Top Glamping near Columbia, MO

Central Missouri has a surprise for outdoor enthusiasts: It’s home to some of the best camping in the state. Near Columbia, MO, there are a number of conservation areas along the Missouri River. Rock Bridge Memorial State Park is minutes from the city and offers a fun and educational experience for children and adults. There are plenty of scenic trails to hike, bike, or explore on horseback. The park is home to fascinating natural features, including a cave system, and is one of the many opportunities to explore the outdoors near Columbia. A number of campgrounds are located around the city with amenities and campsites to accommodate the type of camping you're looking for, whether you want to stay closer or farther from the city lights.

Best Glamping Sites Near Columbia, MO (5)

    Camper-submitted photo from Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina
    Camper-submitted photo from Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina
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    Camper-submitted photo from Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina

    1. Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina

    16 Reviews
    34 Photos
    97 Saves

    Looking for a spot to launch your boat, rest your head for the night, or spend some quality time with your friends and family? Cooper’s Landing offers all of this and more! We’re a year-round full-service marina, campground, store, and live music venue on the banks of the Missouri River and right off the Katy Trail.

    Our family-friendly campground is freshly graded for RV and tent camping and our brand new Backyards and Beyond edition glamping tent package is ready to rent. The country store is stocked with ice, cold beverages, snacks, and firewood. Bring your own grub, or be wowed by the occasional food truck!

    • Pets
    • Fires
    • Electric Hookups
    • Phone Service
    • Reservable
    • ADA Access

    $10 - $60 / night

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    2. Lazy Day Campground

    33 Reviews
    68 Photos
    87 Saves

    Lazy Day has full hook up RV sites, pull through sites and tent sites.

    • Pets
    • Fires
    • Electric Hookups
    • Phone Service
    • Reservable
    • ADA Access

    $40 - $55 / night

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    3. Hanson Hills Campground

    8 Reviews
    9 Photos
    55 Saves
    • Pets
    • Fires
    • Electric Hookups
    • Phone Service
    • Reservable
    • ADA Access
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    4. Lakeview Park - Mexico

    3 Reviews
    10 Photos
    2 Saves
    • Pets
    • Electric Hookups
    • Phone Service
    • Reservable
    • ADA Access
    • RVs
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    5. Hickory Ridge Campground

    5 Reviews
    3 Photos
    4 Saves

    Hickory Ridge Campground is located near Danville MO, in the heart of Missouri about 80 miles west of downtown St. Louis. The sale of the former Kan-Do Kampground to Hickory Ridge LLC is complete, and we, as new owners, look forward to serving you! The campground features over 70 campsites, 33 acres of Missouri's great outdoors, swimming pool, fishing pond, camp store, activities, and much more. The campsites include spots to pitch a tent to full hookup RV sites. Whether you want to visit for a weekend, stay for a week, move in for several months, or relax on your way to another destination, we look forward to serving you! Hickory Ridge LLC is planning updates and the addition of new features to this great Missouri outdoor experience. Please check back often for information on updates to the campground, and new website features and functions.

    • Pets
    • Fires
    • Electric Hookups
    • Phone Service
    • Reservable
    • ADA Access

    $25 - $40 / night


Recent Glamping Reviews In Columbia

65 Reviews of 5 Columbia Campgrounds


  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    July 27, 2024

    Lazy Day Campground

    Great experience

    Stayed one night in a campervan. Would definitely recommend! We arrived a little late - right at sunset - but the friendly and helpful staff had already texted us all the info we needed for arrival. It was very quiet. Level spaces. Very dark, unlit walk to the bath house, so bring a light! Bathhouse was clean and well kept. Would recommend!

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    October 20, 2023

    Lazy Day Campground

    Wonderful level sites

    Great staff, wonderful level sites. Bathroom on site. Pool during season. Partially shaded. Dog walk area. Pet friendly.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    September 27, 2023

    Lazy Day Campground

    Simply Fabulous

    We discovered this gym. On our way home. Just needed to stay overnight, but will definitely be back. The little details make it very homey. Sites are well laid out and easy to maneuver. Full hook ups or tent sites are available to meet the needs of the camper. Clean facility and family friendly.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    August 28, 2023

    Lazy Day Campground

    Super clean and convenient

    Excellent grounds. Very very clean and well kept. Hosts/owners are extremely responsive and helpful. Sights have some trees. Walking paths, dog walk area, fire pits, bathhouse. I would visit again.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    August 25, 2023

    Lazy Day Campground

    Nice campground

    Stayed there for a week. The owners are very friendly. Very well kept campground. Enjoyed the pool.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Hickory Ridge Campground
    May 29, 2023

    Hickory Ridge Campground

    Great family friendly campground! We would definitely stay here again.

