RV PARK REVIEW: Lost Valley Lake, Owensville, Missouri (and a New Follower)

Today I found another new "Follower" and I'd like to say THANK YOU to Gardener-Sinya for joining my group.  I hope you will find something of interest as you follow our RV adventures.  I appreciate you stopping by!

We had quite a long day today.  We left North Vernon, Indiana and drove all the way to Owensville, Missouri.   We made a complete drive-through in Illinois.  Sorry Illinois, we'll spend time with you on another journey.

We had a little rain this afternoon as we crossed the Mississippi River and entered the state of Missouri.  It lasted about an hour and then the sky cleared.  We had made reservations for 1 night at the Lost Valley Lake Resort, which is a membership park for us with Coast to Coast and ROD.  This park is located well off the highway.  In fact they are so far off Hwy. 50 I was beginning to wonder if we'd get there!  This is our drive to the campground on Hwy. Y.

I don't have a picture of the front entry, unfortunately.  I forgot to take one and it is too far back there to go now.  They have 537 acres of rolling hills here in this large campground.  We parked in front of the registration office and they had our reservation all organized and had already assigned us our space.  The young lady checking us in did not know diddly-squat about anything, however.  Good thing the paperwork was finished because I doubt she could have handled it.  She was very friendly, but she should not have been working the front desk without supervision.  We have never been here previously and after check-in she just handed us the map.  This park is huge and the map was a little involved so we asked for assistance on locating site #623 which was ours.  She had great difficulty finding it.  She said, "just go past the maintenance yard."  We had no idea where that was.  Then we asked if it had 50 amp, as we'd requested, and she didn't know and had to run and ask somebody.  We got through all the confusion and finally went on our way.  

As we drove the winding and steep climb to the campsite levels we came to the lake and clubhouse area.

The clubhouse is undergoing new construction but as you can see by the photo, it is already a beautiful building.  The lake here is also quite beautiful.  There is a boat house, boat rentals, beach area, swimming area with slides, a playground and a lot more.  There is fishing on this lake as well as at another large lake in another area of the campground.

We continued on our way and the road by the campsites became rutted and a bit bumpy.  Not the best condition.  We went all the way to a leveled out area for the larger areas at the top of a hill.  Not a lot of trees, but that was fine with us because the satellite dish will work great.  This is site #623.  Most of the sites in this section could use some work.  They slope downward a lot and it took a while to get leveled out, and yet it still isn't totally level.  It is only the one night and we can make do.  We do have full hook-ups and a 50 amp electric here and they did not charge extra for the added power.   This is our site with our RV tucked as far back as we could get it to make it level.  The other photo shows some of the other sites in an area for smaller RV's.

They have a sparkly clean outdoor pool next to a spa and a kiddy pool.  Then across the street is a smaller indoor pool.  There are tons of things to do here.  They have:  an arcade, indoor mini-golf, softball fields, shuffleboard, hiking, horseback riding, a weight room, sand volleyball court, basketball court and much more.

They have several restroom buildings that looked fine.  This is the ladies restroom in one of the buildings in another camping loop from ours.  There is also a small cafe and market on the property for guest use. 

Lost Valley Lake Resort is an ownership park, plus an affiliate park with our Coast to Coast and the ROD.  It apparently is not open to the general public.  Their website seemed a bit vague to me on the "ownership" details.  You probably have to hear the sales pitch to know anything about that.  We paid $10.00 for our nights stay.  It is an OK park and we would stop again if we were on Hwy. 50 in Missouri.  This is very far off the beaten path from anything, but it makes a great destination resort if you wanted to stay for a week or two.  It could be just what you are looking for.

Until next time......so long for now!