4 Paws Kingdom
Rutherfordton, NC
Offered at $2,300,000
49 Sites, 7 Dog Parks, One Destination – North Carolina’s #1 Dog-Exclusive Campground, 1 Hour from Asheville.
Investment Highlights:
- Category-Defining, Dog-Exclusive Positioning: One of the few fully dog-centric campgrounds in the Southeast — seven dedicated dog parks, private fenced sites, and a dedicated dog wash room set it apart from every general-purpose RV park or KOA in the region.
- Stacked National Recognition: Travel & Leisure’s Top Dog-Friendly Campground in the Country (2022–2024), Thor Industries’ Top Pet-Friendly Campground (2024), TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice winner every year 2021–2025, and 5-bone rating on BringFido — a level of third-party validation few outdoor hospitality assets carry.
- Powerful, Owned Digital Following: 4.8★ on Google (425 reviews) and TripAdvisor (106 reviews), 9.4/10 on RV Life (172 reviews), 12,000+ Facebook followers with 1,039 reviews, and 2,350+ Instagram followers — a marketing asset that reduces reliance on paid acquisition and travels with the brand.
- Diverse, Recently Modernized Site Mix: 49 sites across 11 categories — deluxe/premium/standard cabins, yurt/yomes, rental trailers, and fully-fenced premium RV sites — with recent conversions of standard sites to fully-fenced premium sites and back-in to pull-through upgrades that directly increased achievable rates.
- Turnkey Operations with Infrastructure Recently Addressed: New well pumps (2024 lower park/bathhouse, 2025 upper park), new HVAC compressors (bathhouse 2024, office 2025), gigabit fiber internet (2026), and a live-in manager with luxury hospitality experience already in place.
- Three-MSA Catchment: Within roughly 100 miles of Asheville, Greenville-Spartanburg, and Charlotte — a broader, three-way demand draw than most comparable outdoor hospitality assets in the region.
- Clear, Owner-Identified Value-Add Runway: Removing the 18+ restriction, adding monthly/seasonal stays, running the food trailer beyond event weekends, developing the 4-acre expansion parcel, and expanding beyond a guest base that’s currently 75–80% drawn from within a 3.5-hour radius — all upside a new owner can capture without inventing anything new, on top of a trademarked brand the owner notes has franchise/licensing interest already.
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For more information:
Sean Wood
Partner & Broker
seanwood@naiohb.com
Direct (303) 881-5751