Holly Point Campground – Falls Lake SRA

We stayed at Holly Point Campground – Falls Lake SRA in Wake Forest, North Carolina. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A very nice lakeside campground, but the spring tree pollen was horrendous.

Dates:

  • Check in: 2025-03-23
  • Check out: 2025-03-30
  • 7 nights

Weather:

  • Partly sunny, a little rain
  • High temps 62-77°F, lows 37-55°F
  • Little wind, gusts to 23 MPH, but sheltered by trees

Noise:

  • No road noise
  • No train horn noise
  • Little neighbor noise
  • Regular plane noise (on the flightpath of Raleigh-Durham International Airport, 10 miles away)

Site:

  • #69 (loop 2), back-in, gravel
  • Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
  • Mostly level site; slightly high on front driver side; used hydraulic leveling
  • Gravel driveway about 60 feet long by 10 feet wide
  • About 30 feet to neighbor on passenger side
  • About 50 feet to road on driver side
  • Trees between sites
  • Picnic table
  • Fire pit
  • Lantern hook
  • Tall trees
  • Mostly clean site (one bit of trash)
  • Elevation 290 feet, front facing North

Utilities:

  • 50 amp power, conveniently located
  • 70 PSI water, conveniently located
  • No sewer; we used our tote and the dump station

Internet (in usage priority order):

  • T-Mobile: 30-35 Mbps down, 7 Mbps up, 30-100 ms ping
  • AT&T: 49-60 Mbps down, 0.25-0.75 Mbps up, 40 ms ping
  • Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up, 100 ms ping (our SIM has 5 Mbps max)
  • Starlink: not used
  • Campground Wi-Fi: none

Amenities:

  • Lake
  • Dump station

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Beautiful park, but beware the pollen in spring

It turns out that camping in the middle of a hardwood forest during the week the trees come alive in the spring is a fantastic way to find out if you have terrible allergies. The pollen in this part of NC is no joke. Besides the trees trying to kill me, this was a beautiful campground. Our site was plenty long enough for our 40-foot motorhome and tow vehicle. However, some sites looked like they would have been too sloped to work, so be sure to check the details of the specific site you’re booking. Site 69 had a great view of the water through the trees and was close to the small beach/picnic area. We camped at Holly Point Campground – Falls Lake SRA in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

Falls lake state recreation area map

An interactive map:

Our site:

Our site

Our site

Our site

Our site

Our site

View of the lake out our window; fortunately the intervening site was empty most of the week, and only used as a day-use site on the weekend (which I have mixed feelings about, taking a site from an overnight camper):

View of the lake out our window

View of sunrise over the lake from our site:

View of sunrise over the lake from our site

A peek of our site from the swimming beach, and a goose:

A peek of our site from the swimming beach, and a goose

Geese on the beach:

Geese on the beach

Boat on the lake:

Boat on the lake

Swimming beach:

Swimming beach

Swimming beach

Swimming beach

Swimming beach

Geese

We used the dump station via the tote in the back of the truck three times:

We used the dump station three times

Dumpsters at the dump station:

Dumpsters at the dump station

On the flight path, 10 miles from Raleigh-Durham International Airport:

On the flight path, 10 miles from Raleigh-Durham International Airport

Bathrooms:

Bathrooms

Lakefront:

Lakefront

Boat on the lake:

Boat on the lake

This trailer was backing itself into the site, not hooked up to the car:

This trailer was backing itself into the site, not hooked up to the car

Tent sites:

Tent sites

Tent sites

Tent sites

Other sites:

Other sites

Many not very level:

Other sites

Other sites

Other sites

Other sites

A very nice campground, other than the pollen. We’d be happy to be back, in the same site, at a different time of year.