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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · TN

Salt Lick Creek

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:04 UTC

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:04 UTC
A night: $20–$32When it reopens, per site
Sites: 150In the agency’s record

Photos · USACE

106 ftLongest rig

550 ftElevation

134 ftWater · Cordell Hull Reservoir

7.5 miNE of Carthage, TN

51%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices

In the agency’s own words

Salt Lick Creek Campground is located on Cordell Hull Lake on the Cumberland River System, just 10 miles from Gainesboro, TN. The lake itself was named after one of America's outstanding statesmen and one of Tennessee's finest volunteers. Hull was born in a log cabin in the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains. Families and friends enjoy coming to the lake for boating, fishing, swimming, hiking, hunting, and relaxing in the outdoors.Click here for a virtual tour of the Cordell Hull Lake facilities. Keep reading

Recreation

The 12,000-acre lake stretches 72 miles upstream and has 381 miles of shoreline, offering recreational activities for just about any type of visitor. Anglers enjoy fishing for white bass, rockfish, largemouth bass, catfish, shad and crappie. Boating, sailing, water skiing, and jet skiing are popular activities on the water. Many miles of hiking, horseback riding, and mountain biking trails surround the lake. The 6-mile Bearwaller Gap Trail has a trailhead in nearby Defeated Creek Park. Other trails in the area include the Turkey Creek Nature Trail and Bear Wheels Trail.

Facilities

The campground offers 150 family sites and one large, group shelter, all with electric hookups. Amenities include flush toilets, showers, drinking water, laundry facilities, and a dump station. Also within the site is a boat ramp, playground and visitor center.

Natural Features

Cordell Hull Lake is situated among rolling hills wooded with a mixture of shady maple, hickory, oak, beech and chestnut trees. Summer temperatures range from the 60s to the 90s. Wildlife is abundant around the lake. Whitetail deer, wild turkeys, quail, squirrels, rabbits, and a wide variety of waterfowl are commonly seen throughout the area.

Nearby Attractions

The historic town of Granville, TN is a 45-minute drive from the campground. Visitors enjoy celebrating the town's Heritage Day in May. Events include the Uncle Jimmy Thompson Bluegrass Festival, antique car and tractor shows, and Confederate Civil War living history presentations.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

The use of an America the Beautiful discount pass (Access or Senior) requires the card holder to be present upon checkin, have the reservation in their name, and present a valid ID. Failure to do so will result in full payment until the discount card hold becomes present. At this point a refund will be approriately processed.

Rule

Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive-day period is prohibited.

Rule

Cellular connectivity is extremely limited. Public Wi-Fi is available only at the third restroom. Please plan accordingly.

Everything else this campground posts · 9

Rule

Pets are prohibited in beach area and restrooms due to health department restrictions.

Rule

Only two tents allowed per site. Only one wheeled camping unit allowed to each site. One wheeled camping unit and one tent is allowed.

Rule

Only licensed vehicles (including golf carts) are permitted. Each campsite is provided two parking hangtags. Additional vehicles, or visitors to campers are charged $5 fee per vehicle.

Rule

Maximum vehicle lengths (camping unit) were calculated based on two vehicles on site. If the driveway was wide enough to park the two vehicles side by side 20 feet was subtracted from the total site length. If the driveway could only accommodate one vehicle‘s width 40 feet was subtracted from the total site length.

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.

Rule

STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.

Rule

Cellular connectivity is extremely limited. Public Wi-Fi is available in the vicinity of the boat ramp parking lot and Restroom #4.

Rule

Friends of Cordell Hull Lake are offering heat treated firewood this season. Firewood being on hand is not a guarantee.

Rule

Please be aware of our no-show policy. No-show customers are assessed a $20.00 no-show fee and forfeit the first night's fees for a campsite. A no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. If you are not going to be on-site for the first night of your reservation and are coming at a later date, please notify the park host by calling 931 678-4718 otherwise your reservation will be cancelled in accordance with the no-show policy.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Oct 1, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 150 · 3 group
Hookups: 145 electric, 150 water, 31 sewer
Longest rig: 106 ft
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…with electric 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; WATER SPIGOT on 150 of 151 campsite records
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Camp host: On site; recreation.gov lists “Host”
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records and read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Creek, Beach; Birding; Boating; Canoeing; Evening Programs; Fishing; Ranger programs; Kayaking; Motor Boat; Non-Motorized Boating; Paddle Boating; Paddling; Swimming; Water access; Wilderness access
Night sky · 39th darkest of 95 in TN: 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

Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:04 UTC

recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend

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.

