The resort-park loop through southern Kentucky starts on Lake Cumberland and ends at Cumberland Falls, where the river pours over in a wall of water and breaks into a gorge full of boulders. After a few days swimming in the lake, the falls are the big finish, and on a clear night under a full moon the mist at the base can hold a moonbow, a pale arc that only shows by moonlight. Two state resort parks hold the whole week, each with a campground of its own, so the rig moves once and nobody has to choose between the lake and the waterfall.
Beyond the loop, Kentucky's RV trips sort by what the rig does all week. Under the Red River Gorge it waits at a park in the Slade valley while you drive into the forest each day, and in the far west it stays put at Hillman Ferry while the family lives on the lake.
Lake Cumberland State Resort Park to Ridgeline at Cumberland Falls
Give the first nights to the campground at Lake Cumberland State Resort Park, where the days go to the water and the evenings go back to the site. The campground runs on utility hookups, which keeps the air conditioning going through a humid Kentucky afternoon while everyone dries off inside.
For the second half of the week, move the rig east to Ridgeline, the campground inside Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, where the falls fill the days and the moonbow is the reason to stay up late when the calendar lines up. Ridgeline has 40 sites with electric and water hookups, and the park pool covers the hot afternoons from Memorial Day to Labor Day. As of October 2026, DuPont Lodge is closed for renovation while the cabins and the rest of the park stay open.
Reserve both campsites before you book the motorhome. The loop only works with a site waiting at each end, and the rig is the second booking.
West of the lake, Mammoth Cave is worth an afternoon underground in its passages, and bourbon country around Louisville can fill a few slow days of its own. Both run better as their own trips: Mammoth Cave for a rig is on the Bowling Green RV page, and the distilleries are on the Louisville RV page.
The Red River Gorge from a hookup base at Slade
Sandstone cliffs stand over the Slade valley where the Mountain Parkway reaches the Red River Gorge, and the RV parks along the valley floor are where a motorhome spends its week. The rig stays plugged in while you drive into the Daniel Boone National Forest each morning for the trails and arches, then come back to a full-hookup pad by dinner. The overnights up on the ridge are a smaller rig's trip, and if it's two of you chasing those, the Kentucky campervan page covers it.
At 4 Guys RV Park the pads sit by a fishing pond, with back-in and pull-thru sites from 50 to over 70 feet on full 30/50-amp hookups and nightly stays from early March through mid-November. Natural Bridge Campground, also in Slade, has sites from 28 to 40 feet with 30 and 50 amp electric, water and a dump station, though a handful of them top out at a 26-foot RV.
Up in the forest, Koomer Ridge works as the day-use stop and an overflow night if the Slade parks fill, though none of its RV-suitable sites have hookups. Lock the Slade site before the motorhome, because the pad you land decides how long a rig you can bring.
Coming in from the west, the Kentucky Horse Park campground in Lexington makes an easy first night, with paved loops running past the pastures, water and 20, 30 and 50 amp electric at every site, and pull-throughs when they're available. North of the Gorge, Cave Run Lake is the muskie lake with Forest Service loops of its own, and the Cave Run Lake RV page covers the week there.
Hillman Ferry and the parked week in Land Between the Lakes
At the far western end of Kentucky, Land Between the Lakes gets the week when nobody wants to move the rig. At Hillman Ferry the motorhome goes onto a lakefront or wooded site and stays there, with the kids at the swimming area all day and the whole group out for sunset over the water. The campground runs 368 sites built for everything from tents to large motor homes, including electric, water and sewer sites, so a full-hookup pad means no trips to the dump all week.
Hillman Ferry is also a good place to skip the towing. Some trailer owners in the listings deliver to the site and set up before you arrive, though that's arranged listing by listing and the site reservation is still yours to make. Sites without sewer have the campground's dump and potable water stations to fall back on.