Lost Creek Campground

Its sites are first-come, first-served (no reservations). Lost Creek Campground is a National Forest campground near Polk, Tennessee.

First-come, first-served

National Forest · Polk, Tennessee

Lost Creek Campground sits inside Cherokee National Forest. Its dispersed-camping rule, ranger offices, and boundary are on publiclandsdb.com.

Getting a site

Source: apps.fs.usda.gov, accessed 2026-09-30

35.1597, -84.4682 in Polk. Open in OpenStreetMap. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

No. Lost Creek Campground is first-come, first-served: there is no reservation system, so arrive early to claim an open site.

Lost Creek Campground is managed by the U.S. Forest Service.

Public land · within 15 miles

Public land within 15 miles: Little Frog Mountain Wilderness (5.3 miles to its center) , Gee Creek Wilderness (7.3 miles to its center) , Big Frog Wilderness (10 miles to its center) , Big Frog Wilderness (12 miles to its center) , and Cohutta Wilderness (13 miles to its center) ; publiclandsdb.com has each unit's camping rules and boundary.