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$20–$32plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

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

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We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, when it reopens$20–$32

Discounted Sites$20

Water and Electric$26

Water, Electric, and Sewer$32

Group areas, a night$50

The agency has already scheduled a change from Jan 1, 2027: $24 to $40 a night.

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 8, 2026 to Oct 4, 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$5

“Additional vehicles, or visitors to campers are charged $5 fee per vehicle.” · the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own agency notice

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

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. Army Corps of Engineers’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. · Oct 1, 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

Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Salt Lick Creek closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.

Closure: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers status record · Oct 17, 2026

There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.

Open within 150 miles · 4

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

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Rock Creek Campground (TN)Obed Wild and Scenic River · 66 mi · 11 sites
Station Camp CampgroundBig South Fork National River and Recreation Area · 67 mi · 24 sites

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 17, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:04 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

151 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 146 mapped sites

73 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop SLIC PS 274 ftLoop LAKE 113 187 ftLoop LAKE 001 160 ftLoop LAKE 004 152 ftLoop LAKE 028 130 ft

Least roomLoop LAKE 064 6 ftLoop LAKE 066 6 ftLoop WOOD 122 29 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 151 records

151 of 151 records located

RV / electric142Group3Type not stated5Day use1

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 076 PS 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 151 of the 151 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 145 of the 151 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.


