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Daily Rates
**NO TENT SITES! **
Full Hookup Site [30/50 Amp]: $47.00
Daily site includes Water, Electric, Sewer, Trash, Cable, and WiFi.
Premium Full Hookup Site [30/50 Amp]: $68.00
Daily site includes Water, Electric, Sewer, Trash, Cable, and WiFi; plus a large yard, glider, propane grill, and fire pit.
Water/Electric only[30 Amp]:** $32.00**
Daily site includes Water, Electric, Trash, Cable, and WiFi.
Weekly Rates
**Full Hookup Site **[30/50 Amp]: $188
Sites includes Water, Sewer, Trash, Cable, and WiFi.
Electricity is $15 deposit then .16pkw
Premium Full Hookup Site [30/50 Amp]: $307/ week
Site includes Water, Sewer, Trash, Cable, and WiFi; plus a large yard, glider, propane grill, and fire ring.
Electric on Premium site A & #17 is $15 deposit then .16pkw; all other premium sites do not have a meter.
Water/Electric only[30 Amp]: $142/ week
Site includes Water, Electric, Trash, Cable, and WiFi.
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*Veterans receive** 30% off** your nightly rate when you show valid Proof of Military Service,
Making your stay** $32.90/night**.
*Good Sam Club Members Receive 10% off nightly rate, making your stay** $42.30/night.**
*Weekly and Seasonal stays are reduced more than the Veteran and Good Sam rates. No additional discounts are accepted for weekly or Seasonal stays.
Online Reservations
Balance due upon time of reservation.
The $4 booking fee applies to all reservations.
Cancellations allowed up to 72 hours before checkin. There is a $15 non-refundable cancelation fee. No refunds if cancelled less than 72 hours before checkin. Reservations can be postponed, with no forfeiture of funds paid, in case of emergency and at management discretion.
Contact Big Red Barn RV Park by calling (417) 358-2432 for Seasonal and Group reservations, or with any questions or concerns.
$32 - $68 / night
Zan's Creekside Campground is a family owned and operated park. We offer RV camping, tent sites, and day time access to the river for non-campers.
30 and 50 amp RV Sites are OPEN YEAR ROUND!!!!
All RV sites are naturally shaded by the plentiful supply of tall trees on the campground. Also, all sites are less than a one minute walk to the beach. Popular activities include river tube floating from Grand Falls to our location. Grand Falls is about five minutes away by car, the return float trip takes about 1-1/2 to 2 hours (we DO rent tubes, we do NOT provide transportation). Our location is very popular for launching or retrieving kayaks and we provide parking for vehicles left at one end of the trip (we do NOT rent kayaks). Fishing is always an enjoyable pastime here as well.
We offer weekly and monthly rates for both 30 amp and 50 amp RV Sites.
Well behaved pets are welcome. Alligators must be kept on a short leash!!
$20 - $40 / night
If you are looking for a beautiful RV park in Joplin that can satisfy all your needs, look no further! Our park is located in a quiet wooded area, yet still close to restaurants and shopping. We have 30/50 amp hookups, with no extra charges. Come fish our stocked pond, no license needed. When you choose Ballard's Campground, you'll be provided with great customer service from our on-site management!
Clean laundry facilities, bathhouses, camp store, pet area, and free Wi-Fi are a few amenities that we offer to our guests. Your comfort and enjoyment is our top priority. There are also picnic tables and campfire pits available for your entertainment around the park. Propane, firewood, and other items are available for sale from the camp store.
At Ballard Campground & RV Park, all of our sites are level, with a combination of pull-through sites for big rigs (with trailers) and back-end sites for those who want a little more privacy.
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$35 - $575 / night
No matter how you choose to stay at Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees RV Resort, you’ll gain access to everything we have to offer. Set up your RV at one of our 122 sites, each equipped with full hookups. Prefer the creature comforts of the indoors? You can also opt for more of a glamping experience in one of our cabins.
If you prefer having more room to spread out, choose from one of our three one-bedroom cabins or go with our one-bedroom house. The house features a stocked kitchen and clean bathroom—all the modern conveniences you could want while spending a little time with nature.
