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4 Guys RV Park

50 RV Sites, 2 Cabins, 3 Onsite RV/Trailers, 2 Houses

4 Guys RV Park in Stanton, Kentucky, offers 53 full-hookup RV sites and four cabin and house rentals in a forested valley with a river running through it, carrying 20, 30, and 50-amp service for rigs to 76 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Vintage camper rentals, a poolside home, tiny homes, and a barn house give the accommodation range real breadth. Fifty-three sites span economy full-hookup, premium full-hookup, deluxe back-in, and premium plus back-in categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 76 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Vintage camper rentals — including the Timberwolf and a vintage green camper — plus cabins, tiny homes, a poolside home, and a barn house serve guests without a rig, covering parties of any size. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, firewood, and site WiFi handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a game room, arcade, golf cart rentals, a playground, pavilion, barn, and pond across the grounds. Hiking, fishing, basketball, and birding run from the property, with planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Stanton is the base camp for Red River Gorge. The Geological Area, Natural Bridge State Park, Clifty Wilderness, Daniel Boone National Forest, Muir Valley Nature Preserve and Climbing Area, Hollerwood Offroad Adventure Park, and Wild Things of Kentucky are all close. Climbing season in spring and fall and October foliage drive the heaviest demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $60/night

Pine Creek Cabins & Camping Resort

34 RV Sites, 10 Cabins

Pine Creek Cabins & Camping Resort in South Bloomingville, OH, offers 36 RV sites and 10 cabins, with 30 and 50-amp service and back-in sites for rigs up to 45 feet. Sites are back-ins carrying water and electric — there are no sewer hookups, so plan on the on-site dump station for longer stays. The resort is rated big rig friendly within its 45-foot limit and is open all year. A bathhouse with showers, WiFi, propane exchange, firewood, and a pavilion cover the essentials, and horse pens and stalls are available for guests traveling with horses. Pets are welcome, and there's a pet washing station. Cancellation on campsites requires 15 days' notice for a full refund less a processing fee. A hot tub, community fire pit, playground, gaga ball, walking trails, a barn, and a wedding venue fill out the grounds, with planned activities, live music, horseback riding, and creek frontage on the property. South Bloomingville sits in the heart of Hocking Hills country in Hocking County, with the state park's gorges and waterfalls close by. Rates for sites and cabins are on the booking page. If you're not bringing horses, disregard the stall options when booking.

from $39/night

Firefly Hills

13 RV Sites

Firefly Hills in Beattyville, KY, offers 13 full-hookup back-in RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 70 feet. Every site is a back-in carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi and a fire pit. The park is rated big rig friendly, open all year, and explicitly LGBTIQA+ friendly. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, a community fire pit, and RV storage cover the practical side. Pets are welcome, with a dog park and a playground. A pond, walking trails, pickleball, and gaga ball fill the wooded grounds, with hiking and kayaking close by. Beattyville sits in Lee County in the eastern Kentucky mountains, minutes from some of the most concentrated outdoor terrain in the Appalachian South: Red River Gorge, Natural Bridge State Park, Clifty Wilderness, Daniel Boone National Forest, Muir Valley, and Hollerwood Offroad Adventure Park. Rates and availability are on the booking page. Climbing season at the Gorge fills this park — reserve well ahead for spring and fall.