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LAKE	002	standard electric	68 ft	20/50 amp	86 ft	280 ft	555 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	003	standard electric	99 ft	20/50 amp	86 ft	244 ft	577 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	004	standard electric	75 ft	20/50 amp	152 ft	108 ft	435 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	005	standard electric	99 ft	20/50 amp	93 ft	66 ft	483 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	006	standard electric	77 ft	20/50 amp	93 ft	113 ft	495 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	007	standard electric	56 ft	20/50 amp	81 ft	328 ft	319 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	008	standard electric	62 ft	20/50 amp	77 ft	287 ft	249 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	009	standard electric	29 ft	20/50 amp	103 ft	357 ft	165 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	010	standard electric	71 ft	20/50 amp	77 ft	242 ft	208 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	011	standard electric	63 ft	20/50 amp	100 ft	177 ft	224 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	012	standard electric	84 ft	20/50 amp	77 ft	282 ft	157 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	013	standard electric	55 ft	20/50 amp	74 ft	143 ft	283 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	014	standard electric	81 ft	20/50 amp	77 ft	247 ft	231 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	015	standard electric	50 ft	20/50 amp	74 ft	118 ft	339 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	016	standard electric	90 ft	20/50 amp	72 ft	212 ft	347 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	017	standard electric	80 ft	20/50 amp	72 ft	208 ft	420 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	018	standard electric	61 ft	20/50 amp	72 ft	113 ft	433 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	019	standard electric	70 ft	20/50 amp	72 ft	147 ft	502 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	020	standard electric	99 ft	20/50 amp	106 ft	174 ft	550 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	021	standard electric	99 ft	20/50 amp	84 ft	106 ft	597 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	022	standard electric	75 ft	20/50 amp	58 ft	101 ft	650 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	023	standard electric	72 ft	20/50 amp	58 ft	51 ft	683 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	024	standard electric	70 ft	20/50 amp	84 ft	12 ft	700 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	025	standard electric	88 ft	20/50 amp	62 ft	144 ft	576 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	026	standard electric	82 ft	20/50 amp	88 ft	74 ft	706 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	027	standard electric	80 ft	20/50 amp	62 ft	179 ft	574 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	028	standard electric	83 ft	20/50 amp	130 ft	307 ft	523 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	029	standard electric	98 ft	20/50 amp	117 ft	188 ft	534 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	030	standard electric	79 ft	20/50 amp	110 ft	237 ft	454 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	031	standard electric	95 ft	20/50 amp	92 ft	160 ft	572 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	032	standard electric	54 ft	20/50 amp	92 ft	252 ft	498 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	033	standard electric	42 ft	20/50 amp	63 ft	150 ft	644 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	034	standard electric	78 ft	20/50 amp	60 ft	114 ft	660 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	035	standard electric	80 ft	20/50 amp	105 ft	221 ft	567 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	036	standard electric	99 ft	20/50 amp	60 ft	116 ft	605 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	037	standard electric	80 ft	20/50 amp	64 ft	137 ft	513 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	038	standard electric	80 ft	20/50 amp	96 ft	230 ft	448 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	039	standard electric	74 ft	20/50 amp	64 ft	129 ft	469 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	040	standard electric	69 ft	20/50 amp	75 ft	133 ft	414 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	041	standard electric	99 ft	20/50 amp	109 ft	241 ft	310 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	042	standard electric	65 ft	20/50 amp	73 ft	139 ft	366 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	043	standard electric	62 ft	20/50 amp	71 ft	125 ft	343 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	044	group standard electric	31 ft	20/50 amp	94 ft	213 ft	249 ft	$50
LAKE	045	standard electric	75 ft	20/50 amp	62 ft	125 ft	320 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	046	type not stated	50 ft	20/50 amp		228 ft	219 ft
LAKE	047	standard electric	41 ft	20/50 amp	31 ft	139 ft	298 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	048	standard electric	53 ft	20/50 amp	31 ft	130 ft	308 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	049	standard electric	50 ft	20/50 amp	42 ft	139 ft	311 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	050	standard electric	74 ft	20/50 amp	75 ft	227 ft	234 ft	$20–$32
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LAKE	052	standard electric	40 ft	20/50 amp	75 ft	231 ft	271 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	053	standard electric	37 ft	20/50 amp	100 ft	129 ft	383 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	054	standard electric	99 ft	20/50 amp	80 ft	187 ft	326 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	055	standard electric	50 ft	20/50 amp	111 ft	78 ft	344 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	056	standard electric	90 ft	20/50 amp	90 ft	84 ft	231 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	057	standard electric	70 ft	20/50 amp	62 ft	182 ft	249 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	058	standard electric	70 ft	20/50 amp	62 ft	185 ft	189 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	059	standard electric	82 ft	20/50 amp	50 ft	92 ft	171 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	060	standard electric	82 ft	20/50 amp	50 ft	102 ft	146 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	061	standard electric	59 ft	20/50 amp	94 ft	118 ft	170 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	062	standard electric	60 ft	20/50 amp	84 ft	216 ft	253 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	063	standard electric	61 ft	20/50 amp	84 ft	135 ft	251 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	064	standard electric	67 ft	20/50 amp	6 ft	100 ft	336 ft	$20–$32
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LAKE	066	standard electric	64 ft	20/50 amp	6 ft	104 ft	336 ft	$20–$32
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LAKE	077	group standard electric	99 ft	20/30 amp	86 ft	54 ft	340 ft	$50
LAKE	078	standard electric	68 ft	20/30 amp	94 ft	82 ft	219 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	079	type not stated	60 ft	20/30 amp		26 ft	361 ft
