Lodging rentals near Stanton, Missouri

Blue Springs Ranch

142 RV Sites, 33 Cabins, 65 Tent Sites

Blue Springs Ranch in Bourbon, Missouri, offers 142 RV sites, 33 cabins, and 65 tent sites on a spring-fed Ozarks property in Crawford County, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 65 feet. A zip line, horseback riding, kayak and boat rentals, and spring-fed swimming run on site, and the ranch is open all year. One hundred forty-two sites run in back-in, water-and-electric back-in, and pull-through configurations carrying 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 65 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Thirty-three cabins and 65 tent sites make this one of the larger and more varied properties in the Missouri Ozarks. A general store, laundry, dump station, RV storage, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The spring water is the difference. Constant clear cold water feeds the creek and ponds, setting the ranch apart from the warm-water lake resorts that dominate Missouri summer camping. Swimming, kayaking, paddle boats, boating, and fishing all run from the property, with kayak and boat rentals on site, plus a zip line, horseback riding, paddle boarding, an outdoor pool, and a beach. A playground, pavilion, and barn round out the grounds, with planned activities through the season and strong birding in the surrounding timber. The ranch also operates as a wedding venue. Pets are welcome. You can reserve a cabin or campsite any time of year, and groups can be accommodated year-round with notice. Note that floating and trail rides close from October 31 through April 15 — worth checking if either is central to your trip. Summer is peak for the spring-fed water. Reserve well ahead.

Pin Oak RV Resort

144 RV Sites, 5 Cabins

Pin Oak RV Resort in Villa Ridge, Missouri, is a full-hookup resort with cabin rentals, an outdoor pool, a lake with a beach, a recreation center and mini-golf, 40 miles west of St. Louis on the historic Route 66 corridor. Sites take rigs up to 65 feet, and each site allows a maximum of eight people. Full-hookup RV sites accommodate rigs to 65 feet. Cabin rentals serve guests traveling without an RV, and personal mailboxes and on-site laundry support the longer-stay and seasonal guests the resort draws. A general store stocks camp basics, propane fills and firewood are available, and bathrooms and showers are on site. WiFi reaches the property. No wristbands are required to use the amenities; visitors pay $10 per car and check in at the office, and they are welcome to use the pool and other facilities. On-site recreation is the resort's strength. An outdoor pool and a lake with its own beach cover the swimming season, and fishing is available on the property's lake and pond. Mini-golf, a ball field, sports courts, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes and shuffleboard spread across the grounds, with an arcade, ping pong and a craft room in the recreation center for indoor days. Walking and hiking trails run the property, a playground and a covered pavilion serve families and groups, and a fenced dog park is on site. Pets are welcome. Meramec Caverns is 10 miles east in Stanton — a 4.6-mile cave system with five stories of limestone formations and the barn-billboard advertising legacy that made it Route 66's most pre-advertised roadside stop. The Meramec River sustains one of Missouri's most actively paddled float corridors, and Hermann's German-heritage wineries are 35 miles west. Pin Oak operates year-round. Spring and fall are the most comfortable seasons for Route 66 driving, cave touring and Meramec floating, and the winter months carry steady snowbird traffic using I-44 south. Reserve ahead for summer peak and for the April-to-October float season.

from $40/night

Ozark Outdoors Resort

Few Ozark destinations pack as much river adventure into a single address as Ozark Outdoors Resort, a sprawling riverfront property on the Meramec that has been welcoming families to Leasburg, Missouri, since 1960. The resort lines one and a half miles of the Meramec's scenic banks with more than 200 RV sites, motel rooms, cabins, and tent sites—enough variety to accommodate any travel style under the towering hardwoods and limestone bluffs that define this corner of Crawford County. A full roster of water-based recreation, aerial adventure, and evening dining ensures guests rarely need to leave the property once they've settled in. RV sites range from primitive to full hookup with 20/30/50-amp electrical service, water, and sewer, and a picnic table and fire ring accompany each site regardless of hookup level. Cabin options span rustic Country Log Cabins and Deluxe Kozy Cabins to motel rooms, condos, and group retreat lodging, giving the resort the flexibility to host family reunions, corporate outings, and church groups as easily as solo travelers. The Meramec Mercantile supplies camping essentials on-site, while the Paddlers Bar and Grill serves seasonal meals and cold drinks at the water's edge. Float trips on the Meramec, Courtois, and Huzzah Rivers form the beating heart of the Ozark Outdoors experience, with canoe, kayak, raft, and tube rentals available for half-day or multi-day journeys through crystalline Ozark spring-fed water. For those who prefer their adventure overhead, the Floating Treetops Aerial Park delivers 36 unique challenge elements across six ziplines suspended among the forest canopy—a course that engages first-time climbers and seasoned adventure seekers alike. Sand volleyball, horseshoes, and a swimming pool add land-based options when the river crowd thins in the late afternoon. The Meramec River corridor hosts some of Missouri's most spectacular cave country, with Onondaga Cave State Park just upstream offering guided boat and lantern tours through one of the Midwest's finest show caves. Meramec State Park, a few miles east on Highway 185, provides additional hiking trails, cave tours, and a family aquatic center popular with summer visitors. The resort's position between St. Louis—about 75 miles northeast—and the Missouri Ozarks interior makes it a natural launching point for exploring the Salem Plateau, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, and the Current River corridor to the south. Float trip season runs April through October, with June and July delivering the warmest water and the most festive atmosphere on the Meramec, when the resort's campground fills with the laughter of families who have made the Ozark Outdoors float trip an annual tradition. Spring and fall bring lower crowds, quieter campsites, and a more contemplative Ozark experience for those who prefer their river adventure without holiday weekend energy. Reservations are strongly recommended for summer weekends and holiday blocks—the combination of riverfront camping and the Floating Treetops aerial park draws visitors from across the Midwest, and popular cabin styles book months in advance.

RJM One RV

4 RV Sites

RJM One RV in Wright City, Missouri, offers spacious back-in RV sites measuring 80 by 20 feet with 30 and 50-amp water and electric service, sized for rigs to 80 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Open all year on a quiet property along the I-70 corridor between St. Louis and Columbia, with a scenic pond and community fire pit. Back-in sites carry 30 and 50-amp electric and water hookups on fully rocked pads measuring 80 by 20 feet, with picnic tables and fire rings — note there are no sewer hookups at the sites, so plan tank capacity for a longer stay. The 80-foot length and rocked surface handle big rigs comfortably in any weather. This is an intentionally small park, so call ahead rather than counting on a space. Pets are welcome. A scenic pond and a community fire pit fill the grounds, with picnicking in the surrounding forest. The proposition is a clean, well-lit, thoughtfully managed overnight from attentive owners — the sort of experience the I-70 corridor's best small independent parks deliver more personally than their larger corporate counterparts, and the reason travelers pick this over a highway travel center. Wright City sits in Warren County on I-70, roughly midway between St. Louis and Columbia, which makes it a natural stop for anyone crossing Missouri. The park operates year-round, with summer travel driving the heaviest interstate traffic and the shoulder seasons offering easier availability. Given the small site count, reserve ahead for holiday weekends and any stay you cannot flex.

from $17/night

Brushy Creek Lodge & Resort

46 RV Sites, 11 Cabins, 3 Tiny Houses

Brushy Creek Lodge & Resort in Black, MO, offers 46 full-hookup RV sites and 14 cabin and tiny house rentals, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 100 feet. Sites come in two categories, back-in 30-amp and back-in 50-amp, each carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. At 100 feet the sites take the longest coaches and horse trailers together — which matters here more than most places. A bathhouse with showers and a dump station are on the property, and pets are welcome. Military members and veterans staying more than six nights should call to apply the discount. Horses are the point. The resort backs directly into the Mark Twain National Forest trail network, connecting riders to miles of forest trail from the property, with creek frontage, horseshoes, birding, and dark-sky stargazing alongside. The lodge also hosts weddings. Black sits deep in the eastern Ozarks in Wayne County, where the national forest sweeps across forested ridges. Rates for sites and cabins are on the booking page. Trail riding weekends fill the park, so reserve ahead and mention your trailer length.

