Missouri Halloween camping

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We recently moved to Kansas City from Michigan, in MI we enjoyed Halloween camping, there were many campgrounds that had campers decorate their sites and pass out candy to the kids. Doing a Google search, I cant seem to really find much near KC except for Jellystone in Lawrence and Branson, both have themed weekends, but they dont elaborate much beyond that, we went to Port Huron KOA in MI last year and it was really involved with most people decorating their sites, some of the sites very extravagant, they estimated 700 kids were there the weekend we went, most dress up in costumes and went trick or treating Saturday night. Does anyone have any experience with either of these campgrounds for the themed weekends? or any other campgrounds that does this within a few hours of KC?

rockhillmanor · Answer

Best I've seen is the annual dog show in Marietta, GA in fall. You can pay for the RV parking and be part of it all. You don't have to show dogs to participate.

They have a contest every year for the best decorated MH. It gets so serious that some RV'ers rent a trailer to pull behind their MH to hold all their Halloween decorations.

The year I was there the winner had a 18 foot witch and cauldron with smoke coming out of the cauldron rising 2 stories tall! Another RV'er had somehow got a huge decoration of a pumpkin 2 times the height of his Prevost on top of it!!

Everyone of the MH's were decorated to the nines! I had bought a huge spider and webbing, lights etc. and tied 2 of our MH's together with the spider webbing and was putting the finishing touches on it when my friends told me to go down to the lower parking area to see the witch and cauldren RV, knew I wasn't going to beat that one!! :B

garmp · Answer

Being from St Louis, about 60 miles south near Ste Genevieve is Hawn State Park. Not sure about now, but I know about 15 years ago the campground was always booked up and full on that night/weekend. Halloween was always a special time. An the folks went all out. The local towns people would attend also. It was very nice, but yet, it WAS. Not sure about today.

ngreen · Answer

Wilderness Campground in Branson MO use to have two weekends in October with the Halloween celebration.

ngreen · Answer

Or maybe it was Compton Ridge campground in Branson

have_bible_will · Answer

Missouri is the "Show Me State". You may have to pick a campground and show folks how to do Halloween. Try Wilderness in Branson. They are close to Silver Dollar City which has the Fall Harvest Festival.

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