This Slade campground is located inside the Natural Bridge State Resort Park, and you will no doubt enjoy everything that this park has to offer. The sandstone arch known as the Natural Bridge is 78 feet long and may be at least a million years old. There is a seasonal skylift, and the 2,400-acre park also includes a four-acre pond with an island, a 40-acre lake, and a 1,188-acre nature preserve. There is a Hoedown on the island every Saturday in season with Appalachian square dancing and other couple and individual dances. The park also features Hemlock Lodge with a full-service restaurant, a pool complex with bathhouse, and a gift shop with handicrafts and souvenirs. Picnic shelters with tables, grills, and restrooms are located throughout the park. Canoes and kayaks are available for rent, and other outdoor recreation here includes miniature golf, fishing, hiking, and bird watching.
You can also visit the Red River Gorge Geological Area in Stanton with your campervan rental near here. This area has been designated a Geological Area, a National Natural Landmark, and a National Archeological District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The spectacular rock features include towering cliffs and sandstone arches. It is the only known site of the white-haired goldenrod and the state’s only breeding site for red-breasted nuthatches. You can also drive the Red River Gorge Scenic Byway. Other outdoor recreation activities here include canoeing, mountain biking, multiple hiking trails, big game hunting, and nature and wildlife viewing and photography.
The Daniel Boone National Forest is one of the best ways to experience the great outdoors when you are camping at the Natural Bridge State Resort Park Campground. This forest is federally managed for multiple uses including recreation, wilderness, wildlife, fish, water, minerals, and timber. It contains Cave Run Lake, Laurel River Lake, Lake Cumberland, multiple wildernesses, five wildlife management areas, and the Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail. Other recreational opportunities in the forest include climbing, hiking, biking, fishing, hunting, trapping, and picnicking. Visitors can also enjoy boating, scuba diving, swimming, tubing, winter sports, target shooting, caving, geocaching and letterboxing, and nature viewing and photography. The Gladie Visitor Center features interpretive exhibits, cultural heritage displays, and information on the forest and its resources. There are interpretive areas in the Cumberland District and the Stearns District.
