Otter Creek Park is one step closer to being owned by Meade County

Otter Creek Park is one step closer to being back in the hands of Meade County again for the first time since 1934. At the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission’s May meeting this past week, the commission voted to transfer the deed for the property to the Meade County Fiscal Court. The 2,261 acre park in Meade County was founded in 1934 by the National Park Service as a recreational area for residents in Louisville. In 2011, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife took over operation of the property. The Meade County Fiscal Court formed a partnership with KDFWR in 2024 to operate the campground at Otter Creek Park. Now, the Fiscal Court will now vote at their regularly scheduled June meeting to accept the deed transfer and assume management of the entire Otter Creek Park property with the exception of 40 acres which KDFWR will continue to operate around and including the gun and archery ranges. The park offers not only the campground but also walking, biking and horse trails, disc golf course, hunting and fishing opportunities and a YMCA camp. When the city of Louisville oversaw the park in years past, there was also a nature center, swimming pool, restaurant, lodging and dock access to the Ohio River at the park, but many of those facilities are either gone or in a state of disrepair.