from $47/night

Three Springs Campground

25 RV Sites, 4 Cabins, 1 Tent Site

Three Springs Campground in Sadieville, Kentucky, offers 25 RV sites, four cabins, and a tent site in Scott County's rolling bluegrass farmland, with 20, 30, and 50-amp water-and-electric service and rigs accepted to 61 feet. A pond, dog park, and community fire pit anchor a low-key rural retreat about 15 miles north of Lexington. Twenty-five back-in sites carry water and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 61 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables — note there are no sewer hookups at the sites, though a dump station is available. Four cabins and a tent site round out the accommodations. Restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. The pond is the centerpiece of on-site recreation, with fishing directly from the property. Walking trails run the grounds, and a playground, dog park, and community fire pit fill the rest. The intimate scale and natural pond setting make this a restful alternative to the busier campgrounds nearer the I-75 corridor, which is much of the appeal. Pets are welcome. Sadieville sits in the heart of the Bluegrass Region, roughly 15 miles north of Lexington and 20 miles south of Georgetown. That puts central Kentucky's horse farms, bourbon distilleries, and cultural attractions within easy reach while keeping the campground itself in genuine countryside. The campground serves the Kentucky season, with spring and fall delivering the most comfortable conditions for touring the horse farms and distilleries, and summer carrying steady family demand. Keeneland race meets and major Lexington events tighten area lodging considerably — reserve ahead if your stay overlaps one.

Camper Village RV Park

8 RV Sites

Camper Village RV Park in Dry Ridge, KY, offers 8 full-hookup RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 45 feet. Sites come in four categories — deluxe back-in, deluxe lakeview back-in, lakeview back-in, and deluxe pull-thru — all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. Lakeview sites are the ones to request. The park is open all year, with laundry, a bathhouse with showers, and a clubhouse. Cabins each sleep four. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. An outdoor pool, boat docks, a boat ramp, and boat and kayak rentals fill 20 acres on the water, with fishing, boating, paddling, paddle boats, paddle boarding, and swimming, plus a playground. Dry Ridge sits on Boltz Lake in Grant County, about 45 minutes south of downtown Cincinnati and 10 minutes from the Ark Encounter, in country that feels genuinely rural despite easy highway access. A state park is nearby. Rates for sites and cabins are on the booking page. Eight sites on a lake this close to Cincinnati means summer books first.

from $63 $55/night

Northern Kentucky RV Park

78 RV Sites, 2 Cabins, 1 Apartment

Northern Kentucky RV Park in Dry Ridge, KY, offers 78 full-hookup RV sites and 3 apartment and cabin rentals, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 45 feet. Sites come in three categories — standard, waterview, and waterfront — all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. Laundry, a general store, propane fills and exchange, firewood, a dump station, and on-site dining cover the practical side. After-hours arrivals are handled with a map and check-in details posted on the bulletin board outside the office, with the balance due at check-in. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. A lake, a pond, creek frontage, sport courts, basketball, and a playground fill the grounds, with fishing and boating on the water. Dry Ridge sits just off Interstate 75 in Grant County, 30 minutes south of Cincinnati and an hour north of Lexington — a natural stopping point on one of the most heavily traveled north-south corridors in the country. Rates for sites and rentals are on the booking page. Waterfront sites are the ones to request, and they go first.

from $52/night

Perry Backwoods Campgrounds

42 RV Sites

Perry Backwoods Campgrounds in New Lexington, Ohio, offers 21 RV sites on nine family-owned acres, with full-hookup back-in sites carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp service, and rigs accepted to 60 feet. The layout is big-rig friendly — unusual for a campground this size in the southeast Ohio hill country. Twenty-one sites run from full-hookup back-ins with 30 and 50-amp service to primitive RV sites for guests who need less. Rigs up to 60 feet fit, and a dump station serves those without full hookups. Restrooms and showers are on site. Pets are welcome. On-site facilities are straightforward. A playground serves families, and hiking runs from the property through the wooded Perry County hills. The nine-acre scale and family ownership mean guests deal directly with the operators, and the campground continues to add facilities. Off-roading areas are nearby for guests hauling ATVs. New Lexington sits on US-22 about 60 miles southeast of Columbus, in the reclaimed coal country that has grown back into some of the most rugged terrain in an otherwise glacially flattened state. Hocking Hills State Park, the AEP ReCreation Land, and the Wayne National Forest are all within day-trip range. The campground serves the southeast Ohio camping season, drawing from the Columbus and Athens markets. Fall color through October is the most scenic window, and summer weekends see the heaviest demand. Reserve ahead for both.

