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This recreation area is part of Lake Cumberland
General Burnside Island State Park is located in Burnside,8 miles south of Somerset on US 27.
I play this golf course at least 3 times a year when at my place just outside Burnside. Fairways are mostly Zoysia grass. For over 3 years #18 has had sprinkler repairs but no grass. Several bunkers had no sand, or had gravel instead of sand. This course could be awesome. It makes you use most all of your clubs.🙄 With proper care and fixing the maintenance issues. Green fees were 53.00w/ cart. Condition of course is more similar to a 30.00 course. Kentucky State Parks can do better.
I camped here with my sister and brother in law. I loved it. Really nice place. Very clean bathrooms and shower area. Everyone was friendly and it was really clean.
Christmas Island lights are beautiful! $20 through the week. $25 on the weekends. Saturday the 30th is the last night for 2023.
It's about a 20 minute drive around the park with beautiful lights. There were four vendors set up in small sheds. Grinch walked around and Santa was in the concession tent with a long line. It was not worth $25 to see the lights. Most people kept their headlights on even though they were instructed to run parking lights only, which made it hard to appreciate everything. But, without headlights, the road was hard to see in the gaps between the exhibits.
This was a nice state park. However, if you have a big rig, please do not reserve spots around site 91. The sites are decent size, but getting to them and getting out them was terrifying for me. We are 35ft travel trailer, not too small and not too big, but we bottomed out on the hill, and if you see the scrape marks, so does EVERYBODY ELSE. Making the turn was tricky as you can see by the tree, (not made by us), a lot of people hit that too. The hill is about a 30% slope, make sure your truck has the capacity to go back up that hill. These sites only have water and electric with a dump station at the top of the hill. It was off season, so it was pretty quiet, but these sites are right near the grounds keeping maintenance sheds as well, and they do make noise with their equipment. I don't know how this place is in the summer, but it didn't look family friendly to me. The clerk at the check in booth really didn't seem to care very much about his job, (again, off season) but I have never encountered a check in attendant at any park, any where we have traveled, that didn't have a welcoming smile on their face; except this one. I guess everyone is entitled to bad days. We stayed here because it was close to the Natural Arch Scenic Area and Cumberland Falls.
