The Dismal Swamp Welcome Center is ideally located on US Hwy 17N, in South Mills, NC, 3 miles from the NC/VA border. Neighboring Elizabeth City, 15 miles to the south, provides many lodging venues. Camden County enjoys some great local eateries, with home-cooking like your mama’s.
 

The Dismal Swamp Canal is an alternate route along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, connecting the Chesapeake Bay with the Albemarle Sound. The AIWW provides pleasure boats with a protected inland channel between Norfolk, Virginia, all the way to Miami, Florida.  The Canal is on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic Landmark, noted as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, and has received the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Designation. The Welcome Center is home to a 150’ face dock that provides a rest stop to nearly 2,000 boaters yearly.