U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · KY

Littcarr Campground

ReservableOut of season; bookable April 1 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
$24–$30Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
45All of them booked ahead
54 ftLongest rig
1,040 ftElevation
93 ftWater · Carr Fork Lake
9.1 miNW of Whitesburg, KY
22%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices

In the agency’s own words

Littcarr Campground is located on the shores of Carr Creek Lake in southeastern Kentucky's mountainous region. The area provides an excellent atmosphere for camping, fishing, boating and enjoying the natural setting. Keep reading

Recreation

The lake offers boating, water skiing and swimming. Anglers can fish for crappie, bass, bluegill and walleye. A short nature trail for hiking is located in the Dam/Tailwater area. For a bit more adventure, the six-mile Sugar Branch Trail begins at the dam and ends at Sugar Lake Road.

Facilities

The campground offers 45 sites with electric and water hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a dump station. For family-friendly entertainment, two playgrounds, a picnic shelter, horseshoe pits, and basketball and shuffleboard courts are also on-site.

Natural Features

Carr Creek Lake is situated in a scenic sloping landscape heavily forested with a wide variety of hardwood and pine trees. An array of songbirds and waterfowl inhabit the area's marshlands. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (606) 288-5471.

Nearby Attractions

Nearby attractions include Daniel Boone National Forest, Lilley Cornett Woods, Bad Branch Falls Nature Preserve, Red River Gorge Natural Scenic Area, Natural Bridge State Park and Buckhorn Lake.

What the agency tells you

Rule

Horses are not allowed in the campground

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.

Tents and rigs

Sites
45
Hookups
45 electric, 45 water, 29 sewer
Longest rig
54 ft
Paved pads
38 of 45
Accessible sites
3
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets
“…and water hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a…”
Showers
Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
“Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a dump station.”
Drinking water
Yes
“…include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities and a dump station. For…”
Dump station
Yes
Playground
Yes
Stay limit
14 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
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, Creek
Boating
Fishing
Hunting
Swimming
Night sky · 21st darkest of 60 in KY
Bortle 4
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

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

Booking windowFrom April 1Out of season now. Bookable for April 1, 2027 through April 16, 2027. Today at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov
Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
A night$24–$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$56–$68DerivedFriday 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. Army Corps of EngineersBooked 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 Thu, Apr 1 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 · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night, per site$24–$30
Standard Electric$24
RV Electric$30
Standard Electric$30
Rates for the season the campground is in now, May 16, 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 a stay costs
One nightDerived$32–$38
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$56–$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$30 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 · 5

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

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The sites

45 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 45 mapped sites
63 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Least roomLoop LITT 15 29 ftLoop LITT 17 29 ftLoop LITT 28 40 ft

All 45 sites

45 of 45 sites located
RV / electric45
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. 45 of the 45 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.

LITT01standard electric50 ft20/30/50 amp51 ft78 ft$24–$30
LITT02standard electric51 ft20/30/50 amp76 ft161 ft$24–$30
LITT03standard electric51 ft20/30/50 amp51 ft78 ft$24–$30
LITT04standard electric50 ft20/30/50 amp62 ft180 ft$24–$30
LITT05standard electric52 ft20/30/50 amp47 ft99 ft$24–$30
LITT06standard electric49 ft20/30/50 amp62 ft200 ft$24–$30
LITT07standard electric51 ft20/30/50 amp47 ft101 ft$24–$30
LITT08standard electric50 ft20/30/50 amp44 ft240 ft$24–$30
LITT09standard electric47 ft20/30/50 amp74 ft110 ft$24–$30
LITT10standard electric54 ft20/30/50 amp44 ft260 ft$24–$30
LITT11standard electric51 ft20/30/50 amp74 ft140 ft$24–$30
LITT12standard electric51 ft20/30/50 amp64 ft288 ft$24–$30
LITT13standard electric51 ft20/30/50 amp77 ft189 ft$24–$30
LITT14standard electric49 ft20/30/50 ampyes67 ft309 ft$24–$30
LITT15standard electric38 ft20/30/50 amp29 ft180 ft$24–$30
LITT16standard electric40 ft20/30/50 ampyes63 ft245 ft$24–$30
LITT17standard electric52 ft20/30/50 amp29 ft186 ft$24–$30
LITT18standard electric51 ft50 amp63 ft308 ft$24–$30
LITT19standard electric45 ft20/30/50 amp64 ft179 ft$24–$30
LITT20standard electric40 ft20/30/50 amp81 ft384 ft$24–$30
LITT21standard electric54 ft20/30/50 amp64 ft123 ft$24–$30
LITT22standard electric20/30/50 amp92 ft588 ft$24–$30
LITT23standard electric43 ft20/30/50 amp63 ft269 ft$24–$30
LITT24standard electric20/30/50 amp44 ft676 ft$24–$30
LITT25standard electric54 ft20/30/50 amp56 ft326 ft$24–$30
LITT26standard electric45 ft20/30/50 amp44 ft719 ft$24–$30
LITT27standard electric36 ft20/30/50 amp53 ft372 ft$24–$30
LITT28standard electric20/30/50 amp40 ft773 ft$24–$30
LITT29standard electric40 ft20/30/50 amp52 ft415 ft$24–$30
LITT30standard electric20/30/50 amp101 ft865 ft$24–$30
LITT31standard electric45 ft20/30/50 amp52 ft465 ft$24–$30
LITT32standard electric20/30/50 amp49 ft675 ft$24–$30
LITT33standard electric20/30/50 amp49 ft721 ft$24–$30
LITT34standard electric20/30/50 amp40 ft770 ft$24–$30
LITTB1standard electric30 ft50 amp159 ft545 ft$24–$30
LITTB10standard electric30 ft50 amp81 ft491 ft$24–$30
LITTB11standard electric30 ft50 amp93 ft395 ft$24–$30
LITTB2standard electric30 ft50 ampyes159 ft398 ft$24–$30
LITTB3standard electric30 ft50 amp88 ft556 ft$24–$30
LITTB4standard electric30 ft50 amp80 ft512 ft$24–$30
LITTB5standard electric30 ft50 amp75 ft396 ft$24–$30
LITTB6standard electric30 ft50 amp80 ft491 ft$24–$30
LITTB7standard electric30 ft50 amp75 ft387 ft$24–$30
LITTB8standard electric30 ft50 amp81 ft484 ft$24–$30
LITTB9standard electric30 ft50 amp79 ft404 ft$24–$30

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 45 listed

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Coordinate37.23750, -82.94972
The phone606-642-3052
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Getting there

From I-75, take Exit 38 (SR-192) east to Daniel Boone Parkway to SR-15. Travel SR-15 south to SR-160, turn north and follow for 4 miles. Campground is on the east side of SR-160.

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight41°Light Rain91% rain
Saturday53°Light Rain87% rain
Saturday Night34°Chance Light Rain then Areas Of Frost31% rain
Sunday63°Widespread Frost then Sunny2% rain

NWS forecast for Vicco, KY

Typical weather

Typical October night 46°F, day 70°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.

90°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: SKYLINE 1 SE, KY (USC00157431), 11 miles away and 43 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Hal Rogers, official portrait

Littcarr 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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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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.
Cell signal: the Army Corps’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 place of any size: Vicco, KY, 5.7 mi ENE. Straight line.