Tellico Plains/Cherokee National Forest KOA

I stayed at mecca electric tent site. The bathroom facility was as clean as your own home. The ability to have a clean showers was great. There is a cute spot to make coffee and wash sink for dishes ect. The pool was clean…I can’t say enough about the host and community were so hospitality. If your considering staying and maybe on the fence trust me, I camp alot and hands down the cleanest friendliest people ever

Traveling with my boyfriend from Michigan to Florida and this was the PERFECT spot to stop half way to sleep. The communication from the camp is top-tier. I was texting them the day before we arrived / giving updates as unpredictable things can arise on road trips and they were MORE than accommodating and kind in their responses! We reserved the small Glamping tent and it was perfect for what we needed. We arrived at 12AM, they left the lights on for us and made the check in so effortlessly easy it was a blessing for us at that hour. Since we were communicating, they also left the bed heater and the heater in the tent on so it was nice and toasty when we arrived(we stayed on Christmas day)! They left us a super sweet Christmas card with a little treat when we arrived, too! It was such a nice, comforting thing to arrive to and sleep after 9 hours on the road. The showers / bathrooms are so clean and the water pressure and water heat is amazing!!! Thank you so much for housing us for a night, Camp Mecca, it was the saving grace and highlight of our road trip!!

This is the place to camp around Tellico plains. Access to whatever you are looking for. Mountains, rivers, falls, fishing etc. Staff is extremely pleasant to work with just a great place.

Wanted to like this place but had problems as soon as I arrived. Yes the sites are long, about 100 feet BUT the hookups are at one end of the site so you can’t pull up very much into the site if you want to hook up and there is NO sewer connection. Did not know until I arrived. They pump out 3 days a week. Other big issue for me with a class A was the sites are not level. The closer you get to the entrance the worse it gets. My first assigned site had my rear tires off the ground and I had to move to a site closer to the office end. Nothing much to do in town but one end of the Cherhola highway starts in town. Towables with short wheelbase should have no problems but big class A’s do. And the entrance is no easy feat getting in coming from the west. Would not stay again. And now it’s a KOA. Way overpriced. 65 a night

The campgrounds nearby are better options, especially if you are coming for views of the nearby mountains. That said the utilities are great when I came in 2022. But it’s still packed, like a can of sardines. Prices could be better. I’ve left a review previously here but it appears it is unwelcome. I’ve been accused of things that have not been true, and names of actual people have been called out specifically from the owners of this campsite. It is not fair nor it respects my first amendment right to not honestly review a place that I did pay to be at. I had to delete my review to protect the names of those people in the KOA’s reply. Also I have been here before, and citing the deleted reply, which I believe was inappropriate suggested that I did not stay at this campsite. I didn’t stay here to be bullied by campsite administration.