Rushing Creek is located near Stewart, KY, offering a camping experience surrounded by forested terrain. The area experiences temperatures ranging from mild to warm, depending on the season. Nearby attractions include the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, where visitors can explore hiking trails and enjoy wildlife viewing.

Rushing Creek

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Rushing Creek is an abandoned site. The road to the area is closed off. The only thing that remains of the campsite is a slab of pavement with grass sprouting from the cracks surrounded by a dense forest. This area is very remote with no cell signal. For your own safety, do not visit or camp at Rushing Creek.

Avoid This Campground

Rushing Creek was once a popular self service campground in Land Between the Lakes (LBL), with primitive sites for small RV's, car camping and tents, set on a small inlet bay on Kentucky Lake.  Now it is so overgrown, even the paved roads leading out to it have weeks growing up through the cracks, the sites are difficult to even tell where they were, and the gates across the roads leading back to it are gated and locked.

  

The area where the road ends at the bay's shoreline is suitable for dispersed camping (and it looks as if someone has been doing that recently! It is more easily accessible by water than by road. We had to hike almost 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 mile back to it to find it. 

  

THERE ARE NO AMENITIES, NO POTABLE WATER. The closest potable water is at the Golden Pond dump/potable water station (and you will have to pack it in from the closest parking area!) or you will need to filter water from Kentucky lake for consumption.

  

Our local LBL LEO advised that Rushing Creek has been closed since before he was hired more than 3 years ago... everything was removed and used at the current operational campgrounds.

PERMENANTLY CLOSED - Dispersed Camping only

Campground has been gated and locked for several years, and as the previous reviewer noted, not a great place to stay. There are NO AMENITIES, NO POTABLE WATER and not accessible by vehicle... you either hike or boat in.  The campground is still open for dispersed camping, which does require its own permit, purchased either on-line or at one of the visitor centers. 

  

https://landbetweenthelakes.us/seendo/camping/rules/

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