Jenny Wiley State Resort Park — Hotel in Prestonsburg

We went out and just looked around a little at the campground, and the May Lodge. The campgrounds have access to showers, restrooms, electric hookups, and water. They allow RVs and also tents. You have to book your stay online. You can't just show up and get a camping spot like they used to do. They play live music and have bands sometimes, and have country line dancing, square dancing, fireworks, different activities at the campgrounds, especially on holidays, like the 4th of July!. It's really pretty out there! Lots of beautiful nature trails to walk on! They also have an area where you have to take a boat to camp, which is really neat! The May Lodge is beautiful! But if you're disabled, you don't have a lot of access to everything, and you do have a few steps you have to go up to enter the lodge. I hadn't been up there in years, and I don't think I appreciated the beauty of nature as much as I do now. It's such a gorgeous place to spend your time, and the lake is awesome! But there's no way I could cover it all in this post! Great place for kids, and adults too! They have a nice big playground! You can ride bikes, play basketball, volleyball, tennis, horse shoes, picnic at the picnic tables and shelters, grill, go fishing in the lake or at the dam, rent canoes, paddle boats, pontoons, have jet skiing! Camping, lodging, rent a cottage. They also have live theatrical plays! I remember going out there when I was a kid, and watched the play of "Anne" and "The Sound of Music." The list goes on and on!, Also pet friendly, indoors and outdoors! I think they limit it to 2 pets. I took a few pictures, of the campgrounds, and lodge. I wish I would've took more, but I had other things on my agenda that day. I'll try to take more the next time. If you love nature, being outdoors, or if you'd like to just try it, I think this is a great...

First, the layout is such that you can't access other parts of the park from the campground via bicycle or foot. A semi-busy 2-lane road runs through the park, and that is the road you must use to access the lake.

Second, the locals are fond of littering as a natural matter of course; it's like their public schools teach them how to litter. Then, the park not only doesn't seem to work to prevent it or even remind people not to do it, but they don't take due care to clean the litter regularly. In several spots of the lake, it looks like someone regularly empties their trash cans into the water.

Third, the park does not have a proper interpretive center. It's named after a fascinating, even if lesser-known, historical figure, it is seated in a beautiful geographical area, and the whole area is home to a number of man-made lakes which would make for interesting museum fare. But, they have no interpretive center.

Lastly: Most state parks have ranger programs or activities for kids on Saturdays. JW does have programs, but almost none of them relate to the outdoors, i.e. naturalist programs, but they make sure to have line dancing IN THE CAMPGROUND every Friday and Saturday night until 10:00 P.M. This is the Bluegrass State. Maybe host some bluegrass? Dulcimers, banjos, mandolins? No? Instead, they play garbage club music and "dance" in lines while a woman whose voice was not made for the microphone yells instructions to them.

The location is beautiful, and there is a good trail system adjacent to the campground, but this beautiful location is not being...

We stayed in a 2 bedroom cottage for a week. The cottage was nice…not too close to other cottages, was clean, had comfortable beds. Would definitely recommend a 2 BR vs 1 BR. The 1 BR is a side-by-side duplex so less privacy. Our cottage also had a great screened in porch which we enjoyed. The only real negative for us about the cottage was that it was up the hill from the lake and there were many very loud boats traveling on the lake all day. We would have enjoyed a quieter lake. Also, the lodge was being renovated during our stay and was therefore inaccessible. One thing we always enjoy during a stay at a state park is having some meals in a dining room overlooking a beautiful lake. During our stay, the food was being made in the convention center and they would deliver it to your door free of charge. For us, that just wasn’t the same. The cottage kitchen had nice dinnerware (plates, small bowls, mugs, glasses) but very limited work space and limited cooking pots/pans etc. We enjoyed hiking several of the trails and, although they were marked, the trails at the Arrowhead Point Trailhead were quite confusing. There were signs identifying the names of the trails, but no “you are here” type maps giving an idea how the trails intersected. We ended up walking much farther than planned during that hike. Overall, it is a beautiful park and we had a very enjoyable and relaxing week. I am sure I would have given it a higher rating had the park been fully...