Canal

Restrooms were in bad need of cleaning. It wasn’t daily cleaning it was deep cleaning that needed to be done. There was stuff on the walls that had been there for weeks. Sites needed gravel. The whole campground was overrun with skunks. It’s not a pleasant camping experience when you have to always be on alert for skunks to make sure you or your pet doesn’t get sprayed.

This is the perfect campground if your looking to get away from kids and camp with like minded, senior individuals. We have camped at many but Canal is the golden retirement campground in Western KY. With it being smaller it's easier to walk our dogs and go visit neighbors, and just a short drive to Grand Rivers for ice cream or supplies. The bathrooms are really clean and large with the Point being our favorite and Beach Loop being our sencond choice. The camp attendant's are super nice and helpful with getting checked in and out. Located on the Northern end of the Trace/LBL and a short drive to I-24. Canal Campground is the senior destination campground of West KY!

We stayed in #13 in a travel trailer and it was the most unlevel site we have ever been in. And the worst part was worrying the whole stay if we would be able to get out of this site without going into a ditch. However outside of this, our stay was very nice. Bathroom was convenient and clean. Nice large pads for table and screenhouse. Park was very well maintained. We will definately return to Canal but not stay in the primitive section again.

We book site 93 because we need a handicap site and we find it discouraging that over the past 4 years the condition of the site continues to worsen. It’s in desperate need of leveling, there are many deep ruts in the gravel making it dangerous to walk for fear of falling as well as difficult to park our trailer. Please re-grade this handicap site. Another observation is the bathrooms are no longer cleaned thoroughly, we were there 2 weeks and in that time there was the same debris on the floor in the Mens bathroom the entire time, the guys that clean are in and out of the 2 bathrooms in less than 15 minutes.

Need parking areas over by the big open area camping to be able to go over with several items for fishing/kayaking etc. too much to walk with but nowhere to park without getting in trouble.

Beautiful park. The camp sites were nicely spaced. Appreciate that they felt private and weren't all crowded together.
Enjoyed the elk/bison range and driving many of the forest roads looking for cemeteries.

Great place to camp!! So close to grocery & several good eating places (Lite Side Bakery, Cabin pizza, Dairyette, Patti’s).

Everything about our stay was great except the fact that there is no parking down by a portion of the lake that we used for fishing and kayaking. It was not close to our campground. We did park on the grass and were told by a lady camp host we couldn't park there and to move to the side of the road. We moved only to have a very rude man, camp host come by and yell at us. He told us not we could not park on the side of the road. We asked if we could just park in an empty camp spot (obviously we would move if someone came) and he was so rude and said if we wanted to pay for that spot! I told him we were to far from our camp and what did he want us to do, he said "to bad, walk" We have never ever encountered such a hostile rude old man, ever camping! Not sure I will go back to this campground with mean camp hosts.

We loved this campground. Friendly staff and every camper we met was super nice and over all a wonderful place. We will be back next year 🥰

Super nice park and very helpful staff.