Woodlands Trace
National Scenic Byway 43 mi in Kentucky.
About the Woodlands Trace
Running along a ridge of land between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, Woodlands Trace is a beautiful, easy drive in rolling terrain with opportunities to pull off and explore on your own or at developed interpretive facilities. This outdoor setting includes the seasonal splendors of nature, with blossoming trees and flowers, a green canopy, brilliant fall foliage, and the open view in the forest in the winter.
Federal Highway Administration, America's Byways's own description, in its words. Byway page on America's Byways.
Designations: National Scenic Byway, Tennessee State Scenic Byway, Kentucky State Scenic Byway.
Camping along the byway
- Mile 0 · 0.7 mi offCanal · Army Corps of Engineers · 115 sites · reservable
- Mile 0 · 2.9 mi offEureka · Army Corps of Engineers · 27 sites · reservable
- Mile 0 · 3.6 mi offKentucky Dam Village State Resort Park · State park · 69 sites · reservable
- Mile 1 · 0.6 mi offNickell Branch Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 3 · 1.0 mi offHillman Ferry Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 4 · 1.8 mi offBirmingham Ferry Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 7 · 4.1 mi offCravens Bay Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 10 · 2.7 mi offSmith Bay Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 11 · 3.7 mi offTaylor Bay Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 14 · 3.3 mi offEnergy Lake Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 15 · 1.9 mi offSugar Bay Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 20 · 2.1 mi offFenton Lake Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 20 · 3.9 mi offKenlake State Resort Park · State park · 63 sites · reservable
- Mile 23 · 1.3 mi offColson Hollow Group Site · Forest Service
- Mile 24 · 1.4 mi offRedd Hollow Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 27 · 1.5 mi offJones Creek Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 36 · 3.5 mi offBumpus Mills · Army Corps of Engineers · 15 sites · reservable
- Mile 39 · 0.9 mi offBrandon Spring Group Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 40 · 1.5 mi offGatlin Point Campground · Forest Service
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, in order along the byway; each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.