Shellmound RV Resort & Campground

This is not a place I enjoyed camping. Most were permanent spots with lots of stuff around.

Within the RV sites, it seems there are a lot of seasonal rentals, so those areas appear to be harder spots to get on a short term basis. The primitive camping sites, although close together, are very nice. Not fantastic lake access on the sites directly, but there is a boat ramp & beach area near the entrance of the campground. Mickey was very kind at the manager’s office & firewood is available for purchase on site & delivered to you. Overall, beautiful Mountain views and would go back again for a quick trip.

What a great place! surprised there aren't more reviews.... Camped here just one night on the way through, we will be back for longer. Site overlooked the lake, easy access, giant site would have taken a 45 footer without a problem.

Camp hosts super nice and helpful.

About 2 miles off the interstate, but worth it for the location (and really, 2 miles isn't far!). Definitely stay here again.

Bring a torch - there are no lights around the park (get here before dark!!), it's dark and silent when the sun goes down. Highly recommended.

Our site was perfect, no one close by on either side. The power cord was over 35' away, but an extension is provided by the campground. Despite that, we still had to move our RV a bit closer to it as our cord was a few feet short. We filled with water before moving so that was never a factor. Outside of the sites near the lake, this may well be the best site to have. There were two RVs in our group and Mickie went out of her way to insure the sites met our needs.
There is a rail line on the other side of the lake. Its noise was never an issue, its moderate rrumblings made it easy to sleep even with windows open.
Only one shower but never had to wait to use it.
Very nice campground, we'll be back.

I called and called. They don't call back, so it's definitely first come first serve. We ended up staying at Marion County RV park, who did answer the phone. We drove through Shellmound on a Tuesday and there were maybe three spaces open, one of which had a cone in front of it, so being saved? It was very pretty with many long term residents and seemed much more quiet than Marion County, as it is further away from the interstate. I cannot speak to anything else.

Great little campground. Cant beat the views and staff. Highly recommended!

Spots are great and have good spacing and shade. Cell isn’t good, 2 bars max, for any carrier (have ATT, Verizon, and T-Mobile). Adjacent to swimming spot and boat ramp. Trains run fairly frequently but they’re across the lake so the sound is quieter than the birds.

This was FCFS campground but when we got there late afternoon they still had 3 sites to chose from. Lots of campers there pick a site for whole season but kept their sites clean so no issues with that. We had a water view site with nice breeze at night. Were able to drive 2.5 miles down the road and do a nice 4 mike hike. Had to use a few blocks to level our site.

It is first come first serve! Stop at the managers residence and she will let you know if they have sites and where. (Don’t call. ) We paid 30 for a site with water and 30 amp. We were near the water and easy walk to bathhouse. Issues include: a wide variety of camping- tents to permanent all over the place, lots of kids and golf carts. Could hear the train from across the lake but not bad. The manager loves to decorate! Clean, easy to access and quiet for as busy as it was.

The previous reviewer was right: the manager does like to decorate. As far as we could figure, this is a TVA managed site, not a resort exactly, but I'm not entirely sure. The signage looked official-like, but the proliferation of Christmas decorations throughout the campground is what you'd expect to find at a private camp. The manager couldn't be nicer, and everything is very old school. She let us pick a spot then walk back up to her house to pay. Showers were really clean, though nothing fancy. Site was nice and level enough, room for our dog to romp. It has a homey feel, and though there seemed to be some long-termers, not a lot of junk. I don't know why so many people have golf carts. One night wasn't enough to unlock the many mysteries of Shellmound!