Fall Creek Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fall Creek Campground is located at 1144 New Fall Creek Road, Monticello and 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 10-acre site and its 10 shaded campsites. All of these sites are waterfront, making them prime locations for weekend recreation. Fall Creek 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.
Natural Features
The campground overlooks the main body of the lake, offering sweeping scenic views. Dense stands of mature hardwoods forest the area, offering pleasant shade and wildlife habitat. Due to 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 Mill Park is just a 15-minute drive from the campground. This historic mill site offers interpretive tours and grinding on the weekends and holidays, picnic sites and a gift shop. Grinding is at 2:00pm Saturday, Sunday and Holidays. Interpretive tours of the mill are given Saturday, Sunday and Holidays during the recreation season.
What the agency tells you
Check in time is 3:00 PM Eastern. Check out time is 12:00 PM Eastern.
Off-highway 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
- 10
- Hookups
- 10 electric, 10 water
- Longest rig
- 61 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 10
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 11 of 11 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 10 of 11 campsite records
- Showers
- Accessible Showers
- ACCESSIBLE SHOWERS on 10 of 11 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 11 campsite records
- 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, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 32nd 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $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
11 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 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. 10 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 75 ftLake Cumberland | $26 | |
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 65 ft | 91 ftLake Cumberland | $26 |
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 101 ftLake Cumberland | $26 | |
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50/30 amp | 66 ft | 116 ftLake Cumberland | $26 | |
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50/30 amp | 79 ft | 84 ftLake Cumberland | $26 | |
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50/30 amp | 103 ft | 27 ftLake Cumberland | $26 | |
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 121 ftLake Cumberland | $26 | |
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 141 ftLake Cumberland | $26 | |
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 127 ftLake Cumberland | $26 | |
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50/30 amp | 62 ft | 128 ftLake Cumberland | $26 | |
| FALL CREEK CAMPGROUND | A100 | day use | 200 ft | 107 ftLake Cumberland |
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
Cumberland Point Campground2.0 mi
Fishing Creek Campground13 mi
Waitsboro Campground13 mi
Kendall Campground18 mi
Alum Ford CampgroundBig South Fork National River and Recreation Area · 20 mi
Great Meadows CampgroundDaniel Boone National Forest · 22 miFrom Monticello: KY 90, Turn onto KY 1275, light #1, Travel approximately 3.5 miles, Turn onto Hwy 2393, travel approximately 2 miles, Turn left at Fall Creek sign, Road ends at campground.
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
Fall Creek 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 →