S-Tree Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
S-Tree Campground sits on a ridge above Horse Lick Creek near McKee in Jackson County, KY. Each of the 20 first-come, first-served campsites has a picnic table, tent pad, fire ring and lantern pole. The campground's small first come, first serve picnic area features a historic shelter that was constructed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The campground is popular with off-highway vehicle (OHV) enthusiasts due to its proximity to Renfro Loop OHV Trail #302. Keep reading
Recreation
Day users please, park at the trail head. Hiking Biking OHV Bouldering Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (606) 864-4163.
Nearby Attractions
Mill Creek MGMT area Sheltowee TH Charges & Cancellations If you used Recreation.gov to pay for site please contact Recreation.gov If you paid on site using the Fee Tube, please contact London Ranger Station with any questions.
What the agency tells you
S-Tree campground has no running water or electricity. A dumpster is located on site for trash disposal. Quiet time is 10 pm to 6 am. Generators must be turned off during quiet hours.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 20
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 20 of 20 campsite records
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:45 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$20 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 you used Recreation.gov to pay for site please contact Recreation.gov If you paid on site using the Fee Tube, please contact London Ranger Station with any questions.” · this campground’s own terms
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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:45 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites
All 20 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. 20 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 01 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| A | 02 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| A | 03 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| A | 04 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| A | 05 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| A | 06 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| A | 07 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| A | 08 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| A | 09 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| B | 11 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| B | 12 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| B | 13 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| B | 14 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| B | 15 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| B | 16 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| B | 17 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| B | 18 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| B | 19 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
| B | 20 | standard nonelectric | yes | $15–$20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Craigs Creek Group AreaDaniel Boone National Forest · 26 mi
Holly BayDaniel Boone National Forest · 27 miFrom Berea: travel east on KY 21E (Chestnut/Big Hill Road) for approximately 5 miles until it ends at US 421. Turn right (south) on US 421. Take US 421 west for approximately 18 miles to McKee KY, then turn right (south) on KY 89 for 3 miles, make a slight right (west) on Forest Service Road 43 (S-Tree Road). Go 1 mile, turn left (south) on Forest Service Road 20 and follow the signs.
From McKee: Take US 421 west from McKee for 0.5 mile. Turn left (south) on KY 89 for 3 miles, make a slight right (west) on Forest Service Road 43 (S-Tree Road). Go 1 mile, turn left (south) on Forest Service Road 20 and follow the signs.
** GPS may tell you to go Tussey Hill Rd. instead of Forest Service Road 43. Tussey Hill Road was used when work was being done on Road 43. Tussey Hill has big curves and may not be suitable for long truck/trailer set ups.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Annville, KY
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 69°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 25°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
S-Tree 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 →