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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

Lennies River Retreat

1 RV Site

Lennies River Retreat in Saint Joseph, MO, offers 1 RV site with 30 and 50-amp service and room for a rig up to 35 feet. The site is a back-in carrying water and sewer with site-delivered WiFi; confirm the electrical connection details with the retreat when you book. The property is rated big rig friendly within its 35-foot limit. This is a 55+ retreat and explicitly LGBTIQA+ friendly. Laundry, a dump station, and a community fire pit are on site, with a cabin available as well. Pets are welcome. The retreat spans ten acres directly on the Missouri River at 3011 SW Lakefront Lane, with the water close enough to hear from the site. An outdoor pool, a boat ramp, and river access support fishing, boating, kayaking, swimming, hiking, biking, and birding, with golf and wine tasting nearby. Saint Joseph sits on one of the great rivers of American history, in northwest Missouri. Rates are on the booking page. With a single site, contact the retreat directly to check dates and confirm the 55+ requirement.

from $40/night

Owl Creek Market & RV Park

74 RV Sites

Owl Creek Market and RV Park in Odessa, Missouri, offers 74 full-hookup RV sites at the I-70 exit, with 30 and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted up to 140 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout — the most generous length allowance in this batch. Concrete and gravel back-in and pull-through categories are listed separately, with an outdoor pool, playground, and a specialty market. Seventy-four sites span concrete back-in full hookup, concrete pull-through full hookup, gravel back-in full hookup, and gravel pull-through full hookup categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 140 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Publishing the surface by category is genuinely useful, and 140 feet accommodates anything on the road with room left over. Accessible sites are available. A laundry, restrooms, showers, and a snack bar handle the practical side. The market is what sets this park apart from every other highway stop on I-70. The store carries more than 100 varieties of artisan cheese alongside selected meats, wine, Dutch-style foods and spices, jarred goods, and chocolates — a specialty grocery that happens to be the campground store rather than the other way around. An outdoor pool, playground, horseshoes, a creek, and picnicking fill the rest, with wine and beer tasting nearby. Pets are welcome. Odessa sits in Lafayette County 35 minutes east of Kansas City. Demand tracks interstate traffic and Kansas City events rather than a season. Spring and fall are most comfortable. Reserve ahead for holiday travel periods.

from $45/night

Oregon Trail RV Park - Westmoreland

5 RV Sites

Oregon Trail RV Park in Westmoreland, Kansas, offers full-hookup RV sites with 50-amp service on a big-rig-friendly layout in the Pottawatomie County countryside, with sites sized to 45 feet and fire pits throughout. Back-in water-and-electric, full-hookup back-in, and pull-through configurations are all available, along with a playground, pavilion, and dog park. Sites run in back-in water-and-electric, back-in full-hookup with sewer, and pull-through water-and-electric configurations, all carrying 50-amp service and sized to 45 feet, with fire pits. The big-rig-friendly layout accommodates larger coaches, and a dump station serves guests on partial hookups. Restrooms, showers, and WiFi handle the practical side. Note that site inventory here is small — confirm availability rather than arriving on spec. On-site amenities suit families and longer stops. A playground and pavilion anchor the grounds, a dog park gives pets their own space, and volleyball and swimming fill out the recreation. The small scale is the character of the place, and the surrounding Flint Hills countryside is quiet in a way that larger highway parks are not. Pets are welcome. Westmoreland sits on Rock Creek in the rolling Flint Hills transition country of northeastern Kansas, along the historic Oregon Trail corridor. Roughly 500,000 emigrants crossed this prairie between 1840 and 1869 on the overland migration that populated Oregon, California, and Utah, and the landscape between the Kaw River valley and the Platte corridor remains relatively unchanged. The park serves both brief stopovers on the northeastern Kansas highway network and longer countryside stays. Summer brings the heaviest travel demand — reserve ahead.

from $25/night

Acorns Resort

16 RV Sites, 4 Cabins

Acorns Resort in Milford, Kansas, offers 16 full-hookup RV sites and four cabins on Milford Lake, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 30 feet. Back-in and pull-through categories join a boat ramp, beach, fishing pier, outdoor pool, and kayak rentals. Sixteen sites run in back-in and pull-through categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 30 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. One thing to check carefully before booking: the 30-foot cap is genuinely restrictive and rules out most modern coaches, so this suits vans, small trailers, and truck campers. Four cabins round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. A boat ramp, boat docks, boat rentals, and kayak rentals open the lake for boating, paddle boats, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and fishing, with a beach and fishing pier on the property. An outdoor pool, recreation center, walking trails, hiking, corn hole, and on-site dining fill the rest, with planned activities through the season and a golf course nearby. The property operates as a wedding venue. Milford Lake is Kansas's largest body of water at more than 15,000 surface acres, and the cedar and oak canopy shading the grounds gives Acorns a genuinely wooded character that is uncommon on the Plains. The Milford Nature Center and fish hatchery are close, with Fort Riley and Manhattan a short drive east. Summer lake season drives the heaviest demand. Reserve well ahead for June through August, and check your rig against the 30-foot limit.

from $30/night

Lakeside Casino Resort RV Park

38 RV Sites

Lakeside Casino Resort RV Park in Osceola, Iowa, offers 38 pull-through RV sites steps from the casino, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 60 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. A single 30/50-amp pull-through category means no backing at any site, with a lake, outdoor pool, fitness center, and on-site dining. Thirty-eight sites are pull-through throughout, carrying water, sewer, cable TV, and site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with picnic tables. One consistent spec and no guesswork. A general store, dump station, restrooms, showers, and a business center handle the practical side. Two seasonal notes worth planning around: the main water is shut off for the winter beginning December 1, with potable water available at the north end of the park, and in severe weather or a tornado warning guests should seek shelter as directed on arrival. An outdoor pool and fitness center anchor the property, with a lake supporting boating, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, and swimming, plus hiking and on-site dining. The casino sits immediately adjacent. Pets are welcome. The casino adjacency is the whole proposition — a full-hookup RV park where the gaming floor, restaurants, and entertainment are a walk rather than a drive, which is a genuinely uncommon combination in Iowa. Clarke County sits on I-35 about 45 minutes south of Des Moines, which also makes this a practical interstate stop. Demand runs year-round on casino traffic rather than a tourist season, with summer the peak. Reserve ahead for event weekends, and plan around the winter water shutoff.

from $45/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

Laketime RV Campground

126 RV Sites

Laketime RV Campground in Osage Beach, Missouri, offers 126 full-hookup RV sites on Lake of the Ozarks, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 50 feet behind a gated entrance, open all year. Categories publish their exact length — 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, and 31 feet and up — alongside prime view sites, a boat ramp, boat docks, and private sand beaches. One hundred twenty-six back-in sites run in premium categories sized at 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, and 31 feet, plus a 26-foot prime view tier, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Publishing length by the foot removes every guess about fit — you know exactly what you are booking before you tow in. Accessible sites are available. A public boat launch with dock facilities and private sand swim beaches put the lake literally at your feet, with boating, swimming, and picnicking on site. A pavilion fills out the grounds, and a golf course and water park are nearby. Pets are welcome. Directions: Highway 54 to State Highway KK, northwest on KK to Duenke Drive / Walker's Cay Drive, in through the Margaritaville entrance, past the horse stables and left onto Gantner Ramp Road. Osage Beach's restaurants, pool bars, spas, and lakeside shopping are three minutes away, on a lake with 1,150 miles of shoreline. Summer lake season drives the heaviest demand and fills the corridor. Reserve well ahead for Memorial Day through Labor Day.

from $49/night

Ozarks Landing RV Resort

74 RV Sites, 12 Tent Sites

Ozarks Landing RV Resort in Lake Ozark, Missouri, offers 74 full-hookup RV sites and 12 tent sites directly on Lake of the Ozarks, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet. Dedicated fishing pond back-in spots at both amperages join deluxe, premium, and standard categories, with boat docks, a boat ramp, and fishing pier. Seventy-four sites span back-in 30-amp, back-in 50-amp, deluxe back-in 50-amp, premium, fishing pond back-in 30-amp, and fishing pond back-in 50-amp categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet. The fishing pond categories put you on the water at the site, which is exactly what most guests here are after. Twelve tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, restrooms, showers, and RV storage handle the practical side. Boat docks, a boat ramp, and a fishing pier give direct lake access for boating and fishing, with an outdoor pool, pond, and playground filling the rest. Pets are welcome. Lake of the Ozarks has 1,150 miles of shoreline — more than the entire California coastline — which makes it the most extensively developed recreational lake in the Midwest and the center of Missouri's most commercially active resort economy. Bagnell Dam, the Grand Glaize arm, and the lake's restaurant and marina infrastructure are all close. Summer lake season drives the heaviest demand and fills the corridor. Reserve well ahead for Memorial Day through Labor Day, with far easier availability in the spring and fall.

from $26/night

Fishing Tales Resort

11 RV Sites

Fishing Tales Resort in Lebanon, Missouri, provides a cabin and full hookup RV resort experience in Laclede County's Ozark hill country just miles from Bennett Spring State Park, where one of Missouri's most beloved spring-fed trout fisheries draws dedicated fly fishers and trout stocking enthusiasts to the Niangua River corridor in the heart of the Ozark Plateau. The resort's strategic position in the Bennett Spring fishing community serves the dedicated angling visitors whose Lebanon-area stays are structured around the daily hatchery-release fishing at Bennett Spring alongside the broader Ozark outdoor recreation landscape of rivers, state parks, and the clear-sky stargazing that remote Laclede County's low light pollution makes genuinely spectacular. The resort's amenity package serves both fishing-focused and broader outdoor recreation visitors: cabin rentals for enclosed group accommodation, full hookup RV sites, an outdoor pool, hot tub and sauna for post-fishing relaxation, general store for tackle and essential supplies, laundry, showers, playground, and Wi-Fi provide the complete infrastructure for extended angling and outdoor recreation stays. River and stream access through the property connects guests directly to the Ozark waterway system that defines the region's recreational character, and the stargazing enabled by Laclede County's distance from major metropolitan light pollution creates evening recreation of genuine quality alongside the basketball court's daytime social activity. The bird and wildlife watching in the surrounding Ozark woodland adds naturalist appeal to the fishing-centered itinerary. Bennett Spring State Park, approximately 12 miles west of Lebanon via MO-64, is one of Missouri's most intensively visited fishing destinations and the site of Missouri's annual opening trout season on the first Thursday of March—a cultural tradition in which thousands of anglers gather at the spring before dawn to participate in the season's first stocking release in a communal fishing event unique in the American fishing calendar. The park's crystal-clear spring, discharging an average of 100 million gallons of cold water daily at a constant 56 degrees, creates a year-round trout habitat in a natural spring branch of exceptional clarity and beauty that has been Missouri's most popular trout fishing site for over a century. The Gasconade River, Missouri's most consistently productive float fishing stream for smallmouth bass, flows through Laclede County and the surrounding Ozark counties in a clear-water float corridor that canoe outfitters have served from the Bennett Spring area since the mid-twentieth century development of float fishing as the Ozarks' dominant recreational water activity. Lake of the Ozarks, approximately 25 miles northeast of Lebanon, provides the Ozarks' largest reservoir with marinas, boat rentals, and the entertainment infrastructure of the Lake of the Ozarks community that supplements the Lebanon area's natural outdoor recreation with commercial lake resort amenities. Fishing Tales Resort operates year-round in Laclede County's Ozark climate, with the Bennett Spring trout season from March 1 through October 31 driving the most intense fishing-related demand and the March 1 opening day creating the resort's single most anticipated reservation window of the entire year. Summer's warm Ozark temperatures make the pool and hot tub the most popular on-property recreation, and fall's foliage season in October transforms the Ozark ridges surrounding Lebanon into a hardwood color display that extends the resort's appeal beyond the dedicated fishing community to the broader Ozark outdoor recreation visitors who follow the season's color progression south from Missouri's northern counties.

from $50/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.

Timberline RV Campground

158 RV Sites, 10 Cabins, 7 Tent Sites

Timberline RV Campground in Waukee, Iowa, offers 158 RV sites, 10 cabins, and seven tent sites a mile and a half from I-80, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 70 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Full hookup and water-and-electric categories join a pool, jumping pillow, and pond, open all year. One hundred fifty-eight sites run in full hookup and water-and-electric categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 70 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Accessible sites are available. Ten cabins and seven tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, firewood, and recycling handle the practical side. If the office is closed when you arrive, call 515-987-1714 ahead and they will make arrangements. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a jumping pillow, recreation center, arcade, billiards, ping pong, sports courts, and volleyball filling the grounds. A pond supports fishing, with a playground, dog park, and community fire pit besides. Pets are welcome. The owners describe it as country camping with city convenience, and the geography backs that up — shaded sites in genuine Dallas County countryside, a mile and a half from the interstate and minutes from West Des Moines. Summer is the peak, with the interstate position bringing steady through-traffic year-round. Reserve ahead for summer weekends.

from $39/night