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My Old Kentucky Home State Park Campground

668 Loretto Rd, Bardstown, Kentucky 40004-2242 USA

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“Admire the beautiful grounds”

Admire the beautiful grounds of My Old Kentucky Home in the 39-site campground. Convenience is guaranteed with utility hookups, a central service building housing showers and rest rooms, and a dump station.A grocery store and a laundry are nearby across the street from the park. Pets are allowed if restrained. Closed for season from November 1 to March 31.

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Reviews of My Old Kentucky Home State Park Campground

30 people have reviewed this location

Ratings Summary

3.9 Access
4.6 Location
3.8 Cleanliness
2.5 Site Quality
4.0 Noise

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Confirmed by 13 users | Last reported on May 20, 2023

AT&T 4G/5G

Confirmed by 13 users | Last reported on June 29, 2022

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Reviewed by
Don_Cima

  • 11 Reviews
  • 2 Helpful
May 01, 2018
Rated 2.0

Convenient to Bardstown and the KY Bourbon Trail.
Extremely tight park to navigate and get your camper into a site. Electrical pedestals can require 60’ of cord and 50’ of water hose.
Dump station is at an incline making it difficult to get tanks empty without unhitching to lower the trailer tongue.
Note: some sites had new 50 amp electrical pedestals installed closer to the sites. Confirm before making your reservations.
There are several extended stay residents there. Park supervision was scarce, people did not clean up after dogs and kids run wild.
Won’t be going back.

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Reviewed by
Campendium

November 01, 2014
Rated

This state park campground has a lot of pros and cons. It really depends on what kind of camper you are and what you are looking for in a campground, as to whether or not you will enjoy staying here.

The Pros:
- Location: The campground is right in the epicenter of the Kentucky Bourbon trail, so if you love Jim Beam, Makers Mark, Knob Creek, and all things Bourbon, you're in the right place.
- Bathrooms: The bathrooms are toasty warm (when cold outside) and have the warmest showers I have ever felt in a state park. Good strong water pressure as well.
- Scenery: It's a great place to experience peak fall foliage (we were here in Oct.) and shares it's space with a well manicured golf course.
- SUPER STRONG FREE WIFI: If you happen to score a spot up front (closest to the pro shop and kiosk) the wifi is superb.
- Golf: If you love playing golf, you will love this campground.

The Cons:
- The hookups: The electric and water hookups are shared between sites (usually 2) and are often far away from both sites, and only provides 30 amp service. We had to switch sites a few times on our first day to find one that our power cord could reach. There are 5 FHU sites and dump station on site.
- The sites: The sites are very unlevel and hard to maneuver into, especially large travel trailers and fifth wheels, They have 2 Pull-thru sites that are a few dollars more.
- The Bathrooms: While they have super warm showers, I'm not sure that they're cleaned very often or at all on a regular basis.
- Zero recreation - It's odd to stay in a state park that has absolutely zero recreational opportunities (i.e. trails). They do have a golf course, but there are very clear that walkers/runners are not welcome on the paths. The landmark for which the park is named, My Old Kentucky Home, is on the opposite side of the golf course from the campground and there is no path through the park, so you have to drive the half-mile around the park to go visit the house and grounds. We ended up going to the local HS track to do our daily workouts while we stayed here.
- Noise: While quiet at night, it is very noisy during the day due to the constant golf course maintenance. They are always mowing, blowing, and trimming the course. However, they seem to rarely do the same for the campground.

Again, it really depends on what you are in Bardstown, KY to experience. If you like Bourbon and Golf, this is the place for you. If you like hiking/running/walking/kayaking/nature, you may want to consider another state park. We would actually stay here again, but only for a night or two, not extended.

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Nightly Rate: $18.00

Days Stayed: 21

Site Number: 3

3 Access
4 Location
2 Cleanliness
2 Site Quality
3 Noise
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Reviewed by
Campendium

April 12, 2015
Rated

Date of stay: August 2014

I don't drink Bourbon, but My Old Kentucky Home State Park is in the heart of Bourbon country. I was just looking for a place to stay for a night. It was fine for that. :)

I also don't golf, but this park (very small) is right at a golf course. That is OK for one night, but since there isn't anything else to do here, I would go stir crazy quickly.

