Dusk at Camp Scholler in Oshkosh during AirVenture week comes with aircraft engines still droning above the awnings, while grills get going along the mown lanes and thousands of sites run back between the fire breaks. A family that came in a motorhome watches it all from lawn chairs, with beds, a kitchen and a bathroom a few steps behind them. By day the warbirds and homebuilts sit tail-down in rows beside the tent line, and the airshow works straight overhead through the afternoon.
A rig turns that into a week the whole family can actually live in. Breakfast happens at the dinette instead of in a food line, the kids nap in the bunk while the show is still going, and the fridge stays cold through a hot Wisconsin July. EAA's Camp Scholler page welcomes vehicles of every size, large RVs included, with grocery stores and showers on the grounds. For a couple traveling light, the Appleton campervan page covers the same campground as a smaller-rig week, and there are campervans across Wisconsin sized for two.
Camp Scholler in an RV during AirVenture
Lock the campsite before you book the rig, because Camp Scholler sells two kinds of site and only one of them has power. Water and electric sites are limited, sold online first-paid, first-served, and billed from the day you secure one through the end of the show with no refunds for unused days, per EAA's electric and water page as of October 2026. Basic sites are dry and unassigned, sized to your unit plus one extra vehicle with a five-foot perimeter and ten feet between neighbors, under the Camp Scholler guidelines.
A dry site doesn't mean breaking camp mid-week to dump. EAA runs an RV pumping station and portable pumping service on the grounds, so the motorhome can stay put from the first morning to the last flyover. Some owner listings around Oshkosh deliver a towable to your site and set it up, which spares you the tow, though that is decided listing by listing and the trailer still has to fit the site you booked.
Fly-in week is also when every pad in the Fox Valley fills and the rental listings empty out at the same time. AirVenture 2027 runs July 26 to August 1, per EAA, and Circle R Campground calls the EAA convention its busiest week. If you roll into town the night before your Scholler site opens, a close-in private park such as Circle R, Hickory Oaks or Osh Vegas Palms makes the first night easy, but book it as early as the main site, because EAA doesn't allow overnight camping in S-Lot.
Lake Winnebago summer from Circle R and Hickory Oaks
The rest of the summer, Oshkosh turns back into a lake town, and the trip becomes a parked week with the awning out and the air conditioning running. Evening light comes in low across Lake Winnebago and along the Fox River channel where it meets the lake.
Kids tend to vote for Circle R, with its swimming pond and a rec room for rainy afternoons, plus pull-through sites and electric, water and sewer hookups booked by phone with a deposit. Hickory Oaks, the other close-in base, pairs water and electric at 20, 30 or 50 amp with a dump station on the grounds, which keeps a full week on the lake simple.
Across the water, High Cliff State Park rises over the east shore, and that trip belongs to the Appleton campervan page. Farther north, the Door County peninsula and its shoreline villages are the Green Bay campervan page's trip, and the Wisconsin RV page covers the peninsula for a rig.
XRoads41 at Ford Festival Park
Mid-August brings XRoads41 to Ford Festival Park, and the festival campground stretches the weekend into four nights, Wednesday to Sunday. A pumping truck works between the rigs for black and gray tanks, with fresh water fill for a fee, so nobody pulls out mid-festival to dump. The organizer allows one steering wheel per site, which leaves the motorhome, or the truck towing the trailer, as the only vehicle on the pad. The 2027 edition is set for August 12 to 14.
For full power through the festival, Osh Vegas Palms describes itself as steps from the grounds, with pull-through sites and 20, 30 or 50 amp hookups and water at each site. The festival and the late-summer lake weeks pull on the same motorhomes and the same close-in pads, so lock the site first and the rig right after.