Campgrounds and RV parks near Sellersburg, IN

Charlestown State Park offers over 15 miles of trails through rugged hills and ravines, taking visitors past wildflowers, fossil outcroppings, and karst topography with large sinkholes, and bird watchers can find over 70 species including the occasional bald eagle. The historic Portersville Bridge, rebuilt at its present site between 2008 and 2011, leads across to the ruins of the Rose Island amusement park. Deam Lake State Recreation Area centers on a 194-acre man-made lake and serves as a trailhead for the 80-mile Knobstone Trail, the longest hiking trail in Indiana. Rowboats and kayaks may be rented on site between Memorial Day and Labor Day on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and boating is limited to electric motors only. Across the river, downtown Louisville adds Churchill Downs, the Louisville Slugger Museum, the Muhammad Ali Center, and the Louisville Zoo, all within a short drive of Sellersburg.

Spring and fall are the most comfortable stretches for camping. Mid-April through May brings mild days and blooming wildflowers, though May is typically the wettest month with the most rainy days, and severe thunderstorms are common across the region in spring. Summer is peak season. Rowboats and kayaks may be rented on site at Deam Lake between Memorial Day and Labor Day on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and weekends fill quickly. Heat and humidity climb in July and August, with daytime highs often reaching the upper 80s Fahrenheit. The Kentucky Derby is the first Saturday in May, which drives heavy demand at campgrounds within reach of Louisville. Winter is the quiet season. Charlestown State Park's campground operates year-round with concrete pads, while Deam Lake's campground closes each year from the Sunday before Thanksgiving to March 1 of the following year. Most Indiana state park properties turn off water, close modern restrooms, and winterize full-hookup sites during November through April.

State park campgrounds around Sellersburg are modern but vary in feel. Charlestown's campground features AA sites with water, sewer, and electricity, Class A electric-only sites, and modern comfort stations. Check-in and check-out are at 2 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 5 p.m. on Sundays and holidays. Deam Lake offers electric hookups at each site across the family and equestrian campgrounds, modern restrooms and showers, picnic tables, fire rings, a drinking water fill station, and a dump station, with equestrian sites offering hitching posts or horse stalls and access to 80 miles of multipurpose trails in Clark State Forest. Louisville North Campground operates as a compact RV park on a gravel lot in Clarksville, accommodating RVs up to 60 feet with full hookups, and freight-train tracks run directly behind the property with trains passing throughout the night, so light sleepers should ask for sites farther from the rail line.