Shirley Creek Campground
October 2026
About
Overview
Shirley Creek is a primitive campground. There is no use fee at this site.
Recreation
Shirley Creek Campground offers access to the Shirley Creek Trail system for horseback riding, mountain bike riding, and hiking
Facilities
A primitive campground, vault toilets, picnic tables, and hitching racks are available; Water may is seasonally available for livestock (not potable for humans) but bringing water is recommended.
Natural Features
A variety of terrain, scenic hardwoods, and shady trails.
Phone: Brownstown Ranger District Front Office: 812-275-5987
Is Shirley Creek Campground fully booked?
A campground showing no availability is almost never full for good. People cancel — plans change, weather turns, someone books three weekends and keeps one — and the site goes straight back into the booking system, usually without warning and often at odd hours. The reason sold-out campgrounds feel impossible is not that sites never free up; it is that nobody is watching at the moment they do.
CampHawk watches Shirley Creek Campground for you. We recheck it every 15 seconds, around the clock, and the moment a site opens we send a text, an email and a push notification — and on Recreation.gov we can put the site straight into your cart, so it is held while you get to your phone.
Searching is free and needs no account — the calendar above is live right now. Watching Shirley Creek Campground for cancellations is the paid part.