Every May the grass lots along Georgetown Road fill with motorhomes and travel trailers, parked in long rows with flags flying from ladders and rooftops. On practice mornings the engine note from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway carries across the lots before the coffee is done. By race weekend the rows have become a neighborhood of awnings and grills that empties into the grandstands and fills back up after the checkered flag.
For a family or a group, a rig in one of the Speedway's own lots turns qualifying weekend and the 500 into one long stay, with beds, a kitchen and shade parked at the track. Each RV pass in wristband lots 1A and 1C comes with six wristbands, enough for a family or a small group sharing one motorhome.
The pass is the first booking and the rig is the second. The Speedway sells each RV pass as a 20 by 40 foot space, and a trailer or fifth wheel has to fit inside it along with the vehicle pulling it, so the space settles whether the group rents a Class C, a Class A or a towable. Camping sells out for the year. As of October 2026 the Speedway's camping page showed every RV and pull-behind lot sold out for the May 2026 race, with dates for the next one not yet posted.
Race month also pulls on the same rigs and the same pads as every other May trip around Indianapolis, so motorhomes for 500 week go early in the listings. Treat the pass and the rig as one plan, made the moment next year's camping goes on sale.
Speedway lots with power, and a hookup night in town
Lots 3P, 4, 4AP, 5 and 6 carry the 30 and 50 amp columns, and the electric runs Thursday to Sunday of race weekend, with each lot's amperage listed on the same page. Qualifying weekend has no electric in any lot, and the wristband lots stay dry all month, so a rig parked there runs on its own batteries, tanks and generator. If the group wants the air conditioning on through a hot race afternoon, buy the pass in a powered lot.
If it's just two of you, our Indianapolis campervan page covers the same lots as a race-night stay in something smaller.
For a full-hookup night in town before or after race month, the Indiana State Fairgrounds campground runs full hookups April through October and electric only November through March, when its dump station closes. Sites there are reserved before arrival.
Raccoon State Recreation Area on Cecil M. Harden Lake
Once summer heat sets in, the trip moves to the wooded loops at Raccoon State Recreation Area, above Cecil M. Harden Lake. The country roads in pass covered bridges, and the boat ramps are busy at first light with people getting onto the water before the day warms up. With a rig, it's a parked week: set up once, plug in, and let the air run through the afternoon while the lake fills the mornings and evenings.
Raccoon Run and Whitetail are the two campgrounds, and between them the state counts 240 electric sites, 37 non-electric and 35 primitive, along with a camp store and a dumping station. Summer weekends fill, and the state's park page lists no pad length, so reserve the site through the state system first and check its details before you book the motorhome.
For a day out, leave the rig plugged in at the lake and drive to the sandstone canyons of Turkey Run State Park, the trip our Indianapolis campervan page is built around.
