Disconnect to Reconnect
Our basic campgrounds and camping areas offer a rustic experience with minimal amenities, encouraging you to immerse yourself in the peaceful rhythms of the forest and the gentle lapping of the water. It’s a place where you can pitch your tent, light a campfire under the stars, and wake up to the soothing sounds of nature’s morning chorus.
Basic to Primitive
Land Between the Lakes offers Basic, Dispersed, and Self-Service camping options as alternatives to the more developed campgrounds.
We have 11 self-service campgrounds and 5 designated basic camping facilities which offer year-round lakeside camping. Although these areas have fewer amenities than our developed campgrounds, they can offer solitude and a more primitive camping experience.
Basic Campgrounds
Basic Campground amenities include defined campsites, fire rings and/or grills, picnic tables, vault toilet, trash removal, mowed areas, and a boat ramp.
Basic Camping Areas
A Basic Camping Area is an open field area without defined campsites. Amenities might include a vault toilet, trash removal, mowed areas, and a boat ramp. However, they may or may not have picnic tables and fire rings and/or grills. You may camp anywhere within the camping area with a Basic Camping Permit.
Click on a campground heading below for details and map
Birmingham Ferry Campground
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS |
|
RV (no utilities) Tent |
Day Use Boat ramps Picnic tables or grills Swimming (no lifeguards) Toilets (vault) |
Cravens Bay Campground
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
| RV (utilities & non-utilities) Tent |
Accessible features Boat ramp Courtesy dock Day use Drinking water Picnic tables or grills Swimming (no lifeguards) Toilets (flush) Toilets (vault) |
Ice or firewood sales |
Demumbers Camping Area
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
|
RV (no utilities) Tent |
Boat ramp Day use Toilets (vault) |
Fenton Campground
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
|
RV (Utilities) Tent |
Boat ramp Courtesy dock Day use Drinking water Pavilion Picnic tables or grill Toilets (vault) Trails (bike, hiking) |
Open-air pavilion available to reserve and rent – $50 per reservation per day |
Gatlin Point Campground
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
| Camping fees (nightly) RV (no utilities) Tent |
Boat ramp Courtesy dock Day use Picnic tables or grills Swimming (no lifeguards) Toilets (vault) Trails (biking, hiking) |
Ginger Bay Camping Area
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
|
Tent |
Boat ramp Day use Swimming (no lifeguards) |
Neville Bay Camping Area
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
|
RV (no utilities) Tent |
Boat ramp Day use Swimming (no lifeguards) Toilets (vault) |
Nickell Branch Campground
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
| Camping fees (nightly) RV (no utilities) Tent |
Boat ramps Courtesy dock Day use Picnic tables or grills Swimming (no lifeguards) Toilets (vault) Trails (biking, hiking) |
Pisgah Point Camping Area
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
|
RV (no utilities) Tent |
Boat ramp Day use Swimming (no lifeguards) Toilets (vault) Trails (biking, hiking) |
Redd Hollow Campground
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
| Camping fees (nightly) RV (no utilities) Tent |
Boat ramp Day use Picnic tables or grills Swimming (no lifeguards) Toilets (vault) |
Smith Bay Campground
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
|
RV (no utilities) Tent |
Boat ramp Day use Picnic tables or grills Swimming (no lifeguards) Toilets (vault) |
Sugar Bay Campground
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
|
RV (no utilities) Tent |
Boat ramp Day use Picnic tables or grills Swimming (no lifeguards) Toilets (vault) Trails (biking, hiking) |
Taylor Bay Campground
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
| Camping fees (nightly) RV (no utilities) Tent |
Boat ramp Courtesy dock Day use Picnic tables or grills Swimming (no lifeguards) Toilets (vault) |
Turkey Bay Off-Highway Vehicle Area
| CAMPING | AMENITIES | RENTALS/FEES |
| Camping fees (nightly) RV (utilities & non-utilities) Tent |
Accessible features Day use Drinking water Picnic tables or grills Recycling stations Toilets (flush & vault) |
Open-air pavilion available to reserve and rent – $50 per reservation per day
Ice or firwood sales |
