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ReservableOut of season; bookable April 9 through April 16.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$32–$92Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
5554 on recreation.gov
Photos · U.S. Forest Service
50 ftLongest rig
1,170 ftElevation
800 ftWater · Laurel River Lake
3.6 miW of Corbin, KY
72%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices

In the agency’s own words

Grove Campground is perched on a forested ridge above Laurel River Lake in Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest. The lake, fed by the Laurel River, is considered one of the most scenic lakes in the state. Boating, fishing, hiking and biking are greatly enjoyed by campers. Keep reading

Recreation

Hikers, horseback riders and mountain bikers can trek more than 600 miles of road and trail in Daniel Boone National Forest. Duff Branch, Oak Branch, Fishing Point and Singing Hills Trails can all be accessed in the immediate area. Anglers find prized catches of walleye, crappie, brown trout and rainbow trout at Laurel River Lake. Boating and swimming are also popular activities. A boat ramp is located nearby at Grove Marina.

Facilities

The campground offers single and double family campsites, which have 30-amp electric hookups. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are provided. Ice and firewood are sold on-site. Limited groceries can be found at Grove Marina.

Natural Features

The campground is in close proximity to the lake and is less than a mile from the shoreline. Laurel River Lake boasts 5,600 acres of deep, clear water and 192 miles of cliff-lined shores. Bountiful hills and valleys create a beautiful backdrop for the lake area. The forest was named after Daniel Boone, a famous frontiersman and explorer who settled in Kentucky in the late 18th century. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (606) 878-8134.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Campsite Occupancy & Vehicle Policy: Each single campsite is limited to 6 people and 2 vehicles. Double sites are limited to 12 people and 4 vehicles. Cars, trucks, trailers, boats, motorcycles ,etc. ARE considered vehicles. One boat or trailer per site only. All vehicles must be parked in designated parking areas only. Parking on roadsides, grass, or non-designated areas is not permitted. If space allows, additional vehicles may be permitted for a $10 fee per vehicle. However, extra vehicles may be refused if parking is not available. All additional vehicles must exit the campground by 10:00 PM, unless parked in an approved designated parking area. Guests are responsible for ensuring their party complies with all occupancy and vehicle limits.

Rule

DO NOT move or tamper with fire-rings, bear boxes, picnic tables and etc.

Rule

Be sure to reserve a site that will accommodate your equipment. The site you reserve is your site. You may not move to another site.

Everything else this campground posts · 6
Rule

High cliffs in the area; please be cautious

Rule

Maximum occupancy per single site is 6 campers

Rule

A surcharge for electric hookups is included in the campsite fee

Rule

Click here for more information on Daniel Boone National Forest

Rule

Bears frequent the area; visitors must keep food in approved containers at all times.

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.

Read them on the agency’s own page →
Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
55 · 4 tent-only
Hookups
50 electric, 50 water
Longest rig
50 ft
Paved pads
50 of 55
Accessible sites
None listed
Pets
Allowed
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets
“…with a picnic table and campfire ring. Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are provided. Ice and…”
Showers
Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
“Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are provided.”
Drinking water
Yes
“…table and campfire ring. Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are provided. Ice and firewood are sold…”
Dump station
Yes
recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp
Yes
Firewood
Sold here
Camp host
On site
recreation.gov lists “Host”
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, River, Beach
Boating
Fishing
Hiking
Night sky · 56th darkest of 60 in KY
Bortle 4
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 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 · Sep 8, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 54 of the 55 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowFrom April 9Out of season now. Bookable for April 9, 2027 through April 16, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov
Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record
A night$32–$92plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$72–$192DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Fri, Apr 9 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, per site$32–$92
Tent Only Nonelectric$32
Stan Ele Single$46
Stan Ele Double$92
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 9, 2026 to Oct 11, 2026.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$10

“If space allows, additional vehicles may be permitted for a $10 fee per vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice

What a stay costs
One nightDerived$40–$100
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$72–$192

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $32–$92 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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
Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026
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. · Sep 9, 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: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