When I arrived the gate attendant wasn't there so I was a bit confused as to what to do. I think there was something on the gate house that said go pick a spot, but apparently this wasn't 100% true. Seems that soon after I got setup some other RV pulled up and claimed they had the spot reserved for the night. Fine. So I hitched back up and went back to the gate house. Suddenly there was a couple of people there. They were very apologetic and ended up letting me stay for free for the one night (normally $23 on weekends).

Spacing of the sites is decent, but there is nothing between sites, so very little privacy. Water and electric available at the site. Dump station at the park.

I would stay here again if I was passing through, but definitely not a destination kind of place.

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Nightly Rate: $23.00

Days Stayed: 1

Site Number: -

5 Access
4 Location
4 Cleanliness
3 Site Quality
3 Noise

Reviewed by
leighwetzel

  • 309 Reviews
  • 0 Helpful
May 27, 2016
Rated

Our site at My Old Kentucky Home State Park was pretty level compared to many of our neighbors. Some neighboring motorhomes had to raise their jacks so high that their wheels were off the ground.

The water and power for our site was about 30 feet away, so we had to add an extension to both in order to reach it. The power pole is shared with the neighboring site and regularly the fuse popped when both sites were drawing a lot of power. On our last night, we got new neighbors and when they plugged it somehow burned out leaving everyone without power.

Over the weekend, a big group came in for a golf tournament called "The Bourbon Open." These campers brought a karaoke system and played it at a volume that was really inconsiderate of the other campers and management didn't seem to care. Quiet hours start at 11pm on, fortunately this group quieted down by then.

Overall it's a fine place to stay, you just need to come with an extra long power cable, an extra long hose, some extra leveling blocks and some patience.

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Nightly Rate: $28.00

Days Stayed: 14

Site Number: 16

4 Access
5 Location
4 Cleanliness
2 Site Quality
2 Noise

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Reviewed by
Campendium

May 29, 2016
Rated

This place was far from awful but it also definitely didn't leave us feeling like we wanted to come back. On the positive side it was an excellent location for visiting distilleries. Willett, Barton 1792, Makers, Heaven Hill, Jim Beam and Four Roses are all close by. It was heavily treed which made for nice shade on hot days. It was relatively quiet especially at night. There were lots of birds singing in the morning. Despite the small loop for walking the dog there was a second day use loop across the street which we would use for off leash walks during the times that it was closed off to traffic. There was also a large open tent area for walking around in, better walking than I expected given the small CG size.

On the negative side most sites were off level and required a bit of work to get in to. The utilities were strangely placed and required extension cords and extra hoses to reach. The showers were hot and were cleaned daily but were old, run down and not the most pleasant place to be.

Verizon service was 4G and was fast enough for all but video calls but was also a bit flakey and tended to come to a crawl at times. AT&T was better, suitable for video.

If I were doing it all over again I would still like the convenience of the location but would consider one of the local RV parks first.

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Nightly Rate: $25.00

Days Stayed: 14

Site Number: -

3 Access
5 Location
3 Cleanliness
2 Site Quality
3 Noise

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Reviewed by
Campendium

June 14, 2017
Rated

We were here for over a week in June 2017 and we had a wonderful stay. However, there are some cons to this place that a lot of other reviewers have mentioned.

Tip: If you're booking for a week, call them instead of using Reserve America. They will offer a weekly rate of $147.50 total if you ask for a weekly discount, which Reserve America can't do.

PROS
- Location. Bardstown is a really fun little town and of course, the bourbon capital of the world. We aren't big bourbon drinkers but like the experience, so we toured Barton 1792 Distillery - only a couple of miles from the campsite and completely free tour and tasting. Highly recommended. Heaven Hill is within walking distance to the campground.
- The golf course. We don't golf, but when the golf course closed for the evening, we took full advantage and walked the course with our dog almost every night amongst the fireflies. I've read in previous reviews that this is discouraged, but we ran into an attendant once and he offered us some water before driving away on his golf cart. Obviously, don't use it as walking trails when there are people out there playing golf. But after hours, keep to yourself out there and enjoy the nice walking paths.
- Bathrooms were clean and the showers were good.
- Price. For water and electric in a cool town, the weekly rate we thought was fair and ~$10/night cheaper than surrounding campgrounds.
- Cell phone reception. We have Verizon and AT&T and both were super fast and reliable for our entire stay - we did skype video calls and streamed video without a problem.
- Hour away from Louisville, hour away from Lexington, so good position for daytrips to either city.
-The nicest dog park I've ever seen is across the street. It requires a permit to use - they require vaccination records for the dog and then you can buy passes to use the park. This translates to a immaculately-kept dog park with conscientious owners.

