RV Camping near Pittsfield, Illinois

Jellystone Park™ Pittsfield

90 RV Sites, 52 Cabins, 5 Tent Sites, 4 Glamping Sites, 6 Cottages

Jellystone Park Pittsfield in Illinois offers 90 RV sites, 52 cabins, five tent sites, and four glamping sites on a private lake, with 30 and 50-amp full hookups and rigs accepted to 60 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, open all year. Back-in and pull-through categories at both amperages join a splash pad, beach, jumping pillow, and boat rentals. Ninety sites run in back-in 30-amp, back-in 50/30-amp, and pull-through 50/30-amp categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Fifty-two cabins, five tent sites, and four glamping sites make the lodging inventory unusually deep. A general store, boutique shop, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. Day passes run 11am to 6pm and include the jumping pillow, wibit, pool, slide, splash pad, paddle boards, and kayaks. A splash pad and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with a private lake, beach, and boat rentals supporting swimming, boating, paddle boats, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, inflatable water toys, and fishing. A jumping pillow, arcade, game room, gem mining, sports courts, volleyball, gaga ball, horseshoes, golf cart rentals, walking trails, hiking, biking, a recreation center, playground, pavilion, dog park, bar, and snack bar fill the rest. Pike County sits where the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers define the western Illinois landscape. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead.

from $43/night

Crazy Horse Family Campground

<p>Open year-round with full hookup RV sites, cabins, and tent sites. Enjoy onsite <strong>fishing, kayaking, mini-golf, a swimming pond with an inflatable water obstacle course, playground, giant building blocks, and gem mining. </strong>We offer <strong>planned activities</strong> for all ages and a <strong>full-service café</strong> right onsite. Conveniently located near <strong>Springfield and Jacksonville</strong> for easy access to shopping and dining.</p>

from $41/night

Driftwood Campground & RV Park

Driftwood Campground & RV Park, just off the Great River Road in Quincy, Illinois. Have family or friends without an RV or a tent that would like to experience the campground life? Rent our Guest Room, which features a double bed, a couch, a small kitchenette, and work space! Three-night minimum stay.

from $45/night

Jellystone Park™ Mark Twain Lake

7 RV Sites, 33 Cabins, 12 Tent Sites, 1 Lodge

Jellystone Park at Mark Twain Lake in Monroe City, MO, offers 7 full-hookup pull-through RV sites and 34 cabin and lodge rentals, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 45 feet. Every RV site is a pull-through carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. With 34 cabins against 7 RV sites, this is a cabin resort that also takes RVs, so book the pull-throughs early. Laundry, a general store, a boutique shop, firewood, golf cart rentals, and both RV and boat storage cover the practical side. Pets are welcome. Your per-person camping fee includes access to the Water Zone, the RV park pool, theme weekends, and hourly activities listed in the campers app. The recreation is the full Yogi Bear program: a water park with a lazy river and splash pad, an outdoor pool, mini-golf, laser tag, a jumping pillow, gaga ball, a recreation center, sport courts, volleyball, basketball, horseshoes, corn hole, gold panning, a snack bar, a bar, and live music. Monroe City sits on Mark Twain Lake, an 18,600-acre reservoir on the Salt River in the northeastern Missouri prairie. Rates are on the booking page. Seven pull-throughs at a resort this size means they go first.

from $25/night

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

RJM Camping and RV

15 RV Sites

RJM Camping and RV in Wright City, MO, offers 15 RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and back-in sites for rigs up to 50 feet. Sites are back-ins carrying water and electric — there's no sewer at the site, so plan on the on-site dump station. The property is gated and rated big rig friendly, with a community fire pit and walking trails. Pets are welcome. The lots are fully rocked, which matters more than it sounds after a wet week. The appeal is seclusion: private sites on a quiet rural property with a pond, a shared fire pit, picnicking, and the kind of dark sky that makes stargazing worth staying up for. Wright City sits in the gently rolling countryside of Warren County, 45 miles west of St. Louis via Interstate 70 — close enough to the highway to be practical, far enough off it to be quiet. Rates and availability are on the booking page. With 15 sites, calling ahead is worth the minute on a holiday weekend.

from $25/night

Evening Star Camping Resort

Established in the fall of 1969 by Bill Walker, Evening Star Camping Resort is located on 35 acres of pristine land 6 miles outside the town of Havana, Illinois. It is a great place to enjoy family camping the way you like it. We offer lots of events, themed weekends, and excitement or complete relaxation by the campfire, if you choose. A full-service facility, we're open from April 1 through October 31 and can accommodate any type of camping unit, from a tent to a large motor home. We currently have seasonal spaces available, and if you are working in the area, we offer monthly rates as well. We feature large wooded or open, grassy sites with 20- 30- or 50-AMP electric service, lots of pull-thrus and easy back-ins. Full hook-up, water/electric, and primitive campsites are available.

from $39/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

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

Meramec Campground

30 RV Sites

Meramec Campground in Stanton, Missouri, offers 30 full-hookup pull-through RV sites along the Meramec River, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted up to 87 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, open all year. Full-hookup and water-and-electric pull-through categories mean no backing at any site, with an outdoor pool, pond, and general store. Thirty sites span pull-thru, pull-thru water-and-electric 30/50-amp, and pull-thru water-and-electric 30-amp categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted with site WiFi, sized to 87 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Confirm your tier, as the water-and-electric categories do not carry sewer at the site. An all-pull-through layout at 87 feet accommodates anything on the road. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, and restrooms handle the practical side. If you arrive at night with a reservation, your name will be on an envelope by the front door with a map and your site details inside. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a pond for fishing, an arcade, playground, community fire pit, and dog park filling the rest. Canoeing, kayaking, hiking, biking, and swimming run on the river. Pets are welcome. Franklin County sits where the Meramec's spring-fed limestone clarity meets the forested Ozark foothills, and Meramec Caverns — Missouri's most famous cave system and a Route 66 landmark — is right here. Float trips, Meramec State Park, and St. Louis an hour east round it out. Summer float season drives demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $52/night

Starlight Trail RV Park

Starlight Trail RV Park in Kirksville, Missouri, offers oversized full-hookup RV sites with water, sewer, and electric, plus cabins, on a quiet country property minutes from town. A stocked fishing pond, billiards, and a general store serve guests staying a weekend or settling in for months. Full-hookup back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric with fire pits and site WiFi. The sites are generously oversized, which gives large rigs room to spread out rather than parking tight to a neighbor. Cabins serve guests without a rig. A general store, propane fills and exchange, laundry, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. The park suits weekend getaways, family vacations, hunting trips, business travel, and extended stays equally — that flexibility is much of what it offers. On-site recreation is calm by design. A stocked pond supports fishing, billiards fill indoor hours, and a campfire and the quiet of the surrounding countryside handle the evenings. A golf course, river, and boating are nearby. Pets are welcome. Kirksville sits in Adair County in northeast Missouri, home to Truman State University. The surrounding attractions are more varied than the location suggests: Thousand Hills State Park, the Kirksville Aquatic Center, West Winery at Jackson Stables, Jacob's Vineyard and Winery, the Sugar Creek Conservation Area, the Adair County Historical Society, and the Del and Norma Robison Planetarium are all close. The park operates through the northeast Missouri season, with summer travel and fall hunting both drawing steadily. University event weekends tighten Kirksville lodging — reserve ahead if your stay overlaps one.

from $45/night

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