Floating Mill Park
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 16 of the next 22 nights read 16:10 UTC
- A night
- $24–$32Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 10099 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Floating Mill Park is located on the shores of the scenic Center Hill Lake on central Tennessee's Highland Rim. The lake stretches 64 miles up the Caney Fork River, where visitors come to enjoy boating, fishing and water sports. The 415 miles of forested shoreline provide excellent hiking, hunting and camping opportunities. 2025 Events: The annual Halloween event will be held Saturday, October 25, 2025. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, waterskiing, canoeing and fishing are popular activities on the water. Anglers will find bream, walleye, smallmouth bass, crappie, catfish and white bass. Below the dam, the Caney Fork River is one of the most productive trout fisheries in the state. Nine miles of hiking trails meander around the lake. The Lost Springs Trail loops for two miles above the campground and Hurricane Marina.
Facilities
This large campground provides a wide variety of campsites, most of which have electric and water hookups. Several tent-only sites are provided, several of which are beautiful lakefront sites. A day-use group picnic area is available for reservations. It can accommodate up to 125 guests, with a large shelter and picnic tables. Water and 30-amp electric hookups are included. Amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided, creating a comfortable camping experience for guests. A boat ramp, fish cleaning station, playground and hiking trail are all conveniently located within the campground.
Natural Features
Center Hill Lake is surrounded by lush mixed hardwood forests in the hilly Highland Rim region. Whitetail deer, wild turkey, squirrels and rabbits roam the wooded hills around the lake. Floating Mill Park is surrounded by the lake on three sides, providing sweeping waterfront views.
Nearby Attractions
Edgar Evins State Park, about 25 minutes from Floating Mill, sits on the shores of the lake. An observation tower at the Visitor Center offers a spectacular view of Center Hill Lake and the surrounding hillsides. Burgess Falls State Park is a 35-minute drive from the campground. Here, the Falling Water River drops approximately 250 feet, creating numerous breathtaking waterfalls. Hiking trails and overlooks help visitors enjoy the scenery. The large Native Butterfly Garden is a popular attraction within the park.
What the agency tells you
Sites 60-77, 81-98 are tent only sites. Site is only accessible through the use of steps. No camping units can be placed on it.
Only two tents allowed per site. Tents must be placed on campsite pads. Only one wheeled camping unit allowed to each site. one wheeled camping unit and one tent is allowed.
Pets are prohibited in the day-use area and beach area in campground. As well as all restroom facilities.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
No alcohol permitted.
Church services are held Sundays at 9 a.m. from Memorial Day weekend though the last Sunday in the season.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by using heat-treated firewood. Non-certified heat-treated firewood is prohibited. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Payments will be limited to credit card transactions only.
All camping equipment (including vehicles, boats, and trailers) must be kept on your site(s). Parking on the asphalt at the boat ramp in the campground is prohibited. Campers will also not be allowed to leave their boats and trailers in the day use area. Anyone parking in a non-designated area, will be subject to a citation and/or being towed.
Only licensed vehicles are permitted. Each campsite is provided for two pre-paid vehicle entry. Additional vehicles, or visitors to campers are charged $3 fee per vehicle. The $3 fee will be charged only one time and hang tag is good for the entire reservation.
We need your help to maintain our campsites. Please dispose of all trash and litter along with extinguishing any fire and dispose of ashes in the fire ring upon departure. If sites are left trashed, you may be cited by Title 36 Code of Federal Regulation 327.9 Sanitation part (d). “Campers, picknickers, and all other persons using a water resources development project shall keep their sites free of trash and litter during the period of occupancy and shall remove all personal equipment and clean their sites upon departure”.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 100 · 39 tent-only
- Hookups
- 90 electric, 92 water, 2 sewer
- Longest rig
- 48 ft
- Paved pads
- 23 of 100
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…hookups are included. Amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided, creating…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities like flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided, creating a comfortable camping experience for guests.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…like flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided, creating a comfortable camping…”
- 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
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 53rd darkest of 95 in TN
- Bortle 4
36 of 160 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:10 UTC
recreation.gov lists 99 of the 100 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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
“Additional vehicles, or visitors to campers are charged $3 fee per vehicle.” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$32 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:10 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
101 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 98 mapped sitesAll 101 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 101 of the 101 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. 98 of the 101 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| FMIP | 060 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 64 ft | 226 ft | 216 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 061 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 64 ft | 219 ft | 277 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 062 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 72 ft | 157 ft | 334 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 063 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 58 ft | 175 ft | 398 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 064 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 58 ft | 165 ft | 456 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 065 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 56 ft | 120 ft | 509 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 066 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 48 ft | 153 ft | 549 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 067 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 48 ft | 120 ft | 587 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 068 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 71 ft | 150 ft | 604 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 069 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 72 ft | 172 ft | 536 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 070 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 67 ft | 135 ft | 511 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 071 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 67 ft | 163 ft | 446 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 072 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 58 ft | 177 ft | 374 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 073 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 55 ft | 163 ft | 330 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 074 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 55 ft | 116 ft | 313 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 075 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 39 ft | 119 ft | 251 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 076 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 39 ft | 121 ft | 224 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 077 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 72 ft | 135 ft | 179 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 078 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 128 ft | 168 ft | $30–$32 | |
| FMIP | 079 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 106 ft | 218 ft | $30–$32 | |
| FMIP | 080 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 109 ft | 252 ft | $30–$32 | |
