Park Review- Cherokee Landing Campground (Saulsbury, TN)

Thousand Trails
​Address:  1385 Old State Line Road, Saulsbury, TN 38067
Phone:   (731) 376-0935​
Website:  rvonthego.com/tennessee/cherokee-landing-campground/
# of sites:  186 (140?)
​Full hookup price:  From $42/day
Open:  4/2 to 11/15
Rating:  3 out of 5 stars
​Warnings:  Few sites with sewer

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Cherokee Landing is a bit misnamed.  A "landing" is defined as "a place where persons or goods are landed, as from a ship."  There is no such place on the small pond they call Lake Cherokee, so at best it is named with tongue-in-cheek.  I guess they could have called it "Pirate's Cove" with the same effect.o

That said, Cherokee Landing Campground is about an hour or so from Memphis and just a couple of miles from the Mississippi border.  

Pros:
The campground is clean and provides a lot of green space and shade for its RV sites.  The lake is picturesque, if not large, and provides opportunities for fishing and canoeing.  The park itself is dog friendly, allowing fences and corrals outside of the rigs.  Almost all sites have cement pads, picnic tables and barbecue grills.

The park's proximity to Memphis gives easy access to attractions such as paddle-wheel riverboat cruises, Graceland, a Victorian village, and more.  Any drive in the region will be scenic and will provide views of a wide variety of small town Main Streets, homesteads and farms.  We saw deer and an array of birds every day of our stay.

Cons:
Sadly, one can easily see that Cherokee Landing was once a great resort.  Its Thousand Trails page lists 339 RV sites, but their campground map shows only 186 numbered spaces.  When I took a quick walk around the grounds I found that at least one complete loop in the woods has been chained off for quite some time, and the campsites within are fully overgrown and unusable.  With various other non-maintained spaces unworkable, I'm guessing there are closer to 130 or 140 available sites in the campground. 

Only 21 sites in the park have sewer hookups.  There were only two available when we arrived off-season and the last was taken by the next day.  I can't imagine a full-hookup site being available very often in the summer.  The TT page also lists 50 amp as being available but we didn't see anything but 30 amp anywhere.

Most common buildings, such as the "Comfort Centers" (restrooms and laundry facilities) and the recreation center, are aged and tired.  Washers and dryers appeared like they are in their third decade of use, though offered cheap pricing per load.  The lake is diminutive and does not have a boat ramp for launching your own small craft.

Though dog friendly, there is no off-leash area, though there is ample lawn space for a fenced dog park in many sections of the grounds.  There aren't any dog walking areas, per se, and no pedestals with waste bags.

I went back and forth on my rating of Cherokee Landing between two and three stars (out of five) and decided on the higher valuation, basically because it is a clean and comfortable campground that I would recommend, at least in the off-season or for long weekends when sewer hookups may not be needed.  I also try not to let lost potential or a downward slide effect my rating directly.

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