The best beach camping near St Louis

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Looking to experience the great outdoors near St. Louis, Missouri? Hipcamp has over 190 camping options available in the area, specifically catered to those who love the beach. Whether you're looking for a spot to pitch your tent or a cozy cabin to call home, there's something for everyone. Check out top-rated campsites like Spring Lake Ranch (522 reviews), Comfy Cabin Camping (101 reviews), and Matt's Place @ Meramec n Labarque (28 reviews). With popular amenities like showers, trash bins, and toilets, and activities such as boating, climbing, and biking, you'll have everything you need for a fantastic camping experience. Plus, with an average price per night of $25 and options as low as $12, camping near St. Louis has never been more affordable.

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Top-rated campgrounds near St Louis

1. Matt's Place at Meramec n Labarque

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26mi from St Louis · 5 sites · Tents, RVs, Lodging
Located at the confluence of the Meramec River and Labarque Creek, my place (Matt's Place) is a ridge above a bottomland bowl of sorts. The old iron truss bridge here is likely built in 1910 and it has a survey marker from 1932. The creek has a nice little swimming hole, and a beach that is sometimes sand, sometimes, gravel, and sometimes a mix of both with some silt or even mud after a storm. It's peaceful down there to explore in the creek, wade while looking outward to an opening into the Meramec River. It's also fun to stand just at the mouth of the creek in the Meramec River. It's an awesome view upstream or downstream of tree lined banks, rock bluffs, and every now and then, passing boats, canoes, paddle boards, or kayaks. The old iron truss bridge hovers above the meeting of two waters. The water is cool and clean. Some fifty species of fish have been recorded in this creek, the most in all of Jefferson County and St Louis County. The bottomland has two levels, the lower bottoms down by the creek and the upper bottoms about a hundred feet from the creek. The upper bottoms has a clearing like a meadow with mowed grass. My favorite things to do here include gazing up at a cottonwood tree that must be sixty feet tall. It's leaves in a breeze are like a thousand hands waving hello. The bottomland meadow offers just enough sky to see bats dance in the dusk air between the trees, then fireflies as it gets darker yet. Up top is where I live. Just five miles off HWY 44 and HWY 109, at Eureka, MO, (30 minutes west of downtown St Louis, 18 minutes from Six Flags) this place sits on a ridge with great views above the Meramec River.
Pets
Toilets
Campfires
from 
$20
 / night

Looking to experience the great outdoors near St. Louis, Missouri? Hipcamp has over 190 camping options available in the area, specifically catered to those who love the beach. Whether you're looking for a spot to pitch your tent or a cozy cabin to call home, there's something for everyone. Check out top-rated campsites like Spring Lake Ranch (522 reviews), Comfy Cabin Camping (101 reviews), and Matt's Place @ Meramec n Labarque (28 reviews). With popular amenities like showers, trash bins, and toilets, and activities such as boating, climbing, and biking, you'll have everything you need for a fantastic camping experience. Plus, with an average price per night of $25 and options as low as $12, camping near St. Louis has never been more affordable.

99% (241)

Top-rated campgrounds near St Louis

1. Matt's Place at Meramec n Labarque

100%
(68)
26mi from St Louis · 5 sites · Tents, RVs, Lodging
Located at the confluence of the Meramec River and Labarque Creek, my place (Matt's Place) is a ridge above a bottomland bowl of sorts. The old iron truss bridge here is likely built in 1910 and it has a survey marker from 1932. The creek has a nice little swimming hole, and a beach that is sometimes sand, sometimes, gravel, and sometimes a mix of both with some silt or even mud after a storm. It's peaceful down there to explore in the creek, wade while looking outward to an opening into the Meramec River. It's also fun to stand just at the mouth of the creek in the Meramec River. It's an awesome view upstream or downstream of tree lined banks, rock bluffs, and every now and then, passing boats, canoes, paddle boards, or kayaks. The old iron truss bridge hovers above the meeting of two waters. The water is cool and clean. Some fifty species of fish have been recorded in this creek, the most in all of Jefferson County and St Louis County. The bottomland has two levels, the lower bottoms down by the creek and the upper bottoms about a hundred feet from the creek. The upper bottoms has a clearing like a meadow with mowed grass. My favorite things to do here include gazing up at a cottonwood tree that must be sixty feet tall. It's leaves in a breeze are like a thousand hands waving hello. The bottomland meadow offers just enough sky to see bats dance in the dusk air between the trees, then fireflies as it gets darker yet. Up top is where I live. Just five miles off HWY 44 and HWY 109, at Eureka, MO, (30 minutes west of downtown St Louis, 18 minutes from Six Flags) this place sits on a ridge with great views above the Meramec River.
Pets
Toilets
Campfires
from 
$20
 / night

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