Clark Creek North Campground – 18

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I’ve got the perfect campsite for you if you love watching people and boats. 

Clark Creek North Campground is located in Bartow County on Lake Allatoona. It is run by the county and can only be booked through their website. (Details on how to book below.) The campground is split into two sections and is separated by a bridge. We have only stayed in Clark Creek North and always choose it, but the perk to the south is it’s the location of the campground beach and boat dock.

North has one bathhouse and 24 sites. Heather’s favorite campsite is 14 (full blog post here) and my favorite campsite is 22 (full blog post here.) We have also stayed on campsite 6.

For this trip we booked campsite 18, a 32 ft. back-in campsite right on the water. The website shows an old photo of the driveway with a drop-off to the camping pad, however they have built a large deck in the last year. This deck is a great addition to the campsite as it provides a different level of seating. On either side of the deck there are stairs down to the camping pad with the fire pit located off to the left. The picnic table is concrete and located between the path to the water and the camping pad.

The best part of campsite 18 is the water view and access. The path off the front of the campsite leads down to a pebble beach. Kayaks were easy to put in here and the kids enjoyed playing at the shore. We also had great sunset views off the front of the campsite. At the left is a steeper water entry with one or two large rocks to navigate—it’s another option.

This portion of the lake is a no wake zone as there are many private docks in a small area. The Clark Creek day use and campground boat ramp is on the other side of the bridge, but everyone that puts in has to come by these campsites to get out to deep-water. This makes for a constant flow of boat traffic throughout the weekends in the summer. For some this could be a great addition to a campsite, but others might not be a fan of the oil/gas odor the boats put off when idling. We got used to it after a while.

Campsite 18 has a narrow driveway toward the back (dropping off on the right side while the deck juts out on the left.) If we had been more patient with ourselves we could have backed the camper all the way to the back of the driveway, however we decided later we wouldn’t have wanted our camper steps to open up onto the steps down to the pad. Where we set up our steps opened up to the deck, but we didn’t realize until too far into our setup that our bottom step did not fit with the deck. We had to leave the bottom step sticking halfway up and just hop over it every time we went in or out of the camper. In our eight years of camping we have only pulled the camper up to a couple decks, so it’s not something we are used to thinking about.

Both evenings we dealt with storms that came in quick. The first night our neighbors left the campsite with their awning out and they were SO lucky they did not come back to a damaged camper. The second evening we were eating dinner at the picnic table and 60-mph winds blew in all of a sudden.

Dump Station:

The dump station sits up on a hill and we did not have problems in the past, but this time we must have pulled up at a bad angle. The camper was slanted toward the lake and away from the dump causing the tanks to not flow out correctly. We knew it wasn’t a clog in our black tank because the grey water was not rushing out as it usually does. Another camper saw the problems we were having and drove over to the South Campground to use their dump station—so keep in mind that is an option, you just need to ask the gate.

Directions to book Clark Creek North Campground:

Since Clark Creek North Campground is run by Bartow County you have to use their website to reserve a campsite. The website is different from other campsite reservation pages we use frequently, hopefully these tips help. Step 1: Use a desktop computer! The website is not user friendly on a cell phone whatsoever. To book a campsite use the link at the registration page, then hit “facility rentals.” Select the campground and choose the date you would like to book by clicking the green squares on the table.