Council Bluff Recreation Area in MO -- Campground & RV Camping

Council Bluff Recreation Area sits on a 440-acre, 87-foot-deep lake formed by a dam across the Big River in southern Missouri. The Wild Boar Ridge Campground provides single-family, walk-in, and group sites equipped with tables, lantern posts, campfire rings, and grills, accommodating RVs up to 40 feet without electricity. On-site facilities include vault toilets and drinking water, plus flush toilets, showers, a play area, and a 54,000-square-foot sandy beach at Chapel Hill Beach. Campers can access a 12-mile lake loop trail, two boat ramps for no-wake boating, and the nearby Trace Creek section of the Ozark Trail.

Getting there: From Potosi, take Highway P south for 10 miles to C Highway junction. Continue on C Highway for less than a mile to DD Highway junction. Turn left on DD Highway and continue for approximately 7 miles to the recreation area entrance.

• Limited separation from through roads or other sites here, a 56-site campground with the nearest through road 1.0 miles off.
• 8 hike-in sites, with one on the water and most of them shaded.

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