Cumberland Point Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $22–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cumberland Point Campground is situated along the shores of the vast Lake Cumberland in southern Kentucky. Click here for the Lake Cumberland virtual tour. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Cumberland is the largest man-made lake east of the Mississippi River. Its large surface acreage and over 1,200 miles of shoreline provide a myriad of recreational activities. The lake has an abundance of largemouth, smallmouth, white and Kentucky bass, bluegill, crappie, rockfish and walleye, making it a favorite among anglers.
Facilities
Visitors enjoy the 30-acre site and its 30 shaded campsites. Fourteen of these sites are waterfront, making them prime locations for weekend recreation. Cumberland Point has a day-use area, picnic shelter and public parking. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A boat ramp and playground are located within the park. The entrance and exit roads have a moderate to severe grade.
Natural Features
The campground overlooks the main body of the lake, offering sweeping scenic views. Dense stands of mature hardwoods forest the site, offering scenic views, pleasant shade and wildlife habitat. Because of the temperate climate and relatively long recreation season, the lake provides varied outdoor recreational opportunities for millions of visitors each year.
Nearby Attractions
The Mill Springs Battlefield Park is just a 20-minute drive from the campground. This historic Civil War site offers interpretive exhibits, a gift shop and driving tour. Special events are held throughout the year.
What the agency tells you
Check in time is 3:00 PM Eastern. Check out time is 12:00 PM Eastern.
Off-road vehicles not permitted.
Golf carts, scooters and moped vehicles are not authorized on project roadways unless handicap credentials can be established.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- 30 electric, 30 water
- Longest rig
- 68 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 30
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 31 of 31 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 31 of 31 campsite records
- Showers
- Accessible Showers
- ACCESSIBLE SHOWERS on 29 of 31 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A boat ramp and playground are…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Night sky · 34th 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
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.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$26 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.
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
31 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 31 mapped sitesAll 31 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 30 of the 31 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CPOI | 01 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 271 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 02 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 35 ft | 138 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 03 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 34 ft | 138 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 04 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 215 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 05 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 34 ft | 115 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 06 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 155 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 07 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 108 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 08 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 108 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 09 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 111 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 10 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 89 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 11 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 146 ft | 74 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 12 | tent only electric | 14 ft | 50 amp | 35 ft | 221 ft | $22 | |
| CPOI | 13 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 35 ft | 198 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 14 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 161 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 15 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 148 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 16 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 221 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 17 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 144 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 18 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 218 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 19 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 136 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 20 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 220 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 21 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 136 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 22 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 203 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 23 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 44 ft | 140 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 24 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 207 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 25 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 128 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 26 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 189 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 27 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 122 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 28 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | yes | 52 ft | 193 ft | $26 |
| CPOI | 29 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 140 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | 30 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 189 ft | $26 | |
| CPOI | A100 | day use | 50/15 amp | 362 ft | 136 ft | $50 |
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.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Fall Creek Campground2.0 mi
Fishing Creek Campground11 mi
Waitsboro Campground12 mi
Kendall Campground18 mi
Alum Ford CampgroundBig South Fork National River and Recreation Area · 21 mi
Great Meadows CampgroundDaniel Boone National Forest · 24 miFrom Nancy, Kentucky, take Highway 235 south for a mile to Highway 761. Turn right and travel 9 miles to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Monticello, KY
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°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
Cumberland Point Campground 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 →