    Lots of activities - pool, cornhole tournament, potluck dinner, and movie night. Great place for families. New owners are clearly making improvements and working hard to create a unique place. Campsite was shaded and everything worked except the 110, but the owners were prompt to help and let us borrow a 30amp adapter and got us setup. The bathhouses still need just a little work. One we used was small and the other stated they were working to improve it. But they were clean and in working order. Just need a little tlc. Highly recommend!

  • Camper-submitted photo from Hanson Hills Campground
    May 18, 2023

    Hanson Hills Campground

    Fun night!

    Very relaxed place. Kinda drive in and park anywhere you see a firepit. We had a rooftop tent on the truck and a tent. We camped near the smaller pond. The spot was fine and there wasn’t a ton of tent campers so we had the place to ourselves. The portapotties were gnarly but the toilets/showers behind the office were clean and had hot water. Staff was friendly when we checked in and we bought an armfull of fire wood and they even dropped it off where we parked in their sidebyside but it was damp so we had to scavage some smaller sticks to get the fire hot enough to self sustain. There was a lot of burned cans and some trash in our fire pit when we showed up so we threw it all away before we started our fire. Would stay again but it definitely isn’t a 5 star clean place. Think Ruth from Ozark show.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    May 4, 2023

    Lazy Day Campground

    Very Nice Campground

    There are five tent camp spots located at Lazy Day and we camped on T4 at the very back of the campground. The on site facilities were excellent and clean, and these include a shop (with souvenirs as well as basic necessities and other assorted items), showers, and bathrooms. The T4 spot is pretty well isolated near the back and is right next to the trail that goes to one of the two fishing ponds on site. In addition to the trail leading to the back pond, there is another short trail that cuts through the woods on the south side of the camp. Despite the large size of the campground (about 65 RV spots) the noise level was fine and we went undisturbed while sleeping.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    October 4, 2022

    Lazy Day Campground

    Beautiful place for overnight

    Beautiful place! We called ahead to see if they had sites available for the night. Arrived just before the office closed at 6pm. The friendly hosts escorted us to our pull-through full-hookups site. The campsite pads are level, nice and wide, gravel like the roads, with wide grassy areas between and beautiful mature shade trees everywhere. Our site had a picnic table and a small fire ring. That part of the site was not level, which made it pretty and feel more removed from neighboring rigs, but we had to use our leveling blocks under our picnic table. Full hookups worked fine. This was a 50A site so they provided a pigtail converter for our 30A needs.

    Bathrooms were so cute!

    We would definitely stay here again.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Hickory Ridge Campground
    September 21, 2022

    Hickory Ridge Campground

    Hickory Ridge is NOT big rig friendly.

    2021 owners allowed for us to stay there all summer and allowed parking for working individuals in semis. The rent was consistently paid on time and we stayed there all summer from May through approximately September. They sold the campground and the new owners do not want working people there. This park is NOT big rig friendly despite what the "ammenities" claim.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    September 19, 2022

    Lazy Day Campground

    Great Spot

    We found this place while in route to IL, very well maintained campground, great hosts and tons of activities available here.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    September 15, 2022

    Lazy Day Campground

    Bathrooms for the win!

    This was a sweet little place to stop for the night. The manager was great to work with. If there is any bodies of water we always like to be near them. This one was small but she made sure we could see it even though it was a bigger site and more $ she charged us what our size site would cost. Very generous. The bathrooms/ laundry were like nothing I have ever seen. It shows the love they have for their campground. There was also a nice fenced dog run area with water and a bench . My little pup had a great time playing and being off leash safely. Gift shop was cute too!