| FMIP | 081 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 75 ft | 35 ft | 496 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 082 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 75 ft | 50 ft | 551 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 083 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 57 ft | 50 ft | 610 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 084 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 55 ft | 651 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 085 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 33 ft | 707 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 086 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 55 ft | 47 ft | 859 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 087 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 57 ft | 105 ft | 580 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 088 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 55 ft | 57 ft | 911 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 089 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 75 ft | 53 ft | 1,018 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 090 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 59 ft | 55 ft | 1,091 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 091 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 73 ft | 25 ft | 1,224 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 092 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 73 ft | 15 ft | 1,285 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 093 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 82 ft | 96 ft | 1,246 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 094 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 87 ft | 106 ft | 1,161 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 095 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 59 ft | 114 ft | 1,077 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 096 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 81 ft | 139 ft | 997 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 097 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 40 ft | 172 ft | 868 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 098 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 40 ft | 201 ft | 840 ft | $24 | ||
| FMIP | 099 | type not stated | 30 ft | 50 amp | 493 ft | 230 ft | |||
| FMIP | 100 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 31 ft | 501 ft | 264 ft | $30–$32 | |
| FMIP | 101 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 31 ft | 508 ft | 291 ft | $30–$32 | |
| FMIP | 102 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 29 ft | 544 ft | 315 ft | $30–$32 | |
| FMIP | 103 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 29 ft | 563 ft | 344 ft | $30–$32 | |
| FMIP | 104 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 565 ft | 368 ft | $30–$32 | |
| FMIP | 105 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 31 ft | 493 ft | 402 ft | $26 | ||
| FMIP | 106 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 31 ft | 469 ft | 373 ft | $26 | ||
| FMIP | 107 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 38 ft | 458 ft | 336 ft | $26 | ||
| FMIP | P-1 | day use | 30 amp | yes | 214 ft | 871 ft | $50 | ||
| TCLP | 001 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 35 ft | 234 ft | 539 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 002 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 31 ft | 200 ft | 545 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 003 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 31 ft | 172 ft | 550 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 004 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 26 ft | 139 ft | 561 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 005 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 26 ft | 119 ft | 567 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 006 | rv electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 33 ft | 93 ft | 580 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 007 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 128 ft | 520 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 008 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 161 ft | 497 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 009 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 197 ft | 479 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 010 | rv electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 231 ft | 465 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 011 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 34 ft | 228 ft | 436 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 012 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 29 ft | 205 ft | 444 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 013 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 29 ft | 186 ft | 453 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 014 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 28 ft | 168 ft | 465 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 015 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 28 ft | 135 ft | 498 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 016 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 28 ft | 147 ft | 476 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 017 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 36 ft | 42 ft | 493 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 018 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 35 ft | 75 ft | 463 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 019 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 35 ft | 106 ft | 433 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 020 | rv electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 142 ft | 381 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 021 | rv electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 30 ft | 171 ft | 369 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 022 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 33 ft | 202 ft | 355 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 023 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 34 ft | 165 ft | 310 ft | $24 | ||
| TCLP | 024 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 27 ft | 157 ft | 285 ft | $24 | ||
| TCLP | 025 | tent only electric | 30 amp | 27 ft | 131 ft | 303 ft | $24 | ||
| TCLP | 026 | rv electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 67 ft | 405 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 027 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 32 ft | 108 ft | 283 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 028 | rv electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 37 ft | 72 ft | 313 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 029 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 116 ft | 251 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 030 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 136 ft | 225 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 031 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 62 ft | 47 ft | 278 ft | $26 | ||
| TCLP | 032 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 62 ft | 108 ft | 218 ft | $26 | ||
| TCLP | 033 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 67 ft | 68 ft | 285 ft | $26 | ||
| TCLP | 034 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 56 ft | 135 ft | 224 ft | $26 | ||
| TCLP | 035 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 56 ft | 143 ft | 254 ft | $26 | ||
| TCLP | 036 | rv electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 32 ft | 140 ft | 257 ft | $30 | |
| TCLP | 037 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 201 ft | 216 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 038 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 39 ft | 249 ft | 339 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 039 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 37 ft | 280 ft | 399 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 040 | standard electric | 24 ft | 50 amp | 31 ft | 278 ft | 315 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 041 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 31 ft | 306 ft | 395 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 042 | standard electric | 24 ft | 50 amp | 31 ft | 304 ft | 301 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 043 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 25 ft | 325 ft | 278 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 044 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 27 ft | 328 ft | 394 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 045 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 25 ft | 351 ft | 280 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 046 | standard electric | 21 ft | 50 amp | 27 ft | 350 ft | 391 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 047 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 27 ft | 402 ft | 304 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 048 | standard electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 414 ft | 248 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 049 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 27 ft | 378 ft | 286 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 050 | type not stated | 36 ft | 50 amp | 345 ft | 230 ft | |||
| TCLP | 051 | standard electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 379 ft | 169 ft | $30–$32 | |
| TCLP | 052 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 123 ft | 214 ft | 111 ft | $30–$32 |
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.
25 of 101 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hurricane Bridge1.4 mi
Ragland Bottom5.2 mi
Long Branch (Center Hill Lake)5.4 mi
Center Hill Lake Primitive Camping Areas5.4 mi
Tailwater Rec Area19 mi
Salt Lick Creek19 miFrom I-40, take exit 273. Merge onto US-56 south and continue for 3.5 miles to Floating Mill Road. After about a mile, turn right to stay on Floating Mill Road, and follow signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Smithville, TN
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 72°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
Floating Mill Park is in Tennessee’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, John Rose (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →