0 complaints. This place has it all and is the perfect setting for family vacation. So many…read moreamenities for kiddos: beach toys, big trucks on the swingset playground, a game or two in each cabin, sand beach, swim platform, community-use life jackets, the list goes on. Chrissie & Andy make the experience unforgettable, and welcome you like you're their family. best place at the lake by far

You need to come to this place!! I had such a wonderful…read moretime! Andy and Chrissie welcomed me with open arms and treated me as family. They are such amazing people! The cabins are fantastic and very well maintained. The view is incredible! Close to Ha Ha Tonka State Park.

So glad we discovered this community park. Nice combination of playground, splash pad, picnic…read morearea, walking paths - and close to the commemorative Trail of Tears area. This is a 1/2 way point for meeting family that provides a fun break from the car ride for my grandchildren. Always clean and well tended.

Great playground for the kids. Clean and well kept. There is a skate park just behind the…read moreplayground and swimming pools nearby. They have bathroom facilities and shade trees. Open late.

Rad Dad boat rental was great, the boat and service was above and beyond. The delivery service to…read moreour condo made things so much easier and gave us more time to spend on the water so if you're looking for a great place to rent a boat at Lake of the Ozarks Rad Dad is it!!! Thanks for the great time guys The Schmidt family Kansas City Kansas

I rented 3 pontoon boats for my youth softball team while we were in the Ozarks. We agreed on price…read moreand delivery of boats to my condo docks. Received contract with delivery location. I paid the 50% deposit and balance was due once we received boats. The boats were good other than one didn't have a working radio and they gave us a small wireless radio that couldn't even be heard, gauges on one boat didn't work. We returned boats with the more fuel they were brought to us with (less than 1/2 tank). Then I get a $500 larger charge on balance. I reached out to them and they told me that it was a delivery charge because our location was farther than they expected. My delivery location was on the original contract so they know exactly where I was. Now I just get an additional charge for $250 supposedly for fuel. We left the boats with more fuel than they gave them to us with. I have disputed the charges with my American Express card and I'm waiting on answers. Be aware of this company and the sneak attack of them, charging you extra and not honoring the original contract that was agreed to.

BEST place to rent Pontoons and WaveRunners- Launching from this location is close to great…read morelakeside dining. Our Pontoon was in excellent condition and held our group comfortably! So nice to add the lily pad and tube. Thanks to Jim, Bob and the AquaToys team for another great memory on the LOTO!

Fantastic Family owned business! Easy to find, GREAT prices and awesome customer service. If you…read moreare a novice or a pro on the water they will help you with suggestions of boats, water toys, and even some tucked away destinations.

Wilderness Ridge is a hidden gem of a campground about 2.5 hours from St. Louis. They offer float…read moretrips, camping, and cabins. Stop in Rolla, MO or another town off the highway to get any last minute items - this place is off the beaten path. For a full experience, pick up some Piney River Brewing Company beers (brewed nearby - try the Float Trip Ale) before you hit the back roads. Not too far into your float trip you will see a huge rock face bluff. Don't be afraid to stop here for a good long while and post up to enjoy the view. I wish I would have spent an hour here. It's the best view along the entire float. There are a few RV hookups with electric and water but not a ton. Call ahead to make sure you can get one if this is necessary. Enjoy your time away from city life! https://www.wildernessridgeresort.com/

The scenery is outstanding! The course is quite challenging for us high handicappers, but not…read moredaunting. The beauty of the farmlands and woods is worth every lost ball. The staff is very friendly and it feels like you're on a private course. We're very grateful that we gave it a try and became members for our stay at the lake. Thank you Spencer!

Played here while visiting. Had a great time playing this challenging course with my father and…read morebrother-in-law. Amazing views and lots of elevation changes. Very reasonably priced and I'd come back again for sure.

A must stop if you're into these sorts of kitschy Americana road trip things! Not super far off the…read morehighway and not a super big park, it only added about 15 minutes to my trip home to St. Louis. Each sign has descriptions of their history beneath which is also cool. As a solo female traveler I also felt pretty safe, its nestled between 2 busy roads.

We drove an hour to Saint Roberts Missouri from Springfield to the Route 66 Neon Park.The signs and…read moreMarquis were very famous gas station , motel, cafe/coffee , convenient stores all along route 66 and have been restored and given to the organization for the Neon park.

