Hurricane Creek
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 9 of the next 30 nights read 16:03 UTC
- A night
- $30–$32Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 51All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hurricane Creek Campground sits along the beautiful Lake Barkley, providing plenty of fresh air and recreation opportunities. While away the hours boating or hiking on shore. Anglers a plenty come in search of catfish and trophy bass. Wildlife spotting includes white-tailed deer and raccoons. Keep reading
Recreation
From water sports to wildlife viewing to hiking and biking, Hurricane Creek is the perfect setting for outdoor activities.
Facilities
The campground offers 51 sites with water and electric hookups. Six of these are walk-to sites. Hot showers, laundry facilities and a playground are available.
Natural Features
The campground is nestled in the wooded, rolling hills of southwestern Kentucky. Lake Barkley covers 57,900 acres with 1,004 miles of shoreline and offers comfortable and refreshing water temperatures in summer months.
Nearby Attractions
The three-mile Lake Barkley State Park Trail is highly recommended. Plus the Lyon County Museum, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, makes for an enjoyable visit. Items in the museum highlight the area's immigration history dating back to 1865.
What the agency tells you
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District firewood policy is now in effect and seeks the public’s cooperation to prevent the spread of forest insects and disease at campgrounds in the Cumberland River Basin. The firewood policy requires visitors at Lake Barkley’s campgrounds to use only firewood that has been certified as heat-treated by U.S. Department of Agriculture or state natural resource agency.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 51 · 6 walk-in
- Hookups
- 45 electric, 34 water
- Longest rig
- 78 ft
- Paved pads
- 16 of 51
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Hot showers, laundry facilities and a playground are available.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 51 campsite records
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 14th darkest of 60 in KY
- Bortle 4
2 of 100 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:03 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
51 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 51 mapped sitesAll 51 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 51 of the 51 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.
| HCRE | 01 | rv electric | 40 ft | 35 ft | 235 ft | $30–$32 | ||
| HCRE | 02 | rv electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 35 ft | 219 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 03 | rv electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | yes | 42 ft | 218 ft | $30–$32 |
| HCRE | 04 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 206 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 05 | rv electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 204 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 06 | walk to | yes | 47 ft | 140 ft | $16 | ||
| HCRE | 07 | walk to | 47 ft | 125 ft | $16 | |||
| HCRE | 08 | rv electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 227 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 09 | walk to | 45 ft | 123 ft | $16 | |||
| HCRE | 10 | rv electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 202 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 11 | walk to | 45 ft | 128 ft | $16 | |||
| HCRE | 12 | walk to | 50 ft | 101 ft | $16 | |||
| HCRE | 13 | rv electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 181 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 14 | walk to | 50 ft | 130 ft | $16 | |||
| HCRE | 15 | rv electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 138 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 16 | rv electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 95 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 17 | rv electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 67 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 18 | rv electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 155 ft | 239 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 19 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 69 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 20 | rv electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 89 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 21 | rv electric | 36 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 177 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 22 | rv electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 79 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 23 | rv electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 72 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 24 | rv electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 180 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 25 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 80 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 26 | rv electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 171 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 27 | rv electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 48 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 28 | rv electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 126 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 29 | rv electric | 54 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 66 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 30 | rv electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 72 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 31 | rv electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 88 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 32 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 240 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 33 | rv electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 251 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 34 | rv electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 340 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 35 | rv electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 335 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 36 | rv electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 386 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 37 | rv electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 445 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 38 | rv electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 474 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 39 | rv electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 497 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 40 | rv electric | 26 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 540 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 41 | rv electric | 78 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 655 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 42 | rv electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 750 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 43 | rv electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 702 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 44 | rv electric | 40 ft | Electricity Hookup | 91 ft | 724 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 45 | rv electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 601 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 46 | rv electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 555 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 47 | rv electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 500 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 48 | rv electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 457 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 49 | rv electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 426 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 50 | rv electric | 52 ft | Electricity Hookup | 111 ft | 358 ft | $30–$32 | |
| HCRE | 51 | rv electric | 72 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 346 ft | $30–$32 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 51 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Physical Address: Hurricane Creeek Campground: 25 Hurrican Creek Campground Road, Eddyville, KY 42038
From Paducah, Kentucky: Take I-24 east to exit 45. Turn right on Highway 293 west and go 0.3 miles. Turn left on Highway 93 south, go 5.3 miles. Turn right on Highway 274 south, go 5.7 miles. Turn right on Hurricane camp road. Campground on left.
From Nashville, Tenn.: Take I-24 west to Exit 56. Turn left on Highway 139 north and go approximately one mile. Turn right on Highway 276, go eight miles. Turn right on Highway 274 and drive one mile. Turn left on Hurricane Camp Road; campground is on left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cadiz, KY
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Hurricane Creek is in Kentucky’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, James Comer (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →