A peninsula in Clarks Hill Lake holds the campground at Mistletoe State Park, its sites strung along the shore with open water whichever way the chairs face. That water catches the sunrise and goes gold again at sunset, and from the picnic table both come with the site. J. Strom Thurmond Lake, the reservoir Georgia State Parks still calls Clarks Hill, covers 71,100 acres with nearly 1,200 miles of shoreline, enough lake that a week parked in one place never feels small.
Families and groups come out for the long version of that: one site for the whole week, coffee at the picnic table, the kids down at the shore, the grill going by late afternoon. Georgia lake summers run hot, and the rig's air conditioning is what keeps everyone comfortable through the middle of the day. When the group outgrows the motorhome, Mistletoe also rents cottages and a tent cabin, handy when grandparents join for the back half of the week.
A day in town fits easily too. The Augusta Canal and the Riverwalk downtown make an afternoon on foot, and the rig stays put at the lake site until you drive back for sunset.
Mistletoe takes reservations year round and lists a dump station, but neither its booking page nor the park's own page publishes a length cap or amperage for the RV sites. Call the park at (706) 541-0321 with a length in mind and lock the site before you book the motorhome, because the park's answer decides which class of rig fits. For two people, or a site that comes back short, a campervan from the Georgia listings makes the same lake week on a smaller pad.
In season, the Corps' Petersburg campground near Appling is the other lake base, with standard electric sites and two dump stations, though as of October 2026 it's closed for the season and Recreation.gov lists a fall paving closure with dates to come. Closer to town, Heritage RV Park off I-20 on Wrightsboro Road has full hookups on every site and room for big rigs, a simple first night when the motorhome arrives late in the day.
Masters week from a shaded park in Waynesboro
Every April the Masters pulls golf fans into Augusta, and plenty of them arrive in rigs. That week every pad within an hour of town fills, the lake sites included, so a spring week at Mistletoe and tournament week compete for the same motorhomes and the same nights. If your lake week lands in April, book it as early as the golf crowd books theirs.
Down in Waynesboro, Made in the Shade RV Park keeps full-hookup sites under tall shade trees year round and takes Masters week bookings, 30.8 miles from Augusta by the park's own count. Tournament days become a drive to the gates each morning, and the evenings belong to the shade, the hookups and a cooler that stays cold. Lock that site first and the motorhome second, since in April the rigs disappear as fast as the pads do.
For a longer Georgia run after the lake or the tournament, the rig can carry on to the coast around Savannah or to the fairgrounds weeks in Perry.