Anderson Road Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3736 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Anderson Road Campground is a lakeside oasis in the green hills of Tennessee, providing campers with countless recreational activities on the lake and in the surrounding woods and grasslands. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake provides a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities for millions of visitors each year. Because of the temperate climate and relatively long recreation season, visitors have numerous activities to choose from, including fishing, hunting, picnicking, boating, canoeing, hiking, horseback riding and wildlife viewing. Fishing opportunities abound at J. Percy Priest Lake, with a wide variety of species available, including largemouth and smallmouth bass, crappie and Cherokee bass. Other species such as catfish, bluegill, bream and trout provide excellent opportunities for younger anglers. Anderson Road Fitness Trail is a paved trail winding a little over a mile through the cedar glade area beside the lake.
Facilities
Anderson Road Campground offers 37 shady and spacious campsites. The campground features drinking water, a dump station, shower house and a boat ramp. Near the campground is a Day Use area that campers can access with their hangtags, where a swimming beach is provided, allowing guests to take advantage of the vast, sparkling lake. The Day Use also provides picnic tables, grills, a shelter and playground. Please note this area may be closed on the weekends due to high volume of visitors in the area.
Natural Features
J. Percy Priest Dam and Lake was one of the first Corps of Engineers lakes to have recreation as part of its mission. The dam, completed in 1968, impounds 42 miles, with 14,200 surface acres of water. In soothing contrast to the sparkling waters of the lake are the adjacent 19,087 acres of grasslands and woodlands. A highlight of the region, the Cedar Glades Natural Area, is home to countless wildlife and plant species, including the Tennessee coneflower.
Nearby Attractions
J. Percy Priest Lake is conveniently located about ten miles east of downtown Nashville, offering visitors plenty of cultural activities in addition to the conveniences of a metro area.
Charges & Cancellations
There is a $10.00 transaction fee for cancelled reservations.
What the agency tells you
No off-road vehicles permitted.
Two tents or one tent and one RV are permitted per campsite.
Two vehicles allowed per site.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
$5 fee per vehicle for guests of campers.
Firewood quarantines are in effect. Firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Help protect our forests by purchasing or collecting firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Click Here for more information.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Camping limit is 14 days in any 30-consecutive-day period on J. Percy Priest Lake. This rule applies to all campgrounds combined.
No drive-thrus on Friday, Saturday & Sunday.
Wifi is NOT provided at this campground.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 37
- Hookups
- 10 electric
- Longest rig
- 183 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The campground features drinking water, a dump station, shower house and a boat ramp.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campsites. The campground features drinking water, a dump station, shower house and a boat ramp. Near…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 95th darkest of 95 in TN
- Bortle 6
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 29 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 36 of the 37 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$40 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“There is a $10.00 transaction fee for cancelled reservations.” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
37 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 35 mapped sitesAll 37 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 36 of the 37 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 36 of the 37 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AROA | 01 | standard electric | 20 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 137 ft | 129 ft | 372 ft | $40 |
| AROA | 02 | standard electric | 20 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 105 ft | 79 ft | 416 ft | $40 |
| AROA | 03 | standard electric | 10 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 105 ft | 64 ft | 455 ft | $40 |
| AROA | 04 | standard electric | 20 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 111 ft | 56 ft | 499 ft | $40 |
| AROA | 05 | standard electric | 20 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 102 ft | 89 ft | 405 ft | $40 |
| AROA | 06 | standard electric | 20 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 102 ft | 115 ft | 334 ft | $40 |
| AROA | 07 | standard electric | 20 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 116 ft | 129 ft | 284 ft | $40 |
| AROA | 08 | standard electric | 146 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 116 ft | 169 ft | 249 ft | $40 |
| AROA | 09 | standard electric | 20 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 91 ft | 227 ft | 240 ft | $40 |
| AROA | 10 | standard electric | 20 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 91 ft | 278 ft | 260 ft | $40 |
| AROA | 11 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 104 ft | 232 ft | 346 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 12 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 104 ft | 174 ft | 363 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 13 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 107 ft | 398 ft | 136 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 14 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 85 ft | 353 ft | 179 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 15 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 85 ft | 308 ft | 225 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 16 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 158 ft | 130 ft | 411 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 17 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 102 ft | 297 ft | 277 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 18 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 121 ft | 237 ft | 478 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 19 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 105 ft | 124 ft | 555 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 20 | standard nonelectric | 183 ft | 105 ft | 73 ft | 649 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 21 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 71 ft | 241 ft | 582 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 22 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 129 ft | 50 ft | 772 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 23 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 71 ft | 240 ft | 650 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 24 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 87 ft | 282 ft | 721 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 25 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 146 ft | 335 ft | 778 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 26 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 159 ft | 124 ft | 880 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 27 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 177 ft | 182 ft | 956 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 28 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 144 ft | 387 ft | 743 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 29 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 181 ft | 294 ft | 851 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 30 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 171 ft | 484 ft | 709 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 31 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 125 ft | 498 ft | 639 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 32 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 138 ft | 663 ft | 507 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 33 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 125 ft | 618 ft | 515 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 34 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $24–$28 | ||||
| AROA | 35 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 93 ft | 627 ft | 408 ft | $24–$28 | |
| AROA | 36 | type not stated | 10 ft | 783 ft | 287 ft | |||
| AROA | 37 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 93 ft | 628 ft | 342 ft | $24–$28 |
25 of 37 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Smith Springs1.5 mi
Seven Points (TN)2.6 mi
Poole Knobs6.5 mi
Shutes Branch9.9 mi
Jefferson Springs10 mi
Cedar Creek (TN)13 miFrom downtown Nashville, TN, take I-40 east for 5 miles to exit 219. Turn right on Stewarts Ferry Pike and continue straight on Bell Road for 5 miles. Turn left on Smith Springs Road, then left on Anderson Road. The campground is ahead about 1 mile on the left or continue straight on Anderson Road to access the day use area and shelter.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance), TN
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Anderson Road Campground is in Tennessee’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Andy Ogles (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →