Greenbrier Campground

This campground feels like the perfect cross between a state park and private RV Park. With beautiful wooded sites, lots of ammentities, and sitting on the front porch of the National Park, this campground makes a great basecamp for the Gatlinburg area. This is a family-oriented campground and will have a lot of kids (and therefore noise) during the usual school breaks.

The camp store is well supplied and reasonably priced.

I worked while staying here and the wifi was hit or miss, but noticeably worse after a windstorm came through. Cell phone service is poor, even with a booster. Photo added with campground WiFi and VZ speeds. (See update below)

Update 4/11/2022
Picked a site closer to the office and got excellent t WiFi speeds with 91.9 Mbps download and 19.9 Mbps upload. Video calls on Teams were flawless.

My first visit during fall of 2021 was quiet. It was a bit noisy with kids during spring break.

This was a nice campground with recreational areas and good individual bathroom/shower suites. The river rolling through camp was a highlight, as the dogs waded around to beat the heat. The other big draw is the convenient base area to explore.

There's even a trolley to Gatlinburg, however! We were going to take the trolley into town and saw other people waiting. They told us they'd missed it the night before, so they arrived 15 minutes early this time. Long story short, the trolley was 30 minutes late. The trolley to return was full, and they only come around every 30-45 minutes. Not a complaint about the campground, but beware.

Lots of tent campers, a youth group, while we were there.

We would return here.

We will definitely stay here again!! The campground was clean, well kept and so nice. The kids loved biking around the campground. We loved how each campsite backs into a wooded edge up against a creek that rings the entire campground. The shower and bath houses were SO CLEAN and practically new!!! The campground location was perfect- 5-10 minutes to the Smokey Mountain entrance! Our next trip to the Smokey's we will definitely be staying here again!!!

This park was clean, and exactly what we expected.
The sites are narrow. There is no getting around it. However, most back up to the river, so you won't be hanging out next to your camper much anyways. Set up your chairs behind your rig and enjoy the water!
The river was beautiful! We visited in late summer (late with my review 😬) and the kids had a blast riding tubes down the rapids.

Great proximity to Gatlinburg and Smokey Mountains park.

We have been dying to see the fall foliage and booked this place for our trip for R&R and work. The campground is beautiful, clean and peaceful. Probably got some much needed, deep sleep. The creek that circle the property is pretty and made for a great mid work day cold water plunge! The RV sites are all along the parameter with tent camping in the middle. While the property is large and some spots can be close together, it was no issue for us. People come and go a lot in this campground so we got to meet some new people every day.

The staff was super friendly and when I called them to tell them I would miss the first night, Patty was so sweet and gave us directions to go around the town to not get stuck in traffic.

About 30-50 min drive to the Smoky Mtn park since traffic can be terrible in Gatlinburg.

The best camp WiFi I have used and used it for 3 days of work doing zoom calls etc.

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We got shout 1 bar of LTE at site 52 and had great download speeds but less than 1mbs up which made it useable to tether. However, in spot 1 the reception was much stronger and I was able to hotspot to work and stream Netflix.

The campsite has a lovely location on a little island and lots of shade. It’s very family friendly, with a playground and activities in the center. And our kids really liked splashing around in the creek. But the campsite is quite noisy, with machinery, large rigs coming in and out, kids screaming, backup alerts, etc. Almost nobody was wearing a mask or seemed to be distancing, which was worrying. Despite the 5mph speed limit, cars were zipping around. And we found day-old dog poop on our campsite!! Probably wouldn’t come back.

We are newbies to RVing and this was our second time at a campground. We chose this one because of the reviews. The Pigeon River that surrounds the campground is beautiful. Our site backed up to the river. There is a swim hole, swings, and a large and clean bath house. We really enjoyed our time here. It's a little drive from Gatlinburg but that was fine for us. It's very close to an entrance to the Smokies with hiking trails and river views/falls. Although we are retired, we noticed that there were lots of kids and it's safe for them to bike ride. The driveway was gravel and it was easy to do my walking. The only negative is the rate. No one is allowed in the camp store. The store items are outside on tables and food items are in a notebook.