99 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 54 mapped sites
61 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
25%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites
Most roomLoop A 12 7486 ftLoop C 10 122 ftLoop A 08 114 ftLoop A 09 114 ftLoop BSNG B01 114 ft
Least roomLoop A 04 8 ftLoop BSNG B11 8 ftLoop A 03 17 ft
Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 99 records

94 of 99 records located
Tent only4RV / electric50Unnamed record40
020304060708091011121314151617181920B01B02B03B04B05B06B07B08B09B10B11B1201020304050607080910111213141516171819201234XXX1XXX10XXX11XXX12XXX13XXX14XXX15XXX16XXX17XXX18XXX19XXX2XXX20XXX21XXX22XXX23XXX24XXX25XXX26XXX27XXX28XXX29XXX3XXX30XXX31XXX32XXX33XXX34XXX35XXX36XXX37XXX38XXX39XXX4XXX40XXX5XXX6XXX7XXX8XXX9
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026
Imagery: Esri World Imagery
SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 55 of the 99 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.

A02standard electric45 ft30 amp45 ft832 ft$46–$92
A03standard electric30 ft30 amp17 ft920 ft$46–$92
A04standard electric45 ft30 amp8 ft907 ft$46–$92
A06standard electric45 ft30 amp79 ft750 ft$46–$92
A07standard electric45 ft30 amp79 ft714 ft$46–$92
A08standard electric30 ft30 amp114 ft701 ft$46–$92
A09standard electric45 ft30 amp114 ft745 ft$46–$92
A10standard electric30 ft30 amp78 ft796 ft$46–$92
A11standard electric45 ft30 amp79 ft823 ft$46–$92
A12standard electric45 ft30 amp7486 ft277 ft$46–$92
A13standard electric45 ft30 amp94 ft833 ft$46–$92
A14standard electric45 ft30 amp79 ft743 ft$46–$92
A15standard electric45 ft30 amp47 ft987 ft$46–$92
A16standard electric45 ft30 amp47 ft1,021 ft$46–$92
A17standard electric45 ft30 amp69 ft1,053 ft$46–$92
A18standard electric45 ft30 amp72 ft971 ft$46–$92
A19standard electric45 ft30 amp69 ft1,026 ft$46–$92
A20standard electric30 ft30 amp69 ft1,029 ft$46–$92
BSNGB01standard electric45 ft30 amp114 ft937 ft$46–$92
BSNGB02standard electric50 ft30 amp17 ft903 ft$46–$92
BSNGB03standard electric35 ft30 amp48 ft855 ft$46–$92
BSNGB04standard electric50 ft30 amp45 ft823 ft$46–$92
BSNGB05standard electric30 ft30 amp60 ft789 ft$46–$92
BSNGB06standard electric50 ft30 amp60 ft748 ft$46–$92
BSNGB07standard electric35 ft30 amp71 ft727 ft$46–$92
BSNGB08standard electric34 ft30 amp88 ft743 ft$46–$92
BSNGB09standard electric35 ft30 amp62 ft765 ft$46–$92
BSNGB10standard electric30 ft30 amp60 ft796 ft$46–$92
BSNGB11standard electric35 ft30 amp8 ft905 ft$46–$92
BSNGB12standard electric40 ft30 amp53 ft963 ft$46–$92
C01standard electric45 ft30 amp36 ft672 ft$46–$92
C02standard electric45 ft30 amp36 ft641 ft$46–$92
C03standard electric45 ft30 amp36 ft610 ft$46–$92
C04standard electric45 ft30 amp52 ft446 ft$46–$92
C05standard electric45 ft30 amp31 ft533 ft$46–$92
C06standard electric45 ft30 amp36 ft545 ft$46–$92
C07standard electric45 ft30 amp37 ft592 ft$46–$92
C08standard electric45 ft30 amp37 ft568 ft$46–$92
C09standard electric45 ft30 amp47 ft571 ft$46–$92
C10standard electric45 ft30 amp122 ft555 ft$46–$92
C11standard electric45 ft30 amp31 ft562 ft$46–$92
C12standard electric30 ft30 amp77 ft536 ft$46–$92
C13standard electric30 ft30 amp70 ft504 ft$46–$92
C14standard electric45 ft30 amp47 ft460 ft$46–$92
C15standard electric45 ft30 amp47 ft443 ft$46–$92
C16standard electric45 ft30 amp93 ft467 ft$46–$92
C17standard electric30 ft30 amp93 ft556 ft$46–$92