CONS
- The campground is really small. We were here for a rally though, so the small campground size made it really nice for popping around to the campsites of others and socializing. 37 or 38 total sites, I think, but they are packed in.
- The water and electric proximity to the campsite. We were ready for this and had an extension cord and a second water hose, but yeah. You'll need both.
- The staff were a bit unattentive. We weren't given any paperwork or told any details upon arrival - nothing about check-in/check out times, no badge for the truck to designate our reservation dates, nada - whereas other campers got this information.
- I don't know who was in charge of paving this campground, but that person needs to rethink their career. Some sites really required some gymnastics to get the camper (big or small!) level, both left to right and front to back. We had a GREAT site (19) that did not require leveling gymnastics. My recommendation is to book a site on the outer circle of the campground - those sites were relatively larger and more level than the ones on the inner circle. Sites 27 and 29 are especially terrible.

Overall, we would definitely come back here again, armed with our extension cord and second hose, as there was an abundance of things to do in the area that we really enjoyed and the price of this campground made it worth the few hassles.

Oh! And Boone's Butcher Shop is a must if you need to buy meat. Excellent prices and they have just about everything.

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Nightly Rate: $21.00

Days Stayed: 9

Site Number: 19

3 Access
5 Location
4 Cleanliness
4 Site Quality
4 Noise

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  • 23 Reviews
  • 0 Helpful
September 13, 2017
Rated

Betty is the sweetest person to help you get into your site. But wow how unlevel every site is. Really hard to find a site level.

Clean and very long cords needed

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roadtripper160411 would stay here again

Nightly Rate: $21.00

Days Stayed: 1

Site Number: 32

5 Access
4 Location
5 Cleanliness
1 Site Quality
3 Noise

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Reviewed by
Campendium

May 21, 2018
Rated

Wow, almost none of the pads here are level. I don't think I've seen a camground as far off level as I have seen here. We're staying here for 6 nights and the campground is your typical state park. It's very small and some spots are difficult to get into. Our 30' airstream couldn't fit into the original spot we booked but luckily, spot 32 was available for the entire 6 nights we are here so we were able to switch.

I can't speak about the distilleries yet as we just got here but plan on taking full advantage of the bourbon tastings nearby. One distillery, Heaven Hill, is within walking distance and Willett distillery is less than 2 miles away.

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I would only camp here again if we got a level spot....not too many of those around here. On reserve america, avoid the sites where driveway grade says SEVERE. I wasn't sure what that meant until we got here. Luckily we had enough leveling blocks.

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Nightly Rate: $24.00

Days Stayed: 6

Site Number: 32

4 Access
4 Location
3 Cleanliness
1 Site Quality
4 Noise

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Reviewed by
Campendium

June 04, 2018
Rated

It is a very small campground right off the golf course. Site 16 backs up to the golf course, it is a short pad. We have a 16’ rig so we can get pretty much anywhere but it is tight. The master class As did it though as did some big trailers. The electric and water are spaced evenly between sites so you need extra long hoses and cords. Our site did have sewer but only 5 do. There is a bath house it was fine, older but clean. The grounds are very clean. There is some run off in areas but our site was fine. We had a couple of good rains while here. We liked it for its location to the distilleries and historical sites.
Bardstown is a quaint little town.

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Nightly Rate: $30.00

Days Stayed: 5

Site Number: 16

3 Access
5 Location
4 Cleanliness
3 Site Quality
3 Noise

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Reviewed by
Campendium

June 08, 2018
Rated

This was an awesome, quiet and beautiful campground. Yes it is small, But the beauty and friendliness of everyone was over the top! We will definitely be back.

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Nightly Rate: $24.00

Days Stayed: 4

Site Number: -

5 Access
5 Location
5 Cleanliness
5 Site Quality
5 Noise

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My Old Kentucky Home State Park Campground

668 Loretto Rd
Bardstown, Kentucky
40004-2242 USA
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Longest Vehicle Length Reported
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Max Stay
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Season End
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Season Start
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