Big Spring

Beautiful park and well kept

Big Spring Missouri, THE BIG SPRING is the star of the park, amazing ! As for staying there. They Need to fix the exhaust fans in the restrooms AND showers and set the automated time delays on them to maximum ! ! Sweltering hot in there all day and night, even when it was 48 F at night. Loop 200 is 'Electric Only'. So anyone with RV's will need to 'stop at the entrance to fill up your water tank', and then when you leave you'll be able to dump your black tank in the same area, and if not staying on Loop 200, you will need your inverter system working right. Restooms at the park have running water, as long as walking a little bit isn't a problem for your crew. The showers are quite a walk, probably about 6 city blocks to get over there from loop 100 & 200, and quite a bit further from the other loops. There is a boat launch and parking area in the South end of the park, which also is a 'pickup point' for the local tube and canoe rental float company. While the float company boasts their process of taking you upstream from the US-60 bridge, we prefer the float from the the US-60 bridge down to the boat access. All of the loops are VERY close to the Current River frontage, but there is not much river beach area available to those registered in the park. There are gravel bars and beach areas close-by, FYI, those are all privately owned. Looked like there might now be a decent gravel bar available to park users on the very North end of the park/river, but only when the water levels are at or below normal. We have camped at Big Spring for many years. There is a wide mixture of people there, some are very freindly, some are better left alone, some never come out of the RV once they park, and some are actually pretty rude over the smallest things. So probably only a 15 percent chance you'll hit it off with your neighbor. And, like other parks we attend, you have Crows during the day, and Raccoons during the night, keep food put away when nobody is watching it

10 May arrived at campground and found 5 other campers in the assigned loop and no campground host
The site, 215, was too short for my 16 ft Airstream and Tundra.
The site would also have me open the camper door directly into a wall of vegetation.
I elected to move to the next site over and tried calling the 877 number and after a very long wait spoke to an agent about changing my site. The agent and I myself, using the app, couldn't confirm a site change.
I was provided the local office phone number but got a recording as it was Sunday and closed. I left my number as instructed but never over the next 2 days got a return call.
The campground was overall a nice place and would return and confirm any space other than 215.

Large level sites, quiet, clean restrooms. Beautiful park, well kept and the picnic area at the Spring was lovely. The color of the water is amazing. A real treasure and treat we didn’t know about!

We recently stayed at the big Spring campground. The weather was perfect. Facilities were wonderful. All new black top the grounds were top notch. No street lights which was great. We will return as much as we can.

Great campsite and campground. Great first camping trip with our Jeep Gladiator and rooftop tent.

Showers and bathrooms didnt get cleaned each morning. They were clean when we arrived on Thursday night. Showers were disgusting! They were not clean Thursday night when we arrived. The lights need to be changed to different color at shower house! Thousands of bugs inside and outside door swarming.

Beautiful campground. Lots of walking and bicycling opportunities and fishing in the Current river.

There was a rowdy group in the 300 loop who were screaming, several dogs not on leash and constant barking. I spoke to the camp host and she said there was nothing she could do, it’s up to the rangers. Rangers never went thru our loop. The group got worse. They partied with blaring music until 3 am.

Clean, manicured sites, the rangers made several rounds and answered any questions we had, and clean bathrooms.