Zilpo - Daniel Boone Nat. For.

Cabins are great! Open the door to a small room with an open 4 square shelf, with room on top for storage. The table was a 4 person table with two chairs. The room was big enough for a bench and three large coolers. The sleeping room has two bunk beds, with mattress pads on them. Room under the beds for storing luggage. Each site has a picnic table and a fire ring with a grill grate that slides overtop. We had two 15 year old boys, a 3 year old and myself and husband and all slept fine.
The porches have overhangs.
We liked how the cabin was backed up to a wooded area. Felt very alone in the super large campground.

Zilpo Campground is incredible. The drive in is beautiful. We saw lots of deer on the way into the campground and more inside too! We enjoyed the beach, the boat dock, and hiked Zilpo Mountain trail at the entrance of the D loop. The hike is not an easy one with kids, but we did it. The #9 cabin was nice with an extra long driveway so we could park the car and boat at our spot. The bath house showed showers on the map, but this one is not a shower house, so we drove to the neighbor loops. It was VERY CLEAN. We cooked at the campsite on the fire circles with the grate on top. We didn't get to the store and during our stay there wasn't many campers but saw lots of employees cleaning and caring for the park.
We highly recommend coming here. The water was so clean at Cave Run Lake and the kids had a blast catching all the blue gill.

Cabins are great! Open the door to a small room with an open 4 square shelf, with room on top for storage. The table was a 4 person table with two chairs. The room was big enough for a bench and three large coolers. The sleeping room has two bunk beds, with mattress pads on them. Room under the beds for storing luggage. Each site has a picnic table and a fire ring with a grill grate that slides overtop. We had two 15 year old boys, a 3 year old and myself and husband and all slept fine.
The porches have overhangs.
We liked how the cabin was backed up to a wooded area. Felt very alone in the super large campground.

Zilpo Campground is incredible. The drive in is beautiful. We saw lots of deer on the way into the campground and more inside too! We enjoyed the beach, the boat dock, and hiked Zilpo Mountain trail at the entrance of the D loop. The hike is not an easy one with kids, but we did it. The #9 cabin was nice with an extra long driveway so we could park the car and boat at our spot. The bath house showed showers on the map, but this one is not a shower house, so we drove to the neighbor loops. It was VERY CLEAN. We cooked at the campsite on the fire circles with the grate on top. We didn't get to the store and during our stay there wasn't many campers but saw lots of employees cleaning and caring for the park.
We highly recommend coming here. The water was so clean at Cave Run Lake and the kids had a blast catching all the blue gill.

The park is awesome, very beautiful, well maintained, friendly staff. Drive out there was a bit to far. Make sure you have everything before you go. Electric and non electric sites. Water nearby. No showers? Couldn't find dump station!

The park is awesome, very beautiful, well maintained, friendly staff. Drive out there was a bit to far. Make sure you have everything before you go. Electric and non electric sites. Water nearby. No showers? Couldn't find dump station!

All was good until the last night… Our tent was apparently in the wrong spot. The sun just went down, it gets dark in the woods, at 9, some guy, who doesn’t introduce who he is comes down and tells us that we need to move, Seriously?!. A mom, by herself, with 2 kids was expected to break down the tent, with all our current bug free personal items, and move it up the path with 4 large fallen trees on it, ummm. No and ummm. So not safe! I assume he worked for the campground, not sure he never said his name, he told me if a fish and wildlife officer came by we would get a ticket. Ugh ok, it’s still after dark, he left, my son starts crying, thank you campground! I tell him it’s fine if I get a ticket I will just pay it but it was our last night and no one has come by yet. Zilpo took the courtesy to give Fish and wildlife a call. 1030 at night he comes to our site to speak to us. This guy had a reasonable perspective on the situation, told me right away he was NOT going to give me a ticket, to just have the tent broke down before 7, which my daughter and I had already decided we would be up at 6 to do that exact thing. He agreed that would have been too late to move. lack of light and terrain. The officer was very nice and had a logical perspective on the situation, when he left my son who cried after the first guy showed told me.” he was so nice”. Obviously the campground has no tact…. I practice zero trace when visiting these places, the first day I saw cigarette butts and various little trash that didn’t need to be there. I told my kids we will pick up the other peoples garbage before we leave, visit from the campground person changed my mind I figured they can come clean other people stuff themselves! Not doing them any courtesies considering the courtesy they offered to us. My niece came that morning to visit and the gal working the shack was less than pleasant. KY should appreciate the tourism.

All was good until the last night… Our tent was apparently in the wrong spot. The sun just went down, it gets dark in the woods, at 9, some guy, who doesn’t introduce who he is comes down and tells us that we need to move, Seriously?!. A mom, by herself, with 2 kids was expected to break down the tent, with all our current bug free personal items, and move it up the path with 4 large fallen trees on it, ummm. No and ummm. So not safe! I assume he worked for the campground, not sure he never said his name, he told me if a fish and wildlife officer came by we would get a ticket. Ugh ok, it’s still after dark, he left, my son starts crying, thank you campground! I tell him it’s fine if I get a ticket I will just pay it but it was our last night and no one has come by yet. Zilpo took the courtesy to give Fish and wildlife a call. 1030 at night he comes to our site to speak to us. This guy had a reasonable perspective on the situation, told me right away he was NOT going to give me a ticket, to just have the tent broke down before 7, which my daughter and I had already decided we would be up at 6 to do that exact thing. He agreed that would have been too late to move. lack of light and terrain. The officer was very nice and had a logical perspective on the situation, when he left my son who cried after the first guy showed told me.” he was so nice”. Obviously the campground has no tact…. I practice zero trace when visiting these places, the first day I saw cigarette butts and various little trash that didn’t need to be there. I told my kids we will pick up the other peoples garbage before we leave, visit from the campground person changed my mind I figured they can come clean other people stuff themselves! Not doing them any courtesies considering the courtesy they offered to us. My niece came that morning to visit and the gal working the shack was less than pleasant. KY should appreciate the tourism.

We love going to Zilpo and Twin Knobs. Vista keeps everything clean and neat. We were almost the only people camping and the bathrooms were clean, the showers warm, and the site was clean. My husband said the hand dryer didn't work in the men's restroom. Thank you for a great stay!

We love going to Zilpo and Twin Knobs. Vista keeps everything clean and neat. We were almost the only people camping and the bathrooms were clean, the showers warm, and the site was clean. My husband said the hand dryer didn't work in the men's restroom. Thank you for a great stay!