from $35/night

Deer Creek Campground

Deer Creek Campground sits on the spring-fed Black River in Lesterville, Missouri—a Reynolds County Ozark community about two hours southwest of St. Louis where the Black River's cold, clear current, high quality of water, and accessible float corridor have made it one of the premier river recreation destinations in the Missouri Ozarks. The campground's combination of RV sites, cabins, and tent camping with an in-house float trip outfitting operation makes it a genuine Ozark river camp where the water is not merely adjacent to the camping but central to the entire experience. RV sites with hookup options, cabins of various sizes, and tent sites accommodate the full range of camping preferences, with outdoor pool, playground, a large pirate ship play structure for children, volleyball court, fire rings, picnic tables, and a covered pavilion available for rental providing the on-property recreational infrastructure. A camp store handles supply needs. The campground's Black River position means that creek access is immediate—the spring-fed water characteristic of the Ozark streams maintains temperatures in the mid-60s through summer, providing the cold, refreshing float and swimming experience that distinguishes Ozark river recreation from the warmer lake swimming that characterizes most Midwest summer camping. Deer Creek is also a river outfitter, offering four- to ten-person rafts, party islands, canoes, kayaks, and tubes for a seven-mile guided floating trip on the Black River—a self-guided float through the Ozark woodland where the river's spring-fed clarity, boulder-lined pools, and gravel-bar swimming holes define a distinctly Missouri outdoor experience. The float trip returns guests to the campground via shuttle, and multiple daily launches accommodate camping guests who want to spend more of their day on the water than a single float covers. The combination of the campground's location on the float corridor and its outfitting operation makes it one of the more self-contained river camping operations in the Missouri Ozarks. The Reynolds County Ozarks are anchored by a series of Missouri state parks that collectively make the area one of the most park-dense recreational landscapes in the state: Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park, where the Black River flows through volcanic rhyolite formations creating natural rock water slides and swimming pools unique in Missouri, is the most famous. Elephant Rocks State Park, a field of billion-year-old granite boulders among the oldest exposed rock in Missouri, provides geological wonder accessible to visitors of all mobility levels on its paved trail. Sam A. Baker State Park, one of Missouri's most beloved parks, provides additional Black River access with hiking and camping in the St. François Mountains terrain. Deer Creek Campground operates through the Missouri Ozarks river season, with peak float trip demand from Memorial Day through Labor Day when the Black River's consistent spring-fed flow and moderate gradient make it accessible to all experience levels. Fall brings cooler temperatures, reduced crowds, and the hardwood foliage of the Ozark plateau in its full color display from early to mid-October, when the river's accessibility continues but the social intensity of peak summer diminishes. The campground's proximity to Johnson's Shut-Ins and the geological wonder of the Reynolds County state park cluster makes it a natural combination of river camping and state park exploration in a stretch of the Ozarks that rewards a multi-day stay.

from $33/night

Little Sinkin Creek RV Resort & UTV Campground

2 Onsite RV/Trailers

Little Sinkin Creek RV Resort & UTV Campground in Bunker, Missouri, is built entirely around off-highway vehicle recreation, offering RV rentals — the Cherokee and the Cougar — alongside full-hookup sites on a big-rig-friendly property with direct trail access. A dump station and WiFi serve riders in one of the Ozarks' most trail-rich landscapes. The two on-site RV rentals, named the Cherokee and the Cougar, let riders arrive with a trailer full of machines and no rig at all. Full-hookup sites accommodate guests bringing their own, on a layout sized for big rigs hauling UTV trailers. A dump station and WiFi handle the practical side. Pets are welcome. Trail access is the entire proposition. UTV and ATV trails run directly from the campground, which removes the trailering-out routine that most OHV trips require. Fishing, swimming, boating, canoeing, kayaking, hiking, and biking are all available in the surrounding country, and off-roading is the reason nearly everyone books. Bunker sits in Reynolds County, one of Missouri's least densely populated, in the heart of the Mark Twain National Forest. The Current River watershed, the volcanic shut-ins, and Taum Sauk Mountain — the state's highest summit — all converge within a short ride, which is why the OHV community treats this stretch of the Ozarks as a destination rather than a stop. Riding season runs spring through fall, with fall color weekends drawing the heaviest traffic. With two rentals and a small site count, reserve well ahead for any weekend.

Kaskaskia River Camping & RV Park

34 RV Sites, 7 Tent Sites

Kaskaskia River Camping and RV Park in New Athens, Illinois, offers 34 full-hookup RV sites and seven tent sites on the riverbank, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted up to 90 feet. Back-in categories at four amp combinations join pull-in and pull-through tiers, with a pavilion and direct river access. Thirty-four sites span back-in 20/30/50-amp, back-in 20/50-amp, back-in 30/50-amp, back-in 50-amp, pull-in 20/30/50-amp, and pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 90 feet. Listing the exact amp combination in every category removes any doubt about what you are plugging into, and 90 feet accommodates anything on the road with room to spare. Seven tent sites round out the lodging. A pavilion handles the practical side. The river carries the recreation, with boating, fishing, hiking, and biking all from the property. The amenity set is deliberately spare, which keeps rates low and suits a park built around the water rather than on-site programming. Pets are welcome. St. Clair County sits in the rolling agricultural country between East St. Louis and the old river towns of the American Bottom. The Kaskaskia is Illinois's second-longest river and runs navigable here, with a lock and dam system and good catfish and bass water. St. Louis is about 40 minutes northwest, which makes this a quiet base for the metro without metro pricing. Summer drives the heaviest demand, with spring and fall fishing strong and considerably easier availability. Reserve ahead for holiday weekends.

