Craigs Creek Group Area
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- Sites
- 3All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Craigs Creek Group Area is perched near Laurel River Lake in the Daniel Boone National Forest. Here, group campers find hours of fun playing on the sports field, firing up the grills and exploring the beautiful lake. Daniel Boone National Forest protects 23 species listed as federally threatened or endangered. Species range from the magnificent bald eagle to the small Indiana bat and the Cumberland Sandwort. Keep reading
Recreation
The hiking and biking trail at Craig's Creek is an easy, half-mile path that features several views of the lake. Picnicking, boating and fishing are popular pastimes for visitors. Fish species include crappie, catfish, and small and largemouth bass. A spacious sports field with a volleyball net and horseshoe pits lies near the picnic shelter.
Facilities
Group sites are for tent camping only and do not have electricity. The day-use picnic shelter fits 60 guests, and the group campsites fit up to 30 and 60 guests, depending on the location. Each group camp area comes with a campfire circle, large grill, picnic tables and a lantern pole. Modern vault toilets and a shower house are available.
Natural Features
The campground sits on Craig's Creek, which flows into an arm of Laurel River Lake across from Holly Bay Campground. The group site lies in a somewhat open space surrounded by woods. Set in the Appalachian foothills, plenty of hills and valleys create a beautiful backdrop for the lake area.
What the agency tells you
Cick here for more information on Daniel Boone National Forest
Bears frequent the area; visitors must keep food in approved containers at all times.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Vehicle and Parking Policy: Parking is limited and allowed in designated parking areas only. A vehicle is defined as cars, trucks, motorcycles, trailers, boats, etc. Each reserved area includes the following number of vehicles: - Group Site A: Up to 6 vehicles - Group Site B: Up to 6 vehicles - Group Site C: Up to 8 vehicles - Group Shelter: Up to 10 vehicles Additional vehicles may be permitted only if parking is available and will be charged $10 per vehicle, per day. Once parking capacity has been reached, additional vehicles may be refused entry to the campground. All vehicles must have a parking tag. All vehicles must be parked in designated parking areas only. Parking in unassigned campsites is not permitted. Boats and trailers may not be parked in campsites or on grassy areas. Guests bringing additional vehicles that are not are not staying overnight must exit the campground by 10:00 PM each evening. Shelter Reservation Hours Shelter reservations are valid from 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM. All shelter guests and vehicles must depart the campground by 9:00 PM.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 3 · 3 tent-only, 3 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…picnic tables and a lantern pole. Modern vault toilets and a shower house are available. Natural Features…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Modern vault toilets and a shower house are available.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Coast
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 45th darkest of 60 in KY
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
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Tell me when the season opens
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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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
“Additional vehicles may be permitted only if parking is available and will be charged $10 per vehicle, per day.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 4 mapped sitesAll 4 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 2 of the 4 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. 3 of the 4 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| B | GRP B | group tent only area nonelectric | 20 ft | 199 ft | 421 ft | 3,130 ft | $150–$204 |
| CRAI | GRP A | group tent only area nonelectric | 20 ft | 199 ft | 497 ft | 3,280 ft | $150–$204 |
| GRPC | GRP C | group tent only area nonelectric | 20 ft | 290 ft | 212 ft | $150–$204 | |
| SHEL | SHELT | day use | 20 ft | 274 ft | 352 ft | $150 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Holly BayDaniel Boone National Forest · 1.0 miWhite Oak Boat-In CampgroundDaniel Boone National Forest · 1.5 miGrove Boat-In CampgroundDaniel Boone National Forest · 3.2 mi
GroveDaniel Boone National Forest · 4.1 miGrove Drive-in CampgroundDaniel Boone National Forest · 4.2 miBee Rock CampgroundDaniel Boone National Forest · 4.3 miFrom London, Kentucky, take Exit 38 from I-75. Take Kentucky 192 west for 12.2 miles. Turn left onto Forest Road 62 and drive 2 miles to the Craig's Creek site.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Corbin, KY
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Craigs Creek Group Area is in Kentucky’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Hal Rogers (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →