Table Rock Lake State Park Campground Review

From Woolly Hollow State Park, we traveled north on Hwy 65 to Table Rock Lake State Park.  This was our first camping trip to Missouri.  The drive from Bee Branch, AR to Harrision, AR has a few steep grades on 2-lane roads, but once you get to Harrison, the road widens to double lane highway.  

Once you reach the campground office, you will get a map that shows where your spot is and how to get there.  There are 2 campgrounds at Table Rock Lake State Park.  Campground 2 is close to the marina.  We were in Campground 1 which has 2 main loops.  Our section looked to be a new section that had full hookups.  The older section had electricity, but no water hookups.  You can get fresh water at the dump station area, much like a lot of the Greers Ferry Lake campgrounds.  The trade-off is the full hookup sites have little shade, while the electric only had nice mature trees.

We were in site #128, which did offer some shade if you moved your chair around a bit.  This campground stayed pretty full, even during the middle of the week.  It looked like most people use this campground as their spot from which to explore the greater Branson area.  

All sites in our loop were asphalt with a concrete area to the side with a picnic table.  There are fire rings with a flip top grill grate, but not a separate grill.  The bath house is similar to the ones I see at U.S. Forest Service campgrounds.  The shower stalls are little rooms where you can lock the door.  They had some kind of very low-flow shower head at the bath house and it was pretty hard to take a shower and get all the shampoo out of your hair.

Table Rock Lake is absolutely beautiful.  It has very clear water and is popular for fishing and other recreational water activities.  We went down to the lake several times and even tried to get Sally Mae to swim, but she didn't like it once it got above here "elbows". 

There is a paved trail that goes all the way from the State Park Marina to the Dewey Short visitor center.  We walked it (or part of it) several times while were were there.  We biked it from our campground to the visitor center.  Along this trail, you will come across the boat ramps, the Branson Belle, the Army COE office and the visitor center.

We could pick up lots of over-the-air channels on the TV from the Springfield, MO and both my Sprint phone and Rick's C-spire service had 4G (until Rick took his phone for a swim).