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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · KY

The Narrows

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 21 opens May 21.

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Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $34From, per site
Sites: 89All of them booked ahead

Photos · USACE

111 ftLongest rig

610 ftElevation

235 ftWater · an unnamed pond

7.3 miSW of Glasgow, KY

34%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices

In the agency’s own words

The Narrows is a family-friendly campground on Barren River Lake, perfect for water lovers and anglers. The Narrows Campground is a 92-site area located near a marina and boat launch ramp. It is a moderately sized campground that has attracted many folks to return year after year. There are two loops open the full camping season. Keep reading

Recreation

Boating and fishing are popular pastimes at The Narrows. Walk down to the shoreline and fish amongst the weeping willows or take off by boat to fish in a quiet setting at Coon, Green, Beaver or Skaggs Creek. The Narrows campground is also near open waters for tubing, skiing or wakeboarding. The campground backs into the Lindsey Nature Trail, where hikers can look of the steep limestone cliffs to get panoramic views of the lake while listening to the cicada's buzz throughout the afternoon. Or take a hike at dusk to hear the seasonal nighthawk call in the night.

Facilities

Each campsite has a water hook-up and electricity available during the months of May through September. The campground has an amphitheater, horseshoe pit, and an open grassy area to set up corn hole boards. Just across the road there is a picnic pavilion available for advanced reservation and includes an playground to explore. This campground is closed during winter months.

Natural Features

Find a place uphill along the cliffs or down at the gently sloping shoreline. Explore the islands between The Narrows and Bailey's Point you may just catch the glimpse of a deer that swam over for refuge.

Nearby Attractions

Just up the lake from The Narrows is the Barren River Lake State Resort Park host of the Glasgow Highland Games. The Narrows Marina is a short drive just outside the campground. Day trips to other local area attractions are the National Corvette Museum, Kentucky Down Under, Diamond Caverns, and Barren River State Resort Park. There are several other family attractions within the Glasgow, Bowling Green and Cave City region. Visitors can also explore Mammoth Cave National Park, an hour north of the campground.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Firewood restrictions are in effect. Due to the spread of invasive insects and disease, firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Help protect our forests by purchasing or collecting firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Click here for more information.

Rule

Off-road vehicles are not permitted

Rule

A fee is charged for day visitors

Everything else this campground posts · 1

Rule

Boats must meet all Kentucky boating laws and regulations.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 89
Hookups: 89 electric, 89 water
Longest rig: 111 ft
Paved pads: 2 of 89
Accessible sites: 2
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

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

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Creek, Beach; Hiking
Night sky · 50th 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

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 windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 21, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 21, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$34plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$80DerivedFriday 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

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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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.

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$34

Standard Electric$34

Friday and Saturday, added$2

Group area, a night$50

These are next season’s rates, May 21, 2027 to Sep 18, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

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$42

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$80

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $34 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking, plus the agency’s published $2 weekend rate on Friday and Saturday. 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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 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

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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

90 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 90 mapped sites

58 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop LOPA A17 90 ftLoop LOPA A18 90 ftLoop LOPA A19- Host 88 ftLoop LOPB B54 86 ftLoop LOPB B52 83 ft

Least roomLoop LOPB B01 35 ftLoop LOPB B02 35 ftLoop LOPB B28 37 ft

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

All 90 records

90 of 90 records located

RV / electric89Host pad1

A01 A02 A03 A04 A05 A06 A07 A08 A09 A10 A11 A12 A13 A14 A15 A16 A17 A18 A19- Host A20 A21 A22 A23 A24 A25 A26 A27 A28 A29 A30 A31 A32 B01 B02 B03 B04 B05 B06 B07 B08 B09 B10 B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 B16 B17 B18 B19 B20 B21 B22 B23 B24 B25 B26 B27 B28 B29 B30 B31 B32 B33 B34 B35 B36 B37 B38 B39 B40 B41 B42 B43 B44 B45 B46 B47 B48 B49 B50 B51 B52 B53 B54 B55 B56 B57 B58

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. 89 of the 90 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.


