Customer Reviews

The Best in Tent Camping: Tennessee: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Best Tent Camping)

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This book is excellent. The author lives in East Tennessee and has spent untold hours in the woods of this state. His detailed account of each campsite is a wonderful resource for those wanting to go camping away from it all. He details many sites which I would not have known exist if I hadn't bought this book. The layout of is great, with a 1-5 star rating of each campsite's privacy, spaciousness, quiet, security, and beauty. Also included is a (semi) detailed map of the campsite itself.
I like his candid writing: he is not afraid of PC, and so if he likes or dislikes a site, he will come right out and say it, even indicating which sites are his personal favorites in the book.
I own one more of his books, and any time I camp in another state, this will be the first authority I check, because of his ability to steer you in the direction of nature and not just some commercial campsite.

As an avid camper, although one who seems to have less and less time to camp the older I get, I often buy guidebooks to steer me in the direction of destinations I may find interesting. Usually I am disappointed, either by the format of the book, the accuracy of details, or the quantity of info. Molloy has surpassed my expectations. The book is user friendly, accurate in detail (I've been to many of the sites reviewed, and now plan to go to many others with this as my guide), and the quantity of sites reviewed will fill many many trips. It would be very easy to plan an entire trip using nothing but this gem. Way to go Molloy, I'll definitely check out your other guides in the future.

Just what I was looking for! I live in Middle Tennessee and was surprised at the tent camping places in my own backyard that I didn't even know about. The easy directions and important information like camping rates, opening and closing times, and a detailing of all the fun activities at each campground, really make life easier. I have been looking for fun tent camping with my child that's close to home and this really helped me to narrow my options. I can't wait to get camping! Molloy did the leg work, now I get to have the fun! Mr. Molloy, you are my camping guru!

My son and I wanted to go camping in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee this summer and the title of this book made it sound like the ideal reference. Unfortunately the description for the campground that we finally picked did not match what we saw. The description of the North River Campground called for extremely spacious campgrounds (5 stars), beauty and quiet. While it was located on the river, which was nice, it was also next to the road - not so nice. The campground was full of RV's and the space between sites was nothing to write home about! We decided to drive around and explored another back road in the Cherokee National Forest. We actually found a campground with NOBODY in it and the sites were really huge. If we hadn't found this kind of site, I might have chalked up the author's description as being maybe relative to other TN campgrounds, and that there are some really awful spots. Having found this other site, less than 10 miles away made me question Mr. Malloy's evaluations on everything else in the book. Hopefully this was only an anomaly, but based on this one data point, I wouldn't recommend this book.