Dr. Edmund A Babler Memorial State Park, Missouri

We used Dr. Edmund A. Babler Memorial State Park as our base for sightseeing in St. Louis, MO. It is a private, wooded area on the outskirts of the city.  The Visitor Center was not open when we got there.

You can click on any of the pictures to enlarge them.

     

We had 30/50 amp, Verizon cell service and the park had good wifi where we were, in site #8. (Campground map link). It was $23 on October 31st and $21 November 1st (off-season). There is a dump station, but the only water was at a camp host’s site.

              

The cons – the campground is not really big rig friendly. There is a poor road entrance, sites not level and the only water we saw was at a camp host’s site. (Maybe that is a winter season thing?) The picture above of a gutter along the road – that’s what you have to drive across while turning a corner on to the camping road. There were so many lady bugs when we were there, Curt tried to chase them away before I closed the slides, and we still had loads inside the coach that we vacuumed up.
When we went in to St. Louis, we took a different highway than coming in to the park initially. It is a much better highway. Taking the Chesterfield Airport Road exit and Wild Horse Creek road is much better than coming in on North Eatherton Road.