$27 - $38 / night
We are open year round, so you can enjoy our family-friendly park in any season, taking advantage of amenities like our seasonal swimming pool, playground, wi-fi internet access, and full hook-ups for RVs.
Spend an afternoon viewing the houses on the Nevada Victorian Tour explore the Bushwhacker Museum, or spend a fun Saturday night at the Nevada Raceway dirt track. You can sample the wares of the Missouri Pecan Growers, go bird watching at the August A Busch Jr. Memorial Wetlands at Four Rivers CA, or play a round of golf at the Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course. See the incredible tournament baseball field at Champion Diamonds or tour the Missouri Welding Institute.
With nearby attractions like the Osage Village State Historic Site and Fort Scott National Historic Site, you’ll find plenty to explore in our area.
We are conveniently located near I-49 (Highway 71) and Highway 54, north of Joplin Missouri, south of Kansas City, west of Eldorado Springs, and east of Fort Scott Kansas. Nevada (Nee-Vay-Duh) is a great place to stop and stay a while. Plan your visit today with a phone call or e-mail or click on the reserve now button.
Guide
Beach, shelter areas, boat ramp, camping areas, RV hookups, showers. Not well maintained, but free. Industrial fans across the beach are an eye sore
Legend
Gopher Valley campground in on of several campground in the Twin Bridges area of Grand Lake State Park. This campground is fully paved with both full hook up RV camping area, tent camping area and areas that work for both. Campground have drive through and pull in sites. Sites all have picnic tables and metal fire rings. Campground has a large pavilion which can be rented. The pavilion has a huge BBQ grill. Campground has a small playground for the kids. Small restroom with showers is available. With the exception of the RV pull through sites all the other sites have plenty of grass to set up a tent. Sites can be reserved.
LegendThis is a great RV resort close to the water but with very little shade. It is right across the street from Tera Miranda that has a cool restaurant on the water though. There are park models and group houses as well as RV pads. Nice central location on Monkey Island.
Scout
I have a mostly stock 4Runner. We were able to drive it around on a lot of very light off-road trails. There were many more intense off-road options and challenges though. They have RV hookups there and plenty of places to park and vehicle-camp or to set up a tent. Trails were $35 a day and camping was $15 per person per night.
Scout
This park is in our hometown. It's where we stay when we are not traveling. We have stayed in a number of the sites. They are somewhat close but it's never been an issue. Full hookups. Grocery store is literally minutes away. The RV Park is located at the south end of town on Highway 59. The owner is very accommodating. Good Verizon signal. Park has wi-fi. Oswego has a beautiful city park. Fishing is popular here, at the Neosho River and in the nearby mined pits. Also nearby is Big Brutus, the largest electric shovel in the world.
Ranger
‘‘This Campground has sections. The one group is the (Sentury) Indian, and the second loop is the Eagle Point Fox loop. We were at the Sentry loop. We liked site 71 in that loop. It offered the most space and was a full hook up. That is one of the best things about this campground. Several full hookups. Boat ramp was nice. Not great but ok for kayaking. Nice swim beach. Campground host we met was not very friendly or helpful.
Ranger
Clean and well maintained KOA. Friendly personnel. Shaded, pull thru sites as well as back-ins, cabins, and tent sites. Sites are very level with crushed stone pads. Good water pressure. Lots of grass. Patio sites are available. Internet is poor, as typical of most RV parks. Cable tv with about 30 channels. Good stopover park.
Traveler
Tent area is undeveloped, but the lawn is fairly level, bathrooms and showers are only a short walk away. Nicole showed me to the site and was a wonderful help. Great spot that most people might pass up because its right next to the highway, but honestly you can barely tell aside from the hum of trucks. Bathrooms are beautiful and clean, 2 toilets, 2 showers and a sauna in each. The place is quiet and seems like a lot of people here are long term residents. We are in a tent on the back lawn by a small fishing lake. Nice playground for younger kids and you cant beat the atmosphere and the birds. Free on-site laundry which I took advantage of when I needed to wash and dry my blanket on a cold night. Unfourtunately no campfire for tent camp sites, but bring a camp stove and you'll be fine. They are actively doing renovations and the office isnt open yet, so you have to call the park manager, Kim, for info and she is wonderful. All the staff is. Kim came by and took my son and 2 other kids on a golf cart ride on the trail behind the lake and they had a blast. We are loving it here and are sad to be leaving after the weekend. Update: I have just been informed they have a Willie Nelson impersonator doing a show here tonight, this place would get 6 stars if I could.