Still Waters Campground

22 RV Sites

Still Waters Campground in Frankfort, Kentucky, offers 22 full-hookup RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 60 feet, in the state capital and the heart of the Bluegrass. Back-in and pull-through categories in both full-hookup and water-and-electric configurations sit beside a lake with a boat ramp. Twenty-two sites run in water-and-electric back-ins, 30/50-amp pull-throughs, and water-and-electric pull-throughs, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted, sized to 60 feet. Cabins and group camping round out the accommodations. Laundry, a dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The water is the setting. A lake, pond, and creek run the property with a boat ramp for direct access, supporting fishing, boating, canoeing, and kayaking. Walking trails, hiking, and biking run the forested grounds, with a barn and dog park besides, and birding is productive along the creek. A golf course is nearby. Pets are welcome. Frankfort sits at the Kentucky River crossing in Franklin County, which makes it a genuinely central base: Louisville, Lexington, and the Mammoth Cave region are all within day-drive range. The immediate attractions are dense — the Kentucky State Capitol, Liberty Hall Historic Site, the Buffalo Trace National Historic Landmark distillery, the Butterfly Greenhouse, the Salato Wildlife Education Center, Cove Spring Park, and the Sullivan House Visitor Center are all in town, alongside the horse farms and limestone gorge country that define the Bluegrass. Spring and fall are the most comfortable for touring the distilleries and horse farms, and carry the heaviest demand. Reserve ahead.

from $49/night

Tomorrow's Stars RV Resort

98 RV Sites, 2 Onsite RV/Trailers

Tomorrow's Stars RV Resort in South Charleston, OH, offers 100 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 45 feet. Sites come in five categories — standard, deluxe, deluxe pull-thru, standard pool row, and rental trailers for guests without a rig — all carrying water, sewer, and electric. The resort is rated big rig friendly and offers EV charging, still uncommon in rural Ohio. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, propane fills, a dump station, a clubhouse, a recreation center, and both RV and boat storage cover the practical side. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. An outdoor pool, mini-golf, a disc golf course, a game room with an arcade, a pavilion, basketball, volleyball, shuffleboard, horseshoes, gaga ball, corn hole, a playground, a pond for fishing, and hiking fill the wooded grounds, with planned activities through the season. South Charleston sits midway between Columbus and Dayton along I-70 in Clark County, in a wooded setting that reads as remote while staying minutes from the interstate. Golf is nearby. Rates by site category are on the booking page. Pool row sites and deluxe pull-thrus book first.

from $48/night

Wood Mountain Campground

6 RV Sites, 16 Tent Sites, 4 Glamping Sites

Wood Mountain Campground in Glen Jean, West Virginia, offers six full-hookup RV sites, 16 tent sites, and four glamping sites on a hilltop directly off Highway 19, at the heart of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. Sites carry 30 and 50-amp with water and sewer, sized to 35 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Six sites run in standard and premium full-hookup configurations carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 35 feet — note the 35-foot cap before booking a larger rig. Sixteen tent sites and four glamping sites round out the accommodations, alongside two-bedroom cabins with fully equipped kitchens and large covered porches. Restrooms, showers, and site WiFi handle the practical side. The hilltop position gives views across the surrounding forested ridgelines, and a disc golf course, barn, pavilion, corn hole, and picnicking areas fill the grounds. The operators put it plainly: this is West Virginia, where there are more trees than people, and guests who want to keep to themselves are as welcome as those who want to chat. Pets are welcome. Glen Jean sits directly across from both the Summit Bechtel Reserve — one of the largest scouting and outdoor education facilities in the world — and the national park's administrative hub, which puts this about as close to the action as any private property in the gorge. River outfitters and the town of Fayetteville are a short drive, and a creek and mountain terrain surround the property. Summer whitewater season and October foliage drive demand in the gorge. With six RV sites, reserve as early as you can.