LOPA	A01	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp		65 ft	433 ft	$34
LOPA	A02	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		65 ft	378 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A03	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp		69 ft	306 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A04	standard electric	69 ft	50 amp		61 ft	238 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A05	standard electric	81 ft	50 amp		61 ft	182 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A06	standard electric	69 ft	50 amp		65 ft	130 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A07	standard electric	69 ft	50 amp		65 ft	122 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A08	standard electric	68 ft	50 amp		73 ft	132 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A09	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		39 ft	150 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A10	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		39 ft	145 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A11	standard electric	71 ft	50 amp		61 ft	153 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A12	standard electric	64 ft	50 amp		61 ft	242 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A13	standard electric	61 ft	50 amp		67 ft	160 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A14	standard electric	73 ft	50 amp		39 ft	250 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A15	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		67 ft	142 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A16	standard electric	83 ft	50 amp	yes	65 ft	240 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A17	standard electric	111 ft	50 amp		90 ft	153 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A18	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp		90 ft	146 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A19- Host	host pad	78 ft	50 amp		88 ft	219 ft	$34
LOPA	A20	standard electric	85 ft	50 amp		65 ft	301 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A21	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		65 ft	276 ft	$34
LOPA	A22	standard electric	76 ft	50 amp		39 ft	283 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A23	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		64 ft	295 ft	$34
LOPA	A24	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		64 ft	315 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A25	standard electric	64 ft	50 amp		60 ft	267 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A26	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		60 ft	247 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A27	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp		58 ft	219 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A28	standard electric	79 ft	50 amp		58 ft	254 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A29	standard electric	74 ft	50 amp		59 ft	309 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPA	A30	standard electric	73 ft	50 amp		48 ft	378 ft	$34
LOPA	A31	standard electric	81 ft	50 amp		48 ft	351 ft	$34
LOPA	A32	standard electric	79 ft	50 amp		59 ft	306 ft	$34
LOPB	B01	standard electric	18 ft	50 amp		35 ft	64 ft	$34
LOPB	B02	standard electric	18 ft	50 amp		35 ft	49 ft	$34
LOPB	B03	standard electric	18 ft	50 amp		66 ft	89 ft	$34
LOPB	B04	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		57 ft	55 ft	$34
LOPB	B05	standard electric	78 ft	50 amp		60 ft	141 ft	$34
LOPB	B06	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		56 ft	77 ft	$34
LOPB	B07	standard electric	19 ft	50 amp		60 ft	180 ft	$34
LOPB	B08	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		56 ft	90 ft	$34
LOPB	B09	standard electric	18 ft	50 amp		72 ft	180 ft	$34
LOPB	B10	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		58 ft	85 ft	$34
LOPB	B11	standard electric	29 ft	50 amp		46 ft	86 ft	$34
LOPB	B12	standard electric	18 ft	50 amp		68 ft	174 ft	$34
LOPB	B13	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		44 ft	93 ft	$34
LOPB	B14	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp		44 ft	105 ft	$34
LOPB	B15	standard electric	18 ft	50 amp		68 ft	192 ft	$34
LOPB	B16	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp		45 ft	105 ft	$34
LOPB	B17	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		72 ft	228 ft	$34
LOPB	B18	standard electric	68 ft	50 amp		58 ft	290 ft	$34
LOPB	B19	standard electric	61 ft	50 amp		57 ft	298 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B20	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp		72 ft	231 ft	$34
LOPB	B21	standard electric	87 ft	50 amp		40 ft	338 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B22	standard electric	79 ft	50 amp		40 ft	340 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B23	standard electric	75 ft	50 amp		44 ft	336 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B24	standard electric	24 ft	50 amp		57 ft	415 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B25	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp		61 ft	349 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B26	standard electric	73 ft	50 amp		45 ft	345 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B27	standard electric	79 ft	50 amp		43 ft	325 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B28	standard electric	78 ft	50 amp		37 ft	304 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B29	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp		37 ft	291 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B30	standard electric	88 ft	50 amp		72 ft	389 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B31	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp		43 ft	282 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B32	standard electric	73 ft	50 amp		43 ft	299 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B33	standard electric	84 ft	50 amp		63 ft	393 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B34	standard electric	24 ft	50 amp		60 ft	462 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B35	standard electric	82 ft	50 amp		63 ft	456 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B36	standard electric	66 ft	50 amp		50 ft	521 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B37	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp		50 ft	567 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B38	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp		48 ft	527 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B39	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp		68 ft	550 ft	$34
LOPB	B40	standard electric	83 ft	50 amp		39 ft	534 ft	$34
LOPB	B41	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp	yes	64 ft	474 ft	$34
LOPB	B42	standard electric	76 ft	50 amp		47 ft	419 ft	$34
LOPB	B43	standard electric	83 ft	50 amp		74 ft	397 ft	$34
LOPB	B44	standard electric	74 ft	50 amp		47 ft	375 ft	$34
LOPB	B45	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp		64 ft	323 ft	$34
LOPB	B46	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp		54 ft	322 ft	$34
LOPB	B47	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		50 ft	259 ft	$34
LOPB	B48	standard electric	72 ft	50 amp		61 ft	265 ft	$34
LOPB	B49	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp		50 ft	209 ft	$34
LOPB	B50	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp		72 ft	143 ft	$34
LOPB	B51	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp		58 ft	319 ft	$34
LOPB	B52	standard electric	85 ft	50 amp		83 ft	341 ft	$34
LOPB	B53	standard electric	21 ft	50 amp		57 ft	441 ft	$34
LOPB	B54	standard electric	87 ft	50 amp		86 ft	396 ft	$34
LOPB	B55	standard electric	33 ft	50 amp		49 ft	465 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B56	standard electric	24 ft	50 amp		45 ft	482 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B57	standard electric	21 ft	50 amp		45 ft	508 ftBarren River Lake	$34
LOPB	B58	standard electric	92 ft	50 amp		39 ft	505 ft	$34

The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. 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 · Oct 1, 2026

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 90 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

Coordinate36.90417, -86.07083

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone270-646-3094

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Baileys Point1.6 mi

Tailwater3.5 mi

Mammoth Cave CampgroundMammoth Cave National Park · 20 mi

Maple SpringsMammoth Cave National Park · 21 mi

Mammoth Cave Backcountry CampingMammoth Cave National Park · 22 mi

Houchin Ferry CampgroundMammoth Cave National Park · 23 mi

Getting there

From Glasgow, KY: Take 31-E south for 10 miles, turn right on 1318. Follow signs into campground entrance.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 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

This Afternoon68°Chance Rain Showers28% rain

Tonight44°Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Rain Showers15% rain

Saturday59°Mostly Sunny

Saturday Night37°Clear

NWS forecast for Glasgow, KY

Source: National Weather Service, LMK forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 47°F, day 71°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.

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: BARREN RVR LAKE, KY (USC00150422), 3 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

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

The Narrows is in Kentucky’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Brett Guthrie (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. 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.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 90 of the 89 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 14, 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 90 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: 0.82 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 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