from $18/night

I-55 RV Park & Campground

20 RV Sites

I-55 RV Park & Campground in Edwardsville, Illinois, offers 20 full-hookup RV sites with water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp service, sized for rigs to 74 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, directly off I-55 at Exit 23. The combination of 74-foot capacity and immediate interstate access is the draw for travelers crossing the St. Louis metro. Twenty sites carry full hookups on 20, 30, and 50-amp in back-in and pull-through configurations, sized to 74 feet. Water, sewer, and electric run to every site. The big-rig-friendly layout means long coaches can arrive and depart without a difficult approach, and the pull-through sites let an overnight guest stop without unhitching — a practical advantage over St. Louis-area campgrounds at more complicated addresses. Pets are welcome. The park is deliberately simple, and the site itself is the amenity. There is no resort programming here; the value is a clean full-hookup site with easy on-and-off access and a quiet setting despite the highway proximity. That quiet is a design outcome rather than luck — the campground is laid out so the interstate noise and light stay off the sites. Guests wanting extensive amenities should look elsewhere; guests wanting a straightforward, well-run overnight with full hookups will find exactly that. Edwardsville sits on the Illinois side of the Mississippi in Madison County's Metro East, which gives guests the full St. Louis day-trip range without Missouri-side pricing and weekend availability pressure. Cahokia Mounds, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the most significant prehistoric archaeological site in North America, is five miles south. The Gateway Arch, the nationally ranked museums, Cardinals baseball, Blues hockey, St. Louis City soccer, World Wide Technology Raceway, and area college campuses are all within easy reach. The park operates year-round on the I-55 corridor. Event weekends in St. Louis and summer travel drive the heaviest demand — with 20 sites, reserve ahead when a major game or race is scheduled.

from $63/night

Perryville RV Resort

73 RV Sites, 8 Cabins

Perryville RV Resort in Perryville, MO, offers 73 full-hookup pull-thru RV sites and 8 cabins, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 63 feet. Sites come as 30-amp and 30/50-amp pull-thrus in standard and premium versions, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. Every site is a pull-thru. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, propane fills and exchange, a dump station, and one-bedroom deluxe cabins cover the rest. Wristbands are used on major holidays and for big events — check when you book. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. An outdoor pool, a pavilion, a playground, basketball, walking trails, a pond, and a lake fill the grounds, with fishing, swimming, and hiking. A state park is nearby. Perryville sits in the Mississippi River bluffs region of southeast Missouri, a historically layered corridor where French colonial settlement, Cherokee removal history, and river commerce have all left their marks. Rates by site category are on the booking page. Premium 30/50-amp pull-thrus book first.

from $48/night

Broken Arrow Campground

36 RV Sites

Broken Arrow Campground in Eminence, Missouri, offers 36 full-hookup RV sites in the heart of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 70 feet. Double pull-through and amperage-specific pull-through categories mean no backing at any site, with river frontage and a beach. Thirty-six sites run in double pull-thru, pull-thru 30-amp, and pull-thru 50-amp categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 70 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The double pull-through accommodates two rigs traveling together, and 70 feet handles a long coach with a tow. An all-pull-through layout means no backing at any site. Restrooms handle the practical side. A river runs the property with a beach for swimming. The amenity set is deliberately minimal, and here that is the point — guests come for the water, not for programming. Pets are welcome. The Ozark National Scenic Riverways is one of the most naturally spectacular regions in the American Midwest and the first national park area established to protect a river system. Crystalline spring-fed water winds through limestone bluffs and hardwood forest in a landscape that has changed remarkably little. The Current and Jacks Fork Rivers are the main draws for float trips, Alley Spring's historic mill and Round Spring are close, and Big Spring pushes 286 million gallons a day. Summer float season drives the heaviest demand, with spring and fall offering cooler water and far easier availability. Reserve well ahead for June through August.

from $12/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