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hhornig
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Sep 24, 2018

Looking for Campground with Club House St. Joe or KC area.

Our club would like to find a campground that has a club house within 50 mi of Kansas City or further north to about St. Joe. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Please do not suggest Basswood as they are way too expensive.
  • The golf course is on the other side of the lake from the campgrounds. I'd say 6-8 miles around to get there. I've been to several parties there, but not 100% sure it's open for general public rental. Here's their site https://paradisepointegolf.com/ .
  • Thanks for the clarification. Would you have an estimate on the distance to the golf course room that can be rented?
  • hhorig, There isn't any Summitville Lake near KC. It's Smithville Lake, it doesn't have a club house but the golf course has a room it rents out but it's not near the campgrounds. They have shelters in the campground to reserve.
  • Thanks for the info on Summitville Lake campground. Do you know if it had club house?
  • Check out Summitville Lake of Clay County (County Park). Has a REALLY nice campground. Not sure about all the anaminities there. We stayed there a week a couple years ago to visit our daughter in Raytown. We were so busy with the 4 grandkids we didn't have time to really explore what all was there. I do know it was a really NICE campground and reasonably priced as it's a county run park.

    More info, click here.

    Camp Branch Campground, click here.

    Some photos of the campground:







    My wife and 2 of the granddaughters:



    Grandpa and all 3 granddaughters. The baby boy was too small to tag along.



    Onrey little squirts, ain't they!



    We exhausted them, Grandm and Grandpa got a break:



    And we even had a "hamburger" birth day cake!




    By far, this was one of the NICER parks we've ever been to.

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