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2026 Season availability
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- Dump station on site
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- Showers
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- Playground
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Reviews (511)
What Guests Are Saying
Lock A campground is well-maintained and offers beautiful river views, spacious sites, and friendly hosts, making it an enjoyable place for camping. Visitors appreciated the cleanliness of the facilities, good connectivity, and access to water activities like kayaking. While the narrow and steep road to the campground and some dated bathroom facilities were mentioned as drawbacks, overall experiences were positive, with many guests eager to return.
What Guests Are Saying
Lock A campground is well-maintained and offers beautiful river views, spacious sites, and friendly hosts, making it an enjoyable place for camping. Visitors appreciated the cleanliness of the facilities, good connectivity, and access to water activities like kayaking. While the narrow and steep road to the campground and some dated bathroom facilities were mentioned as drawbacks, overall experiences were positive, with many guests eager to return.
Review Summary
Cindy F
VerifiedApril 12, 2026 • Stayed at: 14, Loop: LOCK A
Wonderful place to ride bicycles. Very friendly workers. Very clean campground beautiful view, even if you’re not on the water side. Would give the bathhouse an 6 out of 10- they are clean, hot water, just outdated and would need to be careful if balance was a concern.
James (Kevin) B
VerifiedApril 12, 2026 • Stayed at: 06, Loop: LOCK A
Enjoyed our stay—no problems with our site. Had a armadillo living in the drainage pipe underneath the site—he was not a problem and we only saw him at night…
Violet B
VerifiedApril 14, 2026 • Stayed at: 15, Loop: LOCK A
Nice and clean. Very Friendly staff.
Michael C
VerifiedApril 14, 2026 • Stayed at: 08, Loop: LOCK A
Our favorite local campground the new host were super friendly ! Can’t wait to be back next week!
Stephen O
VerifiedApril 16, 2026 • Stayed at: 15, Loop: LOCK A
Great, well maintained and clean campgrounds with fun host.
David H
VerifiedApril 17, 2026 • Stayed at: 02, Loop: LOCK A
The campground is beautiful and well-maintained. We loved that all the sites were so roomy, lots of trees, and paved driveways. We also loved watching all the barges go by every day. Our favorite campgrounds are the COE, and this one did not disappoint. Staff was also very friendly.
Jeff H
VerifiedApril 20, 2026 • Stayed at: 26, Loop: LOCK A
staff is always friendly and shower houses are always well maintained. Beautiful view of river.
Stacey L
VerifiedApril 21, 2026 • Stayed at: 03, Loop: LOCK A
Shaun and Pam are wonderful hosts. They were very attentive to the things that needed attention when opening the campground for the season. Bathhouse is clean and does the job but needs updating. We camp here every year. Love it
Brenda C
VerifiedApril 24, 2026 • Stayed at: 40, Loop: LOCK A
We stayed here one night and so far so good, it’s so loud from the birds… ahhh nature. We’re tent camping lot 40, which is okay. But where we set the tent up it’s rocky. But I notice on lot 39 it’s paved and has stairs going down to the Cumberland river.. when we arrived at 10 pm we didn’t see much, but this morning it looks very clean. Check in was very easy. There is a man in RV at check in entrance. That directed us to our spot cause thats the only negative, you can’t see the numbers well. But overall our mini stay it was great. Didn’t catch any fish though. They have a bathhouse and a park for kids and a volleyball net. Also you have to reserve a spot at recreation.gov. It was $24 a night.
Jessie C
VerifiedApril 24, 2026 • Stayed at: 36, Loop: LOCK A
We love Lock A.
Location & Directions for Lock a
1798 Cheatham Dam Road, Ashland City, TN 37015-9805 United States
Elevation: 130 ft
Getting There
From Ashland City, Tennessee, take US 12 and go eight miles west to Cheap Hill. Turn
left on Cheatham Dam Road traveling west four miles. Turn left into
the campground.
Highway access
The campground is accessible via US Highway 12, located approximately eight miles east of the campground.
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check out time
2PM
General
- Please be aware that falling branches are a natural hazard at this campground
- Motorized, including electric vehicles: Golf carts, Scooters & ATV’s are permitted on roadways in Corps operated recreation areas. However, these type of vehicles shall be operated in accordance with applicable Federal, state and local laws, which shall be regulated by authorized enforcement officials. Must be 16 years or older to drive motorized vehicle. Prohibited items include: battery operated scooters/cars, hover-boards, non compliant golf carts and ATV's.
- 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.
- However, if you're arrving late, we highly recommend you call the campground to notify the Park Attendant. If arrival does not occur before check-out time on the day following the arrival date, the reservation will be canceled.
- Two tents or one tent and one RV are permitted per campsite.
- Lock A campground has reservable sites only. No walk-up sites.
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Last updated: October 19, 2026
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