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U.S. Forest Service · Daniel Boone National Forest · KY

Grove Drive-in Campground

The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Get directionsWhat it costs, and the rules
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Drawn from the record · 1,190 ft · 56% tree cover · Laurel River Lake within reach · Bortle 4 sky
1,190 ftElevation
997 ftWater · Laurel River Lake
3.6 miW of Corbin, KY
56%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 57th darkest of 60 in KY

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Grove Drive-in Campground is located on a wooded ridge above Laurel River Lake , about 10 miles from Corbin, KY and 15 miles from Cumberland Falls State Resort Park. This scenic area provides plenty of opportunities for outdoor activity. The lake can be reached by hiking trails or by making a short drive to Grove Marina . The campground is closed during winter months. For more information, call 606-528-6156 during campground season. Grove Campground is operated by a concessionare under an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service. Keep reading

Campsites may be reserved from Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends by visiting recreation.gov or by calling toll free 877-444-6777. The campground has no beach for swimming. A public beach is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Laurel River Lake dam. 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 Drive-In Campground Guide & Map (pdf) Trails near by: Spruce Creek Trail #441 Singing Hills Trail #443 Oak Branch Trail #444 Duff Branch Trail #440 Fishing Point Trail #442

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Store
Nearby
Source: Stated in the agency description

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, River, Creek, Beach
Source: Stated in the agency description

Phone before you drive

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Directions
Every line of the receipt · 8

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Loop A & B $38/single (includes $12 hookup surcharge), $25/single w/Discount Pass
Double (includes $24 hookup surcharge).$76
Dump fee/$10 (non-registered camper).
Loop C $26/single Learn more about Recreation Permits and Passes
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$10

“Extra vehicle fee/$10.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record

What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 5
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate
Coordinate36.94076, -84.21629

Where it is

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight43°Drizzle Likely67% rain
Saturday55°Drizzle Likely then Chance Light Rain60% rain
Saturday Night36°Mostly Clear then Areas Of Frost5% rain
Sunday64°Areas Of Frost then Sunny2% rain

NWS forecast for Corbin, KY

Source: National Weather Service, JKL forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

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.

100°32°20°

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.

Measured at: LONDON CORBIN AP, KY (USW00003849), 13 miles away and at about the same elevation
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

developing

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 28, 2026

Who answers for this land

Hal Rogers, official portrait

Grove Drive-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 →

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Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.92 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 60 rated federal campgrounds in Kentucky · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026