Great Lake Recreation Site

Learned about “Dispersed Camping” today. Despite having most side roads closed off, I did see a deer and turkey while driving through - along with bullet riddled traffic signs :/ Overall not bad. I wouldn’t take my family here but I can see several hunting opportunities! And it is close to New Bern.

If you like gravel roads and no people this is where its at.

Dock is overgrown with trees there’s no real area you can stand and see the water maybe fish in

Long ride out but a super cool spot.

Awsome game lands for hunting everything in coastal NC

Beautiful lake!! Not much space for fishing and we didn't go swimming. It's good for nature walks and definitely if you have a boat.

A very serene place, unfortunately many locals apparently like to shoot their guns and break glass and could use a good clean up.

Not a comfortable feeling at all. This place looks like it could be pretty awesome but I guess there are just no funds or government desire to invest in it. The access road to the lake is in really good shape but everything is heavily overgrown at the end of the road at the "boat ramp". You could still launch a canoe or kayak from there but I would be worried about my vehicle the entire time I was on the water. The access road to what I thought were going to be primitive campsites is basically impassible. I was not willing to attempt those mud holes alone while running 35.5" M/T tires in my 7.3L as it is a very long walk down an very isolated road to get back to a very sketchy looking neighborhood. Several of the holes looked really deep and one looked like someone had thrown some large tree branches in there. Nowhere along the lake on the access road looked like a good place to primitive camp although I did now walk down the whole road as it was raining. Most spots that looked like they once could have been campsites had growth so thick that you couldn't see the lake and there would have been nowhere to hang a hammock if you wanted to hammock camp. It's really kind of sad because what I was able to see of the lake looked very serene and beautiful.

This is a remote location. There appears to be criminal activity from time to time. The place was littered with gun casings and the signs were shot up. In a bizarre situation we drove back there to view the lake. A caravan of cars including sheriff, ranger, state trooper showed up with two pickups carrying four to six occupants. They began a heated discussion over an expensive, abandoned boat parked there. Only go after letting someone know you are going in. Poaching also occurs. I have witnessed chemical dumping from barrels.

This area is closed. People destroyed it with mudd trucks and trash its really sad they had to close it

Don't bother unless you are fishing for trash.

Don't go there for fishing