RV Camping near Ottawa, Kansas

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

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

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

Arrowhead Point RV Park & Cabins Campground

Arrowhead Point RV Park and Cabins in Osceola, Missouri, occupies a shore position on Harry S Truman Reservoir — the 55,600-acre Corps of Engineers lake on the Osage River in St. Clair County that serves as the primary water recreation destination for the southwest Missouri region between Kansas City and Springfield. The park's catch-and-release pond, pull-through full-hookup RV sites with high-speed Wi-Fi, cabin accommodations, and on-site paddleboard and billiards programming give guests a self-contained lakeside resort experience in a corner of Missouri that rewards those who find it with genuine lake recreation access, reasonable pricing, and the uncrowded atmosphere that a Truman Lake location tends to deliver compared to the more heavily trafficked Lake of the Ozarks to the northeast. Spacious pull-through full-hookup RV sites with high-speed Wi-Fi give the campground the practical infrastructure for comfortable extended stays, and the cabin rentals serve guests who want Truman Lake access without their own RV equipment. The catch-and-release pond provides an on-site fishing option for guests who want to wet a line within walking distance of their site, and paddleboarding on the pond offers water recreation without the boat launch logistics that the main reservoir access requires. The billiards room handles evening recreation when the lake-focused outdoor programming winds down. Pets are welcome. Harry S Truman Reservoir's 958 miles of shoreline through the Ozark border country of St. Clair, Benton, and Henry Counties provides a water recreation environment of substantial scale — bass fishing on Truman Lake, particularly largemouth and white bass, sustains a regional tournament fishing culture that draws competitive anglers from across Missouri and Kansas. The lake's size and relatively undeveloped shoreline character give fishing, water skiing, and cruising guests the uncrowded conditions that the smaller but more famous Lake of the Ozarks cannot consistently provide during peak summer seasons. Osceola's historic downtown, on the banks of the Osage River above the reservoir, preserves the character of a 19th-century Missouri river town with a courthouse square and the kind of settled small-city retail and dining environment that genuine lake communities — rather than purpose-built resort towns — develop organically over generations. The Harry S Truman State Park, on the reservoir's northeast arm, provides the primary Corps of Engineers managed public recreation area with boat launches, designated swimming areas, and developed campground facilities that complement the private resort experience at Arrowhead Point with public land access to the lake's best coves. Arrowhead Point RV Park and Cabins operates through the Truman Lake recreation season, with the primary water recreation window running from late May through Labor Day and the fishing season extending spring and fall with excellent bass activity during the pre-spawn and fall turnover periods that Missouri reservoir anglers specifically target. The Stockton Lake area to the southeast and the Pomme de Terre Lake to the east extend the southwest Missouri lake country day-trip range for guests interested in exploring the full Ozark lake system from an Osceola base. Reserve sites and cabins ahead for the Memorial Day weekend and summer holiday periods when Truman Lake's regional visitor market from the Kansas City and Springfield metros fills the available accommodation at lakeside properties.