C18standard electric30 ft30 amp96 ft589 ft$46–$92
C19standard electric30 ft30 amp73 ft692 ft$46–$92
C20standard electric30 ft30 amp73 ft750 ft$46–$92
C Walk-in1tent only nonelectric64 ft393 ft$32
C Walk-in2tent only nonelectric52 ft424 ft$32
C Walk-in3tent only nonelectric92 ft434 ft$32
C Walk-in4tent only nonelectric45 ft505 ft$32
GROVEXXX (now listed individually as FF)type not stated$38
GROVEXXX1unnamed record983 ft$38
GROVEXXX10unnamed record881 ft$38
GROVEXXX11unnamed record965 ft$38
GROVEXXX12unnamed record849 ft$38
GROVEXXX13unnamed record991 ft$38
GROVEXXX14unnamed record919 ft$38
GROVEXXX15unnamed record989 ft$38
GROVEXXX16unnamed record1,025 ft$38
GROVEXXX17unnamed record1,017 ft$38
GROVEXXX18unnamed record987 ft$38
GROVEXXX19unnamed record1,047 ft$38
GROVEXXX2unnamed record982 ft$38
GROVEXXX20unnamed record1,061 ft$38
GROVEXXX21unnamed record808 ft$38
GROVEXXX22unnamed record719 ft$38
GROVEXXX23unnamed record748 ft$38
GROVEXXX24unnamed record633 ft$38
GROVEXXX25unnamed record567 ft$38
GROVEXXX26unnamed record493 ft$38
GROVEXXX27unnamed record483 ft$38
GROVEXXX28unnamed record372 ft$38
GROVEXXX29unnamed record362 ft$38
GROVEXXX3unnamed record1,022 ft$38
GROVEXXX30unnamed record558 ft$38
GROVEXXX31unnamed record574 ft$38
GROVEXXX32unnamed record588 ft$38
GROVEXXX33unnamed record589 ft$38
GROVEXXX34unnamed record558 ft$38
GROVEXXX35unnamed record527 ft$38
GROVEXXX36unnamed record535 ft$38
GROVEXXX37unnamed record598 ft$38
GROVEXXX38unnamed record667 ft$38
GROVEXXX39unnamed record750 ft$38
GROVEXXX4unnamed record1,032 ft$38
GROVEXXX40unnamed record813 ft$38
GROVEXXX41unnamed record$38
GROVEXXX42unnamed record$38
GROVEXXX43unnamed record$38
GROVEXXX44unnamed record$38
GROVEXXX5unnamed record993 ft$38
GROVEXXX6unnamed record958 ft$38
GROVEXXX7unnamed record795 ft$38
GROVEXXX8unnamed record735 ft$38
GROVEXXX9unnamed record769 ft$38

The agency files 44 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

The records with no site name: Derived by CAMPANAC from the agency’s own campsite records: recreation.gov files some overnight records with no site name, only a row of X characters. A block is read as the campground’s own sites, filed without names, only where the agency types those records as campsites rather than MANAGEMENT, gives each one a coordinate, and their numbering continues the campground’s own numbered sites with no gap. Everything else is left uncounted, and where the evidence doesn’t decide the record is counted as no kind of site rather than guessed at · Sep 12, 2026
Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 99 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Coordinate36.94167, -84.21667
The phone606-528-6156
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight44°Rain Showers Likely69% rain
Saturday54°Slight Chance Rain Showers then Partly Sunny15% rain
Saturday Night36°Clear then Areas Of Frost
Sunday62°Areas Of Frost then Sunny

NWS forecast for Corbin, KY

Source: National Weather Service, JKL forecast office · Oct 16, 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 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

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: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 54 of the 55 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026
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