My first time camping, and I could not have asked for a better camping/kayaking experience! Thank…read moreyou RFC&C for a wonderful time! To ensure we have a campsite site and kayak during Labor Day weekend, we made reservation online. Each person is charged $10 a night. And Kayaking is $20 per person. There is also a small processing fees. So 2 nights of camping & 1 kayak came roughly to $92. I am not sure if the price is varies on the time of the season. Check in was super easy. When you pull into the camping site, there is a friendly elder gentleman who will guide you to office to check in. At check in, you will pick up your car pass and pool wristband. Yes! They have a clean pool and open bar!!! Less than 5 minutes of check in, then you are off to picking your campsite. Campsite is very clean and spacious. My favorite part is that they have clean restroom and shower room! I was so worried that I wouldn't be able to shower after all day in the sun and in river water. One of the cleanest shared shower I've ever been to. And they have flushing toilets!!!! They also have portable Johnny's throughout the campsite so you don't do your business in the trees or bushes. I am looking forward to our next trip.

This would have been our 6th year here for our annual girls float trip. Two of the past three years…read moreour reservations have been screwed up royally. In 2024, we reserved early, which we do every year and is a benefit to being returning customers. Never had an issue doing this in the past. Nobody ever bothered to call and tell us the card was declined and we needed to call them back to ensure our reservations. A week before our scheduled trip I called them to verify because we usually get an email welcoming us to our upcoming stay. That email never came. When I called to verify everything, they had no reservation on file at all. Here we are, a week before we have people coming from as far as Texas for a 3-day float, with no reservation. We were told they emailed us to let us know that the card was declined. No email was ever sent, and even if it was, why wouldn't you call your customer? As luck would have it, nobody had reserved our usual cabin, and we were able to still make our trip on the planned weekend. This year, we again did the early reservation. I can't even remember why I called them a couple of months later; I had a question about something and was told that the dates I was inquiring about were not the dates of the reservation. Excuse me? We have 11 people coming, some of which have already made flight plans. This time, our usual cabin was already booked. Now we have to change cabins. Every year we have been coming here, we arrive on a Sunday and leave on a Wednesday. Three nights, every year for 6 years. So when we had to change cabins nothing was said about the new cabin only being available for 2 nights. We were supposed to be there a week from today and again, I had not received the welcome email. Concerned because we had issues with this original booking, I again called to confirm. She confirmed arriving on July 5th and departing on July 7th. I was floored. No, arriving on the 5th, departing on the 8th. They had booked the Tuesday night, and this cabin was not available for our 3rd night. Now I'm absolutely livid by this point. For the second time this year I go into panic mode. What am I supposed to tell the rest of the group? My wife walked into the room and heard the tail end of the conversation, and I looked at her and asked, what do we want to do, cancel and find another location? The manager, whom I was on the phone with literally yelled at me and said, "Yes, we need to cancel this reservation. That is fine with me." I said hold up a minute; I did not tell you I wanted to cancel. Immediately started yelling again that I had just told her that. I said no, I was asking my wife what we should do. I stated I needed to check with the rest of the group who had already paid their portions of this trip. I told her I would call her back. I was certain with such short notice we would not find another place to book a reservation, but at the same time, I knew if we continued with our two-night stay with Riverfront, that we would be treated unkindly seeing how I was being yelled at by the manager. Fortunately for us, Riverwood, located nearby had an opening. The only thing they had available was going to be $450 per night. A 4-bedroom, 2 bath, beautiful cabin. Unfortunately, this was three times what we had paid at Riverfront. The owner made us an incredible deal giving us almost $900 off the price for us to stay there. I was so relieved to know that I would not have to disappoint our group by cancelling the entire trip. Then I go to call Riverfront back to cancel the reservation (the manager is the one who wanted to immediately cancel us not even 30 minutes prior, to find they were only willing to refund us half of our money. You just offered to cancel us 30min prior and are now only willing to refund half? What a crock of #$*#. Needless to say, they have lost our business for good, and we will now only be staying at Riverwood. The interesting thing was when I am speaking with the owners of Riverwood and told them the story, they stated this wasn't the first time they took an emergency reservation because Riverfront had screwed up. This was a long review, but beware, as a previous review mentioned, they will offer to refund and then only give you 50% back. Theft in my opinion.

This place is an actual nightmare Thanks for ruining our…read moretrip for the second time. This our our second year dealing with the new management, last year they cancelled our reservation without providing us any alternate accommodation. This year even when we booked it January for travel time in August, and they also had it blocked off from the calendar, now they are saying they couldn't reach us and canceled the reservation. No calls were made, and no never tried to reach out through email. Absolutely the worst experience ever.

amazing family friendly place to go camping! we have used both the clamping tents and our personal…read moretent and had a blast! the swimming beach is lovely and the paddle boat is a giant bonus! We caught several large fish while we were here and made many wonderful memories. Thank you for hosting us!

WOW! ...Dave and Nancy are definitely 5-star managers! We've watched them bustin' their rears our…read morefirst week here. We love smaller, quiet, home-town RV parks with that personal touch... just like Thompson's RV Park. They provided great space and full hook-up for our big-rig 5th wheel RV. The only reason this park lacks 5 stars is the lots are pretty tight, lacking comfortable "personal space" in-between lots. Laundry is only about a quarter-mile up the road, clean and very reasonably priced. We love the country feel while not being too far from shopping and restaurants. We hope to return someday. (Scott & Janet)

Very beautiful campground but everyone around us was smoking Mary Jane's and I had my 14 year old…read moreniece with us and we couldn't enjoy outside at all. Partly our fault because we didn't realize that it was not allowed and we should've called it in. So if it really bothers you, definitely call it in. I don't care what people do in their private residences, but I don't want it around my niece and as we packed up in the morning, my trailer reeked of it. The bar and grill was closed too even though it says it's open so that was very disappointing. We were only there to spend the night, not really on vacation, but I would definitely go back if I was on vacation.

Pulled in and got to choose our spot. It's really nice that they've got short term and long term…read moreseparated without issues of short term noise through Labor Day weekend. They even had a Food Truck out serving Funnel Cakes, Fried Oreo's, and Lemonade. I noticed they started up their Gem Mining thing for the kiddo's too! It was nice seeing the camp grounds full of families having a lot of fun Labor Day weekend without incidence. Beautifully updated shower house and laundry room. The shallow side of the pool is roped off from the 7ft side. There's a recreational room, bike track, swings in the trees, fire pits on each lot, tether ball's, multiple play grounds.

This is my favorite campground! They have updated so much, new pool with nice fence around it…read morechairs and loungers! It is kept so clean during swimming season! The people are my favorite, my husband and I have made many friends here everyone is so nice and helpful ! The Owner of the campground is always updating things and loves the people ! I also love the play area for the children! There is a bathhouse that is always clean! The store is quaint it has the necessities and also has a big TV in there for football, what more do you need! Come enjoy Bennett Springs Campground

Best camping experience ever. Bring your entire family. You won't regret it. Pool, playground, 2…read morebathrooms/shower rooms. Float trips are offered. Always a great time. Owners are making so awesome improvements. My family absolutely enjoys our time here. Check it out for yourself

I've been going to One Eyed Willy's for years now. I've been on a 10-15 person bachelorette party…read moretrip, two 30+ person college student/young adult trip, as well as a one-day non-camping float with my husband and I. My most recent was one of those giant group trips this past weekend. I've also floated at NRO and some crappy site around Steelville (Green's maybe?). There's definitely a reason we keep going back to OEW's and will continue to do so. First of all, Brian, the owner, is a super nice guy. We hadn't made it down there in about 3 years, and he still remembered me "Last time I saw you, you just got engaged!". Though not great at answering e-mails (just don't bother), the staff is quick to return phone calls if you leave a voicemail. The campsite itself has a nice layout, and they keep improving. Port-o-potties are serviced often, and they have a small shower, bathroom, and store close to the campsite (previously they were only available way up the hill, so thumbs up on the improvement!). The showers and bathrooms were clean and well lit, unlike some other places I've been. By the time we booked, the aluminum canoes were all gone, which is usually how we go, because they're cheaper. Now, no longer being the broke college student, I will ALWAYS pay the measly $5 extra for the fiberglass canoes. Molded seats...worth every penny. Remember that. In general, the Niangua is a great river to float on. Decent current, good sand bars, and nice cold water! And if you're going to float the Niangua, go to One Eyed Willy's!