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    August 23, 2022

    Lazy Day Campground

    Best campground and hosts

    Cleanest campground with all the amenities. The hosts are the owners and they are so nice and helpful. You follow them to your site and they deliver firewood if you paid for it. Sites are clean. There is a gated dog park. Everything above is at the campground. Our dog really liked the owner too.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Hickory Ridge Campground
    August 4, 2022

    Hickory Ridge Campground

    10/10 would recommend! :)

    Just passing through, we decided to start looking for a place to stay for the night. Came across this place on Dirt. Called and the lady that answered was Super friendly. (Turned out to be one of the owners) We got there and it was beautiful. The landscaping was kept up with, full hook ups, They have a pool, fenced in dog area. Showers and bathrooms. We got to talking with the lady (owner), and she said her and a partner had just bought it in January and have been working on fixing it up, putting all there love into it and had many more plans in the making for the place. Easy access to it off of the highway. We would deffienty stay here again and cant wait to see what it looks like next time we visit.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    July 27, 2022

    Lazy Day Campground

    Super nice campground

    Lazy Days RV Resort in Danville MO. This is a really nice campground. All gravel pads large sites full hook ups and great decorations. The folks are really nice. We pulled in and Nancy Lined us up but it was a little down in front and her husband came back and wanted to know if we were all right as it was not level and we said we had to take the Jeep off and we would just back up or use our levelers. They were really concerned and that was nice. Never been into a campground where anyone thought about us being level. I love how the laundry room and bathrooms were decorated so cute. They have wifi and did say that as the day went on it would not be as good as folks come in. Was nice for them to tell us.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Hickory Ridge Campground
    July 26, 2022

    Hickory Ridge Campground

    Decent if you don’t use their facilities

    Nice people. Helpful. However they bathhouses were horrible. One was disgusting in the back of the campground. The other one had broken handle on women bathroom so women had to shower in the mens. Which wasn’t very good. Shower didn’t drain, bugs all over.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    July 19, 2022

    Lazy Day Campground

    Nice stop over in

    Stayed for one night, water/elec only. Easy on/off the interstate and staff is very friendly. Assigned site was in the back of the park and nice and shady. They have a very nice, large dog park which our pups loved. Being in the back of the campground we had to walk a little to get there, but no big deal. Did not use their showers or bathroom, so can’t comment on that. Booked to stay again on our return trip.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    June 20, 2022

    Lazy Day Campground

    Really cool, would stay again

    We stayed at one of the few tent sites. It was a shaded spot under some pine trees, and that came with the occasional tick. No big deal though. There are two “club houses”. We spent some time in the smaller one by the pool. There was a shelf for you to take a book leave a book. The other shelves where filled with hundreds of dvds to choose from to play on the tv. There was also a stove, sink, and fridge. Which was very nice since we had a tent. The bathrooms were very clean and the showers were free. The aesthetic of the camp was amazing and rustic. There’s a coin laundry room outside the bathrooms, which was also really nice but we didn’t end up using. We only stayed a night, but will definitely be back.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Hickory Ridge Campground
    May 22, 2022

    Hickory Ridge Campground

    Nice Campground, Convenient Location

    We stayed only one night here while passing through. Campground’s new owner is very kind and friendly. He escorted us to our site which was tucked away under some nice trees.

    Though campground is close to interstate, noise was minimal (I think because of the trees).

    Pretty flowers throughout campground. Bathrooms with a shower and laundry room. Salt water pool, nice grassy area. Some sites had fire pits and picnic tables but not all.

    Would definitely stay here again.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    April 29, 2022

    Lazy Day Campground

    super friendly staff

    We needed a place to crash overnight in the Jeep. Made a reservation online, got a call 20 min later with our site number and instructions. She put us right next to bathroom / laundry / office due to rain which was great!

  • Camper-submitted photo from Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina
    January 31, 2022

    Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina

    MO River & Katy trail fun

    See beautiful scenery on the MO River & Katy Trail. You may get to see a paddleboat cruising the river. Cooper’s has spectacular sunsets, a boat ramp, dock, trails, bonfires, live music, and a very friendly atmosphere.

    The Katy trail runs through the edge of the property, offering quick access to trail walking, hiking, and bicycling.

    The general store has many options including a wide variety of food and drinks. It also has a small bicycle repair area set up outside.

    I highly recommend the delicious Thai food restaurant on site.

    Prices are very reasonable.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Lazy Day Campground
    September 10, 2021

    Lazy Day Campground

    Nice Place

    We stopped in after a day of driving and no campground reservation. The staff went out of their way to accommodate us and found us a spot for the night. It would have been easier for them to just say “We’re full” they could see we were spent. The restrooms and showers were nice. Total cost for the night was $33. We will definitely stay again if we’re ever down this way.

