Red River Gorge Campground

Totally worth the drive !! Our host of the campgrounds was amazing. She took the time to call me back multiple times to help guide me here because navigation won’t send you the correct route. Did I mention this was at 11 o’clock at night, so definitely above and beyond her call of duty. The campground itself was gorgeous and very quiet. Great space between other camps.
Dog friendly
Bathrooms
Gas station is very close with all camping supplies

We may have been the first travel trailer to stay at Red River Gorge Campground. It’s really set up for tent campers, with no power or water hook-​ups for trailers.
And the road leading into the campground is quite a climb – I don’t think I’d want to try it with anything larger than our 25-​foot trailer.
The setting is very serene and quiet. You can tell the owners take pride in the way the grounds are maintained. We showed up about 10 days after a lot of the grounds had been flooded by 2015’s fierce rains and snow. So much of the area was too soggy for our rig to park on.
The owner, Susan, and all the people there bent over backwards to help us find a suitable place to park and couldn’t have been nicer.
The surrounding area is great for hiking, climbing and outdoor fun. Just Google Kentucky’s Natural Bridge for tons of info.
If we’re every back in the Daniel Boone forest area this is where we’ll camp.

The campground is fine. The Red River Gorge is beautiful. We camped and hiked the Courthouse Rock loop. It’s mildly challenging. I probably wouldn’t take anyone younger than 8 on the loop since there’s quite a bit of hiking up and down fairly steep inclines. You’d probably end up carrying younger kids.
You can scramble up Courthouse Rock, just be careful. There is not an easy way up and two sides of the rock drop off into the gorge. For those who don’t want to make the scramble, there is a beautiful and similar view very close by that can be accessed by a long staircase.

The Red River Gorge is a canyon system on the Red River in east-​central Kentucky.
I experienced the abundance of high sandstone cliffs, rock shelters, waterfalls, and natural bridges. There are more than 100 natural sandstone arches in the Red River Gorge Geological Area. There are many excellent rock climbing features in this area.
Kentucky’s Natural Bridge State Park is immediately adjacent to this area, featuring one of the largest natural bridges in the Red River Gorge.
If I could use one word to sum it up, it would be «awesome»