This is one of the finest campgrounds we've stayed in. It's a State Park and the rates are very reasonable. The grounds were very clean, the sites green and spacious and there were lots of nice areas to walk our dogs. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

This is a beautiful park to stay. We met new friends. The park is kept clean and a lot of places to hike. We would stay here again. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.

We stayed at this park again for the second time. This is a beautiful park with lots of trees and campsites. There are several campgrounds with sites along the river. There is a park store and an amphitheatre. There are many trails and a cave tour/hike. The park has a nice playground as well. If you like to fish, you can fish along the river - there is also turtle pond which is a short hike (1/2 mile) from the boat launch area. We will definitely stay here again. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

This is a nice camp ground there is a lot to do for the whole family. If you get a full hook up site the site will be paved. Some of the other sites are still gravel. They have a visitor center with some neat items to see. They have canoe rental if you want to go floating one day, or you can go for a hike on any of the trails in the park. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.

We arrived on a sunny, weekday without reservations and the sun-dappled campground was lovely. The office did not open until 4 p.m., and we couldn't find a map of the campground to identify the non-reservable sites. We had to track down a campground host and he was friendly and provided some help. We ended up on a reservable site that was vacant and was ensured only 2 nights. (The best way to ensure a site is to reserve on-line, but we didn't want to pay the $8.50 reservation fee because we weren't sure how long we were going to stay.) The maintenance crew was very responsive when we couldn't access the site because of low-hanging branches. Floating down the Meramec River on inner tubes or on a raft and fishing seem to be the activities of choice. This campground is located on a flood plain. Therefore, when it rains there is a lot of standing water (even on the paved pads) until the ground absorbs it. The heavy tree cover makes this campground dark and dank on cloudy/rainy days. We would not stay here again. We camped here in a Motorhome.

The park was great. We got there on the friday after the 4th the park was full, but we had our spots reserved. The park has lots of trees and the river was only 50ft from my spot. We will go back. The Showers and bathrooms were clean they cleaned them twice a day. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

We arrived early afternoon from South of I44 at Sullivan. The highway to the park was very nice but up and down and curvey. Also, the road to the campsites was curvey but beautiful wooded scenery. There had been a lot of rain the week-end prior to our arrival on Thursday May 18th. The campsites had been flooded by the Meramac River so everything was wet and muggy. The mowers were mowing anyway. The best part of the park for us was the sites and sounds of all the birds. I would imagine in the summer it could be very hot and steamy. Since we were there for only one night and before a week-end there were only about 4 other RV's besides ours in the water and electric hook-up area. I agree with previous comments that in the summer and week-ends the park would be really busy and noisey. We might stop there again if going that direction and if it was cooler weather. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.

Very clean and nice. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

Nice setting, near the river. Staff helpful. Many CCC structures on site along with an exhibit of CCC days. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

Great park, did not seem to be on top of the neighbors and plenty of room behind the campsite for the kids to run around and not be in peoples way. Nice level sites. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

Basic Campsite rate = $8, Electric =$14, Electric/Water =$15, Electric/Water/Sewer =$17. Fee to reserve $8.50. Like the first reveiw all of the postive aspects were there, how ever none of the negative aspects were noticed. We were there the middle of the week and the park was not busy other than the 18 full hookups. We were in campground #2 and the way the sites were angled in, it did not seem crowded. There are 45 basic sites, 143 Electric sites (some of these have water) and 18 sites with full hookups. We will be back with our grandchildren. We camped here in a Motorhome.

Meramec State Park is not one of Missouri's better state parks for camping. The positive aspects of this park are the river access, the cave (guided tour was great), excellent visitors center (nice displays, aquarium, slide show), and restaurant. The evening amphitheatre presentation was also well done. The setting is beautiful and there are many things to do. The negative aspects were that section 2 of the campground has squeezed approximately 100 sites into a very small area. On a busy weekend, the campsites feel uncomfortably close together. At night, the campground is very smoky; some campers were calling it "smoky valley". On the late April weekend we camped there, the grass had not yet been cut and gave the campground a messy appearance. It was over knee high on our children, making it difficult for them to navigate their way to the playground. The campground hosts raced around the grounds in their golf cart (definitely over the 10mph limit). The host couple was clearly confused by the reservation system as well; when we arrived, she rudely snapped to my wife that she would have "sold our site to someone else" if we had arrived after 3:00 pm. On Sunday morning at 8:50AM, the restroom/shower house was closed for cleaning, which seemed ill-timed to me. Shouldn't this be done in the afternoon when its less likely to be needed? Many of these criticisms could be one-time problems, but I probably won't return to Meramec any time soon, mostly because the campground is too crowded and uncomfortable. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.