. I'm sure that it was not a busy time of the year for this campground. We were very pleased with the facilities. I couldn't believe how much room one had. The sites were very level. Everything worked just fine. The bathrooms were great, probably the best we have seen in awhile. I must say that the Wi-Fi was excellent, better than usual. We really enjoyed the "Little River" that flowed near the property. Very relaxing. Even though there wasn't any shade they did have trees planted. I'm sure that in years to come this will develop into a great place to stay. We will be back... We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
This is a new campground (Sept 06) and the owners have done everything right. The sites were perfectly level, WiFi strong (and free), bathrooms the best and cleanest I've ever seen in a campground anywhere, good water pressure, consistent power, and the managers are among the nicest I've met. Because it's new it has no trees, but give it a few years. Basically much nicer than the very cramped campgrounds in Pigeon Forge and Gatliburg. Well worth a stop on your next Smokies visit. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
This is a new Park, but such a future it will have if it continues the way it is now. The laundry is a dream to use. All new, clean machines within an air conditioned building that is kept as clean as the machines. The trees haven't had a chance to grow but should be great in a year or so. We stayed here on the week end going to Smoky Mountain Park. Pets can be walked down to the stream for everyone's enjoyment. We camped here in a Motorhome.
The campground has potential , I'm not sure it will ever live up to it though. The problem we had was that they don't enforce the rules ,mainly the rule concerning dogs being on a leash. The trailer across from us was inhabited by four or five people ranging in age from about 14 through maybe 20 , apparentlly that's where they live . They had dogs running all over the campground; 4 adult dogs and a litter of puppies . We couldn't sit outside with our dogs without being harassed by these roaming dogs. We arrived on a Friday and immediately had aproblem with the dogs , we complained at the office and were told " yeah we've been having some problems with those people".Finally after the second or third complaint they asked the people to tie their dogs up. These weren't the only dogs running loose in the campground. Bottom line is they apparently don't think enough of their customers to make sure the rules are followed. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Let me start out with one of the best things in this campground.. The bathrooms!! Best I have ever seen in my life, so much room,very clean. I am not saying it is the only thing in the campground that was good cause everything was. The pool was clean and breathtaking with the hot tub and water feature in the corner.The owner was the nicest I have met, he made me feel right at home, stopped to chat and answered any questions I had about having a group camp out there.We had a great BBQ potluck dinner which was great, nice to meet our other campers in the park. We will be seeing them again this next summer. We camped here in a Tent Trailer.
We went to Misty River for Memorial Day weekend and had a great time. The couple that owns the park cooked hot dogs, had games for the kids like egg toss, sack races and a bounce house. My kids had egg in the hair and lost the sack race but we had a good time. The kids loved the pool and I loved the hot tub. We tube the river and never could catch any fish. We saw them, just could not get them to bite. The sites are level and wide with lots of pull through and all of them are full hook ups with cable TV and Wi-Fi. We have a 36’ 5th wheel and it was easy to get in and out of the park. There bathrooms are very clean with private rooms in them. You don’t have to share them with anyone else and they have lots of them. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.