This weekend, we traveled up to Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave with Neal's family. His parents, sister, brother-in-law, and our niece and nephews joined us for a wonderful weekend of fall camping. It was pretty cool in the evenings, but the campfires... oh, the campfires.
We stayed at the Maple Springs Group Campground, which was perfect for our group. We had a huge lot of land, plenty of room for our three tents to be spread out - we could have easily fit many more tents with room to spare. My sister-in-law and her husband brought their horses and enjoyed some of the trails nearby. The hitching posts at our campsite were really convenient for them. Our site included two fire pits and five picnic tables.
The benefit to being at this campground over the main campground: (1) the space (we had a lot of land for our tents and five picnic tables at our site); (2) the seclusion (there was only one other group at the campground while we were there); and (3) the proximity to hiking and horse trails. The downsides to this campground: (1) the distance from conveniences (the shower house, the store, etc.); (2) the "bathroom" (really just a glorified hole in the ground, but it was sufficient!); (3) security (potentially, although we didn't have any problems); and (4) getting there (with a car, you'll cross the Green River on the ferry, but you can't take trailers across the ferry, and the back roads make for a more difficult trip).
The campground was very wooded and pretty. Our site had plenty of parking for our cars. Note: This campground requires reservations, which must be made 48 hours in advance (either through the website or the 800 number). The campground may also require horses - we read that somewhere, but we didn't notice that anyone ever checked up on whether we had horses.
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