Lake Shelby Campground

We stayed here for 2 nights at the end of June, 2023 so I could take my husband to a fancy tasting at Bulleit Distillery. I wanted something close to Bulleit and the other park that's even closer seemed over-priced. The RV sites are all along in a straight row extremely close to each other. The pads are tiny, so everyone just parks half way out in the main driving area. The sites back up towards the lake, which was pretty. The tent sites are actually really nice! Spread out enough and lakeside. The dumpstation is a joke - wrong side, no place to turn around, so we skipped it. The good - gorgeous scenery around the lake - we had a beautiful sunset after a big rainstorm.

Only 10 RV sites. Beautiful views of the lake. Very quiet and peaceful. The concrete pads are super short but everyone just sticks out a bit which works fine with the paved area. New electric and water hookups and picnic tables. I don’t like how the sites line up with the tables, but most campgrounds have it wrong (picnic table should be on door side of the rv, not the other side).

Downsides: the bath house was gross and I’m a single guy. It could use paint and some updating. I couldn’t shower in there but the sink did have very hot water. The dump station is the dumbest I have ever seen. There is room to do it right, but I couldn’t figure out a way to use it without trashing the grass (it just rained) or blocking the road. They have the room to put in a gravel road so the dump site is on the dump side of RVs. As it is the dump stuff is ten feet into the grass on the non dump side when you are leaving and they put concrete parking barriers to keep you from driving passed it. It was designed by someone who has never seen an RV or hates RVs and doesn’t want them to dump there.

Really great potential. Spend some money on paint, fix the broken plumbing, fix the missing electrical plates, pour some gravel. It’s not asking a lot.

Host put me close to bathrooms and showers thinking he did me a favor, very nice man, but no. Tent campers drive over and shine headlights on bathroom building even though tgere are lights. Not once but 3 times in one night. Loud and with kids and flashlights.
Lake seems to be fishing only. Shower and bathroom needed cleaning but he said hot shower and it was. Had electric and water also.

This campground was just outside of Shelbyville & even though there were a lot of locals in and out during the day, it quieted down at night. I stayed a night in August and even though it was super hot, it had everything I needed and was worth the price. I stayed again in November and the water was shut off for the winter, so no bathrooms. only con was all the geese!

We stayed 2 nights in August and the campground was a great deal. Sites had water and electric (50, 20, 20 amp) service. The campground had a dump station that was pull-in. We had to pull in and back out of the dump station but it easily fit our 38 foot class A. The sites were close together, but close to the water. There is a boat launch available for $2 per boat. They also have a beach volleyball court and a local park with ball fields and golf is a walk or short drive to the other side of the lake. More can be found @rebootingus.

Nice little city type park with RV spots basically in a parking lot. Electric and water sites.There’s a bathhouse and a small lake with a creek running off a dam.I chose this because I wanted to tour Louisville but anything closer to town was more than twice the price. I decided to use this as a jumping off point to tour the area. Louisville is 30 mile away but looks like there’s plenty to see and do in the surrounding area.

As others have posted, the sites are very close to each other and the pads are quite short. We had friendly neighbors, who we enjoyed. Behind the campers there was a nice open area that was shared fishing/water access. It felt like a city park that people mostly enjoyed for fishing… nothing wrong with that, but it was just different than we expected when booking a lake front spot as it is definitely not swimming water. Also, we arrived to a very full garbage can overloaded with flies at our site, so that was a bit unpleasant. We moved the garbage can away and that helped, but the flies still made eating outside less enjoyable. The water and electric hook up were fine, we did not look for the dump station so we can not comment on that.

Stayed over a long weekend.

keep in mind this is a public park. Stayed Middle of October cold nights......shower house was warm and not super clean, but for Twenty bucks a night I was glad to get a hot shower. The road in was interesting and sort of looked like the asphalt was in the process of washing out inside the park.

There was a lot of traffic in and out, and Friday there was a company picnic in the campground pavilion directly behind our trailer and they parked us in. Friday there was some sort of a school event with a schools worth of kids running around the park.

These are not complaints just something to be aware of.

The camp host was super nice and seemed genuinely glad to see us.

As noted there was one long term trailer down near the boat ramp.