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Basswood Resort

57 RV Sites, 5 Tent Sites

Basswood Resort in Platte City, Missouri, offers 57 full-hookup RV sites and five tent sites 30 minutes from downtown Kansas City, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 85 feet. Deluxe, premium, and standard back-in and pull-through categories join an outdoor pool, disc golf course, jumping pillow, and lake. Fifty-seven sites span standard back-in 20/30/50-amp, standard pull-thru 20/30/50-amp, standard, deluxe back-in, deluxe pull-thru, and premium back-in categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 85 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Eighty-five feet accommodates the longest coaches with a tow. Five tent sites, cabins, and trailer rentals round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, showers, and golf cart rentals handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a disc golf course, jumping pillow, fitness center, clubhouse, gaga ball, pickleball, basketball, shuffleboard, horseshoes, corn hole, walking trails, hiking, a lake, playground, and dog park filling the rest. Fishing and planned activities round it out, with a golf course, casino, and amusement park nearby. Platte County feels genuinely rural — livestock pastures, creek valleys, and Missouri hardwood forest — while keeping Kansas City's barbecue, jazz history, and professional sports 30 minutes away. Kansas City International Airport is close, which makes this practical for fly-in guests picking up a rig. Summer drives the heaviest demand, with spring and fall the most comfortable months. Reserve well ahead for warm-weather weekends and Kansas City event dates.

from $43/night

Coconuts RV Resort

39 RV Sites, 5 Houses

Coconuts RV Resort in Gravois Mills, Missouri, is an adults-only property offering 39 full-hookup back-in RV sites and five houses on the Gravois Arm of Lake of the Ozarks, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet behind a gated entrance. Poolside and premium lakeview categories join a standard tier, with a swim-up bar, water park, splash pad, and marina. Thirty-nine back-in sites run in poolside, premium lakeview, and standard categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 50 feet. Naming categories poolside and lakeview tells you exactly where you will be. Five houses round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, showers, and golf cart rentals handle the practical side. One thing to know before booking: this is an adults-only resort, which is precisely why most guests choose it. The swim-up bar at the adult pool is the signature, with a water park, splash pad, beach, and marina alongside. Boat rentals open the lake for boating, water sports, and swimming, with a fitness center, sports courts, pickleball, biking, a playground, dog park, pavilion, and live music at Coconuts Bar and Grill filling the rest. The property sits at the 7-mile mark of the Gravois Arm, and it has built one of the most genuinely resort-oriented lakefront campground experiences in the Midwest — closer in feel to a Caribbean-styled beach club than a campground. Summer lake season drives demand hard. Reserve well ahead for Memorial Day through Labor Day.

from $39/night

Camp Mi Casa on the Route RV Park

51 RV Sites

Camp Mi Casa on the Route RV Park in Carthage, Missouri, offers 51 full-hookup RV sites directly on Historic Route 66, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Back-in, pull-through, and premium pull-through categories sit alongside an outdoor pool, pickleball courts, and a beach, minutes from Carthage's Victorian square. Fifty-one sites run in back-in, pull-through, and premium pull-through configurations, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 50 feet. Laundry, restrooms, showers, and a pavilion handle the practical side. The layout prioritizes the social character that makes Route 66 campgrounds distinctive — travelers comparing notes and planning the next day's drive over evening fires. Pets are welcome. An outdoor pool and beach anchor the warm months, with pickleball courts and swimming filling the rest. A golf course is nearby. The amenity set is practical rather than elaborate, which suits a park where most guests are moving through on a route rather than settling in for a week. Carthage sits on one of the Mother Road's most authentic and well-preserved stretches, and the town's Victorian commercial square is minutes from the park. The property serves both dedicated Route 66 travelers making the full pilgrimage and visitors who find the city en route to somewhere else. Directions from Springfield: continue on West I-44 to Carthage Exit 18B/I-49 North, north on I-49 to Exit 53 for Webb City/Central Avenue, left toward Webb City heading west on Highway 171, then the second exit at Brooklyn Heights and left at the end. Summer Route 66 travel is the peak — reserve ahead.

Hickory Haven Campground

50 Tent Sites

Hickory Haven Campground near Keokuk, Iowa, offers full-hookup RV camping and 50 tent sites across 27 shaded acres, with EV charging, a general store, laundry, pond, walking trails, and pickleball. The property has built a devoted following since 1993 at the confluence of the Des Moines and Mississippi Rivers. RV sites carry full hookups. Contact the campground to confirm amp service, length limits, and current category availability for your rig — the published site records are incomplete. Fifty tent sites make this substantially a tent property. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, firewood, and EV charging handle the practical side — charging is still uncommon at campgrounds this size and worth knowing about if you tow with an electric vehicle. Ask about the Loyalty Club discount when you arrive. A pond supports fishing, with walking trails, hiking, a playground, pavilion, community fire pit, dog park, pickleball, corn hole, and genuinely good stargazing filling the rest. Planned activities run through the season. Pets are welcome. Twenty-seven shaded acres and more than thirty years under the same devoted following is the kind of continuity that says more than a feature list. Keokuk sits at Iowa's southeastern tip where the Des Moines River meets the Mississippi — one of the most historically significant confluences on the inland waterway. The Keokuk Lock and Dam is among the largest on the river, the eagle watching each January draws crowds, and the George M. Verity River Museum and the National Cemetery are both in town. Nauvoo, Illinois, and Mark Twain's Hannibal are within reach. Summer drives demand, with the January eagle season a distinct second wave. Reserve ahead for holiday weekends.

from $25/night

Bell RV Village

39 RV Sites

Bell RV Village in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, offers 39 full-hookup pull-through RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 74 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout just off US-75. Every site is pull-through, which makes this a genuinely easy overnight, with a clubhouse, dog park, pond, and pickleball on a new property. Thirty-nine pull-through sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 74 feet. Pulling through means no backing after a long drive and no unhitching for a single night. Laundry, a dump station, and restrooms handle the practical side. On-site recreation is better than the site count suggests. A clubhouse and pavilion host gatherings, pickleball courts and horseshoes cover active recreation, and a pond on the property supports fishing. Walking trails, a playground, a dog park, and a community fire pit fill the rest of the grounds, with planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Bartlesville sits in Washington County on US-75 between Tulsa and Coffeyville. Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower stands here — the only realized skyscraper from Wright's "living city" vision — and the Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve holds one of the most significant collections of Western American art and Native American artifacts in the region, on the former Frank Phillips ranch. Traveling south from Kansas City, take US-169 south for about three hours to Independence, Kansas, then US-75 south; the park is just off Highway 75 north of Bartlesville. The park operates year-round on the northeastern Oklahoma corridor. Reserve ahead for Bartlesville event weekends and peak summer travel.

from $33/night