from $24/night

Cross Creek Camping Resort

Cross Creek Camping Resort in Delaware, Ohio, offers full-hookup RV sites, tent sites, and cabins on a big-rig-friendly property 30 minutes north of the Columbus ring road. A heated pool, recreation center, and full activity program serve central Ohio's weekend camping market in rolling Delaware County countryside. Full-hookup RV sites serve guests with rigs on a layout sized for big coaches, with tent sites and cabins rounding out the accommodations. A general store, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. Check-in for rentals is 3pm, and the resort is strict on it given the cleaning turnaround from the previous night's departure. Pets are welcome. A heated pool anchors the summer, with a recreation center, sports courts, tennis, volleyball, basketball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, gaga ball, corn hole, and gem mining across the grounds. A creek runs the property, with walking trails, biking, a community fire pit, playground, and dog park besides, and live music through the season. A lake, water park, amusement park, and casino are all nearby. Delaware County's position north of the Columbus metro is the practical advantage — this is a genuine outdoor escape that a Columbus family can reach in half an hour, which is exactly what the weekend camping market needs. State park access and boating are close. The resort serves the Ohio season. Summer weekends from the Columbus metro drive the heaviest demand, with fall color extending it into October. Reserve well ahead for summer holiday weekends.

from $36/night

Rustling Pines Campground

16 RV Sites, 1 Tent Site

Rustling Pines Campground spreads across 40 acres adjacent to the Daniel Boone National Forest in Laurel County, Kentucky, outside London—a small city in southeastern Kentucky's Lake Cumberland region that serves as a practical base for exploring the forest, reservoir, and waterfall country of one of the most scenically rich corners of the Appalachian plateau. The rustling pines campground stands out in this region for combining full-service RV camping with equestrian facilities—horse stalls and nearly four miles of hiking and equestrian trails—in a package that serves both standard camping visitors and the horse campers who drive long distances for trail riding in Daniel Boone National Forest terrain. The campground offers full hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, big-rig-friendly pull-through pads, primitive tent sites, and cabin rentals, alongside horse stall rentals at $10 per night for equestrian campers. Trail access from the property extends directly into the national forest trail network, and a natural log-and-branch playground built from site materials provides a nature-integrated play structure for children that stands apart from the plastic and metal playground equipment most campgrounds install. Clean modern bathhouses, picnic areas with fire pits, and reliable WiFi and cell service complete the guest services. London and Laurel County occupy the Cumberland Plateau in southeastern Kentucky, a landscape of sandstone ridges, hemlock ravines, and the cold mountain streams that feed Laurel River Lake and provide some of the finest trout fishing in the South. The Daniel Boone National Forest, which surrounds much of the campground, encompasses 708,000 acres of the Cumberland and Red River regions—a landscape that supports black bear, wild turkey, and white-tailed deer alongside the quiet forest trail experience that draws both riders and hikers from the Ohio Valley and the Southeast. Laurel River Lake, a few miles from the campground, is a clear, deep reservoir in the Daniel Boone National Forest with a swimming beach, boat launch, and fishing for bass, catfish, and the walleye stocked annually by the state. Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, about 30 minutes southwest, is home to Cumberland Falls—the Niagara of the South—and is one of only two places in the Western Hemisphere where a moonbow, a rainbow produced by moonlight, reliably appears during full moons over the waterfall. Corbin, about 20 minutes south, is the home of the original Harland Sanders Café and Museum, where Colonel Sanders first developed the Kentucky Fried Chicken recipe in a restaurant that is still operating as a working KFC and museum. Rustling Pines Campground is open through the Kentucky camping season with peak demand in summer and fall. The equestrian facilities distinguish it from the broader camping market in the London corridor, drawing horse camping groups for multi-day trail rides in a national forest that offers exceptional equestrian terrain. Book horse stalls well in advance for fall camping weekends, when the hardwood foliage along the Cumberland Plateau trails creates conditions that equestrian campers consider among the finest in the eastern United States.

from $16 $14/night