LIMESTONE DRIFT KENTUCKY WATER, TOLD STRAIGHT
FIELD CARD Pool & Access · No. 06-6
Corps lake · Monticello east · KY 90 east and KY 1275 · Fall Creek and Conley Bottom · Wayne County

Lake Cumberland

Six launches off KY 90 east and KY 1275 at "light #1": the ten-site Fall Creek Corps campground, Old Fall Creek, both Tate ramps, Conley Bottom Resort and Mystic View. Four are no-fee. Cumberland Point is a mile and a half across the water and, by KDFWR's directions, a drive through Burnside, Somerset and Nancy.

MONTICELLO EAST · KY 90 EAST AND KY 1275 Launches at KDFWR coordinates · shoreline and roads schematic
US 27 · Somerset–BurnsideKY 80 west · Somerset–NancyKY 196 · Nancy–JabezKY 76US 127 · Jamestown–dam–AlbanyKY 90 · Albany–MonticelloKY 92 west of MonticelloKY 90 east · KY 1275KY 235 / KY 761 · Nancy peninsulaKY 619KY 92 SE of JamestownBoat rampTate Ramp 2No feeMarinaConley Bottom ResortRamp + marina · feeBoat rampTate Ramp 1No fee · unpavedBoat rampMystic ViewNo fee · dockCampsiteFall CreekCorps campground · feeBoat rampOld Fall CreekNo fee · unpavedN02 miSchematic · launches at KDFWR coordinates · hollow discs are other corridors
Three numbers to get right
What you hearWhat the primary sources actually say
"Just read the USGS gauge."There isn't one. USGS 03413500 served "0 data types" on 10 Sep 2026. Live pool, releases and generation are on the Nashville District Water Management site. A link, never a level.
"Winter pool is 673."700. 673 ft is the minimum power pool, the project floor. Corps: the lake fills "from elevation 700 to 723 feet by mid-May". Flood pool 723–760. Record 751.69 ft, May 1984.
"It's 65,000 acres."50,250 at summer pool (el. 723) — Corps engineering page and KDFWR's 2026 forecast. KDFWR's database says 47,688; the Corps division page 65,530. We print 50,250 and note the rest.
What the pool does on this road
No launch on this road carries a KDFWR high-water note, but two are unpaved — Old Fall Creek and Tate Ramp 1 — and both sit in the Fall Creek cove. Read them as summer-pool launches until you have looked; that is reasoning from the shape of a reservoir, not a Corps figure. Fall Creek Recreation Area ("approximately four miles from Conley Bottom Resort") and Conley Bottom are the two any-trailerable, multi-lane ramps with a dock. KDFWR's 2026 forecast puts summer crappie in "cuts and coves on the main lake", which this road reaches directly; the named fall crappie creeks are on other roads.
The whole shoreline is Lake Cumberland WMA — 38,788 acres of Corps land overlaid by KDFWR and hunted in fall (rabbit and quail 1 Nov–31 Dec, grouse 1 Oct–31 Dec). A fall bank angler at any undeveloped ramp is standing in it. Corps shoreline rules: status pending (no order was readable). Below the dam is a different water: trout rules, its own card.
LIMESTONE DRIFT
LAKE CUMBERLAND · MONTICELLO EAST Access and limits
Six launches off KY 1275
LaunchFeeKDFWR record, in the agency's words
Fall Creek Rec. AreaYesKY 1275 then KY 2393. Any trailerable, multi-lane, dock. Corps campground, 10 waterfront sites; seasonal, Recreation.gov.
Old Fall CreekNoKY 833 N, KY 1275, Fall Creek Church-Rankin Road. Light boats, unpaved, no dock.
Tate Ramp 1NoKY 2393, C.R. 1332b (Lake Shore). Light boats, unpaved, no dock.
Tate Ramp 2NoKY 2393, "turn on Pointe Dr." Light boats, paved, no dock.
Conley Bottom ResortYesKY 1275 then KY 1765. Any trailerable, multi-lane, 51+ parking, dock, restrooms, camping year-round, marina.
Mystic ViewNoKY 3282. Light boats, paved, courtesy dock, no restrooms.
Limits — four of them differ from statewide
SpeciesSizeDaily creel
Striped bass22 in minimum2
Walleye14 in minimum (statewide)6 (statewide)
Smallmouth bass18 in minimumstatewide
Largemouth bass15 in minimumstatewide
Crappie, black and white10 in minimumstatewide
Everything else is statewide — spotted bass, white bass, catfish, sunfish, black bass and crappie creels. Lake sturgeon: "Protected Species: must be immediately released." Marina: Conley Bottom Resort. Camping: Fall Creek (Corps, "1144 New Fall Creek Road, Monticello") and Conley Bottom (private, year-round on the KDFWR record). Fish attractors: KDFWR publishes a GPX and a map; no count is stated.
Live pool: USACE Nashville District Water Management, lrn-wc.usace.army.mil (no USGS series) · Corps Resource Manager, Somerset, (606) 679-6337.
Sources: USACE Nashville District Wolf Creek Dam and Lake Cumberland pages and Public Affairs releases via DVIDS (verbatim elevations and dates); Recreation.gov campground listings; KDFWR waterbody records 98 and 186, the 62 access-site records, 2026 Fishing Forecast and WMA record; USGS 03413500.
Conditions change. Verify pool, access and regulations before you travel. Revised September 2026.
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