Just got back from up there on a trip to Big South Fork National Park and Oneida. It was a GREAT camping trip.
Big South Fork is a rather elongated park running along the Big South Fork River from southern Kentucky to South of Oneida in TN with Oneida being the jumping off town. Oneida is a nice little town (has a great Walmart!) and has a few good restaurants.
We stayed at Bandy Creek Campground in the Big South Fork. Nice park. Not sure if this is important to you but for a national park it is VERY dog friendly. Bandy Creek is about 20 minutes west of Oneida. There is another Campground (Blue Heron )on the north end of the park, north of Oneida.The river and valley is spectacular.
We are a bit partial to loving Oneida as the DW spent her teen years there (many many moons ago) and had not been back in 40 years.
We loved Big South Fork NP, Oneida, and Stearns, KY and are definitely going back again. If you go-- make the short run a few miles above Oneida up to Stearns , KY and take the train down into the park along the river to the Blue Heron Mine town. A very low cost excursion on a scenic train into the river valley to the Blue Heron Interpretive Mine town. Stearns (the town) was a fantastic experience as was the train (the dogs got to ride the train too and had a blast!)
One thing to watch out for is if you go to or from Oneida to Bandy Creek CG is that there are significant hair-pin turns with 13 % grades into and out of the river valley to get to the park. We did them with our truck camper but I won't do it with our 5th wheel. All that said many folks very carefully and successfully negotiate the road daily. I am not that brave though with our 5th wheel so will continue to visit in the TC.