  • Camper-submitted photo from Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina
    September 9, 2021

    Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina

    Loved it here

    Leaving this magical place today. For anyone wanting to stay be aware they have live music Thursday through Sunday. They wrap everything up by 10pm and it’s very quiet late night. This weekend they had special events everyday related to the Katy trail right next to it. You will have water and electric but no sewer and no dump station on site. Plan your length of stay accordingly. In addition to the live music, food trucks come in and there is a cash bar/store with drinks, snacks, firewood and ice. It’s a very small campground and you are not walled off from the general public. If this is your style of camping you will really enjoy this place. Built in the 70’s on the banks of the Missouri River I had an amazing time. It was like being on vacation from my full time vacation lifestyle. I didn’t grocery shop the whole time.



Guide to Columbia

Camping near Columbia, Missouri, offers a mix of beautiful scenery and fun activities for everyone. Whether you're looking for a peaceful getaway or an adventure-filled trip, there are several campgrounds to choose from.

What to do:

  • Hiking and Exploring: Many campgrounds, like Lake of the Ozarks State Park Campground, have great hiking trails. One visitor mentioned, "Beautiful campgrounds. Hiking trails. Super showers & toilets. Clean. Friendly staff."
  • Fishing and Boating: Long Branch State Park Campground is perfect for fishing and boating. A camper shared, "We really enjoyed our time here and we'll definitely be coming back in the warmer months to enjoy some swimming and boating."
  • Visiting Historic Sites: Arrow Rock State Historic Site Campground is close to historic attractions. One reviewer noted, "The town of Arrow Rock is awesome, adds a great element to staying here."

What campers like:

  • Clean Facilities: Campers appreciate well-maintained restrooms and showers. A visitor at Lazy Day Campground said, "Bathhouse was clean and well kept. Would recommend!"
  • Friendly Staff: Many campers mention the helpfulness of the staff. A reviewer at Graham Cave State Park Campground remarked, "The camp host was helpful and friendly."
  • Spacious Sites: Campers enjoy having enough space between sites. One camper at Ray Behrens mentioned, "Each site included a wooden picnic table and a fire pit. There was a large grass area between us and the next camper."

What you should know:

  • Limited Amenities: Some campgrounds, like Finger Lakes State Park Campground, may have fewer amenities. A camper noted, "The bathrooms and showers were clean, but some sites looked level, but some are a bit wacky."
  • Wildlife Encounters: Be prepared for wildlife, especially raccoons. A visitor at Indian Creek Campground advised, "Raccoons visited nightly so secure your food supply and trash."
  • Road Noise: Some campgrounds may have noise from nearby roads. A camper at Ray Behrens mentioned, "Some road noise in the distance."

Tips for camping with families:

  • Choose Family-Friendly Campgrounds: Look for places with activities for kids. One family at Cottonwoods RV Park & Campground said, "Great place to stay. Nice pool clean bathrooms and a really nice laundry."
  • Plan for Outdoor Fun: Many campgrounds have playgrounds or trails. A visitor at Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina shared, "The Katy trail runs through the edge of the property, offering quick access to trail walking, hiking, and bicycling."
  • Pack Snacks and Drinks: Having food on hand can save trips to the store. A camper at Lazy Day Campground mentioned, "The little details make it very homey."

Tips from RVers:

  • Check Site Sizes: Make sure your RV fits the site. A reviewer at Cottonwoods RV Park & Campground noted, "The utilities were in the middle of the pad and water pressure was decent."
  • Look for Full Hookups: Many RVers prefer sites with full hookups. A camper at Long Branch State Park Campground said, "The sites are each very spacious with flat areas."
  • Be Prepared for Limited Dump Stations: Some campgrounds may not have dump stations. A visitor at Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina mentioned, "You will have water and electric but no sewer and no dump station on site."

Camping around Columbia, MO, has something for everyone, from families to RV enthusiasts. Just remember to check the campground details and reviews to find the best fit for your trip!

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    According to TheDyrt.com, the most popular glamping campground near Columbia, MO is Cooper’s Landing Campgrounds and Marina with a 4.1-star rating from 16 reviews.

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