from $33 $29/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

Mimosa Place RV

Mimosa Place RV in Warsaw, Missouri, provides a friendly, well-positioned base in the heart of Missouri's Ozarks lake country, putting guests within easy reach of two of the state's most popular recreational reservoirs and a collection of regional historic sites that reflect the rich layering of frontier settlement, presidential history, and Ozark cultural heritage concentrated in Benton County and the surrounding area. Warsaw's position at the confluence of multiple major water bodies makes it a natural hub for campers whose priorities center on fishing, boating, and quiet immersion in Missouri's interior landscape. The park offers full hookup sites with water, electric, and sewer connections, along with an on-site laundry facility that addresses the practical needs of extended-stay guests and through-travelers heading deeper into the Ozarks. Cabin rental options are available for guests who prefer enclosed accommodations, and the park's compact, independently operated character creates the kind of welcoming, small-town atmosphere that distinguishes family-run Missouri campgrounds from larger branded operations. The proprietors' familiarity with local fishing conditions, lake access points, and seasonal events is itself a resource that guests frequently cite as adding genuine value to their stay. The Ozark Plateau landscape surrounding Warsaw is defined by dense oak-hickory forest, spring-fed streams, and the dramatic impoundments created by twentieth-century dam construction that transformed the Osage River watershed into some of the Midwest's most productive recreational fishing water. The town sits at a geographic crossroads between Harry S Truman Lake to the east and south and the upper arms of Lake of the Ozarks to the west, placing guests within reach of thousands of acres of public fishing water managed jointly by Missouri Department of Conservation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Lake of the Ozarks—formed by Bagnell Dam in 1931—stretches across Benton, Morgan, Camden, and Miller counties with 1,150 miles of shoreline, making it one of the longest man-made lake shorelines in the United States and a destination for bass fishing, waterskiing, pontoon boating, and lakeside resort culture that draws millions of visitors annually. Harry S Truman Lake, quieter and less developed than its neighbor, provides excellent walleye, crappie, and white bass fishing along with public boat ramps maintained by the Corps. Harry S Truman's birthplace site in Lamar to the southwest and the elaborate Victorian-era Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site near Sedalia—a stone hunting lodge and estate surrounded by Pettis County prairie—add historical depth to the regional itinerary. Mimosa Place RV operates year-round, with the fishing and boating season from May through September representing peak demand and occupancy. Fall hunting seasons bring a secondary wave of visitors seeking access to the Ozark hardwood forests' white-tailed deer and turkey populations, and the cooler temperatures of September and October make for particularly pleasant camping conditions. The park's affordable rates, central lake country location, and friendly ownership make it a well-regarded choice for guests who return season after season to explore Missouri's Ozark interior at their own relaxed pace.

Sidetrack RV Park

27 RV Sites

Sidetrack RV Park in Wheatland, Missouri, offers 27 full-hookup RV sites with water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp service, in back-in configurations sized for rigs to 55 feet. Restrooms are on site. This is a straightforward, no-frills park in Hickory County's Ozark border country, and it is priced and equipped accordingly. Twenty-seven back-in sites carry full hookups with 30 and 50-amp service, taking rigs to 55 feet. Restroom facilities are available. Guests looking for resort programming should look elsewhere; guests who want a clean, functional site with full hookups and easy access will find exactly that. Pets are welcome. The park's value is its position rather than its amenities. Wheatland sits on the Highway 83 corridor between Kansas City and Springfield, in the transitional country where the intensively farmed Osage Plain gives way to the wooded limestone hills of the Ozark Highland. Truman Lake and the Lake of the Ozarks are the region's main draws, with fishing, boating, and Ozark hill-country hiking within easy reach. The surrounding rural landscape has kept its character through low population density and modest development pressure, which is much of the appeal for guests who come back. The park serves travelers, workers, and outdoor recreation visitors passing through central Missouri year-round. Summer lake season brings the heaviest demand, though the small site count means availability can tighten at short notice in any season.

from $60/night

Lucas Oil Speedway

23 RV Sites

Lucas Oil Speedway and Lake Lucas boast 40 acres of rolling campgrounds. Both wooded and open-air spots are abundant. An onsite shower house, water and electric hookups, dump station fishing ponds and hiking trails are all enclosed in the scenic campground. Coming Soon: Pavilion that will include games and more. There are 74 RV spots available with power and water, 5 spots with power only and 36 Reserve Dry spots for each event as well as many acres of open dry camping for both RV and Tent Camping. On Lake Lucas there are 38 RV spots on the south side of the track. The Lucas Oil Speedway is considered by industry insiders to be one of the top five race tracks in the nation. Located in Wheatland Missouri, about an hour North of Springfield and only about an hour and a half from Kansas City. Referred to by many as "The Diamond of Race Tracks", it certainly lives up to that title.

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.

