Where to Stay: Hotels & Lodging Near Elizabethtown Sports Park
The hotel corridor explained, extended-stay options built for tournament families, team-block tips, and an RV-and-cabin alternative 10 miles from the park.
Booking for a tournament at Elizabethtown Sports Park? Here is the lay of the land from the locals: Elizabethtown's hotels cluster in one main corridor along North Mulberry Street and Commerce Drive at I-65, roughly a 10-minute drive from the park, with more options along North Dixie Highway. On big tournament weekends the whole corridor books up, so reserve as early as your bracket allows.
The Hotel Corridor
Most national brands sit within a mile or two of each other, which makes team blocks easy to coordinate. Names you will find in the corridor include:
- Home2 Suites — the corridor's newer extended-stay option, and one that local business watchers noted was built with Sports Park travel in mind: rooms with kitchenettes and guest laundry suit a 4-day tournament stay.
- Holiday Inn Express & Suites Elizabethtown North — indoor pool, breakfast included. Hotel page.
- Hampton Inn Elizabethtown, Country Inn & Suites, Comfort Suites, and La Quinta Inn & Suites (Commerce Dr) round out the mid-range cluster.
That is not the complete list; the Elizabethtown Tourism bureau keeps a full lodging directory at touretown.com/stay.
Booking as a Team
If your tournament organizer offers a housing or "stay-to-play" program, book through it; the Sports Park's event listings at etownsports.com note event-specific lodging details where they exist. For independent blocks, call hotels directly and ask for the group desk; the corridor hotels handle sports groups every weekend all summer.
The RV & Cabin Option
- The Getaway, Glendale Campground (4566 Sportsman Lake Rd) — a family-run 30-acre campground about 10 miles from the Sports Park, just off I-65: full-hookup RV sites, rental cabins, a seasonal pool, fishing pond, playground, and on-site laundry. For families who would rather grill at a picnic table than eat hotel breakfast for four days. getawaycampgrounds.com
Local Booking Tips
- Book the moment your schedule posts. Sports Park event weekends fill the corridor, and summer weekends stack tournaments back to back; the park's event calendar shows you exactly which weekends will be crowded.
- Extended-stay pays off past two nights — kitchenette breakfasts save real money against six restaurant meals a day for a family of five.
- Staying in Radcliff or Glendale is viable. Both are 15 to 20 minutes out and sometimes have rooms when Elizabethtown is sold out.