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LAKE	087	standard electric	44 ft	20/30 amp	93 ft	85 ft	580 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	088	standard electric	60 ft	20/30 amp	89 ft	59 ft	436 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	089	standard electric	69 ft	20/30 amp	89 ft	41 ft	382 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	090	standard electric	79 ft	20/30 amp	108 ft	81 ft	294 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	091	standard electric	99 ft	20/30 amp	108 ft	115 ft	188 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	092	standard electric	38 ft	20/30 amp	46 ft	under 10 ft	370 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	093	standard electric	57 ft	20/30 amp	46 ft	under 10 ft	405 ft	$20–$32
LAKE	094	standard electric	39 ft	20/30 amp	85 ft	under 10 ft	469 ft	$20–$32
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LAKE	096	standard electric	82 ft	20/30 amp	55 ft	18 ft	527 ft	$20–$32
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LAKE	102	standard electric	88 ft	20/30 amp	80 ft	180 ft	293 ft	$20–$32
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SLIC	076	standard electric	30 ft	20/30 amp	86 ft	79 ft	294 ft	$20–$32
SLIC	PS	day use		20 amp	274 ft	61 ft	616 ft	$50
STRE	068	standard electric	79 ft	20/50 amp	71 ft	371 ft	192 ft	$20–$32
STRE	069	standard electric	73 ft	20/50 amp	71 ft	442 ft	260 ft	$20–$32
STRE	070	standard electric	68 ft	20/50 amp	104 ft	383 ft	397 ft	$20–$32
STRE	071	standard electric	43 ft	20/50 amp	83 ft	322 ft	387 ft	$20–$32
STRE	072	standard electric	71 ft	20/50 amp	83 ft	373 ft	319 ft	$20–$32
STRE	073	standard electric	48 ft	20/50 amp	85 ft	383 ft	249 ft	$20–$32
STRE	074	standard electric	69 ft	20/50 amp	101 ft	137 ft	193 ft	$20–$32
STRE	075	standard electric	60 ft	20/50 amp	101 ft	95 ft	274 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	114	standard electric	45 ft	20/30 amp	60 ft	413 ft	240 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	115	standard electric	90 ft	20/30 amp	81 ft	323 ft	327 ft	$20–$32
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WOOD	117	standard electric	57 ft	20/30 amp	60 ft	457 ft	222 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	118	standard electric	46 ft	20/30 amp	72 ft	343 ft	278 ft	$20–$32
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WOOD	120	standard electric	69 ft	20/30 amp	67 ft	366 ft	300 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	121	standard electric	36 ft	20/30 amp	67 ft	470 ft	326 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	122	standard electric	69 ft	20/30 amp	29 ft	401 ft	336 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	123	standard electric	48 ft	20/30 amp	48 ft	501 ft	370 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	124	standard electric	77 ft	20/30 amp	29 ft	415 ft	351 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	125	type not stated	63 ft	20/50 amp		465 ft	409 ft
WOOD	126	standard electric	64 ft	20/50 amp	67 ft	486 ft	450 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	127	standard electric	30 ft	20/50 amp	67 ft	491 ft	474 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	128	standard electric	84 ft	20/30 amp	48 ft	546 ft	380 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	129	standard electric	106 ft	20/50 amp	42 ft	410 ft	481 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	130	standard electric	39 ft	20/30 amp	48 ft	507 ft	352 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	131	standard electric	35 ft	20/50 amp	43 ft	474 ft	364 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	132	standard electric	45 ft	20/30 amp	43 ft	432 ft	400 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	133	standard electric	41 ft	20/30 amp	64 ft	380 ft	439 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	134	standard electric	47 ft	20/30 amp	40 ft	315 ft	473 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	135	standard electric	34 ft	20/30 amp	39 ft	292 ft	434 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	136	standard electric	79 ft	20/50 amp	42 ft	368 ft	443 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	137	standard electric	75 ft	20/50 amp	67 ft	411 ft	406 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	138	standard electric	45 ft	20/30 amp	39 ft	269 ft	396 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	139	standard electric	45 ft	20/50 amp	56 ft	274 ft	354 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	140	standard electric	69 ft	20/50 amp	67 ft	411 ft	389 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	141	type not stated	39 ft	20/50 amp		287 ft	330 ft
WOOD	142	standard electric	34 ft	20/30 amp	59 ft	314 ft	310 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	143	standard electric	21 ft	20/50 amp	68 ft	298 ft	396 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	144	standard electric	38 ft	20/30 amp	49 ft	345 ft	284 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	145	standard electric	29 ft	20/30 amp	49 ft	376 ft	272 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	146	standard electric	73 ft	20/30 amp	60 ft	238 ft	436 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	147	standard electric	45 ft	20/30 amp	116 ft	221 ft	328 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	148	standard electric	65 ft	20/30 amp	60 ft	184 ft	476 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	149	standard electric	38 ft	20/30 amp	71 ft	115 ft	419 ft	$20–$32
WOOD	150	standard electric	67 ft	20/30 amp	65 ft	126 ft	467 ft	$20–$32

The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.

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 151 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

Coordinate36.32278, -85.80861

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone931-678-4718

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Wartrace Ck Rec Area3.2 mi

Defeated Creek Park5.8 mi

Tailwater Rec Area7.7 mi

Roaring River Park11 mi

Center Hill Lake Primitive Camping Areas15 mi

Long Branch (Center Hill Lake)16 mi

Getting there

From Carthage, go 4 miles west on SR-25, then north on SR-80, then east on SR-85 to Gladice. Turn right on Smith Bend Road and follow signs.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Oct 1, 2026

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

Tonight43°Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Rain Showers22% rain

Saturday59°Mostly Sunny2% rain

Saturday Night37°Mostly Clear then Patchy Frost

Sunday66°Patchy Frost then Sunny

NWS forecast for Carthage, TN

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 43°F, day 74°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 24°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°10°

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: GAINESBORO, TN (USC00403370), 9 miles away and 63 ft lower

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

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Salt Lick Creek is in Tennessee’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, John Rose (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: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 16:04 UTC). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.

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 146 of the 150 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

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 151 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 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: 0.71 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 95 rated federal campgrounds in Tennessee · 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 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 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