Seeing the total solar eclipse was an adventure that we didn’t want to miss, so back in March, I started looking into campgrounds within the path of totality. We stopped in the Louisville, KY area for the first two nights of our four night trip, and that will be focus of this post. We camped at Taylorsville Lake State Park in Mt. Eden, KY, and got there just just after sunset on August 18th, so we had to set up camp in the dark. We stayed in the primitive campground, which was amazing, but our specific site, not so much. Site P02 was far from level, and pretty close to the road compared to other sites. Honestly, every other site that we saw seemed great, so just avoid P02, and you should be good to go.
Most of the sites were really big, and there was plenty of space and trees in between. The primitive camp was close to the equestrian camp, and between to two campgrounds, there were only 25 sites. These 25 campsites share a bathhouse, which was very clean and quiet. This park also has an RV campground with 45 sites, but we never step foot in that part of the park. I didn’t get many pictures from this campground because we didn’t spend all that much time here.
(See this campground review on The Dyrt.)
On August 19, we headed into Louisville but on the way we ran into some car trouble. Now I’m not all that educated on cars, but basically, the car got really loud and the pipe that went to the muffler started dragging along the ground. My husband pulled out Google maps and found that we happened to be approaching an exit on which several car shops were located. We pulled off of the interstate and happened to find Mr. Automotive. They were the only shop open – AND they weren’t busy!! The owner pulled our car right in and started welding on a new pipe. We were ridiculously grateful for how quickly he took care of us, and how inexpensive it was!
Once we were on the road again, we continued to our destination – the Louisville Mega Cavern. We took a tram tour, which was really neat, but kind of lame when you compare it to the other activities they offer! This cavern is just huge at 100 acres, and is actually considered a building by the State of Kentucky. It houses 16 other underground businesses, and apparently if you fill the entire cavern with boats, it would hold 160,000 of them. The tram tour was about 75 minutes long, and definitely worth checking out. But we think that the electric bike tour would have been an even better way to check out the cavern.
We headed back to the campsite after the tram tour, and got dinner together. Overall it was a successful couple of days in Kentucky. If I had realized at the time that I’d be pulling a blog together, I would have taken more pictures of the campground and the facilities. I think that there’s a serious lack of campgrounds that cater to tent campers, and it’s so difficult to find reviews by tent campers. So I’ll be making an effort to review all of the campgrounds that we visit on The Dyrt.