Cedar Ridge Park Campground — Hotel in Stockton

We love this campground. Our family meets here every year since 2018 to camp together for 1-2 weeks. My mom and step-dad come from Indiana and we come from Nebraska as it's kind of mid way between us.

The campground is run by the Army Corp of Engineers, and it's pretty clean and well maintained. The gravel pads are pretty level, each site has a table and a hanging pole, and many are shaded. There are concrete shower houses up the hill (by the dump station) that double as storm shelters, which we have used as such before. In the campgrounds they are more primitive vault toilets.

No water at the sites, but there are spigots spread around the campground, so if you pick the right spot and have a long hose you can at least top up your tanks without moving if you have a camper.

The coves are awesome to swim around or float/kayak/paddle board, but will occasionally get some chop in strong wind. A fair bit of wildlife along the lake as it's not developed around the edge of the lake, which means you get to look at trees and a rocky waters edge, rather than houses across the lake.

I look forward to this trip every year. The really amazing part of being here is that despite it being Missouri in mid summer, there are basically no mosquitoes. Sometimes there are midges or black flies, but at least we don't have to douse ourselves in bug spray to be...

This is a lovely campground and for the most part we enjoyed our stay there. The lake and the rocks surrounding it were beautiful! The only downside was the VAST amount of bugs! We went in mid-September; during the day the yellow jackets were everywhere trying to get to the food, and as soon as dusk hit massive swarms of mosquitoes came out...if you stood quietly you could literally hear the high-pitched whine all around you. The bathroom near our site had a bright light that stayed on all night and it was so swarmed with bugs I couldn't use it. Mind you, they seemed to be immature mosquitoes that didn't try to bite us, or maybe it was our bug spray. :) We learned later that most people bring their RVs there rather than tent, because...

We stayed in an electric RV site on loop B (B8). There was a short trail down the hill to the water. There was even a little sandy beach area just down in front of the other sites. This was a popular place to swim, kayak, and boat. There a boat ramp just beside the campground and a beach and fishing dock a short drive away. The hosts were kind and helpful. There is a shower house not far from the sites as well as a vaulted toilet the opposite direction, towards the boat ramp. The playground is directly across the road...