About Axtel
Number of accommodations: 152
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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (618)
What Guests Are Saying
Axtel campground is praised for its beautiful location, clean facilities, and friendly hosts, particularly Vickie, who ensures a pleasant experience for visitors. Many families enjoy the quiet atmosphere, spacious campsites with easy access to water activities, and a welcoming community of fellow campers. However, some guests noted issues such as low water levels, closed restrooms, and occasional noise, but these did not significantly detract from the overall positive experiences reported.
What Guests Are Saying
Axtel campground is praised for its beautiful location, clean facilities, and friendly hosts, particularly Vickie, who ensures a pleasant experience for visitors. Many families enjoy the quiet atmosphere, spacious campsites with easy access to water activities, and a welcoming community of fellow campers. However, some guests noted issues such as low water levels, closed restrooms, and occasional noise, but these did not significantly detract from the overall positive experiences reported.
Review Summary
Joseph W
VerifiedSeptember 9, 2020 • Stayed at: F117, Loop: F
Best accommodations and great park attendants !!! Couldn’t ask for better...
Mika H
VerifiedSeptember 8, 2020 • Stayed at: C044, Loop: C
Great location for those who love being outdoors! It’s a very clean campground. The camp hosts are so friendly and keen to help! They’re always smiling. Overall, we always enjoy our stay here!
- Mika & Vinet
delane w
VerifiedSeptember 6, 2020 • Stayed at: A023, Loop: A
Site 23 was near entrance, but never noticed. Beach and lakefront with large shade trees and lots of grass to sit and view lake. level lot with gravel picnic area. BONUS...there is FREE WIFI through local company.
George B
VerifiedSeptember 4, 2020 • Stayed at: F118, Loop: F
Very good experience. We had a lakefront campsite. There are numerous such sites. Rest rooms were very clean and maintained. Campground
very clean and maintained. One of our favorite campgrounds.
sam w
VerifiedSeptember 1, 2020 • Stayed at: F114, Loop: F
nice spot
rec. for 2021
Curt A
VerifiedAugust 31, 2020 • Stayed at: F110, Loop: F
Park Attendants are super friendly here. We forgot about our trash, still had it at the front of our camper by the hitch, but Jo ran to flag us down and infact took our bag of garbage so we wouldn't have to pull back thru with our camper. Now that's being attentive and going beyond the expected.
Jamie S
VerifiedAugust 30, 2020 • Stayed at: A006, Loop: A
The woman at the check in counter was very rude.
ricky p
VerifiedAugust 30, 2020 • Stayed at: G123, Loop: G
Best camp ground on Rough River lake well maintain friendly hoist running the day to day camping
Jamie S
VerifiedAugust 29, 2020 • Stayed at: A008, Loop: A
The woman at the front desk was incredibly rude throughout our entire stay. We have stayed here (at the same 3-4 sites) for five years. Last year was the first time we encountered her and she was very rude then, but we thought maybe she was having a rough weekend. During that stay, she called the park ranger because she did not like where our boat was parked. The park ranger let us know we could park in our site (which she said we could not) as long as she was out of the grass which we could be. The ranger also gave us the name of someone to complain to, but we never did thinking maybe she was just having a bad weekend. This year it started the same way. She told us we shouldn’t park at our campsite, but from the previous experience I specified that we could as long as we were out of the grass. She said we shouldn’t at that site, but could. A friend who was camping in a site beside us wanted to go to the water with us, but is handicap. She inquired about parking closer due to this and she told her there was only one handicap spot and it was full. She asked if she could park near boat parking or the bathrooms (it was a Sunday afternoon so it was pretty empty) and the woman asked her “why she needed to go to the beach if she’s handicap?”
She was starting at us an hour before check out and allowed the next people to pull into our spot (while we were still sitting at the picnic table) thirty minutes before it was checkout time.
The campground also rarely has soap in the bathrooms.
We love the place and would continue coming here for year as it’s became our camping spot for our entire family, but we have decided we will try other places until she moves on. The gentleman with her is much nicer. It’s just really sad.
Ashley J
VerifiedAugust 28, 2020 • Stayed at: B027, Loop: B
Always a wonderful and relaxing time.
Location Axtel
Address:
663 South Highway 79
Mc Daniels, KY, 40152
United States
Begin at ramp onto I-64 West toward New Albany/St. Louis, traveling 22.3 miles. Take the IN-135, Exit Number 105, toward Palmyra/Corydon, onto IN-135 South toward Corydon, traveling 16.7 miles. Continue on Bypass Road KY-79 for 2.1 miles. Turn right onto KY-79, traveling 10.1 miles. Continue on 1st Avenue, KY-79S for 495 feet. Turn a slight right onto US-60, traveling 11.8 miles. Turn left onto KY-259/KY-79, traveling 9.7 miles. Turn right to stay on KY-79, traveling .7 miles. End at 663 South Highway 79, McDaniels, KY. Distance is approximately 74 miles with an approximate travel time of 1 hour, 20 minutes.
Latitude & Longitude: 37.6225 / -86.4531
Elevation: 160 feet
Policies & Rules
| Category | About |
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| General |
Off-road vehicles are not permitted |
| General |
Park Attendant can be reached while on duty at (270) 257-2584. If no answer, contact the Rough River Lake U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office at (270) 257-2061. |
| General |
$5 per day boat ramp fee |
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Reservations will not be marked in advance at the campsite. Do not set up at any campsite without reserving the site first. |
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Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information. |
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Quiet hours are 10:00 p.m. - 6:00 a.m. Generators and other noise-producing devices must be turned off during this time. |
