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Camp at Rock Island State Park

Rock Island, Tennessee

4.8/5
based on 4 reviews

Description

Added by Jess Fischer

This wonderful tent-only campsite located in Rock Island State Park provides spacious campsites, a spot to back in your car, a fire pit, an electrical hookup and even fresh water.

This little campground is nestled in Rock Island State Park. There are two campgrounds, this one is specifically tents only. Each campsite is pull in and provides you with enough room to set up two tents. In addition each campsite has a four sided picnic bench, fire pit, trash can, charcoal grill, electrical hookup, and well water. At the front entrance of the camp there is a bath house with showers, toilets and sinks.

The park itself has a beach area with an amazing rock wall, Twin Falls (pictured above), another lookout to two other waterfalls and the river gorge, and much much more.

When booking at the campground try to get on of the three campgrounds on the back of the loop; they have the most space and you will feel farther away from other campers! You can make your reservation here: https://tnstateparks.itinio.com/rock-island.

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Features

Camping
Bathrooms
Beach
Dog Friendly
Easy Parking
Family Friendly
Food Nearby
Forest
Picnic Area
River
Scenic
Waterfall

Reviews

This place is really nice. Plenty of space to stretch out and wonderful waterfalls in the park.

Its full of waterfalls cliff jumping and hiking

Bring a lunch Water is cool Good water shoes for the tender feet Camping Hiking Swimming Visit the visitor center and they will steer you in the right direction.

Overall, falls were awesome and camp site was good. Camping: we stayed in the mixed camp site area which had RVs and tents. Each site had table, fire pit, water and electricity access, and access to bathrooms with showers. Bathrooms had a lot of bugs but that's normal for these types of camp grounds. Unfortunately, we camped next to loud kids and they woke us up pretty early in the morning. If you go, try to request area away from others. Hiking and Falls: Falls look really amazing. However, if you want to get up close, it requires a lot of vigorous traversing. We also encountered a snake climbing to get close! I believe it's worth it though. Conclusion: highly suggest going if you want to get up close and personal with the falls. You could do most of the activities in a day. If you like camping or live far away, then camping is your ticket.

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Nearby

Twin Falls, Rock Island State Park

Hike to Carmac Falls

Hike to Lost Creek Falls

Burgess Falls

Photograph Buzzard's Roost Overlook

Hike to the Base of Fall Creek Falls