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HORSE CAMP UPDATE : Effective July 8, 2025, all primitive horse sites and a handful of electric horse sites (89 through 107) will be open for new reservations. Most of the electric horse sites will remain closed for several months until major electric repairs can be made. The shower house in the equestrian electric campground is still closed due to damage sustained during the tornado, however, there are two vault toilets and some water hydrants available for use by electric horse campers. A small nightly fee reduction has been put into place on the reservation system for the 19 electric sites to compensate for the lack of a shower house. Those customers with existing reservations on the 19 electric sites that are re-opening will receive a small refund for $4.00 per night. These will take a couple of weeks to process. Those customers with reservations on sites that will remain closed will be contacted, and reservations will be automatically cancelled and fully refunded for them within 3 to 7 business days. Please check back here or on Brown County's Facebook page for updates.

HORSEMEN'S CAMPGROUND CLOSURE: Following storms on 5/16/2025 at Brown County State Park, the Horsemen's Campground and all horse trails are closed for an undetermined time. View a video of the damage. The rest of the park, including saddle barn which offers guided rides on designated trails that were not impacted by the storms, remains OPEN. North and west gates are open. Please check back for further updates.

GPS DIRECTIONS MAY BE INCORRECT: Visitors and campground users should note that GPS directions may not always send you to the correct entrances.

OVERSIZED AND HEAVY VEHICLES USE WEST GATE: All RVs and vehicles towing trailers MUST use the park's west entrance on State Road 46 two miles west of Nashville, Indiana. The park's north entrance east of Nashville has a historic covered bridge with a 9-foot height clearance and 3-ton weight limit. Oversized vehicles cannot use the north entrance.

Brown County State Park, IN

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Description

Nicknamed the "Little Smokies" because of the area's resemblance to the Great Smoky Mountains, Brown County encompasses nearly 16,000 acres of rugged hills, ridges and fogshrouded ravines. Glaciers from the most recent ice ages stopped short of the "hills o'Brown," but their meltwaters helped create the narrow ridges, steep slopes and deep gullies of Brown County State Park. Indiana's largest park is a traditional fall color hot spot, with nearly 20 miles of tree-lined roads and many scenic vistas overlooking miles of uninterrupted forestland.The park's rustic Abe Martin Lodge offers accommodations that include motel rooms, cabins, dining and conference facilities and an indoor water park. Large campgrounds, hiking and mountain biking trails, interpretive services, a saddle barn for guided horse rides and a separate horseman campground with 70 miles of horse trails are some of the things that make Brown County State Park popular year-round.

The surrounding county and nearby Indiana town of Nashville are famous for their unique shopping, dining, arts and crafts, history, entertainment, and outdoor adventure opportunities. Contact the Brown County Convention and Visitors Bureau at www.browncounty.com or 1-800-753-3255 for more information.

Status: Open year round. Season Dates

Alerts and Important Information

GPS DIRECTIONS MAY BE INCORRECT: Visitors and campground users should note that GPS directions may not always send you to the correct entrances.

OVERSIZED AND HEAVY VEHICLES USE WEST GATE: All RVs and vehicles towing trailers MUST use the park's west entrance on State Road 46 two miles west of Nashville, Indiana. The park's north entrance east of Nashville has a historic covered bridge with a 9-foot height clearance and 3-ton weight limit. Oversized vehicles cannot use the north entrance.

HORSEMEN'S CAMPGROUND CLOSURE: Following storms on 5/16/2025 at Brown County State Park, the Horsemen's Campground and all horse trails are closed for an undetermined time. View a video of the damage. The rest of the park, including saddle barn which offers guided rides on designated trails that were not impacted by the storms, remains OPEN. North and west gates are open. Please check back for further updates.

Campground Check-in/Check-out times are 2 PM Mondays through Saturdays and 5 PM on Sundays and Holidays.

Winter Camping Information (early November through late March): Brown County State Park offers winter camping in some of our campgrounds as noted below. Reservations accepted year round. Please check with the Park Office for more detailed information on the dates campgrounds switch from Summer to Winter Season (and back) as these will change each year.

These campgrounds open year round with reduced facilities and rates in Winter:

Buffalo Ridge: Electric hookup sites, heated bathhouse, water fill station.

Racoon Ridge: 20 Amp Electric hookup sites and Non-Electric sites

Horseman Electric: Electric hookup sites, water hydrant near gatehouse available through November only, pit toilets

Horseman Primitive: Primitive sites, water hydrant near gatehouse available through November only, pit toilets.

Park Information and Property, Campground and Trail maps can be found at the IN State Parks and Reservoirs website at www.stateparks.in.gov