Big Red Barn RV Park

Big Red Barn RV Park in Carthage, Missouri, occupies a quiet position near Historic Route 66 in one of southwestern Missouri's most historically significant and architecturally distinctive communities, providing spacious full hookup accommodations away from the noise of interstate highways while maintaining convenient proximity to Carthage's Victorian commercial district and the Route 66 corridor that runs through town. The park's name reflects its visual anchor—a classic American red barn that sets the agricultural and rural Missouri tone for a property that prioritizes genuine tranquility over resort-scale programming. The park's full hookup sites offer water, electric, and sewer connections with ample spacing between pads that gives guests the sense of room and privacy uncommon at higher-density urban campgrounds. On-site amenities include a game room for evening entertainment, a library for guests who prefer quiet reading to organized activities, a dog park for traveling pets, a community fire pit for social gatherings, and a boutique shop for incidentals. A dump station serves travelers who need waste services, and the laundry facility addresses extended-stay needs, while the park's proximity to Carthage's restaurants and shopping reduces the need for extensive on-site food service. Carthage's landscape is the rolling Ozark Plateau transition country of Jasper County, where the Springfield Plateau's limestone terrain creates the gentle, forested hills and spring-fed streams that characterize the Ozarks' western edge. The Spring River drainage to the south provides fishing and canoe recreation, and the surrounding countryside's agricultural character—cattle operations, hay production, and the occasional vineyard—creates a pastoral setting that complements the park's rural personality. The town itself sits at the intersection of US-71 and Route 66, a crossroads that gave it commercial significance across multiple eras of American transportation history. Carthage's celebrated Victorian downtown is anchored by the 1895 Jasper County Courthouse—a massively scaled Romanesque limestone structure recognized among Missouri's finest courthouse buildings—and surrounded by the kind of independent restaurants, antique dealers, and specialty shops that distinguish an authentic small-town commercial district from the chain-store uniformity of larger suburban communities. The Route 66 heritage is tangible throughout the city, with the beautifully restored Boots Court Motel serving as a particularly evocative example of the mid-century motor court architecture that defined roadside hospitality along the Mother Road. The Battle of Carthage State Historic Site commemorates Missouri's first Civil War land battle in the summer of 1861. Big Red Barn RV Park operates year-round in southwestern Missouri's moderate four-season climate, with spring and fall representing the most comfortable outdoor seasons and summer drawing guests whose Carthage visits center on the city's commercial attractions and Route 66 exploration rather than outdoor recreation. The park's deliberate quiet—positioned away from freeway and rail corridor noise—serves guests who arrive exhausted from long highway days and value the restorative combination of reliable hookups, a community fire pit, and a genuinely peaceful night's sleep. For travelers on Route 66 or in the Ozarks' western tier, Big Red Barn's combination of value, space, and tranquility makes it a practical and appealing stop in Carthage.

from $32/night

Ballards Campground & RV Park

48 RV Sites, 4 Tent Sites

Ballards Campground & RV Park in Carthage, Missouri, offers 48 full-hookup RV sites and four tent sites on the Route 66 corridor, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 80 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Signature and standard back-in categories sit on level pads, with a hot tub, storm shelter, and pond on a quiet wooded property. Forty-eight back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp in signature and standard categories, sized to 80 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Four tent sites and cabins round out the accommodations. A general store, propane fills, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, firewood, and site WiFi handle the practical side. A storm shelter on the property is a genuinely practical feature in southwest Missouri. A hot tub and sauna anchor the on-site amenities, with a pond for fishing, sports courts, a playground, dog park, and picnicking areas across the wooded grounds. The level pads are worth noting — they remove the setup hassle that uneven sites create on an overnight stop. Pets are welcome. Carthage sits in Jasper County at the crossroads of southwest Missouri, on both the I-44 and Route 66 corridors. The town's historic downtown, Civil War battlefield sites, and proximity to Joplin's regional services give it more destination character than the highway corridor's campground inventory usually acknowledges, and the Ozark border country and Four State region's outdoor recreation are within reach. The campground serves both through-travelers and longer stays year-round. Summer Route 66 travel is the peak — reserve ahead.

from $25/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