Grove Boat-In Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Grove Boat-In Campground is accessible by boat from Laurel River Lake or by trail from Grove Drive-In Campground. The campground sits at the end of two peninsulas separated by a small bay. Most campsites are near the water's edge with boat moorings near each site. Each site has a tent pad, fire ring, picnic table, and lantern poles. Self-serve pay stations, water, and vault toilets are centrally located. There are no flush toilets or showers. Most campsites are near the water's edge with boat moorings near each site. The sites are spaced apart and provide a sense of seclusion. Keep reading
These campsites are favored by boat owners who wish to keep their boats near their campsite. Grove Boat-In Campground Guide & Map (pdf) Laurel River Lake features 5,600 acres of clear, deep water and nearly 200 miles of tree-lined shore. The quiet coves and cliff-lined shores offer relaxation and quiet reflection, as well as boating, fishing, skiing and scuba diving in one of the deepest and cleanest lakes in Kentucky. Grove Marina is a full-service marina located within 1/2-mile of the campground. The marina is privately-owned and operated under a special-use permit with the U.S. Forest Service. Rental boats, camping and fishing supplies, fishing licenses, and detailed maps of the lake are available at the marina. The marina is open year round. Grove Boat Ramp is located at the marina. Boat ramps nearby: Flatwoods and High Top Trails nearby: Duff Branch Trail #440 Fishing Point Trail #442 Spruce Creek Trail #441 Singing Hills Trail #443 Oak Branch Trail #444 Campgrounds nearby: Grove Drive-in Campground
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Self-serve pay stations, water, and vault toilets are centrally located. There are no flush toilets…”
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are no flush toilets or showers.”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Coast
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
GroveDaniel Boone National Forest · 1.0 miGrove Drive-in CampgroundDaniel Boone National Forest · 1.0 miWhite Oak Boat-In CampgroundDaniel Boone National Forest · 2.4 mi
Holly BayDaniel Boone National Forest · 3.0 mi
Craigs Creek Group AreaDaniel Boone National Forest · 3.2 miBee Rock CampgroundDaniel Boone National Forest · 7.5 miThe 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
Grove Boat-In 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 →