On my first trip back home to St. Louis from Los Angeles in more than a decade, I went on a hunt…read morefor the summer home/hunting cabin that belonged to my grandparents. I had not been there since I was 13, one week after my mother died in 1989. The area was in a flood plain on the bank of the Big Piney River near the tiny town of Devil's Elbow, MO. I knew it was off Highway Z near I-44. I remembered along the way I used to look for a very high wooden railroad truss bridge, a Hillbilly General Store, the Bobber Cafe, some old, dilapidated buildings, a very old steel truss bridges, a tiny cemetery, a restaurant I used to call The Purple Cow (actually called Sirloin Stockade in Rolla) and the cabins and outbuildings where childhood friends of mine and old cronies of my grandfather lived. I had only the memories of a child guiding me. GPS was useless, both because I did not know the name of the road, nor could I get a GPS signal. This was one cool, melancholic adventure back in time. I found the steel truss bridge. It was closed. I was lost. I found Sheldon's Market and Post Office. The nice young woman inside skeptically listened to my story. I dropped some names of my grandparent's friends who had died more than 20 years ago. She did not recognize the names. She called her cousin. He did not recognize the names. As I was beginning to lose hope and started to think my grandparents' home had washed away in the floods so long ago that no one even remembered, a very nice woman drove up in her car. She asked us what we were looking for and we shared my story with her. She remembered my grandparents! She led us to the house (the long way because the bridge was closed.) She told us that her nephew (or cousin?) had started up a canoe rental business next door. We saw that the "neighborhood" (6 houses on concrete stilts) had been pretty beaten by time and harsh weather. We rented a canoe for $40. The proprietor drove us up the river 6 miles and we dropped in. The weather was gorgeous and we enjoyed a lazy float down the Big Piney River. There are sandbars in the middle where you can fish, look for crawdads, sunbathe, and enjoy the peace and tranquility. I remember my grandfather used to lose his mind when speedboats would fly down the river in the summertime because they chewed up the bottom, eroded the shores, and disrupted his silence. There was none of that on our Monday on the river. Just hawks soaring overhead, a cool breeze, the sound of our paddles, and calmness. We only saw one other couple in kayaks. So refreshing for a couple of Angelenos to spend an afternoon in rural Missouri just BREATHING clean air. There are some rope swings overhanging the water right before you dock again back at Route 66 Canoe Rental. Use them. So much fun. We pulled the canoes back onto the concrete boat launch and no one was there to receive us. We walked on a little bit, only slightly scared that we might get shot for trespassing (as this became a recent court battle on the Meramec or Missouri River, I guess.) A giant Saint Bernard mix ran toward us. We were not sure if that might be our demise instead, but it quickly became apparent that she was very friendly. (I flashed back to the pack of stray dogs, left by hunters or lost, that my grandparents and I used to feed on our deck when I was a kid. Papa and I used to pick the ticks off of them by the light of the bug zapper.) I looked up to see two men standing on a deck. I waved hello and explained what we were doing, tromping around on private property. The younger man told me he bought my grandparents' house and was rehabbing it. He invited us in. Although the deck had fallen off the front of the building during the most recent flood, the exterior of the house looked pretty much as I remembered it. The inside looked smaller, but I am bigger now. I remembered seeing the water marks around the walls as a child, preferring to think of it as wainscoting or crown molding, depending how high it the water rose each flood season. I remembered putting the baby bluegill, sunfish, frogs, and crawdads that I caught in the bathtub filled with our fresh well water, rocks and plants; my lovely terrarium prevented my family from bathing but they were so happy that I was happy. I remembered listening to Michael Jackson, Cindy Lauper, Eurythmics, and INXS on our porch swing under the house with my friends. I remembered long walks up the dirt road after supper, begging my grandfather to take the bass boat out the next day. I remembered the local trading post AM radio show each morning. So many memories. I understand that my experience with Route 66 Canoe Rental is very different than that of someone without history in the area. But please go make your own memories on the Big Piney. This is an area preserved in time, pushed aside by I-44. Go enjoy it.

My friend and I rented one canoe for a multiday trip in November 2014. Andy, the proprietor, was…read moreexceptionally friendly and accommodating. When the weather turned cold, he made several unscheduled pickups. He was also very personable and we chatted about local history to and from the river. Andy even brought us fresh venison burgers one day and shared his beer with us! Our experience was enhanced by his generosity.