Established Camping
Hootentown Canoe Rental & Campground
About
Hootentown Canoe Rental & Campground has been in business since 1993 and has always focused on building a family-friendly environment for everyone. We are family-owned and operated and do our best to provide the best experience possible. We now offer online booking and mapping of our campground to better serve you.
Location
Hootentown Canoe Rental & Campground is located in Missouri
Address
1254 Hootentown Rd
Crane, MO
Coordinates
36.93834211298679 N
93.381905605611 W
Access
- Drive-InPark next to your site
- Walk-InPark in a lot, walk to your site.
- Boat-InSites accessible by watercraft.
Stay Connected
- WiFiAvailable
- VerizonAvailable
- AT&TUnknown
- T-MobileUnknown
Site Types
- Tent Sites
- RV Sites
- Standard (Tent/RV)
- Group
Features
For Campers
- Market
- ADA Access
- Trash
- Picnic Table
- Firewood Available
- Phone Service
- Reservable
- Showers
- Drinking Water
- Electric Hookups
- Toilets
- Alcohol
- Pets
- Fires
For Vehicles
- Sanitary Dump
- Sewer Hookups
- Water Hookups
Great for RV camping
This campground offers RV camping with full hookups or tent camping. The RV sites are a little small and close to each other, and you can tell some people are long time campers. That being said, it’s a very nice area by the river with lots of fishing, floating, and swimming opportunities. A few things to keep in mind-if it’s been raining a lot it does tend to get muddy, we don’t have 4WD and got stuck, luckily some others there did and helped us out. Once it dried up it was no problem. (It had been over for over a week, so it was out of the norm) The exit to get out is a hill with gravel so again not having 4WD that was a little tricky, the visibility is also not great because of curves so you just have to hope people aren’t going too fast. The last thing is this place is also a canoe rental so there are vans/buses with canoes going back and forth all day so it can be noisy.
Good floating, Strict policies
I have been floating on the James River many times. Always a great experience on the river.
Campsite PROS- Very large grassy sites for tent camping with RV sites also available. On site general store for various floating items, alcohol, food etc
Campsite CONS- VERY STRICT camping rules when camping with minors... We were all well over the age of 21 ( 30 years old +) with the exception of my brother who was 20 at the time. He was DENIED an overnight site due to his age and the alcohol sold on the premises. Even with my father present . Also their shower/ bath room is poorly maintained and always dirty. They have one bath and toilet for men and one for women for the entire campground, which has well over 40 sites. They are unorganized when it comes to drop offs and pick ups and could use more staff to help get on and off the river for floating.
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Poorly managed and overly crowded
We arrived having booked a reservation online for a campsite nearly a week prior to the date, but were told “good luck finding your site, someone else is probably already there” by the girl at check-in. This place was a disorganized free-for-all with no one monitoring anything at all. There were unsupervised children setting off fireworks directly under a low-hanging tree, free-roaming dogs, and not even enough room to navigate the area in a vehicle due to overcrowding. We decided very quickly not to stay and found a much better campground with better management and policies.