Best panning sites in NC.

[TeamNugget]

Whats the best pay to dig sites in North Carolina? Right now its a toss up between Thermal City, Lucky Strike and Mountain Creek. Would like to know who's been where and how it was. Everything is a 4+ hour drive for me so location don't make a damn. I was hoping signing up with the GPAA would have opened up some properties, maybe signing up with a local chapter might help.

Maybe, just maybe, someone here has some property, that might have a stream on it, that might have gold in it, that might let my wife and I camp there for a couple days, and might let us bring the highbanker and dredge and sluice and pans and might wanna cut of the findings for being so nice.

I still have a couple weeks before I'm ready to go, damn fireworks season has me tied up, 16+ hour days in a large 120+ degree oven surrounded by explosives.

 

[wingmaster]

Thermal city has some nice gold and you could bring all of the above, I hear its better gold than lucky strike which is just up the road a little ways, I don't know about mountain creek so can't say about that one.

 

[Astrobouncer]

Thermal City, I have acres and acres of private property available to me and yet I always go to Thermal instead. The golds bigger there, and you cant beat the ease of access to the river, the great folks, and the scenery. Sure they charge 10 bucks a day for hibanking in the river/panning/sluicing/dredging up to a 2.5 inch but name something else you can spend a day doing for that price and still come away with gold! I might even camp up there this weekend if the weather holds.

 

[OKIE]

Im in Charlotte now. I will be in Thermal City in the morning. The gold is waaaaay better at TC than lucky strike.

 

[Weldin It]

Question about TC. Are there Tent camping spots and how much per day to camp?

 

[davidb]

I was just looking at tc web site they do have tent camping I think it was 10 per day for small site go on Internet pull them up it tells you

 

[davidb]

I was thinking of wrong spot tc is 20 for primitive 25 for full

 

[davidb]

Mountain creek was 10 15 and 20 per nite

 

[Weldin It]

Thanks David.

 

[TeamNugget]

Thanks guys, looks like we'll be hitting up TC for a few days, I prolly won't close the stand till the 8th and the week after that is my birthday, so I might make it up there the 17-20th ish. driving me nuts.

 

[djpitr]

Your guys go check them out i went to Thermal City and it was great , here is it.

 

[G.I.B.]

Wow, very nice! Thanks for sharing...

Gotta clean out my pan...