I've stayed at one eyed willy's a few times. It's a clean campground with adorable cabins! The…read morecabins are kept clean and the staff there are very hard working and very friendly! The owner of the campground goes out of his way to make sure you have what you need. The little shop at the entrance has a lot of cute decor and clothing. I will definitely take my family there again!

Campground was nice :-) but I will mention two things... our trashcan was full when we got there,…read morethe owners might wanna double check trash cans before people arrive :-) and we requested a shower key when we got there and were told that there weren't any available at that time?? Everyone there should have access to a shower key? Other than that again nice campground :-)

Review Summary: This place needs to be shut down! Read if you want but it's long…read more.. Maybe I'm just new to the MO camping experience but this is unlike any campground I've ever been to. This is basically just a place for professional hippies to hang out at all summer and fund their hippie lifestyle by renting out canoes and cabins - they don't care if customers are satisfied as long as they have SOME money coming in. Now I have to say I don't have a problem w/ hippies. I am from Austin but this was a whole new level. We get there around 2:30 to check in and the office is locked w/ a sign that says back at 12:00. (Hippies don't believe in wearing watches.) Then the couple helping didn't seem to realize that anyone was even staying that night even though I made the reservations 2 months prior. We had to wait an hour for our cabin to be cleaned and actually get into it. We got into our cabin and it still wasn't very clean - the guy could have swept the floor. And for $70 a night you'd think there would be a small kitchenette. There was certainly room for one. We asked about WiFi because I (stupidly) didn't make sure my Spotify music was in offline mode and one girl (the nicest one from NY) said the password was $2.00 so when we came back later another guy was like "here is it..." with out charging and while I was circling the building trying to get my signal back another creepy girl was like "there's no phone service and we can't give out the WiFi since we have 5 other computers - it would be too slow." Really? I didn't think true hippies believed in technology?! Actually, she said "there's no service" in a "no one will hear your cries when we eat you tonight!" tone. Clearly these people aren't clear on the rules of the camp. Then for our float we had to wait 1.5 hours after the shuttle time and as we were waiting on one bus the crowd was crazy. I don't mean college-kid, drunk and silly crazy. I mean, are you sure your trailer isn't in flames right now from all that meth you've been making in there?? OMG I've never been so out of place in my life. One guy, missing most of his teeth [whatever was left was black], decided somewhere along the way that women would actually show him their tatas for Jello shots. "Um...you're gonna have to fork over a LOT more than that dude!" I JUMPED off when a guy came on and said there was a kid bus! Our neighbors were pretty cool and we talked about it later that night about how they should have bailed also. Did I mention the park brake on the bus didn't work so they used a heavy wooden block to keep the bus in park?! That HAS to be illegal. The one good thing was our cabin was far from everything else (including the river - no bueno) so things weren't so bad when it was just us but dealing with these people and the majority of the other floaters was just a nightmare.

I have come here yearly with a group of friends for the last three years. It's always a fun place…read morewith fun people and friendly front office staff. The campsites are well kept with plenty of cheap firewood available to buy. About half of the campsites have electric hookups, but you need to book early in the year to reserve one of those. The porta potties are nasty but what else do you expect in rural Missouri. They have a set of bathrooms that are much cleaner at the main office, but bring your own toilet paper on the weekends just in case they run out. The buses to take you up the river come pretty frequently, so the wait in the mornings isn't long. There's usually a mix of large quiet groups with kids and louder groups with adults only partying all day, but we haven't had any notable issues with camp neighbors.

From the owner: 9 mile float back to your car or campsite. Shaded campsites along the Niangua River.read more