Big Meadow Family Campground

We love this campground! Our second time staying here, we brought the dog this time. Their dog park is great. Laundry looked clean and well set up. They have fire rings to use with a refundable deposit. Pull through sites and lots of room for kids to run and play and it's right across the street from the river. Close to shopping and restaurants. Friendly helpful staff. We'll see you again!

This campground ruined our vacation. We planned a camping trip to the smokies so that we could hike trails in the national park. This campground claims to be dog friendly. Yes they have a dog park but that’s about as “friendly” as they get. On the say we came in we set our camper up took our two dogs to the dog park and let them run out their stored up energy from the ride in. We then loaded the dogs into the camper and had to run into town to pick up some things we needed. When we returned to the campground, 2.5 hours later, we were followed to the campsite by a gentleman on a golf cart who informed us that, and I quote, “your dogs barked while you were gone so you are not allowed to leave them in your camper by themselves. You have to take them with you whenever you leave the campground.” Mind you this was mid afternoon. Not during any kind of quite hours or anything like that. Well the national park doesn’t allow pets on the trails. So we couldn’t take the dogs with us. The next morning my wife tried to talk to the person at the front office and ask if there was any way we could leave them long enough to hike, midday, and that we would be back before super time and they were unwilling to work with us at all and were very rude. After much debate and to try and salvage the rest of our vacation, I loaded our dogs up and made the long drive home, dropped them off with family, and then made the long drive back. The next day we get a note on our camper that states the water in the campground will be shut off at 6pm due to freezing weather. We change our hiking plans and choose a much shorter route so we could be back in time to cook dinner (water required). 6pm comes the temperature is 43 degrees and the water is cut off. I have been camping for over 20 years and have never experienced anything like either one of these events. I will not be back to this campground and I DO NOT recommend any else stay here, especially if traveling with pets.

They claim to be dog friendly but the only thing dog friendly is the dog park. We left the dogs in the camper from 4 to 6 pm to go get food. Came back. A very rude man in a golf cart came over told us our dogs had barked all day and we could not leave them in the camper alone again. We didn’t even check in until around 2 pm . Nothing on their website about quiet hours during the day. We tried talking to the owners. Said there was nothing they could do. There were dogs barking all over in the park in campers with theirs owners gone. Then they cut the water off at 6 pm because they said it was going to freeze that night. It was still 43 degrees at 6 pm and the freeze wasn’t supposed to be until well after dark. We paid over 300 for 4 days for no water at night and right at supper time. We came here to hike the smokies and you can’t take dogs in the smokies. Very rude owners. We will not be back here. Terrible experience!!!!

Excellent campground. The staff is amazing. The grounds are perfect and always so relaxing staying here.

Stayed here for 2 weeks over Christmas break. Nice open sites, close to Pigeon Forge. Friendly staff. Nice laundry room.