Recommendations for CG near St. Louis, MO

We are looking for a CG near St. Louis, MO.  We will be staying for 3 nights.  The St. Louis stop will be after our stop in Springfield, IL.  After St. Louis we will be meandering toward New Orleans.  DH is very concerned about safety.  As always, TIA

We stay at 370 Lakeside Park.  Quiet and safe. Close to hiway, plenty of nearby restaurants and nice walking paths around a lake. New park. Not much shade. Great facilities. Make reservations, fills up quickly on weekends.

BigJohn said:

We stay at 370 Lakeside Park.  Quiet and safe. Close to hiway, plenty of nearby restaurants and nice walking paths around a lake. New park. Not much shade. Great facilities. Make reservations, fills up quickly on weekends.

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X2. This is an excellent park with pretty good security and much better prices than Sundermeier.

When we came through there last fall, we stayed at the Casino Queen campground at the casino across the river from the arch in East St. Louis, IL.  We felt very secure there.  It is a gated park, and the casino security does continuous patrols through it.  There's not anything around it, though, and you have to drive even to go over to the casino, where they do have a couple of restaurants.

BigJohn said:

We stay at 370 Lakeside Park.  Quiet and safe. Close to hiway, plenty of nearby restaurants and nice walking paths around a lake. New park. Not much shade. Great facilities. Make reservations, fills up quickly on weekends.

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I have also stayed at 370 Lakeside Park several times. Great park and convenient to St. Louis. Make reservations. Last time I planned to stay they called to let me know they were closing the park due to flooding and offered a refund, or the option to change my reservation dates. Great staff and customer service.

Plenty of OTA tv stations too.

My ONLY complaint is about a song bird that decided to start singing at 0'darkthirty on Saturday morning on my roof. That little buggar was loud. he woke me up and no matter what I did he wouldn't go away. I finally got up and made coffee and read my book. The wife slept another two hours.

Agree with others both Casino Queen and 370 are great places.
Have stayed at both numerous times.
Sundermeier not so much.
St. Louis RV park is right downtown. More of a parking lot. However cop shop directly across the street.

Max, we have stayed at 370 three times. Last year, we couldn't because they never opened after the flooding. We had to stay at Sundermeier instead and regretted it. More expensive, lack of caring or customer service and the only good thing was concrete pads. They advertised having a dog park but it's a city park too far to walk. 370 Lakeside's only downside that I have seen is a lack of shade because the trees are still new. I have made reservations for there again this year when we return to St. Louis from our western adventures. They have the largest and best equipped dog park I have ever seen.

If you have a military connection, there is Scott AFB FamCamp. We've stayed there numerous times.

What is considered a military connections?  We have a daughter and son-in-law that served but are not in the service at this time.  Seems like that would be a stretch.

MN Blue Skies said:

What is considered a military connections?  We have a daughter and son-in-law that served but are not in the service at this time.  Seems like that would be a stretch.

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You have to be retired military or sponsered by someone who is.  Exception to that is Key West.  They won't let anyone sponser a non-retired military person there.

MN Blue Skies said:

We are looking for a CG near St. Louis, MO.  We will be staying for 3 nights.  The St. Louis stop will be after our stop in Springfield, IL.  After St. Louis we will be meandering toward New Orleans.  DH is very concerned about safety.  As always, TIA

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We spent a couple of days at the St. Louis West KOA last June.  A typical KOA, near 6 Flags and I-44.  Worked for us since we were visiting relatives on the SW side of town.

richclover said:

We spent a couple of days at the St. Louis West KOA last June.  A typical KOA, near 6 Flags and I-44.  Worked for us since we were visiting relatives on the SW side of town.

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Since I am from St. Louis, I try to go back every year to see the town, eat the food and catch up with old friends. I have a friend that lives in Fenton, not far from the KOA and he has attempted to talk me into staying there every year when we return so it will be closer to him. Every year, I check the KOA and find their rates to be $10-20 per night higher than 370 and they won't give you the seventh night free if you stay a week, whereas 370 will. So my friend continues to drive to St. Peters if he wants to see me while we're in town - LOL. That KOA is better than some I've seen and it has an off-leash dog park, something that I look for since we travel with three dogs. But it still doesn't hold a candle to 370 Lakeside's park.

If you are heading SW, the KOA will be in a better location, but if the direction isn't important, 370 would be the better choice. Max, if you're going to head toward New Orleans after leaving St. Louis, you'll head south on I-55. Coming from Springfield, your fastest route will be to stay on I-55 through St. Louis. The only parks near your route are the city park in the middle of downtown, and it's basically a concrete parking lot so if you have pets, that could be a problem, and the Casino Queen. If you are concerned with how far out of the way you'll need to go to find a good park, 370 may not be the best choice for you because it is in the next county, probably about 15-20 miles out of your way. If that is the case, the Casino Queen will be your best bet if you don't mind staying in East St. Louis, which has an extraordinary crime rate. The 370 and the KOA are probably equidistant from I-55 but on opposite sides of the area, one being NW and the other being SW.

If you're going to be there for three nights, you might want to make it down to the Hill in St. Louis city if you like good Italian cuisine. Since so many of the restaurants in Little Italy have closed in New York City, I believe the Hill now is one of the most famous spots for good Italian cooking in the country.

Old_Crow said:

You have to be retired military or sponsered by someone who is.  Exception to that is Key West.  They won't let anyone sponser a non-retired military person there.

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I'll have to check into the possibility of being sponsored.  Thanks.

There's DR. EDMUND A. BABLER MEMORIAL STATE PARK just west of Chesterfield.

Molaker said:

There's DR. EDMUND A. BABLER MEMORIAL STATE PARK just west of Chesterfield.

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That's a beautiful park but the camping is electric only.