Watauga can refer to:
- Places
- Watauga County, North Carolina
- Watauga, South Dakota
- Watauga, Tennessee
- Watauga, Texas
- Bodies of Water
- Watauga Lake in Tennessee
- The Watauga River in North Carolina and Tennessee
- Ships
- USS Watauga (1864), a steam frigate planned for the United States Navy during the American Civil War that was never built
- Other
- The Watauga Association, a pre-revolutionary autonomous American government
- The Watauga Democrat, a newspaper published in Boone, North Carolina
- Watauga College, a residential college at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina
- The Watauga Dam, on the Watauga and Elk Rivers in Carter County, Tennessee