Traveler
I stayed at twin bridges this past weekend with my wife and our two dogs. Despite nice weather it was less than half full. There aee three distinct areas to camp. One on the east side of HW 137, one on the west side of HW 137, and one south of HW 60. The area south of HW 60 is camper pads and very busy as it is right at the boat ramp. This area also charges a premium rate for its location ($27 with water and electric hook ups). The west side of HW 137 has lake huts ($50-$60ish per night) as well as tent and RV sites. The east side of HW 137 has tent and RV sites as well as the visitor center. Tent sites are $14, with electric $18, and electric and water for $22. You can reserve RV sites online but not tent sites. This area is mostly for RVs. The tent sides are all on a hill side so you cant find flat sites to tent camp and tent camping is poorly marked. We did find an "unimproved camping area" presumably for tent camping but everyone with an RV at the nearby RV sites used it as boat trailer parking. There are bathhouse on each side of HW 137 and we found them to be pretty good for a campground. There is a RV dump station behind the visitor center ($5 to dump, free to camping guests, payable at visitor center or envelope station). If you get in late there are signs instructing you to pay at visitor center the next morning. However these must be old signs as there is an envelope station in front of the visitor center door to register and pay (didnt seem like the visitor center is open much). Noticed a lot of trash around camping area into the wooded area around it. Not a lot to do in the park but plenty of fish and boating areas nearby. Also there are camp grills at each RV/camp spot but no fire pits, although we did notice people have just built camp fires as they see fit (not sure of park policy on this). Overall its a decent enough campground if you are going to be spending all your time on the lake but wouldnt recommend for tent camping or longer RV stays if you are looking for hiking trails and more secluded relaxation.
Legend
Noesho's Hickory Creek RV park is a nice park with mowed grass everywhere, gravel roads and grass sites. The site are only $12 per night. But be warned....No tent camping is allowed and you need to go to city hall to pay your camping fee as the campground does not have a place to self register, so if you plan on staying here you will need to get to city hall before they close for the day, and they are only open from Monday - Friday. Site use to allow tents, but does not now, most likely due to the fact that their are no restroom facilities at this campground. All the sites come with water and electric hook ups, and their is a RV dump. Train tracks adjoining the park and these are busy tracks with trains running day and night. Two sides of the park have a street and a highway alongside, but traffic is slow so it seems to be fairly quiet. The campground is part of a much larger city park. Part of the frisbee golf course runs around the camping area, and across the road is a nice bike path. Hickory creek runs along the edge of the park and has good fishing. Sites do not have picnic tables but their are a few in the park witch you can use. No campfires.
Traveler
Stayed overnight in this lovely RV park. The staff are very friendly and helpful. The park is really lovely with plenty of large trees and green grass and spacious sites. This is one of the nicest RV stays I’ve had. We enjoyed a garden right outside our door. There was free wi-go and cable TV. There was a BBQ our first night which was so gracious and enjoyable after a long day of driving. I wish we had planned a longer stay. I highly recommend.
Ranger
Very nice overall, very easy access to Grand Lake and Cherokee Casino. Sites are good size and have full hookups. Good overflow parking for trailers.
Traveler
Worth the twenty minute drive from Grove. The remote location is great when you want to get away and feel like you are actually camping. The park is in the woods so almost all the spaces are shaded by beautiful old growth trees. We prefer this to the glorified parking lots that so many newer rv parks have become. The kids enjoy the outdoor pool and the lake views from the north side of the property are second to none at Grand Lake. Finally, the staff have been extremely friendly and helpful when we've stayed here and rates are great, especially for members.
