(276) 445-3065
Route 2 Box 115Ewing, VA 24248
Latitude: 36.633168
Longitude: -83.527348
The park offers primitive group camping for groups of up to 50. Campers must bring drinking water; pit-toilets are available, showers are not. Campers must first register at the park office located at Karlan Mansion.
Karlan Mansion
Karlan Mansion is unfurnished but available for rent for special events. It is situated on the park property and was built in 1878 by Robert McPherson Ely. The Ely family had been in Lee county since around the time that Daniel Boone cut the Wilderness Road. Many of the house’s building materials such as the brick were acquired locally (the bricks were made from the land), but marble imported from Italy was used in the fireplace. Robert McPherson did not live there long with his wife and three daughters. They stayed in Missouri while the house was being built and were visiting family when Robert went for a swim in the creek nearby, fell ill from Typhoid fever, and died in 1880 at the age of 24. The wife and daughters continued to live in the house after his death and the house and nearby area came to be known as Elydale.
- Season/Hours: All Year/Call Park (276) 445-3065
- Fee: Park Fees
- Location:36° 37.8183 -83° 31.4783
Camping Area
This park is mainly a day use facility closing daily at dusk. However there is a primitive group camp site just east of the visitor center that is accessible from both the multi-use trail and from highway 58. Contact the park for more details. (276) 445-3065
- Season/Hours: March 1 through the 1st Monday in December/Call Park (276) 445-3065
- Fee: Park Fees
- Location:36° 37.9000 -83° 31.4299