Football Saturdays in Oxford begin in the Grove, where the tailgate tents go up edge to edge under the trees and the pennants are out long before anyone walks to the stadium. Stretched into a weekend, that Saturday becomes Friday night on a resort loop already flying team colors, a slow breakfast outside the rig, and a place in the game-day shuttle queue while the motorhome stays put. Nobody drives in at dawn hunting for a lot, and nobody drives home tired after the final whistle.
Parking the rig on campus is a narrow option. Ole Miss allows RVs on campus only for certain sporting events, home football among them, and the season RV passes for the South Lot and the Baseball RV Lot are sold to Athletics Foundation donors. For everyone else, the university points to area state parks and businesses.
Roundabout Oxford RV & Water Resort is the base built around those weekends. It runs a shuttle on every game day and keeps its water amenities open into early November as of September 2026, so the kids get Friday afternoon in the lazy river and Saturday in the Grove. The 150 paved sites all have full hookups, and 104 of them are pull-throughs, which means the motorhome noses straight in and stays plugged in until Sunday. After the game the loop turns into a second tailgate, with awnings out and the same colors running down the row.
Home game weekends are when the rig pads around Oxford fill, and the same dates pull on the rentals too. The resort site and the motorhome are both competing with every other family on the football schedule, so lock the pad first and then book the rig that suits it.
Sardis Lake from Oak Grove and Clear Creek
Outside football season the trip heads north to Sardis Lake, a Corps of Engineers reservoir where the week is spent parked by the water instead of riding a shuttle. Mornings start with the lake showing through the bottomland hardwoods, and afternoons go to the shoreline. Summer in north Mississippi is hot and humid enough that the hookup matters as much as the view, because the air conditioner runs from lunch until dark.
Oak Grove is the full-hookup park, with 81 sites on 50-amp electric, water and sewer, so the tanks never become the week's problem. Book the site before the rig, since the pad you land decides how long a motorhome you can bring.
Clear Creek, up Highway 314 from Oxford, puts its pads in the woods along the creek. As of September 2026, 19 sites with electric and water are open and the rest of the campground is closed, so plan around water and power without sewer at the site.
When both Corps parks are full, John W. Kyle State Park on the state side of Sardis Lake is the fallback. If the lake trip is just two of you, the Mississippi campervan page covers Oxford and Sardis Lake as a smaller-rig overnight. The state's other reservoirs and the Gulf Coast are on the Mississippi RV page.