Day Trips

The Best Day Trips To Experience Lake Cumberland and the Surrounding Areas

Encompassing 125,000 acres of the Cumberland Plateau, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area protects the free-flowing Big South Fork of the Cumberland...

A great Day Trip Idea from Lake Cumberland is the Big South Fork Scenic Railway! Ride the Kentucky & Tennessee Railway on a 16...

Cumberland Falls makes for a great Day Trip Idea from Lake Cumberland! Imagine a wall of water falling 60 feet into a boulder-strewn gorge,...

Double “J” Stables offers guided trail rides just20 minutes from the Mammoth cave Visitors Center & over 70 miles of trails! Open March 1...

Ride one of our gentle horses in cave country with over 500 acres of trails where Jesse James once roamed robbing banks and stagecoaches...

Explore the rich tradition and proud history of “America’s Official Native Spirit” on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Tour, featuring seven signature distilleries. The Kentucky...

Mammoth Cave makes for A GREAT Lake Cumberland Day Trip Idea! You can’t come to Kentucky and not make a Day trip to the...

My Old Kentucky Dinner Train will make you step back and return for a while to another time, when life was slower, and travel...

We welcome all types of campers…horse, RV, work campers, etc. We have 93 Full Hookup sites and one on-site airbnb that is listed in...

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill is a great Day Trip idea if you’re in the Lake Cumberland area! Take an afternoon and discover America’s...

SomerSplash is located just 30 minutes from Jamestown and Russell Springs, Kentucky, near Lake Cumberland, this is a perfect spot for a day trip!...

The Amish community of Casey County is just 15 minutes away. Find an array of Amish & Mennonite built furniture, markets and businesses.

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Experience Everything That Lake Cumberland Has To Offer!
Welcome to Kentucky’s most beautiful vacation destination! Lake Cumberland – Russell County is the perfect place to enjoy a world of outdoor activities & the coziest lakeside hotels and Kentucky cabin rentals. As the Houseboating Capital, and the official Home of Lake Cumberland, we know how to have fun on the water!

In addition to water activities, we are home to the very popular Lake Cumberland State Resort Park, where you will find miles of hiking trails, miniature golf, a full disc golf course, indoor pool, a 3D archery course, a beautiful commercial marina with the largest collection of rental houseboats in the world, and two Lake Cumberland Waterfront Restaurants inside the Lake Cumberland State Resort Park!