TravelerThis place was very quiet. We arrived and the owner was extremely helpful and nice. We were passing through town and found this place. Full hookups and level spots. Would recommend.
Scout
I stayed in one of the airbnb cabins this past summer and it was super comfortable. Everything I needed for a great stay. Awesome managers and such a peaceful surrounding. I know there are new pedestals and hookups for RVs and they have been working on the swimming pool for 2023. The A-frame cabin is being renovated for a new laundry facility and new showers/bathrooms too.
Traveler
The rv spots weren't bad to get into. Site was fairly level. Staff seemed uniformed of how things work for float trips. Bathrooms were clean and showers were hot.
Traveler
Osage Prairie, Site #46 (46 total sites), long enough for tt and truck, gravel, full hookup, close, but not bad, on interstate service road, no major noise, wifi poor, $39 with mil discount, otherwise $44 per night, no cable tv, no OTA TV, needed two blocks to level, some mature trees, some short sites, some longer, make sure to ask for longer,
Ranger
Very nice facility on Grand Lake. Sites are good size and can accommodate large rigs. Full hookups, nice common area.. easy access to launch ramps
Guide
This place is a small park that has lots of hiking trails it is five dollars for tents $10 for RVs with electric the bathrooms are Porta potty but for five dollars you can fish and you can have a campfire permit pretty much anything you wanna do you can purchase by the day here for about five dollars each item is really a nice place for the family to come they had a super decorated for Christmas
GuideDelightful office staff. We did not make advance reservations, but called when we were about an hour away and insured they had sites available. Long pull-thrus with full hookups. For an overnight stay, this is a nice campground.
GuideDecent sized campground, full hookups, WiFi is a little spotty, nice view of the lake, plenty of green space for kids or dogs to play, 2 easy trails to walk. Convenient location to town, but surprising quiet for being so close.
GuideGreat little campground! Full hookups for reasonable price. Quiet and convenient. Good size sites and easy in/out! Very well maintained. Cute amenity buildings (built to look like old west). Small dog run area. Very cute field area with creek & playground & old rustic farm equipment made into yard decor.
Guide
This is a nice campground and most of the sites are huge. And some of them have a nice view of the river. They have full hookups and pretty good signal. The bathrooms are not the best but they have really nice playground for the kids. I would come back and camp here again.
TravelerThis RV campground is great for the ones looking for a quiet place to stay for a couple days or longer. It is very easy to get into from I44, the park is very well maintained and level sites, lots of trees. The staff was very helpful and friendly. We stayed 2 nights on the 4th of July weekend and had a great time. They had a 4th of July celebration for the guests!!! I will definitely stay here again in the future!! Great place
ScoutMy husband & I stayed in June. The camp was right off a main road & hwy access. There was a handy grocery store/gas station literally right next to campground. You could hear cars throughout the night, including a trash truck that emptied the dumpsters in very early morning before the sun was up.
The toilets & showers were clean. It was a fine place for RVs. Several of them were living at the campground. The RVs & open area made it very unpleasant for primitive camping. Fishing is supposedly good, but fish are very used to fishermen. You could throw a line right in front of them without getting a bite.
They offer float trips. They allow public access in the evening hours, which makes for more people at the water’s edge. I think for those staying in town, it’s a good way to get some river fun without camping.
For me, I want trees & a little privacy. If you have an RV & some kids, I’m sure you’ll enjoy.
GuideMy family has had a membership here for 20+ years. We come here and stay every summer! They have good size places you can stay as a family, as well as lots of RV spots. We absolutely love the mini golf course and game facility, as well as the Eagles Nest! There’s nothing better than sitting out on the deck watching the sun set after a long day on the lake. The bathroom & shower facilities are always clean, with excellent water pressure, and hot water.
Legend
This is a small municipal campground just outside of town on the banks of Spring River. It is a no frills campground- porta potties that need to be emptied and a big open field with no set campsites. There are a few scattered picnic tables and grills and even few fire rings. But, it’s $5 a night for tents and $10 for RVs, which are separated from each other. There is a boat ramp and some nice fishing spots, but it looks like getting in the water is the preferred method. Across the river there is a local rodeo arena.
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