Near Mount Rogers and Whitetop Mountain, Virginia’s two highest mountains, Grayson Highlands offers scenic views of alpine-like peaks more than 5,000 feet high. Facilities include a visitor center, campgrounds, and hiking trails leading to waterfalls and overlooks. Scenic horse trails and a horse camping area with electric and water hookups, stables and parking for trailers are available.
The park provides year-round access to the Appalachian Trail and the Virginia Highlands Horse Trail.
Total sites of each type of Camping:
Electric and water sites: 36
Standard campsites: 28
Horse/Stable area campsites with electric and water: 23
Covered stalls for horses: 20
Open and wide-open horse stalls: 24
RV50 electric and water: 4
Group Camping: 1
Camping Lodge: 1
- All campsites are dirt/gravel with picnic tables and grills at each site. Maximum of six campers per site.
- Most sites are wooded; one site is universally accessible near the bathhouse.
- Each site has a fire-ring for cooking and campfires.
- Firewood and ice are available at the park.
Primitive camping is centralized in the stable area campground during March and April and in November; there are only pit toilets, and water is unavailable at this location.
Due to adverse weather conditions, full-service camping is only available from May through October.
Grayson Highlands has four yurts in Hickory Ridge Campground. Each yurt has a large wooden deck with a picnic table and four rocking chairs. There is an additional area with a picnic table and a fire ring with a cooking grate.
Camping Lodge (bunkhouse) – This is not a full service lodge; it is a camping facility. The two-room trailer has seven bunk beds, a refrigerator, a microwave, a coffeepot, and heating and air conditioning. Just outside is a deck with two picnic tables and a charcoal grill.