Cave Creek in KY -- Campground & RV Camping

Cave Creek Campground sits on the shore of the 5,100-acre Rough River Lake in rural south-central Kentucky. The facility offers 65 campsites, including 36 with electric hookups. On-site amenities feature a boat ramp, fishing pier, disc golf course, basketball court, playground, shower house, drinking water, and dump station. Visitors come for lake recreation, including boating, swimming, and fishing for crappie, catfish, and bass. The historic Green Farm is adjacent to the lake, and Mammoth Cave National Park is located about an hour's drive away.

Getting there: Begin at ramp onto Gene Snyder Freeway KY-841W toward I-65, traveling 6.5 miles. Take I-65/Louisville/Nashville, Exit Number 10, onto I-65 S toward Nashville/Elizabethtown, traveling 34 miles. Take US-31W/KY-62/Wendell H Ford Western Kentucky Parkway/Hodgenville/Paducah, Exit Number 91, toward Paducah/Elizabethtown/Owensboro/Western Kentucky Parkway W, traveling 29.6 miles. Take KY-259/Leitchfield/Brownsville, Exit Number 107, traveling .3 miles. Turn right onto S Main Street/KY-259, traveling .9 miles. Take 3rd exit from roundabout Courthouse Square onto W Main Street/KY-54, traveling 10.9 miles. Turn right onto Falls of Rough Road/KY-79, traveling 4.6 miles. Turn right onto Cave Creek Road KY-736, traveling 1.8 miles. End at 1543 Cave Creek Road, Falls of Rough, KY. Distance is approximately 90 miles with an approximate travel time of 1.5 hours.

• Little separation from through roads or other sites here, a 63-site campground with the nearest through road 0.1 miles off.
• The Rough River Lake shoreline is 0.2 mi off.
• Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.
• Most sites here have an electric hookup, with 10 on the water and most of them shaded.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 3, a dark rural sky.

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